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Class Assignment:
1. Who amongst the following American was with Mahatma Gandhi during his 'Dandi March‟?
(a) H.N. Brailsford (b) Webb Miller (c) G. Slocomba (d) James Patterson
2. Who amongst the following as the leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad?
(a) NanaSaheb (b) Azimullah (c) Tantia Tope (d) Maulvi Liyaqat Ali
3. In which of the following sessions of Muslim League, M.A. Jinnah putforth his 14 point proposal?
(a) 1927 (b) 1928 (c) 1929 (d) 1930
4. Who amongst the following coined the word „Satyagraha‟?
(a) Harilal Gandhi (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Ramdas Gandhi (d) Manilal Gandhi
5. Swaraj as a national demand was first made by:
(a) Chittaranjan Das (b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
6. The Dandi March of Gandhi from Sabarmati Ashram took place on:
(a) 12th March, 1930 (b) 12th March, 1931 (c) 12th March, 1932 (d) 12th March, 1933
7. The Third Round Table Conference was held in London from:
(a) 17th November to 24th December, 1932 (b) 17th November to 24th December, 1933
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(c) 17 November to 24 December, 1934 (d) 17th November to 24th December, 1935
8. The first woman President of the Indian National Congress was :
(d) Kasturba Gandhi (b) Annie Besant (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
9. In which year, the Delhi Durbar cancelled the Partition of Bengal?
(a) 1909 (b) 1910 (c) 1911 (d) 1914
10. Match List I correctly with List II and select your answer using the codes given below:
List-I
(A) Rajaram Mohanroy (B) Swami Vivekanandha
(C) Dayanand Saraswathi (D) Madam Blavatsky
List-II
1. Arya Samaj 2. Rama Krishna Mission
3. Brahma Samaj 4. Theosophical Society
(a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 (b) A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1 (c) A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4 (d) A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3
11. Match List I correctly with List II and select your answer using the codes given below:
List-I
(A) B. G.Tilak (B) Annie Besant (C) Gandhiji (D) Lala Lajpath Rai
List-II
1. New India 2. Vande Mataram 3. Kesari 4. Young India
(a) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2 (b) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 (c) A-2, B-3, C-1, D-4 (d) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
12. Which one of the following is NOT correctly matched?
(a) “Go back to the Vedas” - Dayananda Saraswathi
(b) “Untouchability is a crime” - Gandhiji
(c) “Delhi Chalo” - Bhagat Singh
(d) “Long years ago we made tryst with destiny” - Jawaharlal Nehru
13. Who is called as the “Frontier Gandhi”?

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(a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (b) Wali Khan

(c) Vinoba Bhave (d) Ayub Khan
14. Match the items of List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List-I
(A) Lucknow Pact (B) Poona Pact (C) Minto-Morley Reforms (D) Montford Reforms
List-II
1. 1919 2. 1909 3. 1916 4. 1932
(a) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1 (b) A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2 (c) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 (d) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
15. Battle of Plassey was fought between:
(a) French and English (b) French and Indians (c) English and Indians (d) None of them
16. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Lytton (c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord Hastings
17. The Local Self-Government developed during the time of:
(a) Lord Mayo (b) Lord Ripon (c) Lord Canning (d) Lord Dalhousie
18. Write the following names in chronological order:
I. Lord Ripon II. Lord Curzon III. Lord Dalhousie IV. Lord Canning
(a) III, II, IV and I (b) III, IV, II and I (c) III, IV, I and II (d) II, III, IV and I
19. Simon Commission was boycotted by the Congress leaders because:
(a) they felt it was only on eyewash
(b) the members of the commission were biased against India
(c) all the members of the commission were English
(d) if did not meet the demand of the Indians
20. Who was called as the "Grand Old Man of India"?
(a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan (b) Gandhiji (c) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) Badruddin Tyabji
21. Upto 1905 the Indian National Congress was dominated by:
(a) the Moderates (b) the Extremists (c) the Revolutionaries (d) the Rationalists
22. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A): The Partition of Bengal was deliberate and calculated action of the British to divide the
Bengal.
Reason (R): Lord Curzon partitioned Bengal for administrative convenience.
Select the answer from the coding scheme given below:
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true
23. Gandhiji participated in the:
(a) I Round Table Conference (b) II Round Table Conference
(c) II and III Round Table Conferences (d) I and III Round Table Conferences
24. Arrange the following incidents in chronological order:
(a) Surat Split, Home Rule League, Establishment of Muslim league
(b) Home Rule League, Surat Split, Establishment of Muslim league
(c) Surat Split, Establishment of Muslim League, Home Rule League
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25. The founder of Gadar Party was:

(a) V. D Savarkar (b) Lala Hardayal (c) Krishna Varma (d) Ganesh Sovarkar
26. Consider the following statements:
Assertion (A) : Gandhiji withdrew the Non- Cooperation Movement
Reason (R): Killing of policeman at Chauri Chaura changed his mind.
