Q1.Which one of the following Mughal emperors gave an important Firman to the English of facilitating their trade in India?
(a) Bahadur Shah I
(b) Bahadur Shah II
(c) Shah Alam II
(d) Farrukhsiyar
Q2.The Peshwa who engineered the capture ofSalsette and Bassein from the Portuguese in 1739 was
(a) Balaji Vishwanath
(b) Baji Rao I
(c) Baji Rao II
(d) Madhava Rao
Q3.Who was the first Indian native ruler to accept the system of the subsidiary alliance?
(a) Sindhia of Gwalior
(b) Nawab of Awadh
(c) Dilip Singh of Punjab
(d) Nizam of Hyderabad
Q4.Who among the following Europeans was first to come to India to establish trade relation with their country?
(a) Dutch
(b) Portuguese
(c) British
(d) French
Q5.The tomb of Lord Cornwallis is situated at
(a) Ghazipur
(b) Gorakhpur
(c) Varanasi
(d) Ballia
Q6.Who among the following was founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal?
(a) J.A. Hickey
(b) Max. Muller
(c) Willkins
(d) William Jones
Q7.The Revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by
(a) Begum Hazarat Mahal
(b) Tantiya Tope
(c) Rani Laxmi Bai
(d) Nana Saheb
Q8.The call of “Back to the Vedas” was given by
(a) Swami Vivekanand
(b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(c) Aurobindo Ghosh
(d) Vishnu Shastri Pandi
Q9.Who among the following was nominated by Mahatma Gandhi for the presidentship of the Congress in 1939 against Subhash Chandra
Bose?
(a) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
(b) Govind Ballabh Pant
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q10.Babu Kunwar Singh who took part in great leader of Revolt of 1857 was Zamindar of
(a) Gorakhpur
(b) Jagdishpur
(c) Rohilkhand
(d) Raipur
Q11.The Revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet
(a) Taqi Mir
(b) Zauq
(c) Ghalib
(d) Iqbal
Q12.Vande Mataram the national song was a part of
(a) Durgesh Nandini
(b) Anand Math
(c) Grihadaha
(d) Bhagvad-Gita
Solutions
1.D
2.B
3.D
4.B
5.A
6.D
7.A
8.B
9.A
10.B
11.C
12.B
