WBCS MAIN 2019 P-3 HISTORY MCQ
WBCS MAIN 2019 P-3 HISTORY One Liner Questions
TOPIC 1: ANCIENT INDIA
(Questions 1-5)
1. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Lothal? – Rectangular and circular fire altars for animal sacrifice
2. Who was the propounder of the Ajivika Sect? – Makkali Gosala
3. What were the spies during the Sangam age known as? – Orrars
4. On what basis were lands classified during the post-Gupta period? – All of the above (cultivated/uncultivated, irrigated/unirrigated, crops grown)
5. What is the Pallava-Chola style of architecture commonly known as? – Dravida
TOPIC 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA
(Questions 6-14)
6. Which Sultanate ruler created the largest standing army directly paid by the state? – Alauddin Khilji
7. The Muslim kingdom of Golconda grew up on the ruins of which old Hindu kingdom? – Warrangal
8. Which of the following did NOT form part of the contingents maintained by the mansabdars? – Artillerymen
9. What was the chief Dutch export from the Coromandel Ports? – Textiles
10. Which arrangement was NOT made by the English after defeating the Marathas in the third Anglo-Maratha war? – The Gaekwar entered into a subsidiary alliance
11. Who is known as the “Plato of the Jat tribe”? – Surajmal
12. Which Nawab of Awadh was appointed the Wazir of the Mughal empire? – Safdar Jang
13. After Bengal, from whom did the English secure the rights of duty-free trade? – Nawab of Awadh
14. What was a remarkable feature of the spread of landlordism? – Sub-infeudation
TOPIC 3: MODERN INDIA (BRITISH ADMINISTRATION & ECONOMIC IMPACT)
(Questions 15-19)
15. When did the Company lose its monopoly of Indian trade, which was thrown open to all Britons? – 1813
16. The extension of cultivation of indigo, cotton, opium, tea and coffee in India benefited which groups besides British planters? – Both Zamindars and small merchants
17. What was the primary reason for the failure of Mahalwari Settlement in checking the destruction of village communities? – Individual rights in the land were recognized and guaranteed by the state
18. Who was the chief organizer of the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar? – Kunwar Singh
19. Which consequence of British rule did NOT affect the Muslim middle classes? – The tyranny of the British Indigo Planters
TOPIC 4: MODERN INDIA (SOCIO-RELIGIOUS REFORM & EARLY RESISTANCE)
20. Who presided over the first session of the All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay in 1920? – Lala Lajpat Rai
21. What solution did B.R. Ambedkar find after Independence to end the hardship of scheduled class people? – Embracing Buddhism
28. Match the social reformers: Raja Rammohan (Abolition of Sati), Keshab Chandra Sen (Intercaste marriage, widow remarriage), Jyotiba Phule (Shuddhi movement and rejection of hereditary caste system), Dayanand Saraswati (Removal of untouchability) – (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
70. Which movements of the early twentieth century were described as ‘Movements from below’? – Peasant and tribal movements
80. Who founded the ‘Jat Pat Torak Mandal’ in 1922 for breaking caste barriers? – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
81. Who gave the title of ‘Rani’ to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu? – Jawaharlal Nehru
86. For what purpose was the Vaikkom Satyagraha launched in 1924? – Opening the temples to low caste Hindus
87. Why was Gopal Hari Deshmukh popularly known as ‘Lokhitwadi’? – He edited a monthly magazine called ‘Lokhitwadi’
95. Who was the founder President of the Harijan Sevak Sangh, founded by M.K. Gandhi? – Amrit Lal Thakkar
TOPIC 5: MODERN INDIA (FREEDOM STRUGGLE & INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS)
22. Who acted as president of the INC thrice during its first twenty years? – Dadabhai Naoroji
23. By whom was Aurobindo Ghosh brilliantly defended? – Chittaranjan Das
24. With whose death did the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association movement end? – Chandra Sekhar Azad
25. Why did the Congress give up its ideal of a United India and accept partition? – The Congress leaders felt that partition was a lesser evil than a civil war
26. Where did Mahatma Gandhi first experiment with his technique of Satyagraha? – Ahmedabad Mill Strike
27. Which senior Congress leader held that the Quit India Movement was misguided and detrimental to India’s long-term interests? – C. Rajagopalachari
29. What was the precursor of the Indian National Congress? – British Indian Association
30. Who gave the name “Indian National Congress”? – Dadabhai Naoroji
