Q.1 Assertion (A): The first ever Bill to make primary education compulsory in India was rejected in 1911.
Reason (R): Discontent would have increased if every cultivator could read.
(a) Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Q.2 Assertion (A): The Congress rejected Cripps proposals.
Reason (R): The Cripps Mission consisted solely of whites.
(a) Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Q.3 Assertion (A): Gandhi stopped the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922
(a) Both A and R are true but R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Q.4 When the Indian Muslims League was inducted into the interim government in 1946, Liyaqat Ali Khan was assigned the portfolio of:
(a) Foreign affairs
(b) Home
(c) Finance
(d) Defence
Q.5 The Indian National Congress agreed in 1947 to the partition of the country mainly because:
(a) The principal of two-Nation theory was then acceptable to them
(b) It was imposed by the British Government and the Congress was helpless in this regard
(c) They wanted to avoid large-scale communal riots
(d) India would have otherwise lost the opportunity to attain freedom
Q.6 At the time of India’s Independence, Mahatma Gandhi was:
(a) A member of Congress Working Committee
(b) Not a member of the Congress
(c) The President of the Congress
(d) The General Secretary of the Congress
Q.7 ‘Abinava Bharat’ a secret society of revolutionaries was organized by:
(a) Khudiram Bose
(b) V.D. Savarkar
(c) Prafulla Chaki
(d) Bhagat Singh
Q.8 The most short-lived of all of the Britain’s constitutional experiments in India was the:
(a) Indian Council Act of 1861
(b) Indian Council Act of 1892
(c) Indian Council Act of 1909
(d) Government of Indian Act of 1919
Q.9 ‘It made its proposal in May. It still wanted a united India.
There was to be a Federal Union composed of British provinces’
The above quotation is related to:
(a) Simon Commission
(b) Gandhi – Irwin Pact
(c) Cripps Mission
(d) Cabinet Mission
Q.10 Which Indian nationalist leader looked upon a war between Germany and Britain as a God-sent opportunity which would enable Indians to exploit the situation to their advantage?
(a) C. Rajagopalachari
(b) M.A. Jinnah
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
| Answer key | |
| 1 | D |
| 2 | B |
| 3 | A |
| 4 | C |
| 5 | C |
| 6 | B |
| 7 | B |
| 8 | C |
| 9 | D |
| 10 | C |