MCQ on Banaras, Calcutta and Surat Congress Session

Question 1. Who presided over the Banaras Session of the Indian National Congress in 1905?

(A) Dinshaw Wacha

(B)  Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(C) Feroz Shah Mehta

(D) Surendra Nath Banerjee

Question 2. In which year Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded ‘Servants of India Society’?

(A) 1905

(B) 1904

(C)  1903

(D) 1902

Question 3. “A graduate at 18, professor and associate editor of the Sudharak at 20, Secretary of the Sarvajanik Sabha and of the Provincial Conference at 25, Secretary of the National Congress at 29, leading witness before an important Royal Commission at 31, Provincial legislator at 34, Imperial legislator at 36, President of the Indian National Congress at 39, a patriot whom Mahatma Gandhi himself regarded as his master”. This is how a biographer describes_______.

(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(C) Mahadev Govind Ranade

(D) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya

Question 4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale presided over the session of Congress in_________.

(A) 1909

(B) 1906

(C) 1905

(D) 1902

Question 5. Which of the following leaders presided over the Congress Session at Calcutta in 1906?

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji

(B) Aurobindo Ghosh

(C) G.K. Gokhale

(D) B.G. Tilak

Question 6. Congress passed the ‘Swaraj’ resolution in the year 1905. The purpose of the resolution was__________.

(A) self-Government

(B)  responsible Government

(C) to secure self-rule

(D) right to make a constitution for themselves but it was not done

Question 7. Swaraj as a national demand was first made by_______.

(A) Mahatma Gandhi

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji

(C) C.R. Das

(D) B.G. Tilak

Question 8. In which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress, the word ‘Swaraj’ was uttered for the first time?

(A)Banaras Session, 1905

(B) Surat Session, 1907

(C) Calcutta Session, 1906

(D) None of the above

Question 9. The first leader to use the word ‘Swaraj’ was______.

(A) Mahatma Gandhi

(B) Dayanand Saraswati

(C) Lala Lajpat Rai

(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Question 10. Dadabhai Naoroji was formally known as_________.

(A) Grand Old Man of India

(B) Guru Dev

(C) Gujarat Ratna

(D) Punjab Kesari

Question 11. First Indian elected to the British House of Commons was Dadabhai Naoroji who contested on the ticket of________.

(A) Communist Party

(B) Conservative Party

(C) Labour Party

(D) Liberal Party

Question 12. Who was called the ‘Grand Old Man of India’?

(A) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

(B) Ramesh Chandra Banerjee

(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji

Question 13. Who among the following is known by the title of ‘The Grand Old Man’? 

(A) Motilal Nehru

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji

(C) W.C. Banerjee

(D) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Question 14. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Dadabhai Naoroji?

(A)  He was elected as a member of British Parliament on the ticket of the Conservative Party

(B) He laid the foundation of woman’s education in Bombay

(C)  He worked as a Professor of Gujarati in the University College, London

(D) He wrote a book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’

Question 15. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Dadabhai Naoroji? 

(A) For four times he had presided over the Indian National Congress

(B) He started a Gujarati Journal, ‘Rast Goftar’

(C) He was elected as the member of British Parliament in 1892

(D) He was the first Indian to be appointed as Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Elphinstone College, Bombay

Question 16. Who was first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?

(A) Vithalbhai Patel

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji

(C) Surendra Nath Banerjee

(D) Ras Bihari Bose

Question 17. At which session was the Indian National Congress (INC) divided into two groups – ‘Naram Dal’ and ‘Garam Dal’?

(A) Lahore

(B) Allahabad

(C) Surat

(D) Bombay

Question 18. Where did the Indian Congress got divided into two wings moderates and extremists?

(A) Karachi Session, 1913

(B) Calcutta Session, 1911

(C) Lahore Session, 1909

(D) Surat Session, 1907

Question 19. The President of the Surat Session of Indian National Congress (1907) was_______.

(A)  R.B. Ghosh

(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji

Question 20. Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta Session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention or rejection of these four resolutions became the cause of a split in Congress at the next Congress Session held in Surat in 1907. Which one of the following was not one of those resolutions?

(A) Swadeshi

(B) National education

(C) Boycott

(D) Annulment of partition of Bengal

Question 21.  What was the main reason for the split in the Indian National Congress at Surat in 1907?

(A) Aurobindo Ghosh’s inability to be elected as the President of the Indian National Congress

(B) Foundation of Muslim League

(C) Extremists’ lack of faith in the capacity of the moderates to negotiate with the British Government

(D) Introduction of communalism into Indian politics by Lord Minto

Question 22. Surat split was led by_________.

(A) Gandhiji

(B) Tilak

(C) Dufferin

(D) Hume

Question 23. When was the first partition of Indian National Congress was held? 

(A) 1911

(B) 1969

(C) 1906

(D) 1907

Question 24. ‘Split of Surat’ in Indian National Congress was held in________.

(A) 1908

(B) 1907

(C) 1906

(D) 1905

Question 25. The process of split in the Congress in the early years of the twentieth century began over________.

(A) Strategies of the Congress Movement

(B) Participation of the people in the Congress Movement

(C) Objectives of the Congress

(D)All of the above