Deck 8: Environmental Movements and Conflicts in India

Question 1

In .............. the Chipko Movement was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.

A)1947
B)1957
C)1967
D)1987

Answer 1

1987

Question 2

Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS), was set up ...........

A)1924
B)1934
C)1944
D)1964

Answer 2

1964

Question 3

Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set up by Gandhian social worker, ............. in 1964.

A)chandi prasad bhatt
B)jayaprakash narayan
C)sunderlal
D)pandurang hegde

Answer 3

chandi prasad bhatt

Question 4

The Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set up by Gandhian social worker, Chandi Prasad Bhatt in ................

A)gopeshwar
B)uttarakhand
C)mysore
D)mylapore

Question 5

In October .........., the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh workers held a demonstration in Gopeshwar to protest against the policies of the Forest Department.

A)1931
B)1941
C)1951
D)1971

Question 6

The Appiko movement, started on September 8, 1983 by fiery activist .............. who was inspired by Sunderlal Bahugana's Chipko movement in U.P.

A)pandurang hegde
B)sunderlal bahugana
C)narendra modi
D)dalai lama

Question 7

Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protection of Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the ............ district of Kerala, India.

A)kannur
B)palakkad
C)malappuram
D)ernakulam

Question 8

The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in .............

A)1945
B)1955
C)1965
D)1985

Question 9

The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.

A)kuntipuzha
B)nila
C)pamba
D)periyar

Question 10

In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River was identified as an ideal site for electricity generation.

A)kunthipuzha
B)narmada
C)valapattanam
D)bharathapuzha

Question 11

In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study of the Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a Biosphere Reserve.

A)orissa
B)tamilnadu
C)karnataka
D)kerala

Question 12

In ............. Smt. Indira Gandhi, the Honourable Prime Minister of India, approved the project, with the condition that the State Government enact Legislation ensuring the necessary safeguards.

A)1948
B)1958
C)1968
D)1978

Question 13

The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silent valley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.

A)sugathakumari
B)p.valsala
C)o.n.v. kurup
D)ravindranath tagore

Question 14

.............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural History Society, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project.

A)dr. salim ali
B)prof. m. g. k. menon
C)dr. m.s. swaminathan
D)dalai lama

Question 15

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned .......................

A)agricultural scientist
B)historian
C)capitalist
D)chemist

Question 16

On October 31, 1984 ............... was assassinated.

A)indira gandhi
B)rajiv gandhi
C)morarji desai
D)charan singh

Question 17

On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

A)1956
B)1966
C)1976
D)1986

Question 18

Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most powerful mass movement, started in ............., against the construction of huge dam on the Narmada river.

A)1965
B)1975
C)1982
D)1985

Question 19

The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict was a war between China and India that occurred in ...........

A)1952
B)1956
C)1959
D)1962

Question 20

There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to ..............

A)zhou enlai
B)yasser arafat
C)mahmoud abbas
D)dalai lama

Question 21

India initiated a Policy in which it placed outposts along the border, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier ............ in 1959.

A)zhou enlai
B)dalai lama
C)yasser arafat
D)mahmoud abbas

Question 22

Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3,225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in ............. and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A)ladakh
B)kargil
C)burma
D)tibet

Question 23

Indo-Pakistani War of ............. is also called the First Kashmir War.

A)1927
B)1937
C)1945
D)1947

Question 24

Indo-Pakistani War of .............Commonly known as Kargil War.

A)1969
B)1972
C)1992
D)1999

Question 25

................provided global trade rules as well as a framework for trade disputes from 1948 to 1994.

A)gatt
B)wto
C)cento
D)seato