NCERT Class 8 History Chapter 7 Women, Caste and Reform Test Mock Test
This free online test covers Chapter 7, Women, Caste and Reform, 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
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Sample Questions
Q1.Which of these describes the situation of women in India about two hundred years ago, as the chapter opens?
- AGirls of middle-class families generally went to school and studied alongside boys
- BWomen could vote and stand for elections in local bodies
- CMost children were married off at an early age, men could marry more than one wife, and women's rights to property were restricted
- DWidows could remarry freely and were welcomed back into society
Q2.What did the word sati mean, as the chapter explains it?
- AVirtuous women, the term applied to widows who died on their husbands' funeral pyres
- BA woman who had been taught to read at home
- CA widow who had remarried with her family's consent
- DThe ceremony at which a girl was married as a child
Q3.How were groups treated as untouchable placed in the caste order the chapter describes?
- AJust below the Brahmans and Kshatriyas, above the traders and moneylenders
- BAlongside the Shudras, sharing wells and ponds with them
- CAt the lowest rung, doing work upper castes considered polluting, and barred from temples, upper-caste wells and ponds
- DOutside the caste order altogether but free to enter any temple
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