Modern History :Mock Test-1
1. Who was the Governor-General of India during the launch of Civil Disobedience Movement?
a) Lord Chelmsford
b) Lord Reading
c) Lord Irwin
d) Lord Wavell
2. Consider the following statements :
I. Robert Clive was the first Governor-General of Bengal.
II. William Bentinck was the first Governor-General of India.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
3. Which Viceroy passed the famous Indian Coinage and Paper Currency act (1899)?
a) Curzon
b) Rippon
c) Minto
d) Wellesley
4. ‘Sati’ was abolished by
a) Lord Ripon
b) Warren Hastings
c) Lord Cornwallis
d) William Bentinck
5. The Treaty of Sreerangapattam was between Tipu Sultan and
a) Cornwallis
b) Clive
c) Hardinge
d) Warren Hastings
6. Which one of the following universities was not established by Lord Dalhousie?
a) Bombay
b) Madras
c) Delhi
d) Calcutta
7. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below:
List I List-II
A. King George V 1. Lord Wavell
B. Cripps Mission 2. Lord Hardinge
C. Cabinet Mission 3. Lord Irwin
D. Simon Commission 4. Lord Linlithgow
a) A – 3; B – 4; C – 1; D – 2
b) A – 2; B – 4; C – 1; D – 3
c) A – 2; B – 1; C – 4; D – 3
d) A – 3; B – 1; C – 4; D – 2
8. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Lord Dalhousie – Doctrine of Lapse
b) Lord Minto – Indian Councils Act, 1909
c) Lord Wellesley – Subsidiary Alliance
d) Lord Curzon – Vernacular Press Act, 1878
9. The Vernacular Press Act, 1878 was repealed under the Governor-Generalship of –
a) Lord Minto
b) Lord Ripon
c) Lord Lytton
d) Lord Reading
10. Who was called as ‘Company Akbar’?
a) Lord Canning
b) Lord Wellesley
c) Lord Linglithgow
d) Lord Cornwallis
11. Who was the first native ruler entered in to subsidiary alliance?
a) Nawab of Oudh
b) Peshwa
c) Bhonsle
d) Nizam of Hyderabad
12. Railways were introduced in India in
a) 1850
b) 1851
c) 1852
d) 1853
13. During the whose Viceroyality the the first census of Indian took place
a) Lord Ripon
b) Mayo
c) Lord Curzon
d) Lord Minto
14. Universities were established in Calcutta, Mardras and Bombay as per
a) Hunter Report
b) Mecaulay Report
c) Woods Despatch
d) Thamos Report
15. The Governor General who abolished pension for Nana Saheb, who was the adopted son of Baji Rao II?
a) Lord Hastings
b) Lord Curzon
c) Lord Minto
d) Lord Dalhousie
16. Which of the following incidents took place when Lord Dufferin was the viceroy of India ?
a) Dandi March
b) Establishment of Muslim league
c) Lucknow pact between Congress and Muslim league
d) Formation of Indian National Congress
17. Match the following
Set I
a. Warren Hastings
b. Lord Cornwallis
c. Sir John Shore
d. Lord Wellesley
Set II
1. Subsidiary Alliance system
2. Policy of Non-Interference
3. Permanent Settlement in Bengal
4. Abolished Dual system
Code: a b c d
a) 4 3 2 1
b) 3 1 2 4
c) 1 4 3 2
d) 4 1 2 3
18. Which British Governor-General founded the Public Work Department (P.W.D) in India?
a) Lord Ellenborough
b) Lord Auckland
c) Lord Dalhousie
d) Lord Hardinge
19. The English was made the official language of India under the reign of which governor-general?
a) Lord William Bentinck
b) Lord Auckland
c) Lord Metcalfe
d) Lord Hardinge
20. Who among the following was the real founder of the Aligarh Muslim University?
a) Nawab Salimullah
b) Syed Ahmad Khan
c) Theodore Beck
d) Muhhammed Ali Jinnah
21. Who founded the Brahmo Samaj?
a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Dayananda Saraswati
c) Raja Rammohan Roy
d) Swami Vivekananda
22. When was Indian Association formed?
a) 1876
b) 1885
c) 1886
d) 1893
23. In which year the First National Trade union organization (The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)) was established.
a) 1904
b) 1908
c) 1917
d) 1920
24. The title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India for the first
time in
a) 1857 A.D
b) 1858 A.D
c) 1864 A.D
d) 1905 A.D
25. Who preached the idea of Home Rule through his two news papers – the Kesari and theMaratha?
a) Gokhale
b) Annie Besant
c) Tilak
d) Jawaharlal Nehru
26. Hindu Mahasabha was founded in
a) 1901
b) 1906
c) 1915
d) 1925
27. Muslim League established in December
a) 1901
b) 1902
c) 1906
d) 1946
28. Who among the following established the Tattvabodhini Sabha in 1839 at Calcutta (Now Kolkata)?
a) Keshab Chandra Sen
b) Debendra Nath Tagore
c) Rammohan Roy
d) Sivanatha Sasri
29. Who among the following was popularly known as ‘Lokahitawadi’?
a) Jyotiba Phule
b) Pt. Iswar Chandra Vidhyasagar
c) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
d) Mahadev Govind Ranade
30. Which of the following is correctly paired?
a) Bengal Regulation banning Sati -1830
b) Sarda Act- 1939
c) Special Marriage Act -1955
d) Hindu Succession Act- 1956
31. The Parsi Reform Movement Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha (Religious Reform Association) was founded in which year?