Select your answer from the coding system given below:
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true
27. The first Indian Governor - General of free Indian Dominion was:
(a) Babu Rajendra Prasad (b) Dr. Radha Krishnan
(c) Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (d) V. V. Giri
28. The first Indian lady to preside over the Indian National Congress was:
(a) Vijayalakshmi Pandit (b) Kasturi Bai (c) Rani Lakshmi Bai (d) Sarojini Naidu
29. The Europeans involved in the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760 were:
(a) The Portuguese and the French (b) The Dutch and the French
(c) The French and the British (d) The Danish and the French
30. The founder of Indian National Congress was:
(a) A O. Hume (b) B G. Tilak (c) M. G. Ranade (d) W. C Banerjee
31. The Dual Government in Bengal was established by:
(a) Robert Clive (b) Warren Hastings (c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Cornwallis
32. Indian National Army was formed by:
(a) Gandhiji (b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Lala Lajpat Rai
33. Who among the following Governor Generals was associated with the Partition of Bengal?
(a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Lytton (c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord Ripon
34. In which year did the first War of Indian Independence take place?
(a) 1857 (b) 1947 (c) 1820 (d) 1900
35. Partition of Bengal was undertaken with the view of
(a) Suppressing the Revolt (b) Satisfying the Hindus and Muslims
(c) Meeting the demands of Muslims (d) Dividing Hindus and Muslim
36. The Cabinet Mission visited India to:
(a) give freedom to India
(b) study the India culture
(c) frame the constitution as well as interim Government
(d) sanction relief measures
37. Who of the following refused to allow the adopted son of Lakshmibai to succeed to the throne after the
death of her husband, and subsequently annexed the State?
(a) Lord Canning (b) Lord William Bentinck (c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Wellesley
38. Who was the Viceroy of British India during the implementation of Rowlatt Act 1919?
(a) Lord Canning (b) Lord Dufferin (c) Lord Chelmsford (d) Lord Curzon
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(a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord William Bentinck (c) Lord Ripon (d) Lord Cornwallis
40. Which of the following is correctly matched?
(a) V. D Savarkar - 1857 Sepoy Mutiny (b) Vallabhai Patel - First Prime Minister
(c) Annie Besant - Arya Samaj (d) C R. Das - C R. Formula
41. The Hunter Commission was appointed after which incident?
(a) Chauri Chaura (b) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
(c) Uprising of 1857 (d) Partition of Bengal
42. The founder of Portuguese power in India was:
(a) Vasco-da-Gama (b) Danes (c) Salsette (d) None of these
43. Which plan was ratified as Indian Independence Act 1947?
(a) Cabinet Mission Plan (b) Mountbatten Plan
(c) Wavell Plan (d) Cripps Mission Plan
44. The Swadeshi Movement in India was started during:
(a) Champaran Satyagraha of Gandhi (b) Movement against Partition of Bengal
(c) Movement against Rowilat Act (d) First Non-Cooperation Movement in 1919-22
45. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when India got independence?
(a) Winston Churchill (b) Clement Atlee (c) Wilson (d) None of these
46. Who among following organised movement against the Rowlatt Act through Satyagraha Sabha?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Madan Mohan Malviya (c) G.K. Gokhale (d) Dr.Rajendra Prasad
47. The first telegraph line in India was laid in 1853 from:
(a) Mumbai to Thane (b) Kolkata to Raniganj (c) Kolkata to Agra (d) Chennai to Arakkonam
