Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and Answers on Indian National Movement (I) / Moderate and Extremist Phase
Question 1: Royal Asiatic Society was founded by
a) Sir William Jones
b) Sir John Marshall
c) R D Banerjee
d) Sir William Bentick
Answer: (a)
Question 2: Who was the founder of the Indian Association?
a) Surendranath Bannerjee
b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c) Dadabhai Naoroji
d) A O Hume
Answer: (a)
Question 3: Who observed “The Congress is in reality a civil war without arms”?
a) Lord Dufferin
b) M A Jinnah
c) Sir Sayeed Ahmed Khan
d) Lord Curzon
Answer: (c)
Question 4: Who attended the Imperial Durbar (1877) dressed in hand spun khadi?
a) Ganesh vasudev Joshi
b) MG Ranade
c) Rabindranath Tagore
d) Balendranath Tagore
Answer: (a)
Question 5: The earliest public association had been formed in modern India in 1837 was
a) The Bengal British Indian Society
b) The British India Association
c) The Landholders Society
d) The Madras Native Association
Answer: (c)
Question 6: The European organisation in India which launched agitation against the Illbert Bill was
a) European Defence Association
b) Indo-British Assosiation
c) Anti- Illbert Bill League
d) European Right Front
Answer: (a)
Question 7: Who among the following pioneered Khilafat Movement?
a) Sir Syeed Ahmed Khan
b) M A Jinnah
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Ali Brothers
Answer: (d)
Question 8: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Dadabhai Naoroji : Poverty and UnBritish rule in India
b) R C Dutt : Economic History of India
c) William Digby : Prosperous British India
d) DR Gadgil : Indian Industry, Today and Tomorrow
Answer: (d)
Question 9: Aurobindo Ghosh was brilliantly defeated in the Alipur Conspiracy case by
a) Chittaranjan Das
b) WC Banerjee
c) Motilal Nehru
d) Tej Bahadur Sapru
Answer: (a)
Question 10: Through whose initiative was the Dhaka Anushilan Samiti formed in October 1906?
a) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
b) Memchandra Qanungo
c) Pulin Bihari Das
d) Aurobindo Ghosh
Answer: (c)
Question 11: Who among the following was a proponent of Fabianisim as a movement?
a) Annie Besant
b) Michael Madhusudan Dutt
c) AO Hume
d) R Palme Dutt
Answer: (a)
Question 12: A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 in the presidency of
a) Aga Khan
b) Ameer Ali
c) Liaquat Ali Khan
d) MA Jinnah
Answer: (b)
Question 13: Who among the following was known as Deshbandhu?
a) Aurobindo Ghosh
b) Chittaranjan Das
c) Dadabhai Naoroji
d) Jyotiba Phule
Answer: (b)
Question 14: The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Thakkar Bappa
c) Jyotiba Phule
d) BR Ambedkar
Answer: (b)
Question 15: During the British rule the only British King to visit India and hold his magnificient Durbar was
a) Edward VII
b) George V
c) James II
d) Edward VI
Answer: (b)
Question 16: In which of the following years was the All India Trade Union Congress formed in Bombay?
a) 1918
b) 1919
c) 1920
d) 1921
Answer: (c)
Question 17: In October who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a Communist party of India?
a) HK Sarkar
b) PC Joshi
c) MC Chagla
d) MN Roy
Answer: (d)
Question 18: Which of the following organisations anticipated the Congress by two years and in large measures prepared the ground for the Congress?
a) Indian Association
b) All Indian National Conference
c) Indian National Union
d) Indian League
Answer: (b)
Question 19: Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya (Universally Respected) during
a) Swadeshi Movement
b) Revolutionary Movement
c) Home Rule Movement
d) His imprisonment in 1908
Answer: (c)
Question 20: During the period of the Indian Freedom Struggle, who among the following started the Central Hindu School?
a) Annie Besant
b) Bhikaji Cama
c) MG Ranade
d) Madan Mohan Malaviya
Answer: (a)
Question 21: The Congress policy of pray and petition ultimately came to an end under the guidance of
a) Aurobindo Ghosh
b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c) Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (b)
Question 22: A Muslim organisation, which proposed during the First World that muslims should participate and try to reach an accord with the Congress, was
a) Muslim League
b) Ahmadiya Movement
c) Ehrar League
d) Deoband Movement
Answer: (c)
Question 23: With reference to Indian Freedom Struggles, who among the following was labelled as ‘Moderate’ leader in the Congress?
a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
b) Bipin Chandra Pal
c) Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Aurobindo Ghosh
Answer: (a)
Question 24: During the Indian Freedom Struggle, who among the following proposed that Swaraj should be defined as complete independence free from all foreign control?
a) Mazharul Haque
b) Maulana Hasrat Mohani
c) Hakim Ajmal Khan
d) Abdul Kalam Azad
Answer: (b)
Question 25: Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu?
a) Subhash Bose
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Thakkar Bappa
d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (b)
Question 26: Who among the following was elected as the president of All India Khilafat Conference met at Delhi in 1919?
a) Motilal Nehru
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) M A Jinnah
d) Shaukat Ali
Answer: (b)
Question 27: Who among the following first used the word ‘Swarajya’?
a) Raja Rammohan Roy
b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Swami Vivekanand
Answer: (b)
Question 28: Who founded a social organisation, the “Jat-Pat Torak Mandal” in 1922, for breaking the caste barriers among the Hindus?
