Modern Indian History Selected Questions and Answers Set 10

Modern Indian History Selected Questions and Answers Set 10 Entranciology

Q.1:- The Prime Minister of England at the time of Quit India Movement was ?

  1. Chamberlain
  2. Churchill
  3. Clement Attlee
  4. Mac Donald

Q.2:- Why did people gather to demonstrate at Jallianwala Bagh ?

  1. To protest against the arrest of Gandhiji and Lajpat Rai
  2. To protest against the arrest of Kitchlu and Satyapal
  3. To offer prayers on the Baisakhi Day
  4. To protest against the arbitrarily of inhuman acts of the Punjab Government

Q.3:- Quit India Movement began on ?

  1. 9th August, 1942
  2. 10th August, 1942
  3. 15th August, 1942
  4. 16th August, 1942

Q.4:- The Chairman of Joint Parliamentary Committee of the 1935 Bill that led to the framing of the Government of India Act of 1935 was ?

  1. Lord Linlithgow
  2. James Mac Donald
  3. Winston Churchill
  4. Clement Attlee

Q.5:- Which of the following Acts was described by Jawahar Lal Nehru as ‘New Charter of Slavery’ ?

  1. Government of India Acts, 1919
  2. Government of India Act, 1935
  3. Regulating Act of 1773
  4. Pitt’s India Act of 1784
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Q.6:- The name of the famous person of India who returned the knighthood conferred on him by the British Government as a token of protest against the atrocities in Punjab in 1919 was ?

  1. Tej Bahadur Sapru
  2. Ashutosh Mukherjee
  3. Rabindra Nath Tagore
  4. Syed Ahmed Khan

Q.7:- In which one of the following provinces was a congress ministry not formed under the Act of 1935 ?

  1. Bihar
  2. Madras
  3. Orissa
  4. Punjab

Q.8:- The Balkan Plan for fragmentation of India was the brainchild of ?

  1. Churchill
  2. A. Jinnah
  3. Lord Mountbatten
  4. P. Menon

Q.9:- At which Congress Session was the Congress Working Committee authorized the launch at programme of Civil Disobedience ?

  1. Bombay
  2. Lahore
  3. Lucknow
  4. Tripuri

Q.10:- Who is known as ‘Nightingale of India’ ?

  1. Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
  2. Lata Mangeshkar
  3. Sarojini Naidu
  4. Noor Jahan

Q.11:- The Universities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay were founded in the year ?

  1. 1845
  2. 1854
  3. 1857
  4. 1861

Q.12:- Who from the following leaders was not assassinated ?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi
  2. Liaqat Ali Khan
  3. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  4. Lord Mountbatten
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Q.13:- At which place of Bihar, Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement for the first time in India ?

  1. Patna
  2. Gaya
  3. Madhubani
  4. Champaran

Q.14:- The Poona Pact aimed ?

  1. At Hindu – Muslim Unity
  2. To represent to lower cast
  3. At privileges to princes
  4. To review the Diarchy

Q.15:- Name one leader of the Home Rule Movement ?

  1. Annie Besant
  2. Aurobindo Ghosh
  3. Surendra Nath Bannerjee
  4. Bipin Chandra Pal

Q.16:- Who was the founder of All India Muslim League ?

  1. Syed Ahmed Khan
  2. Mohammad Iqbal
  3. Agha Khan
  4. Nawab Salimullah Khan

Q.17:- Provincial Autonomy was one of the important features of the Act of ?

  1. 1935
  2. 1919
  3. 1909
  4. 1858

Q.18:- The Rani Jhansi Regiment, the women’s regiment of Azad Hind Fauj, was under whose command ?

  1. Usha Mehta
  2. Anne Marcarence
  3. Annie Besant
  4. Lakshmi Sehgal

Q.19:- Jai Prakash Narayan belonged to which Party ?

  1. Congress
  2. Kisan Sabha
  3. Socialist
  4. Raivadi

Q.20:- Sabarmati Ashram, established by Mahatma Gandhi during the course of India’s independence movement, is located on the outskirt of ?

  1. Gandhinagar
  2. Ahmedabad
  3. Rajkot
  4. Wardha
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Q.21:- Who gave the slogan ‘Jai Hind’ ?

  1. K. Gandhi
  2. L. Nehru
  3. C. Bose
  4. G. Tilak

Q.22:- The Muslim League first gave the call for a separate state of Pakistan in ?

  1. 1939
  2. 1940
  3. 1941
  4. 1942

Q.23:- The Indian National Army (INA) came into existence in 1943 in ?

  1. Japan
  2. Then Burma
  3. Singapore
  4. Then Malaya

Q.24:- Sarvodaya stands for ?

  1. Total Revolution
  2. Non-Cooperation
  3. Upliftment of all
  4. Non-Violence

Q.25:- With which of the following newspapers was Jawahar Lal Nehru associated ?

  1. The Leader
  2. Amrit Bazar Patrika
  3. The Tribune
  4. National Herald