Class: 12th Subject: History (027) 

Time Allowed: 3 hrs Test Series -4 MAX. Marks: 80

General Instructions: 
 Question paper comprises five Sections – A, B, C, D and E. There are 34
questions in the question paper. All questions are compulsory. 
 Section A – Question 1 to 21 are MCQs of 1 mark each. 
 Section B – Question no. 22 to 27 are Short Answer Type Questions,
carrying 3 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 60-80
words. 
 Section C - Question no 28 to 30 are Long Answer Type Questions,
carrying 8 marks each. Answer to each question should not exceed 300-
350 words 
 Section D – Question no.31 to 33 are Source based questions with three
sub questions and are of 4 marks each 
 Section-E - Question no. 34 is Map based, carrying 5 marks that includes
the identification and location of significant test items. Attach the map
with the answer book. 
 There is no overall choice in the question paper. However, an internal
choice has been provided in few questions. Only one of the choices in such
questions have to be attempted. 
 In addition to this, separate instructions are given with each section and
question, wherever necessary. 
Section: A (1x21=21)

1. From where did the revolt of 1857 start?

(a) Ambala
(b) Meerut
(c) Lucknow
(d) Gwalior
2. Who was forced to lead the revolt?
(a) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(b) Peshwa Bazi Rao II
(c) Nawab Shaukat Ali
(d) Kunwar Singh
3. Who led the revolt at Kanpur?
(a) Bahadur Shah
(b) Nana Saheb
(c) Shah Mai
(d) Maulavi Ahmadulla Shah
4. Wajid Ali Shah was the Nawab of _______
(a) Awadh
(b) Bengal
(c) Hyderabad
(d) Karnataka
5. Awadh was annexed into the British empire in _________
(a) 1855
(b) 1854
(c) 1856
(d) 1853
6. Awadh and Satara were captured under ________
(a) Doctrine of Lapse
(b) Subsidiary Alliance
(c) Issue of Misgovernance
(d) Mahalwari System
7. Consider the following events:
1. Soldiers revolted at Meerut.
2. Bahadur Shah Zafar declared the leader of Barker.
3. Awadh was captured by the British.
4. Relief of Lucknow was painted by Thomas Jones Barker.
Write these events in correct chronological order
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 2, 1, 3, 4
(c) 3, 1, 2, 4
(d) 4, 3, 2, 1
8. Where did Gandhi use Satyagraha for the first time?
(a) India
(b) South Africa
(c) South America
(d) England
9. Congress Ministries resigned in _________
(a) Oct. 1937
(b) Sept. 1938
(c) Sept 1940
(d) Oct. 1939
10. Dandi March brought forward _________
(a) Non-Cooperation Movement
(b) Civil Disobedience Movement
(c) Quit India Movement
(d) Rowlatt Satyagraha
11. _______ was the congress President at its Lahora Session.
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawahar Lai Nehru
(c) Sardar Patel
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose
12. Peasant Satyagraha at Bardoli was hold in ___________
(a) 1928
(b) 1929
(c) 1930
(d) 1931
13. Gandhiji took back Non Cooperation movement in __________
(a) January 1921
(b) February 1922
(c) February 1921
(d) January 1922
14. _______ was the moderate leader of Congress
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Bipin Chandra Pal
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

15. Indian Constitution comes into force on

(a) 26 Jan 1946
(b) 15 Aug 1947
(c) 26 Jan 1950
(d) 15 Aug 1950

16. When was the rough sketch of the constitution passed by the constituent
Assembly?
(a) 26 Dec. 1948
(b) 26 Jan. 1950
(c) 26 Nov. 1949
(d) 26 Dec. 1946

17. How many sessions of the constituent Assembly were held?

(a) 8
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 11

18. Who was the President of Constituent Assembly?

(a) Jawahar Lai Nehru
(b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) Dr. Rajender Prasad
(d) Sardar Patel

19. Mahatma Gandhi wanted to make _______ language as the national language.
(a) Hindustani
(b) Hindi
(c) Tamil
(d) Urdu

20. Mahatma Gandhi wanted to make _______ language as the national language.
(a) Hindustani
(b) Hindi
(c) Tamil
(d) Urdu

21. Who was the chairman of the Drafting Committee?

(a) B.R. Ambedkar
(b) Sardar Patel
(c) Nehru
(d) Dr. Rajandra Prasad

SECTION - B (3x6=18)
Short Answer Type Questions
22. Examine how Lord Dalhousie’s policy of annexation created dissatisfaction amongst the
people of Awadh
23. Examine the provisions of ‘Subsidiary Alliance System’ devised by Lord Wellesley in 1798 for
India
24. Explain the main events of the Dandi March. What is its significance in the history of the
Indian National Movement? 
25. Explain how Gandhiji transformed Indian Nationalism by 1922.
26. Why is ‘Objective Resolution’ of Nehru considered as momentous resolution? Give two
reasons?
27. Mention any two arguments given by Balakrishna Sharma for greater power to the centre