31. Who was the first president of the Indian National Congress? – W.C. Bonerjee
32. Who said, “The Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India, is to assist it to its peaceful demise”? – Lord Dufferin
33. Arrange in correct chronological order: Partition of Bengal (1905), Varanasi Session of INC (1905), Foundation of Muslim League (1906), Calcutta Session of INC (1906) – I, II, IV, III
34. What was the immediate cause of the Surat Split (1907) between moderates and extremists? – The election of the President of INC
35. Why does the Calcutta session of INC (1906) mark a turning point in Congress history? – It adopted resolutions on Boycott, Swadeshi, National Education and Self Government
36. Who were designated as ‘Neo Nationalists’? – Extremists
37. At which session did the INC become both Indian and National in reality as well as in name? – Lucknow Session (1916)
38. Match the papers with publishers: Abul Kalam Azad (Al Hilal), Pheroze Shah Mehta (Bombay Chronicle), Annie Besant (New India), M.K. Gandhi (Young India) – (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
39. Arrange in correct chronological order: Transfer of capital to Delhi (1911), Bombing on Lord Hardinge (1912), Outbreak of WWI (1914), Gandhi’s arrival in India (1915) – II, I, III, IV
40. Match revolutionary organisations with founders: Anushilan Samiti (Barindra Kumar Ghosh), Abhinava Bharata (V.D. Savarkar), Ghadar Party (Lala Hardayal), Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (Sachindra Nath Sanyal and Bhagat Singh) – (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
41. Match epithets with leaders: B.G. Tilak (Lokmanya), C.F. Andrews (Dinabandhu), Madan Mohan Malviya (Maharana), Lala Lajpat Rai (Punjab Kesari) – (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
42. Which was NOT a result of the Home Rule movement of Tilak and Besant? – The Home Rule campaign virtually ousted the moderates from the political field
43. In connection with which case was Jatin Das arrested, who died after a long hunger strike in 1929? – Lahore Conspiracy case
44. Who is regarded as ‘the Mother of Indian Revolution’? – Madam Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
45. Who presided over the Lahore Session of INC (1929) which passed the Purna Swaraj resolution? – Jawaharlal Nehru
46. Who prepared the famous ‘Purna Swaraj Declaration’? – Motilal Nehru
47. What was the greatest merit of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact? – For the first time the INC was treated on a footing of equality as a political opponent
48. What was the main reason for opposition to the Gandhi-Irwin pact? – The execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru
49. What was the name of the new party formed by Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das after the Gaya Session of INC (1922)? – The Congress Khilafat Swarajya Party
50. The Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929) related to members of which organization? – Communist Party of India
51. What was the issue of discussion and stalemate at the Second Round Table Conference? – The Communal Problem
52. Who was NOT hanged in the famous Kakori Train Dacoity Case? – Surya Sen
53. Who planned the Chittagong Armoury Raid? – Surya Sen
54. Pritilata Wadedar and Kalpana Dutta were revolutionary co-workers of which leader? – Surya Sen
55. Who murdered Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lahore, for assaulting Lala Lajpat Rai? – Raj Guru
56. Why did Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw bombs in the Central Assembly and get themselves arrested? – All of the above
57. After how many days of fasting did Jatin Das die in Lahore Conspiracy Case? – Sixty three days
58. When was Subhas Chandra Bose unanimously elected President of INC at the Haripur Session? – 1938
59. What was the fundamental difference between Subhas Chandra Bose and the Gandhi-Nehru group? – Bose wanted to exploit the war between Germany and Britain: “England’s necessity is India’s opportunity”
60. Why was the Tripuri Session of INC (March 1939) a historic event? – Resignation of entire Working Committee except Subhas and Sarat Chandra Bose
61. When did Subhas Chandra Bose organize the Forward Bloc after leaving Congress? – 1939
62. What was the main principle of Gandhi’s Basic Education System (Wardha Scheme)? – Earning and learning
63. Match events with dates: August Offer (Aug 8, 1940), Cripps Mission (Mar 23, 1942), Quit India Resolution (July 14, 1942), Great August Uprising (Aug 9-11, 1942) – (a)-IV, (b)-III, (c)-II, (d)-I
