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Time to answer

A. Choose the correct answer.

1. What was the birthplace of Rani Lakshmibai?

Bithoor Jhansi Gwalior Varanasi

2. Who was the last Maratha Peshwa?

Moropant Tambe Raja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar

Peshwa of Bithoor district, brother of Baji Rao II

Anand Rao

3. Why was Damodar Rao’s claim to the throne rejected by the Britishers?

because he was the son of Rani Lakshmibai’s cousin

because he was Rani Lakshmibai’s son

because he was not born in Jhansi

because he was the adopted son to Gangadhar Rao

4. Who was demanding the surrender of the city of Jhansi?

Raja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar Peshwa of Bithoor district

Sir Hugh Rose General Lord Dalhousie

B. Answer these questions.

1. Why was Lakshmibai brought up in the household of the Peshwa?

2. Who was adopted by the Maharaja of Jhansi and why do you think he was adopted?

3. Why do you think the Britishers wanted to conquer the city of Jhansi?

4. What are the legends associated with Rani Lakshmibai’s death?

Reference to the context

Read these lines from the story and answer the questions that follow.

1. ‘Surrender or be destroyed!’
a. Who is the speaker of the above line?

i. Raja Gangadhar Rao Newalkar ii. General Lord Dalhousie

iii. Sir Hugh Rose iv. Moropant Tambe

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