Saturday, June 1, 2013

MODERN INDIA TEST PAPER

MODERN INDIA TEST PAPER

1. The first All India Trade Union congress (AITUC) was founded in 1920 by

a) NM Joshi

b) Purushottamdas Thakurdas

c) V.V. Giri

d) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

 

2. In which of the following years was the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) formed in Bombay?

a) 1918

b) 1919

c) 1920

d) 1921

 

3. Birsa Munda was in favour of

a) Jharkhand

b) Uttaranchal

c) Chhattisgarh

d) Munda Raj

 

4. Kuka Movement was organized by

a) Guru Ram Dasb) Guru Nanak

c) Guru Ram Singh

d) Guru Gobind Singh


5. Mundas rose Revolt in

a) 1885

b) 1888

c) 1890

d) 1899

 

6. The first President of All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) was

a) W Giri

b) SA Dange

c) Pandit Nehru

d) Lala Lajpat Rai

 

7. Who was the leader of Revolt of the Mundas in 1899-1900?

a) Siddhu

b) Buddha Bhagat       

c) Birsa Munda

d) Shambhudan

 

8. Which British commander was defeated by the Santhals in 1855?

a) Captain Nek Feville

b) Lt. Bastain

c) Major Burrough

d) Colonel White

 

9. Who presided over the first session of All India Kisan Sabha?

a) Swami Sahajanand

b) Indulal Yagnik

c) N.N. Ranga

d) P.C. Joshi

 

10. The militant phase of the Trade Union Movement in India was

a) 1939-45

b) 1926-39

c) 1918-26

d) 1914-18

 

11. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists

List I                                        List II

A. Moplah Revolt                  1. Kerala

B. Pabha Revolt                    2. Bihar

C. Eka Movement                 3. Bengal

D. Birsa Munda Revolt        4. Awadh

Codes

              A             B             C             D

a)          1              3              4              2

b)          2              3              4              1

c)          1              2              3              4

d)          3              4              1              2

 

12. Consider the following events in the history of British India

1. Santhal Rebellion

2. Indigo Revolt

3. Sanyasi and Fakir Rebellion

4. Birsa Munda Rebellion

Which one of the following is a correct chronological sequence of the above events starting with the earliest?

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

 

13. Who was the leader of Champaran Indigo Movement?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Birsa Munda

c) Baba Ramchandra

d) Ram Singh

 

14. Which was the working area of Birsa Munda?

a) Champaran

b) Ranchi

c) Balia

d) Alipur

 

15. Moplah Revolt of 1821 took place in

a) Kashmir

b) NWFP

c) Kerala

d) Asom

 

16. Where was the first All India Kisan Sabha formed?

a) Calcutta

b) Madras.

c) Lucknow

d) Patna

 

17. Kol Revolt of 1831-32 was led by

a) Buddha Bhagat

b) Surga

c) Singrai

d) Jatra Bhagat

 

18. Santhal Revolt (1855-56) was led by

a) Siddhu-Kanhu

b) Chand-Bhairav

c) Both (a) and (b)

d) Neither (a)  nor (b)

 

19. Who among the following was the founder of the Satya Shodhak Samaj?

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) Jyotiba Phule

c) Narayan Guru

d) Rama Swami Naiker

 

20. Where had Baba Ramchandra organized the farmers?

a) Awadh

b) Bihar

c) Bengal

d) Andhra

 

21. Bhil revolts against the British took place in

a) MP and Maharashtra

b) MP and Bihar

c) Bihar and Bengal

d) Bengal and Maharashtra

 

22. Which one of the following may be regarded as the first labour association in India?

a) The Bombay Mill Land's Association

b) The Bombay Worker's Association

c) The Indian Worker's Association

d) The Printer's Union, Calcutta

 

23. The All India Kisan Sabha was formed in

a) 1926

b) 1936

c) 1946

d) 1956

 

24. Gandhiji's Champaran Movement was for

a) the security of rights of Harijans

b) Civil Disobedience Movement

c) maintaining the unity of Hindu society

d) solving the problem of Indigo workers

 

