Q.1 The Hunter Commission was appointed after the:
(a) Black-hole incident
(b) Jalianwalla Baga massacre
(c) Uprising of 1857
(d) Partition of Bengal
Q.2 Who among the following leaders proposed to adopt complete Independence as the goal of the Congress in the Ahmedabad session of 1920?
(a) Abdul kalam Azad
(b) Hasrat Mohani
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi
Q.3 Who among the following organized the famous Chittagong Armoury raid?
(a) Laxmi Shegal
(b) Surya Sen
(c) Batukeshwar Datta
(d) J.M. Sengupta
Q.4 A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the presidency of:
(a) Aga Khan
(b) Ameer Ali
(c) Liaquat Ali Khan
(d) M.A. Jinnah
Q.5 Who among the following was the President of the All India States ‘peoples’ Conference in 1939?
(a) Jaya Prakash Narayan
(b) Sheikh Abdullah
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q.6 With reference to the period of extremist nationalist movement in India with its spirit of Swadeshi, which one of the following statements in not correct?
(a) Liaquat Hussain led the Muslim peasants of Barisal in their agitation
(b) In 1889, the scheme of national education was formulated by Satish Chandra Mukherjee
(c) The Bengal National College was founded in 1906 with Aurobindo as the Principal
(d) Tagore preached the cult of Atmasakti, the main plank of which was social and economic regeneration of the villages
Q.7 With reference to the Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following statements is not correct?
(a) Hakim Ajmal Khan was one of the leaders to start a nationalist and militant Ahrar movement
(b) When the Indian National Congress was formed, Syed Ahmed Khan opposed it
(c) The All-India Muslim League which was formed in 1906 vehemently opposed the partition of Bengal and separate electorates
(d) Maulana Barkataullah and Maulana Obeidullah Sindhi were among those who formed a provisional government of India in Kabul
Q.8 The real intention of the British for including the princely states in the Federal Union proposed by the India Act of 1935 was to:
(a) Exercise more and direct political and administrative
(b) Involve the princes actively in the administration of the colony
(c) Finally effect the complete political and administrative take-over of all the princely states by the British
(d) Use the princes to counter-balance the anti-imperialist doctrines of the nationalist leaders
Q.9 The President of Indian National Congress at the time of partition of India was:
(a) C. Rajagopalachari
(b) J.B. Kripalani
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
Q.10 During the Indian freedom struggle, the Khudai Khidmatgars, also known as Red Shirts called for:
(a) The Union of Pakhtun tribal areas in north –west with the Afghanistan
(b) The adoption of terrorist tactics and methods for terrorizing and finally ousting the colonial rulers
(c) The adoption of communist revolution ideology for political and social reform
(d) The Pathan regional nationalist unity and a struggle against colonialism.
| Answer key | |
| 1 | B |
| 2 | B |
| 3 | B |
| 4 | B |
| 5 | C |
| 6 | A |
| 7 | C |
| 8 | D |
| 9 | B |
| 10 | D |