Assertion and Reason Questions for Class 10 Social Science History Chapter 3 Nationalism in India

Directions : In the following questions, A statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R).
Mark the correct choice as:
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false and R is true.

Q.1. Assertion (A): Foreign goods were boycotted, liquor shops picketed and foreign cloth burnt in huge bonfires.
Reason (R): Students and Teachers began trickling back to Government Schools and Lawyers joined back work in Government Courts.

Answer

Answer: (B) Boycott Movement was also launched to collapse the British rule in India and promoting a culture to make in-house products.

Q.2. Assertion (A): Dyer entered the area, blocked the exit points and opened fire on the crowd, killing hundreds.
Reason (R): His object, as he declared later, was to ‘produce a moral effect’, to create in the minds of satyagrahis a feeling of terror and awe.

Answer

Answer: (A)

Q.3. Assertion (A): It was declared that 26th January, 1930 would be celebrated as the Independence Day when people were to take a pledge to struggle for Complete Independence.
Reason (R): Mahatma Gandhi had to find a way to relate this abstract idea of freedom to more concrete issues of everyday life.

Answer

Answer: (B)

Q.4. Assertion (A): Mahatma Gandhi decided to take up the Khilafat issue.
Reason (R): After many leaders were arrested, violent clashes broke out at many places in India and women and children were beaten up.

Answer

Answer: (B) Mahatma Gandhi always wanted to bring the Hindu-Muslims together and launch a broad nationwide resistance movement against the Britishers.

Q.5. Assertion (A): Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch Civil Disobedience Movement by violating Salt Law.
Reason (R): An image or figure helps people to identify with the nation.

Answer

Answer: (C) Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch Civil Disobedience Movement by violating Salt Law because salt is an essential item of food and consumed by people of all classes.

Q.6. Assertion (A): Folklores gave a picture of traditional culture, it helps in discovering a national identity and restoring a sense of pride in one’s past.
Reason (R): Nationalism spreads when people discover some unity that binds them together

Answer

Answer: (B) Folklores played an important role in developing a feeling of nationalism.

Q.7. Assertion (A): Between 1921-1922, production of tea and coffee grew up.
Reason (R): As the Non-Cooperation moved into economic sphere, Foreign goods and clothes were boycotted and burnt.

Answer

Answer: (D) As the Boycott Movement spread, and people began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones, production of Indian textile mills and handlooms grew up.

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