Modern History

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT (1905-1919)  

1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad started an urdu weekly, the Al-Hilal in 1912 , but on its being banned by the Government, he founded the Al-Balagh in
   1. 1913
   2. 1914
   3. 1915
   4. 1916

 

2. Barindra Kumar Ghosh was a member of which revolutionary organisation of Bengal
   1. Anushilan Samiti
   2. Swadesh Bandhav Samiti
   3. Varti Samili
   4. Shadhana Samaj

 

3. Who was the founder-editor of the famous newspaper Kesari during the National struggle ?
   1. Mahatma Gandhi
   2. Jawaharlal Nehru
   3. Lokmanya Tilak
   4. Muhammad Iqbal

 

4. Which one of the following leaders belonged to the Extremist wing of the Congress ?
   1. Aurobindo Ghosh
   2. Dadabhai Naoroji
   3. K. Ghokhle
   4. N. Banerjee

 

5. Who among the following was the chief architect of reconciliation between the Extremists and the Moderates ?
   1. Annie Besant
   2. A. Jinnah
   3. Madam Cama
   4. Pheroz Shah Mehta

 

6. Which of the following leaders presided over the Congress Session at Calcutta in 1906 ?
   1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
   2. Gopal Krishna Gokhle
   3. Aurobindo Ghosh
   4. Dadabhai Naoroji
7. All India Muslim League was formed at
   1. Lahore
   2. Aligarh
   3. Lucknow
   4. Dhaka

 

8. Which one of the following was not an extremist ?
   1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
   2. Madan Lal Dhingra
   3. Udham Singh
   4. Gopal Krishna Gokhle

 

9. Other than Annie Besant , who among the following also launched Home Rule Movement in India ?
   1. Aurobindo Ghosh
   2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
   3. Gopal Krishna Gokhle
   4. Moti Lal Nehru

 

10. The split between the Extremists and Moderates came up in the open at the Surat Congress session in the year
    1. 1905
    2. 1906
    3. 1907
    4. 1910

 

11. Who among the following leaders dominated the Lucknow Pact in December, 1916 ?
    1. Jawahar Lal Nehru
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. Moti Lal Nehru
    4. Madan Mohan Malviya

 

12. Who was the first women president of Indian National Congress ?
    1. Sarojini Naidu
    2. Sucheta Kripalani
    3. Rajkumari Amrit kaur
    4. Annie Besant

 

13. Who said , ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it ‘ ?
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Bipin Chandra Pal
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhle
    4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

 

14. Who was the founder of All India Muslim League ?
    1. Syed Ahmed Khan
    2. Mohammad Iqbal
    3. Agha Khan
    4. Nawab Salimullah Khan

 

15. When did the attempt of murder of Kingsford was made at Muzaffarpur ?
    1. 1908
    2. 1909
    3. 1907
    4. 1911

 

16. Who said the Congress Movement was neither inspired by the people nor devised or planned by them ?
    1. Lord Dufferin
    2. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
    3. Lord Curzon
    4. Lala Lajpat Rai

 

17. In which session of the Indian National Congress did the historic union of Congress and Muslim League take place ?
    1. Surat
    2. Bombay
    3. Calcutta
    4. Lucknow

 

18. In which year did Lord Hardinge cancle the partition of Bengal ?
    1. 1911
    2. 1904
    3. 1906
    4. 1907

 

19. Who was the first editor of the Yugantar ?
    1. Barindra Ghosh
    2. Bipin Chandra Pal
    3. Jatindra Nath Mukherjee
    4. Ullaskar Dutt

 

20. Who had founded the Anushilan Samiti ?
    1. Pramath Nath Mitra
    2. Barindra Ghosh
    3. D. Savarkar
    4. Narendra Gosain

 

21. Name one leader of the Home Rule Movement
    1. Annie Beasant
    2. Surendra Nath Bannerjee
    3. Aurobindo Ghosh
    4. Bipin Chandra Pal

 

22. Of the following who was called the ‘father of India Unrest ‘
    1. O. Home
    2. Dadabhai Naoroji
    3. Lokmanya Tilak
    4. Mahatma Gandhi

 

23. Who founded Swadesh Bandhaw Samiti
    1. Ashwin Kumar Dutt
    2. Pulin Das
    3. Surya Sen
    4. Barindra Ghosh

 

24. The Ghadar Movement was founded by
    1. Ajit Singh
    2. Lala Hansraj
    3. Lala Hardayal
    4. Sohan Singh Bhakhna

 

25. Who led the attack on European Club at Pahartali in chittagong ?
    1. Pritilata Waddedar
    2. Surya Sen
    3. Anant Singh
    4. Loknath Bal

 

26. When was established the Muslim League ?
    1. 1904
    2. 1906
    3. 1910
    4. 1915

 

27. Who founded Anushilan Samiti at Dhaka (Decca) ?
    1. Pulin Bihari Das
    2. Pramath Nath Mitra
    3. Swani Shradhanand
    4. Barindra Kumar Ghosh

 