SECTION - C (8x3=24)
Long Answer Type Questions
28. A chain of grievances in Awadh linked the prince, taluqdars, peasants and sepoy to
join hands in the revolt of 1857 against the British”. Examine the statement.
OR
“The rumours in 1857 began to make sense when seen in the context of the policies
pursued by the British from late 1820s”. Support your answer with evidence. 
29. Describe the different source from which we can reconstruct the political career of
Gandhiji and the history of National Movement? 
OR
How was Quit India Movement genuinely a mass movement? Explain. 
30. How did Constituent Assembly of India protected the powers of the Central
government? Explain
OR
“Within the Constituent Assembly of India the language issue was intensely debated”.
Examine the views put forward by members of the assembly on the issue. 

SECTION -D (4x3=12)
Source Based Questions
31. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
When his turn came to speak, Gandhiji charged the Indian elite with a lack of concern
for the labouring poor. The opening of the BHU, he said, was “certainly a most gorgeous
show”. But he worried about the contrast between the “richly bedecked noblemen”
present and “millions of the poor” Indians who were absent. Gandhiji told the privileged
invitees that “there is no salvation for India unless you strip yourself of this jewellery and
hold it in trust for your countrymen in India”. “There can be no spirit of self-government
about us,” he went on, “if we take away or allow others to take away from the peasants
almost the whole of the results of their labour. Our salvation can only come through the
farmer. Neither the lawyers, not the doctors, not the rich landlords are going to secure
it.”
31.1 As per Gandhiji what was self-government?
31.2 Why was Gandhi being unhappy about Indian elite?

32. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.
“That is Very Good, Sir-Bold Words, Noble Words”
Somnath Lahiri said: Well, Sir, I must congratulate Pandit Nehru for the fine expression
he gave to the spirit of the Indian people when he said that no imposition from the
British will be accepted by the Indian people.
Imposition would be resented and objected to he said and he added that if need be we
will walk to the valley of struggle. That is very good, Sir-bold words, noble words.
But the point is to see when and how are you going to apply that challenge. Well Sir the
point is that the imposition is here right now.

Not only has the British plan made any future Constitution dependent on a treaty
satisfactory to the Britisher but it suggests that for every little difference you will have to
run to the Federal Court or dance attendance there in England or to call on the British
Prime Minister Clement Attlee or someone else.

Not only is it a fact that this Constituent Assembly, whatever plans we may be hatching,
we are under the shadow of British guns. British Army, their economic and financial
stranglehold-which means that the final power is still in the British hands and the
question of power has not yet been finally decided which means the future is not yet
completely in our hands. Not only that, but the statements made by Attlee and others
recently have made it clear that if need be, they will even threaten you with division
entirely.

This means Sir there is no freedom in this country. As Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel put in
some days ago, we have freedom only to fight among ourselves. That is the only
freedom we have got…therefore, our humble suggestion is that it is not a question of
getting something by working out this plan but to declare independence here and now
and call upon the Interim government and call upon the people of India to stop
fratricidal warfare and look out against its enemy, which still had the whip in hand of the
British imperialism and go together to fight it and then resolve our claim afterward when
we will be free.

32.1 Why did Somnath Lahiri congratulate Pandit Nehru?

32.2 Explain why Somnath feels that the absence of constitution will mean dependence
on the British.

33. Read the following passage and answer the question that follows.

The pattern of the mutinies and the pieces of evidence that suggest some sort of planning and
coordination raise certain crucial questions. How were the plans made? Who were the planners?
It is difficult on the basis of the available documents to provide direct answers to such questions.
But one incident provides clues as to how the mutinies came to be so organised. Captain Hearsey
of the Awadh Military Police had been given protection by his Indian subordinates during the
mutiny. The 41st Native Infantry, which was stationed in the same place, insisted that since they
had killed all their white officers, the Military Police should also kill Hearsey or deliver him as
prisoner to the 41st. The Military Police refused to do either, and it was decided that the matter
would be settled by a panchayat composed of native officers drawn from each regiment. Charles
Ball, who wrote one of the earliest histories of the uprising, noted that panchayats were a nightly
occurrence in the Kanpur sepoy lines. What this suggests is that some of the decisions were
taken collectively. Given the fact that the sepoys lived in lines and shared a common lifestyle
and that many of them came from the same caste, it is not difficult to imagine them sitting
together to decide their own future. The sepoys were the makers of their own rebellion.
33.1 Which types of lacking we can find in the pattern of the mutinies?
33.2 Who was Charles Ball?

SECTION - E (Map Based Question-5)

34. Locate the five following place in given Indian map.

i) Punjab II) Sindh III)Bombay
IV) Madras V) Avadh VI)Surat,