Dr. Ambedkar Compititve Examination Center

History     (PT)                                                  Date 13.12.06

Topic: Modern India (1885-1905)

 

 

Q.1    A:      Indian National Congress was started by A.O. Hume on

the  advice of  Lord Dufferin.

R:      INC Provide a peaceful and constitutional outlet or safety valve for the rising discontent among the masses.

a)                  A & R are both true & R is the correct explaination of A 

b)                  A &R are both but Ris NOT the correct explaination of A

c)                  A is true but R is false

d)                  A is false but Ris true

           Ans:-d             

Q.2             The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was used by Tilak to popularize

          a)      Legal rights of ryots in a famine situation

          b)      Swadeshi Movement in Bombay province

          c)       Non- Cooperation movement

d)                Demand for social reforms.

           Ans  a

 

Q3.             What was first organized expression of Indian nationalism on an all- India scale ?

                     A)    Foundation of congress   B) 1857 revolt

                     C)    Swadeshi Movement       D)Non-Coopration movement.

            Ans- a

 

Q.4              Who called congress as ‘ mighty nationalizer’?

                   A ) A.O. Hume                 B) Anand Charlu

                   C)  Mahatma Gandhi        D) Dadabhai Nauraji.

             Ans- b

 

Q.5              In which year the congress resolution that ‘ it will work only for national problems’  was passed ?

                   a) 1885       b)1886                  c)1887                  d)1888

Ans- b

 

Q6.              What is the most important contribution of the moderates?

                   a) Politicization of masses         b) creation of all India Leadership.

                   c) Economic critique of colonialism

                   d) All of these.

                     Ans-c

 

7.                 ‘The Very discontent & impatience it has evoked against itself as slow & non progressive among the rising generations are, among its best fruits.” Who made this comment about early congress.

a)    M.G. Ranade  b) G.K.Gokhale c) P. Mehata d)D.Nauroji

                       Ans- b

 

8)               A: No Indian could have started INC- Gokhale

                  R: Congress leaders helped to use Hume as a lightening  

                       Conductor.

           a)A & R are both true & R is the correct explanation of A 

b)A &R are both 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

Ans-a

 

9.              Which of the following was infamous IPC section related to

                      Press?

                    a) 123A    b) 124A    c) 125A     d) 125A

 Ans-b

 

10.             Consider the following statements.

 

                    1.Varnacular Press Act 1878 passed against Indian papers

                     was   during Lytton’s administration.

2. Act provided for confiscation of printing press, paper       without    an official warning.

3. It was repealed in 1881 by Lord Ripon.

                    Which of the above statements are correct?

a)    1,2,3   b) 1,2    c) 1 only   d) 3 only

Ans-a

 

 

11)                          Which of the following statements about Indian councils

          Act 1861 are correct?

1)    Council came to be known as imperial Legislative council

2)    It is enlarged for legislative purpose

3)    It was given wide powers related with economic administration.

4)    Charles wood described this as the first step towards democracy for India.

a)    1,2,3  b) 1,2,4  c) 1,3,4 d) 2,3,4

Ans-b

 

 

12)                                   Who affected the first walkout in India’s legislative History?

1)    P.mehta    2) G.K. Gokhale   3) D.A. Khare

4) B.G. Tilak    5) B.Karishna

                             a) 1,2,3,4     b) 1,2,4,5    c) 1,2,3,5    d) 1,3,4,5

Ans-c

 

 

13)            Consider the following statements

                      1. B.G. Tilak was the first Indian to go to jail in performance

                         of  his duty as a journalist.

                     2. In 1896, B.G. Tilak organized an all Maharashtra campaign

                         for the boycott of foreign cloth.

3. B.G. Tilak was among the first nationalist and grasped the     important  role that artisans and workers could play in national movement.

 

            Which of the above statements is/ are correct?

a) 1 and 2  b) 2 and 3  c) 1 and 3   d) 2 only.

Ans-b

 

 

14)                         Who was the author of “the Rise and Growth of the

                    Congress in India ”?

a)    A. Hume  b) Maulana Azad  c) C.F. Adrews d) R. P Dutt

Ans-c

 

15)                          During 1893-94, a series of revotts against high

          land   revenue   assessment took place in

a)    Maharashtra b) Assam C) Bihar d) Tamilnadu

Ans-b

 

 

 

16)                         Arrange the following Organization in a chronological

                  order  according to their year of Foundation ?

1)    Bombay Presidency Association

2)    Madras Mahajan Sabha

3)    Indian Association

4)    Indian National Congress

a) 2,3,1,4    b) 2,3,4,1  c) 3,2,4,1  d) 3,2,1,4

Ans-d

 

17)                    Who of the Following was not a poet involved in

               Swadeshi movement?

              a) Rajani Kanta sen    b) Mukund Das

              C) Nandalal Bose       d) Dwijwendralal Ray

Ans-c

 

 

18)                    With reference to the Swadeshi Movement during the

Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following statements is      not correct?

a) Women came out of their homes for the first time and joined   processions and picketing.

b) The social base of national movement was extended to include certain zamindars, lower middle classes cities and college students on a massive scale.

c) Movement was able to garner a great support among peasantry, especially in East Bengal.

e)                  The surat split of congress in 1907 weakened the Swadeshi    movement.