28. ‘I am giving you a Muslim province’ – who said ?
    1. Fazl-ul-Haque
    2. Lord Curzon
    3. Stafford Cripps
    4. Lord Mountbatten

 

29. Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate politics of Indian national Congress in series of articles entitled ‘New Lamps for Old ‘
    1. Aurobindo Ghosh
    2. C. Dutt
    3. Syed Ahmed Khan
    4. Vira Raghavachari

 

30. Who of the following had called Mohammad Ali Jinnah as ‘Ambasador of Hindu-Muslim Unity ?
    1. Annie Besant
    2. Sarojini Naidu
    3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    4. None of these

 

31. Shyamji Krishna Verma established Indian Home Rule Society in
    1. London
    2. Paris
    3. Berlin
    4. San Francisco

 

32. Who gave the ‘Inquilab Zindabad ‘ slogan ?
    1. Iqbal
    2. K. Gandhi
    3. Bhagat Singh
    4. C. Bose

 

33. The newspaper brought out by Bal Gangadhar Tilak to promote nationalism was
    1. Yugantar
    2. Deshbhakti
    3. Kesari
    4. Kranti

 

34. Who called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the ‘Father of Indian Unrest ‘ ?
    1. Lord Curzon
    2. Vincent Smith
    3. Valentile Chirol
    4. Henry Cotton

 

35. The first indication of the revolutionary movement in India was seen in
    1. Maharashtra
    2. Bengal
    3. Punjab
    4. Rajasthan

 

36. ‘ The Congress is in reality a civil wars without arms ‘ who said this
    1. Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan
    2. A. Jinnah
    3. Lord Dufferin
    4. Lord Curzon

 

37. Who defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore Bomb case ?
    1. C. Bannerjee
    2. Surendra Nath Bannerjee
    3. Bipin Chandra Pal
    4. Chitta Ranjan Das

 

38. Who tried the organise revolt by Indians Sepoys and Revolutionaries around 1913
    1. Bagha Jatin
    2. Aurobindo Ghosh
    3. Ras Behari Bose
    4. Sachindra Nath Sanyal

 

39. Where and When was the Ghadar Party founded ?
    1. America, 1913
    2. England, 1917
    3. Denmark, 1921
    4. Scottland, 1925

 

40. Sir Aurobind Ashram is situated in
    1. Tamil Nadu
    2. Karnatak
    3. Rameshwaram
    4. Pondicherry

 

41. Who among the following established a Republican Government in abroad ?
    1. Raja Mahendra Pratap
    2. Subhash Chandra Bose
    3. Ras Behari Bose
    4. None of these

 

42. Which one of the following nationalist leaders has been described as being radical in Politics but conservative in social issues ?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Gopal Krishna Gokhle
    3. Lala Lajpat Rai
    4. Madan Mohan Malviya

 

43. Who of the following revolutionaries set up the United India House in the USA ?
    1. Ramnath Puri and Vir Savarkar
    2. Taraknath Das and G.D. Kumar
    3. Lala Hardayal and Bhagat Singh
    4. Harnam Singh and Bhagwan Singh

 

44. Who of the following was a founder of the Bharat Naujawan Sabha in 1926 ?
    1. Lala Lajpat Rai
    2. Sardar Bhagat Singh
    3. Lala Hardayal
    4. Sohan Singh Bhakhna

 

45. What was Kamagata Maru?  
    1. A political party based in Taiwan
    2. Peasant Communist leader of China
    3. A naval ship on voyage to Canada
    4. A Chinese village where Maotse Tung began his long march

 

46. Two Home Rule League were started in 1915-16 under the leadership of
    1. Tilak and Annie Besant
    2. Tilak And Aurobindo Ghosh
    3. Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai
    4. Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal

 

47. After relaese from Jail who organised the extremust group
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. Lala Lajpat Rai
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhla
    4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

 

48. What was the immediate cause for the launch of the Swadeshi Movement ?
    1. The partition of Bengal done by Lord Curzon
    2. A sentence of 18 months rigorous imprisonment imposed on Lokmanya Tilak
    3. The arrest deportation of Lala Lajpat rai and Ajit Singh; and passing of the Punjab Colonization Bill
    4. Death sentence pronouced on the Chapkar brothers

 

49. The Muslim deputation (Under the leadership of Aga Khan ) meets Lord Minto in 1906 at Shimla and pleaded for
    1. separate electorate for Muslims
    2. a composite electorate
    3. higher representation to the Hindus
    4. special representation to Muslim by nomination

 

50. In the context of the Indian freedom struggle 16th October, 1905 is well known for which one of the following reasons ?
    1. partition of Bengal took Place
    2. The formal proclamation of Swadeshi Movement was made in calcutta Town Hall
    3. Dadabhai Naoroji declared that goal of India National Congress was Swaraja
    4. Lokmanya Tilak started Swadeshi Movement in Poona

 

51. India attained ‘Dominion States’ on
    1. 15th January, 1947
    2. 15th August, 1947
    3. 15th August, 1950
    4. 15th October, 1947

 

52. The Second Round Table Conference at London was held in the backdrop of the
    1. Emerson-Gandhi Pact
    2. Hailey-Gandhi Pact
    3. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
    4. Gandhi- Simon Pact

 

53. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
    1. Partition of Bengal – 1905
    2. Foundation of Muslim League – 1906
    3. Surat Split – 1907
    4. Transer of India’s Capital from Calcutta to Delhi – 1909

 

54. When did the partition of Bengal take place?
    1. 1904
    2. 1908
    3. 1906
    4. 1911
55. Consider the following nationalists
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Gopalkrishna Gokhle
    3. Bipin Chandra Pal
    4. Lala lajpat Rai

Who among these were referred to as militant nationalist of the freedom movements?