69. Match authors with works: Dr. Rajendra Prasad (India Divided), Abul Kalam Azad (India Wins Freedom), V.D. Savarkar (Indian War of Independence), C. Rajagopalachari (The Nation’s Voice) – II, III, IV, I
71. Match authors with works: Sceptred Flute (Sarojini Naidu), Savitri (Aurobindo Ghosh), India and the World (Jawaharlal Nehru), Conquest of Self (M.K. Gandhi) – II, III, IV, I
72. Approximately how many Princely States became independent on August 15, 1947? – 600
73. Who said in 1903, “Only mad men outside lunatic asylums could think or talk of independence”? – Lord Curzon
74. Which British King visited India and held his magnificent Durbar during British rule? – George V
75. Which Muslim organization proposed during WWI that Muslims should participate and try to reach an accord with Congress? – Deoband Movement
76. When was Bal Gangadhar Tilak given the epithet ‘Lokmanya’? – During Home Rule Movement
77. Which Indian prince actively participated in the revolutionary movement within and outside India? – Raja Mahendra Pratap
78. Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons as a member of which party? – Liberal
79. Who was NOT a leader of the All India Hindu Mahasabha? – M.R. Jayakar
82. Who was the first to unfurl the first Indian National Flag, precursor of Independent India’s flag? – Madam Bhikaji Cama
83. At which session of INC was the Nehru Committee Report given a “decent burial”? – Lahore Session
84. Which revolutionary organization had a large number of young women revolutionaries? – Yugantar
85. Who acted as President of INC for six consecutive years? – Abul Kalam Azad
88. Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London, who was – Adviser to the Secretary of State for India
89. Which great national leader died on the day Gandhi launched the Non-Co-operation Movement? – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
90. Who was the revolutionary professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy at Berkeley and Stanford who died as a sanyasi in Philadelphia? – Lala Hardayal
91. Which European organization in India launched agitation against the Ilbert Bill? – European Defence Association
92. The second split in Congress (1918) occurred on the issue of – Both Lucknow Pact and Election of Annie Besant as President
93. By which act was a Public Service Commission established in India for the first time? – Government of India Act, 1919
94. Who killed Michael O’Dyer, the Governor of Punjab who ordered Jallianwala Bagh firing? – Sardar Udham Singh
96. After the Partition of Bengal, which two new provinces came into existence? – East Bengal and Assam
97. Who was the brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chowk, Delhi (1912)? – Rashbehari Bose
98. Who presided over the historic Lucknow Session of Congress in 1916? – Ambika Charan Majumdar
99. Why did the Congress decide to raise a Swaraj Fund of one crore rupees? – Supporting the families of political workers
WBCS MAIN 2019 P-3 HISTORY MCQ
TOPIC 1: ANCIENT INDIA
(Questions 1-5)
1. Which of the following is not a feature of Lothal?
(A) Discovery of a dockyard
(B) Rectangular and circular fire altars for animal sacrifice
(C) Depiction of a ship on a seal
(D) Evidence of the use of the plough
Answer: (B)
2. Who was the propounder of the Ajivika Sect?
(A) Purana Kassapa
(B) Pakuddha Kaccayana
(C) Makkali Gosala
(D) Ajita Keshakambalin
Answer: (C)
3. The spies during the Sangam age was known as
(A) Spasas
(B) Dutas
(C) Orrars
(D) Sanjayans
Answer: (C)
4. Lands, during the post-Gupta period, were classified on the basis of
(A) Being cultivated and uncultivated
(B) Being irrigated and unirrigated
(C) Crops being grown on the lands
(D) All of the above
Answer: (D)
5. The Pallava-Chola style of architecture is commonly known as
(A) Pallava
(B) Chola
(C) Nagara
(D) Dravida
Answer: (D)
TOPIC 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA
(Questions 6-14)
6. The largest standing army of the Sultanate directly paid by the state was created by
(A) Iltutmish
(B) Alauddin Khilji
(C) Muhammad Bin Tughluq
(D) Sikandar Lodi
Answer: (B)
7. The Muslim kingdom of Golconda grew up on the ruins of the old Hindu kingdom of
(A) Devagiri
(B) Dwarasamudra
(C) Warrangal
(D) Kanchi
Answer: (C)
8. Which of the following did not form part of the contingents maintained by the mansabdars?
(A) Cavalrymen
(B) Artillerymen
(C) Bowmen
(D) Musketeers
Answer: (B)
9. The chief Dutch export from the Coromandel Ports was
(A) Textiles
(B) Indigo
(C) Spices
(D) Saltpetre
Answer: (A)
10. Which of the following is not one of the arrangements made by the English after defeating the Marathas in the third Anglo-Maratha war?