48. Who among the following Governors-General of India was called the Maker of Modern India?
(a) Lord Elgin (b) Lord Dalhousie (c) Lord Mayo (d) Lord Ripon
49. Which one of the following leaders of the Congress was totally in favour of Cabinet Mission Plan?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Sardar Patel (d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
50. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List I (Books)
(a) The first Indian War of Independence (b) Anand math
(c) Life Divine (d) Sadhana
List II (Authors)
1. Rabindranath Tagore 2. Sri Aurobindo
3. Bankim Chandra Chatterji 4. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
(a) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1 (b) A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
(c) A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2 (d) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
51. Lord Mountbatten came to India as a Viceroy along with specific instruction to:
(a) balkanize the Indian sub-continent (b) keep India united if possible
(c) accept Jinnah's demand for Pakistan (d) persuade the Congress to accept partition
52. Assertion (a): The Congress rejected the Cripps proposals
Reason (R): The Cripps Mission consisted solely of Whites
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true both R is false
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53. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List-I (Events)
(a) Morley Minto Reforms (b) Simon Commission
(c) Chauri-Chaura incident (d) Dandi March
List-II (Results)
1. Country-wise agitation 2. Withdrawal of a movement
3. Communal Electorates 4. Communal outbreaks
5. Illegal manufactures of salt
(a) A-3, B-4, C-5, D-2 (b) A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3 (c) A-2, B-3, C-4, D-5 (d) A-3, B-1, C-2, D-5
54. Consider the following statements:
Some of the main features of the Government of India Act, 1935 were the:
1. Abolition of diarchy in the Governor's provinces
2. Power of the Governors to veto legislative action and to legislate on their own
3. Abolition of the principle of communal representation
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3
55. The members of the Constituent Assembly which drafted the Constitution of India were :
(a) nominated by the British Parliament
(b) nominated by the Governor General
(c) elected by the Legislative Assemblies of various province
(d) elected by the Indian National Congress and Muslim League
56. Which nationalist leader was acclaimed as Lokamanya?
(a) Gokhale (b) Patel (c) Tilak (d) Gandhi
57. Who among the following was the Constitutional adviser to the Constituent Assembly of India?
(a) Dr. B.N. Rao (b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (c) K.M. Munshi (d) M.C. Setalvad
58. Who presided over the inaugural meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India?
(a) Sachidananda Sinha (b) B. R. Ambedkar
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (d) P. Upendra
59. Who amongst the following was the first Chairman of the Gadar Party?
(a) Lala Herdayal (b) Sohan Singh Bhakna
(c) Keshar Singh (d) Pandit Kashi Ram
60. Which one of the following centres of the uprising of 1857 was recaptured by the English?
(a) Jhansi (b) Meerut (c) Delhi (d) Kanpur

Home Assignment
1. Delhi became the capital of India in :
(a) 1910 (b) 1911 (c) 1916 (d) 1923
2. Which of the following statements about the "Bardoli Movement" are true. Select the answer from the
code given below :
1. Under the leadership of Vallabhbhai Patel this movement was launched
2. The movement refused to pay the land revenue at the enhanced rates
3. An enquiry committee was setup by the government

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4. Land revenue was reduced on the basis of committee's recommendation

(a) 1, 2 and 3 only (b) 1, 3 and 4 only (c) 1,2 and 4 only (d) All of the above
3. 'Mahatma' was added before Gandhiji's name during :
(a) Champaran satyagraha (b) Rowlatt satyagraha
(b) Amritsar session of INC in 1919 (d) Initial stages of Khilafat movement
4. Why was the Simon Commission appointed before the passage of the Stipulated ten years after the 1919
Reforms?
(a) The British Government capitulated to nationalist demands in the wake of excessive revolutionary
activities
(b) The nationalist pressure became too heavy for the British Government
(c) The conservative Government of Britain was faced with electoral defeat in the impending
election and did not want to leave the constitutional issue to the Labour Government
(d) For all the above reasons
5. Who among the following pioneered Khilafat Movement?
(a) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (b) M.A. Jinnah
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Ali Brothers
6. The Quit India resolution was adopted because :
i. the Cripps Mision failed to meet natiosnalist demands
ii. the Congress at last realised that the Allies' cause was an imperalist cause alone
iii. Gandhi felt the people's morale had to be built up to resist any impending Japanese invasion
iv. it was felt that any further inactivity would be tantamount to accepting the right of the British
Government to decide India's fate without considering the Indians' wishes
(a) I, II and III (b) III and IV (c) I, III and IV (d) I and IV
7. Who was founder of All India Harijan Sangha in 1932?
(a) M.K. Gandhi (b) B.R. Ambedkar (c) Jagjivan Ram (d) Vinoba Bhave
8. The Indians celebrated the Independence Day for the first time on :
(a) January 1,1930 (b) January 26,1930 (c) August 15,1947 (d) January 26,1950
9. The song ‘Jana-gana-mana‟ composed by Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in January 1912 under
title of:
(a) Rashtra Jagrati (b) Tatva Bodhini (c) Bharat Vidhata (d) None of these
10. The Civil Disobedience Movement was led in the North-West Frontier Province by :
(a) Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah (b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(c) Dr. M.A. Ansari (d) Sewa Singh Thikriwala
11. Match the following:
Events Results
A. Morley Minto Reforms 1. Country-wide agitation
B. Simon Commission 2. Withdrawal of a movement
C. The Chauri- Chaura incident 3. Communal Electorates
D. The Dandi March 4. Communal outbreaks
5. Illegal manufacture of salt
A B C D A B C D
(a) 3 4 5 2 (b) 2 3 4 5
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12. The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at:
(a) Aligarh (b) Dacca (c) Lucknow (d) Lahore
13. Non-Cooperation was first launched :
(a) by the Khilafat Conference
(b) by Gandhi immediately after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