a) 1829
b) 1851
c) 1879
d) 1861
32. Which of the following pair is not correctly matched?
a) Barrackpore: Mangal Pandey
b) Delhi: Bahadur Shah II, General Bakht Khan
c) Delhi: Maulavi Ahmadullah
d) Lucknow: Begum Hazrat Mahal, Birjis Qadir, Ahmadullah
33. Who was the governor-general during the Revolt of 1857?
a) Lord Canning
b) Lord Irwin
c) Lord Lytton
d) Lord Willington
34. Who founded the Servant Society of India?
a) Dadabhai Naoroji
b) Gopal Krshna Gokhle
c) Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
35. Which two cities were connected by the first opened railway line in India?
a) Lucknow, Delhi
b) Patna, Delhi
c) Bombay, Thane
d) Calcutta, Murshidabad
36. In Which year actually English was introduced as medium of Instruction in India?
a) 1835
b) 1840
c) 1837
d) 1836
37. In which year the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa was introduced?
a) 1790
b) 1791
c) 1792
d) 1793
38. The correct sequence of the following events of Indian History-
I. The Treaty of Lahore
II. The Subsidiary Alliance
III. The Pit’s India Act
IV. The Doctrine of Lapse
a) I, IV, III, II
b) I, II, III, IV
c) III, II, I, IV
d) IV, I, III, II
39. Which of the following occured earliest in Indian history?
a) Third Anglo-Mysore war
b) First Anglo-Mysore war
c) Fourth Anglo-Mysore war
d) Second Carnatic War
40. Which of the following states was first annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the Doctrine of Lapse?
a) Jhansi
b) Sambalpur
c) Satara
d) Nagpur
41. Which of the following villages were incorporated to form the city of Calcutta?
a) Midnapur, Thakurgaon, Govindapur
b) Kalikata, 24 Parganas, Thakurgaon
c) Kalikata, Sutanuti, Govindapur
d) None of these
42. Match the following
A. The first Anglo-Sikh war 1. Treaty of Paris
B. The First Maratha War 2. Treaty of Srirangapatanam
C. The Third Mysore War 3. Treaty of Lahore
D. The Third Carnatic War 4. Treaty of Salbai
a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
b) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
c) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
d) A-3-B-1, C-2, D-4
43. The British Government intervented in the affairs of the Company and passed an Act in 1773 AD, known as
a) Pitt’s Indian Act
b) Regulating Act
c) Charter Act
d) Company Act
44. Who wrote the book’ A Gift to monotheists’?
(a) David Hare
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(d) Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
45. Which of the following statement is not correct?
(a) Vivekananda participated in the All World Religions Conference in 1893 at Chicago,U.S.A.
(b) Satyashodhak samaj was established by the Jyotiba Phule.
(c) Dayanand Saraswati established the Prarthna Samaj
(d) ARYA Samaj was founded in 1875 in Bombay.
46. When was Brahmo Samaj split?
(a) 1866
(b) 1826
(c) 1843
(d) 1857
47. Which of the following statement is not correct?
(a) Rajaram Mohan Rai set up Brahmo Sabha in 1828.
(b) Brahmo Sabha forbade idol-worship and discarded meaningless rites and rituals.
(c) Rajaram Mohan Rai worked to abolish child marriage.
(d) Sati Pratha was abolished in1829
48. I. The office of Governor-General of Bengal replaced with the Governor-General of India.
II. Lord William Bentinck became the “First Governor General of British India”.
Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct about the main features of The Charter Act of 1833?
a) Only I
b) Only II
c) Both I and II
d) Neither I nor II
49. Which of the following British Act introduces Indian Civil Service as an open competition?
a) Charter Act of 1793
b) Charter Act of 1813
c) Charter Act of 1833
d) Charter Act of 1853
50. Who was 1 law member of EIC
a) Lord Curzon
b) Lord Willey
c) Lord Macaulay
d) Lord Cornawallis
1.c,2.b,3.a,4.d,5.a,6.c,7.b,8.d,9.b,10.b,11.d,12.d.13.b,14.c,15.d,16.d,17.a,18.c,19.a,20.b,21.c,22.a,23.d,24.b,25.c,26.c,27.c,28.b,29.c,30.d,31.b,32.c,33.a,34.b,35.c,36.a,37.d,38.c,39.d,40.c,41.c,42.b,43.b,44.b,45.c,46.a,47.c,48.c,49.d,50.c