(A) The Peshwaship was abolished.
(B) Holkar was forced to enter into a subsidiary alliance.
(C) The Gaekwar entered into a subsidiary alliance.
(D) The small kingdom of Satara formed out of Peshwa dominions was given to Pratap Singh.
Answer: (C)
11. Who is known as the Plato of the Jat tribe?
(A) Rajaram
(B) Churaman
(C) Badan Singh
(D) Surajmal
Answer: (D)
12. The Nawab of Awadh who was appointed the Wazir of the Mughal empire was
(A) Sadat Khan
(B) Safdar Jang
(C) Asaf ud daula
(D) Nasiruddin
Answer: (B)
13. After Bengal, the English secured the rights of duty free trade in the dominions of
(A) Raja of Benaras
(B) Nawab of Awadh
(C) The Nizam of Hyderabad
(D) The Jats of Bharatpur
Answer: (B)
14. A remarkable feature of the spread of landlordism was the growth of
(A) Aristocracy
(B) Capitalism
(C) Sub-infeudation
(D) Cultivation
Answer: (C)
TOPIC 3: MODERN INDIA (BRITISH ADMINISTRATION & ECONOMIC IMPACT)
(Questions 15-19)
15. When did the Company lose its monopoly of Indian trade which was thrown open to all Britons?
(A) 1813
(B) 1833
(C) 1858
(D) 1818
Answer: (A)
16. The extension of the cultivation of indigo, cotton, opium, tea and coffee in India, besides benefiting the British planters, also benefited
(A) The Zamindars
(B) The small merchants
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) The Indian Bankers
Answer: (C)
17. What was the primary reason for the failure of Mahalwari Settlement in checking the process of destruction of the village communities?
(A) It was introduced only as a temporary measure to be replaced ultimately by the rayatwari system.
(B) Individual rights in the land were recognized and guaranteed by the state.
(C) There were several defects and lacunae in the implementation of the measure
(D) It met with severe opposition from certain sections of the village community.
Answer: (B)
18. Which of the following was the chief organizer of the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar?
(A) Amar Singh
(B) Kunwar Singh
(C) Pir Ali
(D) Imaduddin
Answer: (B)
19. Which of the following consequences of the British rule did not affect the Muslim middle classes?
(A) The tyranny of the British Indigo Planters
(B) The disbandment of the Nawab’s forces
(C) The abolition of the rural police
(D) The resumptions of Imam’s lands which provided sustenance to the learned
Answer: (A)
TOPIC 4: MODERN INDIA (SOCIO-RELIGIOUS REFORM & EARLY RESISTANCE)
(Questions 20-21, 28, 70, 80-81, 86-87, 95)
20. The first session of the All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay in 1920, was presided over by
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) V. V. Giri
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) N. M Joshi
Answer: (C)
21. What was the solution found by B. R. Ambedkar in later years after Independence to end the hardship of scheduled class people?
(A) More Representations
(B) Separate Electorate
(C) Embracing the Buddhism
(D) Organized Movement
Answer: (C)
28. Match the social reformers of the nineteenth century with their individual contributions:
(a) Raja Rammohan – (i) Abolition of Sati
(b) Keshab Chandra Sen – (ii) Intercaste marriage, widow remarriage and emancipation of women
(c) Jyotiba Phule – (iii) Removal of untouchability
(d) Dayanand Saraswati – (iv) Shuddhi movement and rejection of hereditary caste system
(A) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(B) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(C) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(D) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
Answer: (D)
70. Certain movements of the early twentieth century described as ‘Movements from below’ were
(A) Caste movements
(B) Revolutionary movements
(C) Peasant and tribal movements
(D) Socio-religious movements
Answer: (C)
80. Who founded a Social Organization, the ‘Jat Pat Torak Mandal’ in 1922, for breaking the caste barriers among the Hindus?
(A) Bhai Parmanand
(B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(C) M.G. Ranade
(D) Keshab Chandra Sen
Answer: (B)
81. Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu?
(A) Subhas Chandra Bose
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Thakkar Bapa
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (B)
86. The Vaikkom Satyagraha was launched in 1924 for
(A) opening the temples to the low caste Hindus.
(B) fighting against the exploitation by the Landlords.
(C) removal of Press restrictions.
(D) democratisation of the administration of Travancore State.
