R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | History History Competitive MCQS Questions and Options Part 3

Aravippuram movement which is considered as a precursor to all south Indian socio religious reform movement started in which of the following places?

1. Tamil Nadu
2. Kerala
3. Andra Pradesh
4. Karnataka

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Sathya Shodak Samaj also called truth seekers society was started by which of the following reformers?

1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
2. Jyotiba Phule
3. Dayananda Saraswathi
4. Shiv Narain Agnihotri

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Paramahamsa Mandali primarily aimed at breaking caste rules was founded in which of the following places

1. Maharashtra
2. Kerala
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Gujarat

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Servants of Indian Society started by Gopal Krishna Gokhale was set up with which of the following objectives?

1. Prepare masses for selfless cause of country and devote their lives if needed
2. Train national missionaries for the service of country
3. Both the above statement
4. Reorganization of Indian society on rational principles

✅ Correct Answer: 3

It is said that Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar’s contribution to making of modern India is many sided. Which of the following aspects contribute to it?

1. Farmers and depressed class upliftment
2. New methodology of teaching Sanskrit
3. Uplifting downtrodden women, abolishing child marriage , widow re marriage
4. Both B and C

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are :

1. Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non- Brahmins
2. Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
3. Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
4. Both A and B

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the following was responsible for the first lawful Hindu widow remarriage among upper castes in India?

1. Raja Rammohan Roy
2. Keshub Chandra Sen
3. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following are the innovative means used by Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to bring Sanskrit education to all?

1. Devised new Bengali primer
2. Brought new prose style
3. Both A & B
4. Continued the same method without any new innovation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Theosophical society was started by whom and where, initially?

1. A.O Hume in India
2. Blavatsky and Olcott in united states
3. M.G Ranade in India
4. Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who among the following is the head of theosophical society in India

1. Annie Besant
2. Madan Mohan Malaviya
3. Blavatsky
4. Did not come to india

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What was the main inspiration for establishing Theosophical Society?

1. Tackling zamindars issue
2. Women’s education and their upliftment
3. Propagate Indian thought and culture there by revival of ancient religions of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism
4. Work for depressed classes

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following act led to the introduction of dual system of government in India?

1. Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
2. The Regulating Act, AD 1773
3. Charter Act, 1793 AD
4. Charter Act, 1813 AD

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following Act, ensured the establishment of the supreme court in India?

1. Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
2. The Regulating Act, AD 1773
3. Charter Act, 1793 AD
4. Charter Act, 1813 AD

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the Act made the governor of Bengal as Governor General of India?

1. Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
2. The charter Act, 1813 AD
3. Charter Act, 1793 AD
4. The Regulating Act, AD 1773

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following statement is not correct?

1. The Regulating Act, AD 1773 was the first step to regulate the affairs of the company.
2. Lord William Bentinck was the first governor general of India.
3. Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784, established the dual system of governance in India
4. All of the above are wrong.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following charter act ended the monopoly of trade of east India Company with china and sea route also?

1. Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
2. The charter Act, 1813 AD
3. Charter Act, 1833 AD
4. The Regulating Act, AD 1773

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who was Lord Morley?

1. Secretary of the state
2. Viceroy of India
3. Governor General of India
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following statement is not correct?

1. Morley – Minto reforms introduced the separate electorate for Muslims in India.
2. Government of India act -1858 made the Governor General of India is called the Viceroy.
3. The post of secretary of the state was created under the Government of India act -1858.
4. The recruitment for the civil services began on the basis of charter act of 1833.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following Government of India Act introduced the diarchy system in the provinces of India?

1. Government of India Act, 1909
2. Government of India Act, 1919
3. Government of India Act, 1935
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following act of India ensured the partition of India?

1. Government of India Act, 1909
2. Government of India Act, 1919
3. Government of India Act, 1935
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is not the part of Government of India Act, 1935

1. This act provided for setting up of the federation of India comprising British Indian provinces.
2. Diarchy in the provinces was replaced by provincial autonomy.
3. The post of Indian council of secretary of state for India made permanent.
4. The diarchy was introduced at the centre.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which Government of India Act/charter Act generated the post of Governor-General of India?

1. Government of India Act -1858
2. Charter Act-1833
3. Charter Act-1853
4. Charter Act-1813

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following statement is not correct?

1. British government was responsible to parliament.
2. The supreme body for India also was the British parliament.
3. Queen Victoria issued a proclamation which was read out by governor-general canning at a Durbar held at Kanpur on 1st November 1858.
4. After 1858, the interests of India were further subordinated to those of Britain.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not the provision of The Act of 1892?

1. A simultaneous examination of ICS to be held in England and India
2. Reforms of the legislative council and adoption of the principle of election in place of nomination
3. support of the annexation of Upper Burma
4. Reduction in the Military expenditure

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not the provision of the government of India Act, 1858?