1. 1, 2, and 3
2. 2 and 4
3. 1, 3 and 4
4. 1, 2, 3 and 4

 

56. Consider the following statements regarding Freedom Movement
    1. The Congress was split into two factions as its Surat Session in 1907 ?
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak revived the festivals of Ganpati and Shivaji in Maharashtra to arouse a new spirit among the youth of the country.

• Aurobindo Ghosh was arrested in connection with Alipore bomb case. Which of these statements is / are correct ?
  1. III only
  2. I and II
  3. II and III
  4. II and III

 

57. Consider the following paragraph

He was seriously injured in police lathi charge in Lahore during demonstrations against Simon Commission for which he subsequently died in November 1928. Later on the British Officer, who was responsible for the lathi charge on him, was shot dead by Bhagat Singh and Rajguru.

The revolutionary referred to in the above paragraph is

1. Pandit Gobind Ballabh Pant
2. Mangal Singh
3. Moti Lal Nehru
4. Lala Lajpat Rai

 

58. With reference to the Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the given events ?
    1. Partition of Bengal – Surat Split of Congress – Lucknow Pact
    2. Partition of Bengal – Lucknow Pact – Surat Split of Congress
    3. Surat Split of Congress – Partition of Bengal – Lucknow Pact
    4. Surat Split of Congress – Lucknow Pact – Partition of Bengal

 

59. With reference to the colonial rule in India, consider the following events
    1. Morly – Mino Reforms Act
    2. Transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi

• First World War

1. Lucknow Pact

The correct chronological order of these events is

 

1. II-I-III-IV
2. I-II-III-IV
3. II-I-IV-III
4. I-II-IV-III

60. Assertion (A) : Bhagat Singh and BatukeshwarDutt threw bombs in the Legislative Assembly in 1929.

Reason (R) : They wanted to kill some members of the Legislative Assembly as a revenge of the Death of Lala Lajpat Rai

1. Both A and R are true and R is the Correct explanation of A.
2. Both A and R true but R is not a correct explanation of A.
3. A is true but R is false
4. A is false but R is true
5. Consider the following statements
   1. Prior to the establishment of Home Rule League by Annie Besant, it was Lokmanya Tilak who had set up a Home Rule League at Poona.
   2. The Congress in its Bombay Session in 1915 passed a resolution demanding Home Rule for India.

Which of the statements given above is / are correct?

1. 1 only
2. 2 only
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2

 

62. Which two revolutionaries were involved in the Muzaffarpur Murder (1908)?
    1. Binoy Bose, Badal Gupta
    2. Surya Sen, Loknath Bal
    3. Damodar and Balkrishna Chapekar
    4. Pradull Chaki, Khadinam Bose

 

63. In which of the following movements Vande Mataram was adopted slogan for agitation?
    1. Revolt of 1857
    2. Partition of Bengal in 1905
    3. Non-Co-operation Movement in 1922
    4. Quit India Movement in 1942

 

64. Given below is a list of organization. Select those given below the list
    1. Abhinav Bharat
    2. Anushilan Samiti
    3. New Nationalsit Party
    4. Indian Patriot Association

Code

1. 1, 2 and 3
2. 2, 3 and 4
3. 1 and 2
4. 1, 2 and 4

 

65. The Silk letter Conspiracy (1916) was organised by
    1. Maulana Obeidullah Sindhi and Maulana Barakatullah
    2. Maulana Abdul Bari and Maulana Muhammad Ali
    3. Maulana Abdul Kalam and Maulana Mahmud Hasan
    4. Raja Mahendra Pratap and Jon Henting

 

66. Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta Session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention OR of refection of these four resolutions become the cause of a split in Congres at the next Congress session held in Surat in 1907. Which one of the following was NOT one of those resolutions?
    1. Annulment of partitions of Bengal
    2. Boycott
    3. National Education
    4. Swadeshi

 

Answer key

 

1. A,
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. D
8. D
9. B
10. D
11. B
12. D
13. D
14. D
15. A
16. D
17. D
18. A
19. A
20. A
21. A
22. C
23. A
24. C
25. A
26. A
27. D
28. B
29. A
30. B
31. A
32. C
33. C
34. C
35. A
36. A
37. D
38. C
39. A
40. D
41. A
42. A
43. B
44. B
45. C
46. A
47. D
48. A
49. A
50. A
51. B
52. C
53. D
54. B
55. C
56. D
57. D
58. A
59. B
60. C
61. A
62. D
63. B
64. D
65. C
66. C