Ans-c

 

 

19)            Who was the editor of  “Hindoo Partriat” and played an important role during Indigo revolt of 1860?

a) Din Bandhu mitra    b) Hem chandra kar

c) Digambar Biswas     d) Harishb chandra mukherji

Ans-d

 

 

22) Royal commission on expenditure in India was constituted in the year

a) 1887      b) 1897           c) 1907     d) 1917

Ans-b

 

 

20)           Who said in december 1904,” Bengal united, is power, Bengal divided ,will pull several dfferent ways?

a) lord curzon        b) Surendranath Banerjee

c)Krishnaakumar Mitra    d)None of These

Ans-d

 

 

23) The Indian Association played an important role in arousing national consciousness through the formation of the

 a) INC   b) Bengal British Indian Society 

 c) Indian National Conference d) British India Association

Ans-a

 

 24) Who founded Mohammedan Anglo Oriental Defence Association in 1893 to oppose INC?

  a)Theoder Beck  b) Wedderburn c) Sir S.A. Khan   d) All of these.

Ans-a

 

25) Pamphlet “Bhavni Mandir” which spoke about uniting all classes through a link of single religion was published by-

a)Virendranath Chatoopadhay b) Arvindo Ghosh c) Hardayal d) Lala Lajpat Ray.

Ans-b

 

 

26) INC supported Swadeshi & Boycott for bengal in which session

a)    Banaras b) Calcutta c) Bombay d) Nagpur

Ans-a

 

 

27)  A:  Swadeshi Movement was a failure

        R: It couldnot fulfill the stated objective of nullifying the bngal partition.

f)                    A & R are both true & R is the correct explaination of A 

g)                  A &R are both but Ris NOT the correct explaination of A

h)                  A is true but R is false

i)                     A is false but Ris true

Ans-c

 

 

28) N.M.  Lokhande in 1890 started

a)    Bombay Workers Association b) Bombay Mill & Millhands Association

b)    Working Womens club  d) Bombay Factory Workers Association.

Ans-b

 

29)  A: Early nationalist show relatively lukewarm attitude towards question of workers.

        R: INC in 1886 passed a resolution stating that congress must confine itself to question in which entire nation has a direct participation.

j)                    A & R are both true & R is the correct explanation of A 

k)                  A &R are both but R is NOT the correct explanation of A

l)                     A is true but R is false

m)               A is false but R is true

Ans-a

 

30) Who founded the Amrita Bazar Patrika ?

a)    shishirkumar Ghosh b) Girishchandra Ghosh

b)    Harishchandra mukharji d) S.N. Bnerjee

Ans-a

 

31) Who among the following did not attend the first session of congress at Bombay?

a)    W.C. Bannergee  b) S.N. Banerjee c) Badruddin  Tyabgi d) K.T. Telang

Ans-b

 

32) Which of the following was not an objective of INC when it was founded?

a)    Attainment of complete independence from the British

b)     Promotion of cordial relations among the nationalist workers from the different parts of country

c)     Development & consolidation of the feeling of national unity.

d)    Formulation of the popular demand & their presentation before the British government.

Ans-a

 

33) Who is known as the liberator of the Indian press?

a)    Sir Charles Metcalf

b)    Lord Minto

c)     Sir Thomas Munro.

d)    Lord Lyton.

Ans-a

 

 

34) Match the following

     List (I)                                                         List (II)

 A) National Indian Association        1) William Adam

 B) Indian Society                                   2)Gokhale

 C) Servants of India Society             3) Merry Carpenter

  D) British India Society                      4)Ananda Mohan Bose

 

      A      B         C          D

a)   1      3         2         4

b)   3      4         2          1

c)   4       1        2          3

d)   3       1        2         4

Ans-c

 

 

 

35) Which code gives the correct matching of the following list?

 

           List (Sessions)                                             List (Presidents)

 

1)    2nd session of the congress (Calcutta)            A) P. Mehta

 

2)    3rd session of the congress (Madrass)  B) Dadabhai Naoroji                                                     

3)    4th session of the congress(Allahabad) C) Sir William Wedderburn

 

4)    5th session of the congress (Bombay)     D) B Tyabji

 

5) 6th session of the congress (Calcutta)    E) George Yule.

 

Code  1    2       3       4       5

       a)B    D       E        C       A

       b) B   A        C       D       E

       c) C   B        A        D       E

       d) A   E        C       B        D

Ans-b

 

36) Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the “Father of Unrest”

   a) Valentine Chirol     b) Disraeli.

  c) Minto II                     d) Lord Curzon

Ans-a

 

 

37) Who was the 1st profounder of the doctrine of Passive Resistance.

a) B. G. Tilak   b) Arvindo Ghosh   c) G .K. Gokhale

e)    Mahatma Gandhi.

Ans-b

 

 

38) Who was the first Muslim president of the INC

 a) M. Jinna  b) Badruddin Tyabji

b)    Sir sayyed Ahmad Khan

d)Abul Kalam AZAD

Ans-b

 

 

39) consider the following statements

     1) About Commenting A.O.  Hume, it was Gokhale who said that “No Indian could have started INC”

     2) The first mention of Safety Valve Theory was made by Wedderburn.

 

Which of the above are not correct

     a) 1        b) 2   c) both 1&2                    d) neither 1 or 2

Ans-b

 

 

 

40) Which of the following first suggested boycott of the British goods in  

       Bengal.

    a)Bande Mataram b) Sanjivani c) Amrit Bazar Patrika

     d)Dawn.

Ans-b

 

 

 

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