25. Who founded All India Harijan Sevak Sangh?

a) B.R. Ambedkar

b) Mahatma Gandhi

c) Jay Prakash Narayan

d) Raj Narayan

 

26. The first Indian Factory Act (1881) was passed by

a) Lord Curzon

b) Lord Wellesley

c) Lord Cornwallis

d) Lord Ripon

 

27. Where did the Tebhaga Movement occur in 1946?

a) Bihar

b) Punjab

c) Gujarat

d) Bengal

 

28. Siddhu was associated with

a) Santhal Rebellion

b) Munda Rebellion

c) Kol Rebellion

d) Sanyasi Rebellion

 

29. The leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha (1928) was

a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

b) Mahatma Gandhi

c) Vitthalbhai Patel

d) Mahadev Desai

 

30. Who, among the following was not associated with the formation of 'UP Kisan Sabha' in February, 1918?

a) Indra Narayan Dwivedi

b) Gauri Shankar Mishra

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d Madan Mohan Malaviya

 

31. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

Movement/                                   Person Actively

Satyagraha                                  Associated with

1. Champaran                              : Rajendra Prasad

2. Ahmedabad Mill Workers      : Morarji Desai

3. Kheda                                        : Vallabhbhai Patel

Codes:

a) 1 and 2       b) 2 and 3       c) 1 and 3       d) All of these

 

32. Which one of the following revolts was made famous by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in his novel 'Anand Math'?

a) Bhil Uprising

b) Rangpur and Dinajpur Uprising

c) Bishnapur and Birbhum Rebellion

d) Sanyasi Rebellion

 

33. Who of the following founded Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association?

a) Mahatma Gandhi

b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

c) NM Joshi

d) JB Kriplani

 

34. Consider the following statements

1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to come to Champaran to investigate the problem of peasants

2. Acharya JB Kriplani was one of the Mahatma Gandhi's colleagues in his Champaran Satyagraha.

Which of the statement(s) given above is /are correct?

a) Only 1             b) Only 2               c) Both 1 and 2         d) Neither nor 2

 

35. Consider the following statement relating to Indigo Revolt

1. The Indigo Revolt is particularly memorable for the role played the intelligentsia to uphold the cause of the movement

2. After the revolt, the colonial authorities set up the Indigo Commission to enquire into the grievances of the Indigo cultivators.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

a) Only 1                 b) Only 2        c) Both 1 and 2        d) Neither 1 nor 2

 

36. Assertion (A) The effect or labour participation in the Indian nationalist upsurge of the early 1930s was weak.

Reason (R) The labour leaders considered the ideology of Indian National Congress as bourgeois and reactionary.

Codes:

a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

b) Both A and R are true, but R is not correct explanation of A.

c) A is true, but R is false

d) A is false, but R is true

 

37. The Moplah Rebellion broke out in

a) Uttarakhand

b) Chouri Choura

c) Malabar

d) Telangana

 

38. The call of "Back to the Vedas" was given by

a) Swami Vivekanand

b) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

c) Aurobindo Ghosh

c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

 

39. Who was Titu Mir?

a) Leader of Wahabi Movement

b) Leader of Faraji Movement

c) Leader of Sepoy Mutiny

d) Leader of the Indigo Revolt

 

40. Which one among the following was not a demand of the Prarthana Samaj?

a) Women education

b) Widow remarriage

c) Raising the age of marriage for boys and girls

d) Abolition of untouchability

 

41. Which among the following statements with regards to Raja Ram Mohan Roy correct?

1. He started the Atmiya Sabha

2. He wrote the Gift of Monotheist

3. He published the Precepts of Jesus

4. He founded the Brahmo Sabha

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

a) 2, 3 and 4    b) 1, 2 and 3   c) 1, 3 and 4     d) All of these

 

42. After the death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj split into two sections; the Brahmo Samaj of India and the Adi Brahmo Samaj. Who were the leaders of the two sections respectively?

a) Keshav Chandra Sean and Debendranath Tagore

b) Radhakanta Deb and Debendranath Tagore

c) Keshav Chandra Sen and Radhakanta Deb

d) Debendranath Tagore and Radhakanta Deb

 

43. Consider the following statements

1. Arya Samaj was founded in 1835.

2. Lala Lajpat Roy opposed the appeal of Aryan Samaj to the authority of Vedas in support of its social reform programmes.