1. India was to be governed in the Queen's name.
2. The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors.
3. Provision for the creation of an Indian Civil Service under the control of the Secretary of State.
4. The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not the provision of government of India act, 1935?

1. This act ended the system of diarchy
2. The structure for “Federation of India” was established for both British India and some or all of the “princely states”.
3. Burma became the part of India.
4. The introduction of direct elections, thus increasing the franchise from seven million to thirty-five million people.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not correct about Montegu- Chelmsford’s Reform & Government of India Act, 1919?

1. It changed the administrative system in India.
2. In this Act the central legislative council was replaced by two houses-the imperial legislative assembly and the council of state.
3. Education and public health were placed under charge of ministers responsible to the legislature.
4. All of the above are incorrect

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following statement is not correct about the provisions of the Government of India Act,1858?

1. The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors.
2. A council of fifteen members was appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India.
3. For all the communications between Britain and India, the Secretary of State became the real channel.
4. All the above statements are incorrect.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When were Morley-Minto reforms taken place?

1. 1905
2. 1909
3. 1919
4. 1857

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who was the prime minister of Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act, 1858?

1. Lord Palmerston
2. Russell II
3. Edward Smith-Stanley
4. Benjamin Disraeli

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following Government of India Act/Indian Council Act brought three separate presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) into a common system?

1. Indian Council Act of 1861
2. Government of India Act, 1935
3. Government of India Act, 1919
4. Indian Council Act of 1909

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following leader was not present in the very first meeting of Indian National Congress?

1. Dadabhai Naoroji,
2. Kashinath Trimbak Telang
3. Pherozeshah Mehta
4. Surendranath Banerjee

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following statement is not true about the Indian National Congress?

1. It was formed in 1885
2. W.C. Bannerjee was the first president of congress.
3. It was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay.
4. Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who told that Indian National Congress represents only microscopic minorities?

1. Lord Curzon
2. Lord Dufferin
3. Lord Minto
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said that the congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India, is to assist it to a peaceful demise?

1. Lord Curzon
2. Lord Dufferin
3. Lord Minto
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said that Indian National Congress is a ‘begging institute’?

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Bipin Chandra Pal
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Aurobindo Ghosh

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following leader was not moderate?

1. Dada Bhai Naoroji
2. Anand Charlu
3. Bipin Chandra Pal
4. Madan Mohan Malviya

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not true about Bal Gangadhar Tilak?

1. He wrote ‘Gita Rahasya’
2. He started Ganpati Festval in 1893
3. He launched a newspaper ‘Kesri’ in English
4. He started home rule league in 1916

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who started the English weekly ‘New India’?

1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Bipin Chandra Pal
3. Dada Bhai Naoroji
4. Madan Mohan Malviya

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not true about the Muslim League?

1. It was established by the Nawab Salimullah.
2. It was established in Calcutta in 1906.
3. The league supported the partition on Bengal.
4. The league opposed the Swadeshi movement.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When was congress split?

1. At Surat session in 1906
2. At Benares session in 1905
3. At Madras in1908
4. At Lahore in1909

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following committee and act is associated with the Sedition act?

1. Rowlatt Committee
2. Muddiman Committee
3. Butler Committee
4. Both A & B

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Consider the following statement(s) regarding Khilafat Movement:I. The Amritsar Session of the INC gave a great fillip to the Khilafat agitation.II. Khilafat conference held in Calcutta under Presidentship of Jinnah. III. Khilafat Movement was started to support Ottoman Empire. Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct? Codes:

1. Only I
2. Both I and II
3. Both I and III
4. I, II and III

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following was the achieved milestone of the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921?

1. It stopped the injustice done to the Khilafat
2. Indian obtains some political rights
3. The Hindus and the Muslims came closer in political pursuit
4. It avenged the Punjab atrocities

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following leader given the term ‘insenate waste’ on the the burning of the foreign clothes during the Non-Cooperation Movement?

1. Lord Reading
2. Motilal Nehru
3. Rabindra Nath Tagore
4. Mohammad Ali

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When was the Non-Cooperation Movement got momentum under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress?

1. 1920-1922
2. 1922-1924
3. 1987-1989
4. 1990-1992

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following event compel M.K Gandhi to withdraw the Nation’s cooperation from the British Government?

1. Jallianwala massacre
2. Bhagat singh Hanging
3. Lathi charge
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When was M.K Gandhi suspend after the violent act of peasants at Police station of Chauri Chaura, near Gorakhpur in UP?

1. Feb-22
2. Mar-22
3. Jan-20
4. Feb-20

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When was the non-cooperation movement started by M.K Gandhi?

1. After Rowlatt Act
2. Chauri-Chaura incident
3. Jalliawalabagh Massacre
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following event was the reason for the withdrawn of non cooperation movement?

1. Chauri Chaura incident
2. Jallianwala massacre
3. Gandhi Imprisionment
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3