a) Bharti Parmanand
b) BR Ambedkar
c) MG Ranade
d) Keshab Chandra Sen
Answer: (a)
Question 29: The name of Ram Prasad Bismil is associated with
a) Kanpur Conspiracy Case
b) Alipore Conspiracy Case
c) Kakori Conspiracy Case
d) Meerut Conspiracy Case
Answer: (c)
Question 30: Who among the following annulled the Partition of Bengal?
a) Lord Chelmsford
b) Lord Curzon
c) Lord Minto
d) Lord Hardinge
Answer: (d)
Question 31: Who among the following was not a leader of the All India Hindu Maha Sabha?
a) VD Savarkar
b) Parmanand
c) Dr Shyam Prasad Mukherjee
d) MR Jayakar
Answer: (d)
Question 32: Who among the following founded the Theosophical society in India in 1879?
a) Madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant
b) Madame Blavatsky and HS Olcott
c) HS Olcott and Annie Besant
d) Madame Blavatsky and AO Hume
.
Answer: (b)
Question 32: Who among the following was a founder of Swaraj Party?
a) Vallabhbhai patel
b) Rajendra Prasad
c) CR Das
d) Narendra Deb
Answer: (c)
Question 33: Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate politics of the Indian National Congress in a series of articles entitled New Lamps for Old?
a) Aurobindo Ghosh
b) RC Dutt
c) Syed Ahmed Khan
d) Viraraghavachari
Answer: (a)
Question 34: Which of the following are known as the Bombay Triumvirate?
a) BG Tilak, Gk Gokhale and MB Namjoshi
b) Firozshah Mehta, KT Telang and Badruddin Tyabji
c) BG Tilak, GG Agarkar and GH Deshmukh
d) Dadabhai Naoroji, KT Telang and RG Bhandarker
Answer: (b)
Question 35: Who was the first to unfurl the first Indian National Flag, the parent and precursor of the flag of Independent India?
a) Madam Bhikaji Cama
b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) Raja Mahendra Pratap
d) Taraknath Das
Answer: (a)
Question 36: ‘The Musalman,’ the hand written daily newspaper in circulation since 1927, is published from which of the following places?
a) Chennai
b) Hyderabad
c) Mysore
d) Lucknow
Answer: (d)
Question 37: Who organised the Gadar Party?
a) VD Savarkar
b) Ras Bihari Bose
c) Madan lal Dhingra
d) Lala Hardayal
Answer: (d)
Question 38: The only Indian prince, who actively participated in the revolutionary movement within and outside India, was
a) Raja Mahendra Pratap
b) Kunwar Singh
c) Chhatrapati Sahu
d) Raja Ripudaman Singh
Answer: (a)
Question 39: Which of the following did not contribute in a major way to the growth of a nationalist consciousness in India?
a) Impact of western education
b) Consistent economic exploitation of India by the British
c) Revivalist movements of the 19th century
d) World public opinion
.
Answer: (d)
Question 40: MC Setalwad BN Rao and Alladi Krishanswamy Iyer were distinguished member of
a) Swaraj Party
b) All India National Liberal Federation
c) Madras Labour Union
d) Servants of India Society
Answer: (d)
Question 41: Who among the following founded a National Society, a National Paper, a National School, a National Gymnasium and made the word ‘National’ popular in the later half of the 19th century?
a) Jyotindranath Tagore
b) Rajanarayan Bose
c) Nabagopal Mitra
d) Satyendranath Tagore
Answer: (c)
Question 42: Which one among the following was not a demand of the early Congress (1885-1905)?
a) Indianisation of the superior grades of the administrative services
b) Purna Swaraj/Complete independence
c) Abolition of the Arms Act
d) Autonomy with the Empire
Answer: (b)
Question 43: The birth and death years of Dr BR Ambedkar are
a) 1886, 1951
b) 1891, 1956
c) 1877, 1961
d) 1889, 1961
Answer: (b)
Question 44: Which one of the following movements has contributed to a split in the Indian National Congress resulting in the emergence of moderates and extremists?
a) Swadeshi Movement
b) Quit India Movement
c) Non-Cooperation Movement
d) Civil Disobedience Movement
Answer: (a)
Question 45: At which venue did the 1907 split in Congress Party take place?
a) Banaras
b) Calcutta
c) Nagpur
d) Surat
Answer: (a)
Question 46: Which among the following was the most immediate factor for the spread of Swadeshi and boycott of foreign goods during the first decade of the last century?
a) Curzon’s design to curtail the sphere of local self-government
b) Curzon’s attempt to control the Universities
c) Curzon’s partition of Bengal
d) Curzon’s plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress
Answer: (c)
Question 47: In which one of the following sessions was the Indian National Congress split into moderates and extremists?
a) Nagpur
b) Allahabad
c) Surat
d) Calcutta
Answer: (c)
Question 48: The first Indian leader to undergo imprisonment in 1882 was
a) BG Tilak
b) Viraraghavachari
c) Ashwani Kumar Dutta
d) Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer: (b)
Question 49: The British Indian Association was formed out of an amalgamation of
a) Landholders’ Society and Zamindari Association
b) British India Society and Landholders’ Society
c) Landholders’ Society and Bengal British India Society
d) Landholders’ Society and Indian Association
Answer: (d)
Question 50: The Government of India Act of 1919 clearly defined?
a) the separation of power between the judiciary and the legislature.
b) the jurisdiction of the Central and Provincial Governments.
c) the powers of the Secretary of State for India and the Viceroy.
d) None of the above.
Answer: (b)