(c) by the Congress in 1921
(d) simultaneously by the Khilafat Conference and the Congress
14. Who first voiced the idea of a separate Muslim state in India?
(a) Mohammad Iqbal (b) M.A. Jinnah
(c) Syed Ahmad Khan (d) None of the above
15. Which of the following is correctly matched?
(a) C.R. Das — Deenbandhu (b) C.F. Andrews — Deshbandhu
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai — Sher-e-Punjab (d) All are correctly matched
16. Who among the following started the newspaper called the "Voice of India”?
(a) Bhikaji Cama (b) Dababhai Naoroji (c) Lala Hardayal (d) V.D. Savarkar
17. The Asiatic Society was established in Calcutta by:
(a) Warren Hastings (b) Sir William Jones
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (d) T.B. Macaulay
18. The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the :
(a) Marley-Minto Reforms, 1909 (b) Government of India Act, 1858
(c) India Councils Act, 1861 (d) Montague-Chelmsford Reforms
19. Which of the following prominently fought for and got widow remarriage legalised?
(a) M.G. Ranade (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(c) Raja Rammohan Roy (d) Annie Besant
20. Who was the pioneer among the following social reformers?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (b) Dayanand Saraswati
(c) Ramakrishna Paramhansa (d) Swami Vivekanand
21. Where was the Arya Samaj set up for the first time in 1875?
(a) Lahore (b) Amritsar (c) Bombay (d) Delhi
22. The first Muslim President of Indian National Congress was:
(a) Ajmal Khan (b) Abul Kalam Azad (c) M.A. Jinnah (d) Badruddin Tyyabji
23. The differences between the Moderates and the Extremists were :
I. the Moderates did not approve of boycott that the Extremists favoured
II. the Moderates continued to have faith in the good intentions of the British Government while the
Extremists had no such faith
III. the Moderates did not favour violence while the Extremists were in favour of it
IV. the Moderates wanted self-government in gradual stages while the Extremists wanted complete
autonomy at the earliest
(a) I, II and III (b) II, III and IV (c) I, II and IV (d) I, II, III and IV
24. The Indian states that were annexed by invoking the Doctrine of Lapse included:
(a) Jhansi, Nagpur and Travancore (b) Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara
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25. Who was the head of the Committee formed by the government to enquire into Jallianwala Bagh
massacre?
(a) General Dyer (b) John Simon (c) Hunter (d) None of these
26. The Vernacular Press Act of 1878, adopted by Lord Lytton, intended to :
(a) help English newspapers
(b) promote freedom of the press
(c) restrain newspapers published in Indian languages
(d) curb freedom of the press in general
27. Which of the following laid the foundation of the British Civil Service in India?
(a) Warren Hastings (b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Canning
28. The White Mutiny occurred after the 1857 Revolt because:
(a) several Indian rulers objected to the take over by the Crown
(b) European soldiers of the Company's army were opposed to the transfer of services to the
Crown
(c) the Queen's Proclamation gave equal rights to all Indians
(d) none of the above
29. Match the following :
List-I (Session of Indian National Congress) List-II (Venue)
A. 1st Session 1. Allahabad
B. 2nd Session 2. Madras
C. 3rd Session 3. Calcutta
D. 4th Session 4. Bombay
A B C D A B C D
(a) 4 3 2 1 (b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 4 2 3 1 (d) 1 2 3 4
30. Who emerged victorious in the first Anglo-Mysore War (1766- 69)?
(a) English (b) Haider Ali (c) Maratha (d) Nizam of
Hyderabad
31. The monopoly of the East India Company in India's trade was abolished in—
(a) 1793 (b) 1803 (c) 1813 (d) 1833
32. Sindh was annexed by the British in—
(a) 1843 (b) 1845 (c) 1849 (d) 1854
33. Mahatma Gandhi delivered his first public speech in India at—
(a) Bombay (b) Lucknow (c) Champaran (d) Varanasi
34. Who amongst the following headed the 1946 Cabinet Mission?
(a) Hugh Gaitskell (b) Sir John Simon
(c) Sir Pethic Lawrence (d) None of the above
35. Who among the following was the President of the Indian National Congress on 15th August, 1947?
(a) Rajendra Prasad (b) Jwaharlal Nehru (c) J.B. Kripalani (d) Sardar Patel