NCERT Class 8 History Chapter 1 Introduction: How, When and Where Test Mock Test
This free online test covers Chapter 1, Introduction: How, When and Where, from the NCERT Class 8 Our-Pasts-III textbook. The 29 questions are written directly from the chapter — definitions, processes, worked examples and the points the book italicises — so a score here tells you how much of the chapter actually stuck, not how well you guess. Each answer carries an explanation that says why the right option is right and why the other three fail, which is where most of the learning happens. Attempt it after your first read of the chapter, then again before the exam. There is no negative marking, and you can review the full solution the moment you submit.
Duration
29 mins
Questions
29 MCQs
Total Marks
29 pts
Negative
0 per wrong
Topics Covered in This Paper
Sample Questions
Q1.The chapter argues that history is essentially about:
- AEvents for which a single precise date can always be fixed
- BMemorising the exact years in which rulers were crowned and battles were fought
- CChanges that occur over time, found by comparing how things were in the past with how they are now
- DThe lives of Governor-Generals and Viceroys alone
Q2.Why does the chapter say it is sometimes incorrect to fix a precise date to a historical development?
- ABecause dates were only recorded for kings and not for ordinary people
- BBecause historians have lost the records that would give the exact year
- CBecause processes such as people taking to tea drinking happened gradually over a stretch of time
- DBecause the British calendar was different from the Indian calendar
Q3.According to the chapter, why did older histories make debates about dates so important?
- ABecause dates were the only thing that could be printed cheaply
- BBecause early historians had no access to any source other than calendars
- CBecause they were accounts of battles, big events, rulers and their policies, for which specific dates can be determined
- DBecause the British administration ordered historians to record dates
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