Q1. The Indian National Congress was founded by
(a) W. C. Banerjee
(b) A. O. Hume
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Annie Besant
Q2. The first session of the Indian National Congress was held under the presidentship of
(a) A. O. Hume
(b) B. Malabari
(c) Badruddin Tyabji
(d) W. C. Banerjee
Q3. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Ripon—Subsidiary Alliance
(b) Wellesley—Doctrine of Lapse
(c) Bentinck—Abolition of Sati
(d) Dalhousie—Partition of Bengal
Q4. Who is known as the ‘Grand Old Man of India’?
(a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(b) C. Rajagopalachari
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Q5. Vande Mataram was first published in
(a) Gitanjali
(b) Harijan
(c) Kesari
(d) Anand Math.
Q6. Acharya Vinoba Bhave’s Paunar Ashram is in
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Gujarat
(c) Bihar
(d) Bengal
Q7. Who among the following leaders of the revolt of 1857 wrote to the French emperor, ‘The acts of injustice and perjury of the English Government blaze on all sides like the rays of the sun’?
(a) Nana Sahib
(b) Bahadur Shah
(c) Tatya Tope
(d) Birjis Qadr
Q8. ‘The Parliament of Religious’ was held in 1893 in the city of
(a) Chicago
(b) New York
(c) San Francisco
(d) London
Q9. The Theosophical Society was originally founded by
(a) Annie Besant
(b) H. P. Blavatsky
(c) Sister Nivedita
(d) Sarojini Naidu
Q10. Who pioneered and movement leading to the Widow Remarriage Act?
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Keshab Chandra Sen
(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Q11. Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the year
(a) 1828
(b) 1829
(c) 1826
(d) 1827
Q12. Whom did the English defeat in the battle of Buxar?
(a) Mir Kasim
(b) Siraj–ud–Daulah
(c) Shujauddin
(d) Mir Jaffar
Q13. Who founded the sovereign kingdom of Avadh?
(a) Nizam ul Mulk
(b) Saadat Khan Burhan–ul–Mulk
(c) Safdarjung
(d) Quli Qutub Shah
Q14. Who a founded Jacobin club at Srirangapattanam in 1797?
(a) Napoleon
(b) Hyder Ali
(c) Tipu Sultan
(d) Col. Bussey
Q15. Under which of the following states was Hyder Ali serving as a Faujdar when the consolidated his position?
(a) Budikota
(b) Dindigul
(c) Arcot
(d) Devanhalli
Solutions
1.B
2.D
3.C
4.D
5.D
6.A
7.C
8.A
9.B
10.D
11.A
12.A
13.B
14.C
15.B