Answer: (A)
87. Gopal Hari Deshmukh is popularly Known as ‘Lokhitwadi’ because:
(A) He was a great philanthropist and social worker.
(B) He distributed money and medicines to the poor and the needy.
(C) He edited a monthly magazine the ‘Lokhitwadi’.
(D) All of the above
Answer: (C)
95. The founder President of the Harijan Sevak Sangh, founded by M.K. Gandhi, was
(A) Mahadev Desai
(B) G.D. Birla
(C) Amrit Lal Thakkar
(D) B.R. Ambedkar
Answer: (C)
TOPIC 5: MODERN INDIA (FREEDOM STRUGGLE & INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS)
(Questions 22-27, 29-67, 69, 71-79, 82-85, 88-94, 96-99)
22. During the first twenty years of the Congress, which of the following acted as president of the INC thrice?
(A) Surendra Nath Banerjee
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Sankaran Nair
Answer: (B)
23. Aurobindo Ghosh was brilliantly defended by
(A) Chittaranjan Das
(B) W.C. Bonerjee
(C) Motilal Nehru
(D) Tej Bahadur Sapru
Answer: (A)
24. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association movement ended with the death of
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Ram Prasad Bismil
(C) Chandra Sekhar Azad
(D) Jogesh Chandra Chatterji
Answer: (C)
25. The Congress gave up its ideal of a United India and accepted partition, because
(A) The country was sinking into a civil war
(B) The congress leaders felt that partition was a lesser evil than a civil war
(C) The congress leaders succumbed to the temptation of power and struck a deal with the British
(D) The interim Govt had become an arena of struggle
Answer: (B)
26. Mahatma Gandhi first experimented with his technique of Satyagraha in
(A) Champaran
(B) Khera
(C) Ahmedabad Mill Strike
(D) Anti Rowlatt Act Agitation
Answer: (C)
27. A senior congress leader, who held that the Quit India Movement was misguided and detrimental to India’s long term interests, was
(A) Tej bahadur Sapru
(B) Jayaprakash Narayan
(C) C. Rajagopalachari
(D) J. B. Kripalani
Answer: (C)
29. The precursor of the Indian National Congress was
(A) Indian Association of Calcutta
(B) Indian National Conference
(C) British Indian Association
(D) The Indian Union
Answer: (C)
30. The name Indian National Congress was given by
(A) S.N. Banerjee
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Feroze Shah Mehta
(D) M.G. Ranade
Answer: (B)
31. The first president of the Indian National Congress was
(A) A.O. Hume
(B) W.C. Bonerjee
(C) S.N. Banerjee
(D) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: (B)
32. Who said “The Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India, is to assist it to its peaceful demise”?
(A) Syed Ahmed Khan
(B) Raja Shiv Prasad
(C) Lord Dufferin
(D) Lord Curzon
Answer: (C)
33. Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order:
I. Partition of Bengal (1905)
II. Varanasi Session of the I.N.C. (1905)
III. Calcutta Session of the I.N.C. (1906)
IV. Foundation of Muslim League (1906)
(A) I, II, III, IV
(B) II, I, III, IV
(C) I, II, IV, III
(D) II, I, IV, III
Answer: (C) I, II, IV, III
34. The immediate cause of the Surat Split (1907) between the moderates and the extremists was
(A) the Boycott of the moderates by the extremists.
(B) the election of the President of I.N.C.
(C) the Swaraj Resolution.
(D) the extremists resolution of Swadeshi, Boycott, National Education and Self-Government.
Answer: (B)
35. The Calcutta session of the I.N.C. (1906) marks a turning point in the history of the congress, because
(A) it marked the end of the twenty years of the I.N.C.
(B) it marked the end of the moderate phase of the I.N.C.
(C) it adopted the resolutions regarding Boycott, Swadeshi, National Education and Self Government.
(D) it was the last session when the I.N.C. was dominated by the old guard.
Answer: (C)
36. Who were designated as Neo Nationalists?
(A) Extremists
(B) Revolutionaries
(C) Moderates
(D) Swarajists
Answer: (A)
37. The I.N.C. became both Indian and National in reality as well as in name, at the
(A) Surat Session (1907)
(B) Calcutta Session (1906)
(C) Lucknow Session (1916)
(D) Lahore Session (1929)
Answer: (C)
38. Match the papers or periodicals with the National leaders who Published them.
(a) Abul Kalam Azad – (ii) Al Hilal
(b) Pheroze Shah Mehta – (i) Bombay Chronicle
(c) Mrs. Annie Besant – (iv) New India
(d) M. K. Gandhi – (iii) Young India
(A) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(B) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(C) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(D) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Answer: (A)
39. Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order.