3. Under Keshav Chandra Sen the Brahmo Samaj campaigned for women's education.

4. Vinoba Bhave founded the Sarvodaya Samaj to work among refugees.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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

 

44. During Indian Freedom Struggle, the National Social Conference was formed. What was the reason for its formation?

a) Different social reform groups or organizations of Bengal region united to form a single body to discuss the issues of larger interest and to prepare appropriate petitions/representations to the government

b) Indian National Congress did not want to include social reforms in its deliberations and decided to form a separate body for such a purpose.

c) Behramji Malabari and MG Ranade decided to bring together all the social reform groups of the country under one organization

d) None of the statements 'a', 'b' and 'c' given above is correct in this context

 

45. Which of the following statement is/are correct regarding Brahmo Samaj?

1. It opposed idolatry

2. It denied the need for a priestly class for interpreting the religious texts.

3. it popularized the doctrine that the Vedas are infallible

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

a) Only 1     b) 1 and 2       c) Only 3      d) All of these

 

46. William Bentinck attempted to reform Hindu society by suppressing/abolishing social evils. Which one among the following was not included in them?

a) Sati  b) Infanticide      c) Thugee                d) Slavery

 

47. Which one of the following statements regarding prohibition of Sati in India is correct?

a) Raja Rammohan Roy wanted an expeditious and urgent abolition of Sati and therefore advised Bentinck to take emergency legislative measures

b) The Sati was made illegal in 1829 but was not made punishable by the courts until 1840

c) The persons associated in any way with Sati were to be regarded as criminals

d) At the time of his appointment as Governor-General, Bentinck was instructed by the Home Authorities to consider definite measures for the immediate or gradual abolition of Sati

 

48. Sharada Act fixed the minimum age of marriage of girls and boys respectively as

a) 12 and 16     b) 14 and 18    c) 15 and 21     d) 16 and 22

 

49. Ram Mohan Roy was given the title of 'Raja' by

a) Lord William Bentinck                  b) Akbar Shah II

c) Followers of Brahm Samaj

d) Intellectuals opposing the custom of Sati

 

50. With reference to the period of Indian Freedom Struggle, who of the following set up the Gyan Prasarak Mandali (Society for Promotion of Knowledge) for the education of adult menfolk?

a) Annie Besant                 b) Bhikaji Cama

c) Dadabhai Naoroji         d) GK Gokhale

 

51. Which of the statements given about Vivekanand are correct?

1. He believed that Vedanta was fully rational

2. He criticized his countrymen for having lost touch with the outside world

3. He condemned the caste system.

4. He considered the Veda to be infallible

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

a) 1, 2 and 3       b) 2, 3 and 4

c) 1, 3 and 4        d) 1 and 2

 

52. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

1. Theodore Beck              Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College, Aligarh

2. Ilbert Bill                           Ripon

3. Pherozeshah Mehta      Indian National Congress

4. Badruddin Tyabji           Muslim League

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

a) 2 and 4            b) 1, 3 and 4

c) 1, 2 and 3        d) All of these

 

53. Who among the following established the Calcutta Unitarian Committee?

a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

c) Keshab Chandra Sen

d) Rabindranath Tagore


ANSWER SHEET OF MODERN INDIA TEST PAPER

1.a          2.c          3.d          4.c          5.d          6.d          7.c

8.c          9.a         10.a        11.a        12.a        13.a        14.b

15.c      16.c        17.a        18.c        19.b        20.a        21.a

22.a      23.b        24.d        25.b        26.d        27.d        28.a

29.a      30.d        31.c        32.d        33.a        34.b        35.c

36.a      37.c        38.b        39.a        40.d        41.d        42.a

43.d      44.b        45.b        46.d        47.b        48.b        49.b

50.c      51.a        52.c        53.a

















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