Q1. The 1909 Indian Council Act is also known as
(a) The Chelmsford Reforms
(b) The Pitts India Act
(c) The August offer
(d) The Minto-Marley Reforms
Q2. Who brought about a compromise between Muslim League and Congress in 1916?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Surendranath Banerjee
Q3. The real name of which one of the following leaders of 1857 was Ram Chandra Pandurang?
(a) Kunwar Singh
(b) Tantiya Tope
(c) Nana Saheb
(d) Mangal Panday
Q4. Who among the following said, “India has to unite and conquer the whole world once again with its might”?
(a) Swami Dayanand
(b) Ram Krishna Param Hansha
(c) Swami Vivekanand
(d) Annie Besant
Q5. Which one of the following freedom fighters of first war of independence of 1857 was conferred the title of Mahak Pari?
(a) Zeenat Mahal
(b) Hazarat Mahal
(c) Lakshmi Bai
(d) None of these
Q6. The call of “Back to the Vedas” was given by
(a) Swami Vivekanand
(b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(c) Aurobindo Ghosh
(d) Vishnu Shastri Pandit
Q7. Most authoritative account of Malik Kafur’s Deccan campaign is given by
(a) Amir Khusro
(b) Hasan Nizami
(c) Minhaj
(d) Ziauddin Barani
Q8.The city of Jaunpur was founded in the memory of—
(a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
(b) Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq
(c) Firoz Tughlaq
(d) Akbar
Q9. Who was the founder of the sufi order in India?
(a) Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
(b) Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
(c) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
(d) Shaikh Nasiruddin Mahmud
Q10. Which of the following came to India after the Second World War in 1946?
(a) Cripps Mission
(b) Cabinet Mission
(c) Wavell Plan
(d) Simon Commission
Q11. The Statement, “ I am a socialist and a republican and do not believe in Kings and Princes”, is associated with
(a) Narendra Dev
(b) Achyut Patwardhan
(c) Jayaprakash Narayan
(d) Jawahar Lal Nehru
Q12. Who among the following leaders escaped from the prison and organised underground activities during the Quit India Movement?
(a) J.B. Kriplani
(b) Ram Manohar Lohia
(c) Achyut Patwardhan
(d) Jayaprakash Narayan
Q13. Who among the following was the one to have escaped being hanged in the Kakori conspiracy case?
(a) Ashfaqullah Khan
(b) Rajendra Lahiri
(c) Ram Prasad Bismil
(d) Chandra Shekhar Azad
Q14. Who was one of the founder of the Swaraj Party?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(c) Chittaranjan Das
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q15. Who addressed Gandhiji as the “Father of the Nation” for the first time?
(a) Subhash Chandra Bose
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Solutions
1.D
2.A
3.B
4.C
5.B
6.B
7.A
8.B
9.A
10.B
11.D
12.D
13.D
14.C
15.A