I. Bombing on Lord Hardinge (1912)
II. Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911)
III. Outbreak of the First World War (1914)
IV. Gandhi’s arrival in India (1915)
(A) I, II, III, IV
(B) II, III, I, IV
(C) III, I, II, IV
(D) II, I, III, IV
Answer: (D) II, I, III, IV
40. Match the founders of the following revolutionary organisations:
(a) Anushilan Samiti – (ii) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
(b) Abhinava Bharata – (i) V. D. Savarkar
(c) Ghadar Party – (iii) Lala Hardayal
(d) Hindustan Socialist Republican Army – (iv) Sachindra Nath Sanyal and Bhagat Singh
(A) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(B) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(C) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(D) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Answer: (A)
41. Match the epithets of the following National Leaders:
(a) B. G. Tilak – (i) Lokmanya
(b) C.F. Andrews – (ii) Dinabandhu
(c) Madan Mohan Malviya – (iii) Maharana
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai – (iv) Punjab Kesari
(A) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)
(B) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
(C) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(i), (d)-(ii)
(D) (a)-(iv), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)
Answer: (B)
42. Which of the following was not the result of the Home Rule movement of Tilak and Besant?
(A) The I. N. C. and the Muslim League both thought of starting a ‘passive Resistance’ movement.
(B) The Home Rule campaign virtually ousted the moderates from the political field.
(C) The I. N. C. became the ‘Congress of Tilak and Besant’.
(D) The movement generated a cultural awakening in India.
Answer: (B)
43. Jatin Das, who died (September 13, 1929) after a long hunger strike in the prison, had been arrested in connection with
(A) Murder of Saunders
(B) Throwing of bombs in the Assembly at Delhi
(C) Lahore Conspiracy case
(D) Meerut Conspiracy case
Answer: (C)
44. Who is regarded as ‘the Mother of Indian Revolution’?
(A) Mrs. Annie Besant
(B) Snehata Wadkar
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Madam Bhikaiji Rustom Cama
Answer: (D)
45. The President of the Lahore Session of the I.N.C. (December 1929) which passed the Purna Swaraj resolution was
(A) Motilal Nehru
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Srinivas Ayengar
(D) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: (B)
46. The famous ‘Purna Swaraj Declaration’, which says: “We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country”, was prepared by
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) M.K.Gandhi
(C) Motilal Nehru
(D) All of the above
Answer: (C)
47. The greatest merit of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was that:
(A) The I.N.C. agreed to join the Second Round Table Conference.
(B) For the first time the I.N.C. was treated on a footing of equality as a political opponent.
(C) Gandhi, the ‘half naked Fakir’, ascended the staircase of the Viceregal Lodge.
(D) The I.N.C. gained a status and authority to speak for political India.
Answer: (B)
48. Opposition to the Gandhi-Irwin pact was mainly
(A) because of the execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru.
(B) because the I.N.C. reneged the Purna Swarajya pledge.
(C) because of suspension of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
(D) because the Pact was a self delusion.
Answer: (A)
49. After the Gaya Session of the I.N.C. in December 1922 a new party was formed by Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das. Its name was
(A) National Liberal Party
(B) The Congress Khilafat Swarajya Party
(C) Swarajya Party
(D) Swarajya Congress Party
Answer: (B)
50. The Meerut Conspiracy Case, in which 27 accused persons were defended by Jawaharlal Nehru and K.N. Katju, related to the members of the
(A) Ghadar Party
(B) Hindu Mahasabha
(C) Indian National Congress
(D) Communist Party of India
Answer: (D)
51. The issue of discussion and stalemate at the Second Round Table Conference related to the
(A) Communal Problem
(B) Federal Structure
(C) Demand for Purna Swarajya
(D) Representation of Depressed Classes
Answer: (A)
52. Who of the following was not hanged in the famous Kakori Train Dacoity Case?
(A) Pandit Ramprasad Bismil
(B) Roshan Lal
(C) Ashfaqulla Khan
(D) Surya Sen
Answer: (D)
53. The Chittagong Armoury Raid had been planned by
(A) Surya Sen
(B) Chandra Dutta
(C) Vidhan Ghosh
(D) Jatin Das
Answer: (A)
54. The two greatest women revolutionaries of the National Movement- Pritilata Wadedar and Kalpana Dutta were the revolutionary co- workers of:
(A) Surya Sen
(B) Bhagat Singh
(C) Batukeswar Dutt
(D) Chapekar brothers
Answer: (A)
55. Who murdered Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lahore, for assaulting Lala Lajpat Rai?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Batukeshwar Dutt
(C) Sukh Dev
(D) Raj Guru
Answer: (D)
56. Why did Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw bombs on the floor of the Central Assembly in New Delhi and in the Process got themselves arrested?
