True or false: how the revolt began
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The mutiny began among the sepoys at Meerut.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- It began in the lines of the native infantry.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- It stayed confined to the army throughout.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Ordinary townspeople and villagers joined in.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- The telegraph line to Delhi was cut.
Explanation
It started in the army and spread outward. Source: syllabus History, Rebels and the Raj.