(A) After the murders of Saunders at Lahore, the people were suffering terribly at the hands of the Police.
(B) A feeling had slowly gained around that the people had to suffer the consequences of the crimes committed by Bhagat Singh, etc. to remove such a feeling H.S.R.A. decided to send two members to commit a crime and then to court arrest.
(C) To create a sensation all over India in order to remove political lethargy
(D) All of the above
Answer: (D)
57. Jatin Das, an accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, on whose death the family of the Irish martyr, Terence Macswiney sent condolence message to the family of Das, died after undertaking a fast of _ days.
(A) fifty six
(B) sixty three
(C) seventy two
(D) eighty one
Answer: (B)
58. Subhas Chandra Bose was unanimously elected President of the I.N.C. at the Haripur Session held in February:
(A) 1936
(B) 1937
(C) 1938
(D) 1939
Answer: (C)
59. What was the fundamental difference between Subhas Chandra Bose and Gandhi-Nehru group, which led to the defeat of Gandhi’s candidate for the Presidentship of the I.N.C.?
(A) Gandhi had a personal dislike for Bose.
(B) Bose had radical and socialist ideas.
(C) Bose wanted to exploit the war between Germany and Britain to India’s advantage and said: “England’s necessity is India’s opportunity”
(D) Insinuations made by Bose against Gandhi that he was not keen on carrying on the National Struggle.
Answer: (C)
60. The Tripuri Session of the I.N.C. (March, 1939) was a historic event on account of
(A) the victory of Subhas Chandra Bose as President of I.N.C. against Gandhiji’s nominee, Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
(B) the resignation of the entire Working Committee except Subhas Chandra Bose and his brother Sarat Chandra Bose.
(C) the resolution to frame a Constitution of free India.
(D) rejection of the British Foreign Policy by the I.N.C.
Answer: (B)
61. After Leaving the Congress, Subhas Chandra Bose organized the Forward Bloc in
(A) 1939
(B) 1938
(C) 1940
(D) 1941
Answer: (A)
62. The main principle of M.K. Gandhi’s famous Basic Education System or Wardha Scheme was:
(A) Learning through activity
(B) Learning through productivity
(C) Earning and learning
(D) Learning and spinning
Answer: (C)
63. Match the following events with the dates of their occurrence:
(a) August Offer – IV. August 8, 1940
(b) Arrival of Cripps Mission – III. March 23, 1942
(c) Quit India Resolution – II. July 14, 1942
(d) The Great August Uprising – I. August 9-11, 1942
(A) (a)-IV, (b)-III, (c)-II, (d)-I
(B) (a)-I, (b)-II, (c)-III, (d)-IV
(C) (a)-II, (b)-I, (c)-IV, (d)-III
(D) (a)-III, (b)-IV, (c)-I, (d)-II
Answer: (A)
69. Match the authors with their works:
(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad – II. India Divided
(b) Abul Kalam Azad – III. India Wins Freedom
(c) V.D. Savarkar – IV. Indian War of Independence
(d) C. Rajagopalachari – I. The Nation’s Voice
(A) I, II, III, IV
(B) II, I, IV, III
(C) III, IV, I, II
(D) II, III, IV, I
Answer: (D)
71. Match the authors and the works:
(a) Sceptred Flute – II. Sarojini Naidu
(b) Savitri – III. Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) India and the world – IV. Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Conquest of Self – I. M.K. Gandhi
(A) I, II, III, IV
(B) II, I, IV, III
(C) II, III, IV, I
(D) III, IV, I, II
Answer: (C)
72. What approximately was the number of Princely States which legally became independent at the lapse of British paramountcy on August 15, 1947?
(A) 300
(B) 600
(C) 150
(D) 700
Answer: (B)
73. Ridiculing the idea of Swarajya in 1903; who said, “Only mad men outside lunatic asylums could think or talk of independence”?
(A) Lord Curzon
(B) Lord Hardinge
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Pheroze Shah Mehta
Answer: (A)
74. During the British rule the only British King to visit India and hold his magnificent Durbar, was:
(A) Edward VII
(B) George V
(C) James II
(D) Edward VI
Answer: (B)
75. A Muslim organization, which proposed during the First World War that Muslims should participate and try to reach an accord with the Congress, was
(A) Muslim League
(B) Ahmadiya Movement
(C) Ehrar League
(D) Deoband Movement
Answer: (D)
76. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya during:
(A) Swadeshi Movement
(B) Revolutionary Movement
(C) Home Rule Movement
(D) His imprisonment in 1908
Answer: (C)
77. The only Indian prince, who actively participated in the revolutionary movement within and outside India, was
(A) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(B) Kunwar Singh
(C) Chhatrapati Sahu
(D) Raja Ripudaman Singh
Answer: (A)
78. Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons as a member of the _ party.
(A) Conservative
(B) Liberal
(C) Labour
(D) Labour-Liberal Combine
Answer: (B)
79. Which of the following was not a leader of the All India Hindu Mahasabha?
(A) V.D. Savarkar
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
(D) M.R. Jayakar
Answer: (D)
82. Who was the first to unfurl the first Indian National Flag, the parent and precursor of the Flag of Independent India?
(A) Madam Bhikaji Cama
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(D) Taraknath Das
Answer: (A)
83. The Nehru Committee Report got a decent burial at the hands of the Congress at the _ Session of the I.N.C.
(A) Calcutta
(B) Madras
(C) Lahore
(D) Bombay
Answer: (C)
84. Which of the following revolutionary and terrorist organizations had a large number of young women revolutionaries?
(A) Yugantar
(B) Anushilan Samiti
(C) Bharat Mata Society
(D) Indian Republican Army
Answer: (A)
85. Which of the following acted as President of the Indian National Congress for six Consecutive years?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: (C)
88. Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London, who was a/an
(A) Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
(B) Secretary of State for India.
(C) Former Governor of the Punjab
(D) Law Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council
Answer: (A)
89. The day M.K. Gandhi launched the Non-Co-operation Movement, a great National leader died, he was:
(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Pheroze Shah Mehta
(D) C.R. Das
Answer: (B)
90. He was a great Indian revolutionary who was a Professor of Sanskrit and Philosophy in the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford and died as a sanyasi in Philadelphia, He was:
(A) Shyamji Krishna Varma
(B) Lala Hardayal
(C) Bhai Parmanand
(D) Ram Chandra Bhardwaj
Answer: (B)
91. The European Organization in India which launched agitation against the Ilbert Bill was:
(A) European Defence Association
(B) Indo-British Association
(C) Anti Ilbert Bill League
(D) European Rights Front
Answer: (A)
92. After the Surat split in 1907, the Second Split in the Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of:
(A) Lucknow Pact
(B) Montagu Declaration
(C) Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
(D) Both (A) & (C)
Answer: (D)
93. A Public Service Commission was established in India for the first time by
(A) The Indian Council Act 1892
(B) Act of 1909
(C) The Government of India Act, 1919
(D) The Government of India Act, 1935
Answer: (C)
94. Who killed Michael O’ Dyer, the Governor of Punjab, who had ordered the brutal firing on the innocent people at Jallianwala Bagh?
(A) Madan Lal Dhingra
(B) Sardar Udham Singh
(C) Sohan Singh Bhakra
(D) Kanai Lal Dutt
Answer: (B)
96. After the Partition of Bengal, the two new provinces which came into existence were:
(A) East Bengal and Bengal
(B) East Bengal and West Bengal
(C) East Bengal and Assam
(D) East Bengal and North Bengal
Answer: (C)
97. The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chowk, Delhi in December 1912, was:
(A) Rashbehari Bose
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Sachindranath Sanyal
(D) Shobhan Lal Pathak
Answer: (A)
98. The Historic Lucknow Session of the Congress in 1916 was presided over by
(A) Mrs. Annie Besant
(B) R.N. Mudholkar
(C) Ambika Charan Majumdar
(D) Madan Mohan Malviya
Answer: (C)
99. The Congress decided to raise a Swaraj Fund of one crore rupees for:
(A) Organizing the Non-Co-operation Movement
(B) Memorial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Building the headquarters of the Congress
(D) Supporting the families of the political workers.
Answer: (D)