MCQ on Evolution of Indian Constitution

Question 1. In which year Regulating Act was passed?

(A)  1773

(B)  1764

(C)  1757

(D)  1753

Question 2. In which of the following Acts for the first time provision was made for the post of Governor-General of Bengal?

(A) Act of 1833

(B) Charter Act of 1813

(C) Pitt’s Indian Act, 1784

(D)  Regulating Act, 1773

Question 3. The Regulating Act was passed in _________.

(A) 1793

(B) 1785

(C) 1774

(D) 1773

Question 4. In which year was the Regulation Act passed?

(A) 1793 A.D.

(B) 1773 A.D.

(C) 1765 A.D.

(D) 1757 A.D.

Question 5. Under the provision of Regulating Act, a Provincial Assembly for Bihar was set up in ________.

(A) 1778

(B) 1776

(C) 1774

(D) 1772

Question 6.The Supreme Court was set up for the first time in India under the ___________.

(A)  Indian Constitution Act, 1950

(B)  Government of India Act, 1935

(C)  Charter Act, 1853

(D)  Regulating Act, 1773

Question 7. Supreme Court of Kolkata started in India was introduced by the Act of ________.

(A) 1858 Act

(B) 1919 Act

(C) 1909 Act

(D) 1773 Act

Question 8. The first Chief Justice of Supreme Court established by the East India Company was ________.

(A)  Elijah Impey

(B) Phillip Francis

(C) Courtney Ilbert

(D) None of the above

Question 9. Which Act gave the right to reject the decision of the committee to Governor-General?

(A) Act of 1813

(B) Act of 1786

(C) Pitt’s India Act of 1784

(D)  Regulating Act of 1773

Question 10. Which of the following Acts empowered Lord Cornwallis to overrule the decision of his Council?

(A) Charter Act of 1813

(B) Charter Act of 1793

(C) Act of 1786

(D) Regulating Act

Question 11. Which one of the following Acts of British India strengthened the Viceroy’s authority over his executive council by substituting ‘portfolio’ or departmental system for corporate functioning?

(A) Indian Council Act, 1909

(B) Indian Council Act, 1892

(C) Government of India Act, 1858

(D) Indian Council Act, 1861

Question 12. Which one of the following Acts empowered the Governor General of India to issue Ordinances?

(A) Indian Council Act of 1909

(B) Indian Council Act of 1892

(C) Indian Council Act of 1861

(D) Charter Act of 1833

Question 13. Consider the following statements.

1. The Charter Act, 1853 abolished East India Company monopoly of Indian trade.
   
2. Under the Government of India Act, 1858 the British Parliament abolished the East India Company altogether and undertook the responsibility of ruling India directly.
   

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

(A) Neither 1 nor 2

(B) Both 1 and 2

(C) Only 2

(D) Only 1

Question 14. Which of the following Acts transferred the Government of India from East India Company to the Crown? 

(A) Indian Council Act, 1861

(B) The Government of India Act, 1858

(C) Charter Act, 1853

(D) Charter Act, 1833

Question 15. British East India Company lost the monopoly of Tea trade by_________.

(A) The Charter Act of 1853

(B) The Charter Act of 1833

(C) The Charter Act of 1813

(D) The Charter Act of 1793

Question 16. By which Act British Govt. abolished the monopoly of East India Company on trading of sugarand China? 

(A) Charter Act, 1833

(B) Charter Act, 1813

(C) Pitt’s India Act, 1784

(D) Regulating Act, 1773

Question 17. Under which Act, Board of control was established?

(A) Pitt’s India Act, 1784

(B) Charter Act, 1813

(C) Settlement Act, 1781

(D) Regulating Act, 1773

Question 18. In which of the following years British Government finally agreed to hold the Indian Civil Services (I.C.S.) examination simultaneously in India and England?

(A) 1925

(B) 1924

(C) 1923

(D) 1922

Question 19. Which of the following Acts for the first time created a functioning Legislature Council in India?

(A) Charter Act of 1833

(B) Charter Act of 1853

(C) Charter Act of 1813

(D) Charter Act of 1793

Question 20. Which Act provisioned competitive exam system for Civil Services?

(A) 1882

(B) 1858

(C) 1853

(D) 1833

Question 21. Which of among following had recommended to hold the Indian Civil Service Examination simultaneously in India and England?

(A) Lord Cornwallis

(B) Montagu-Chelmsford Report

(C) Hobhouse Commission

(D)  Aitchison Commission

Question 22. Which one of the following provisions was not made in the Charter Act of 1833?

(A)  An Indian was to be appointed as a Law Member of the Governor-General’s Council

(B)  All law-making powers to be conferred on GovernorGeneral-in-council

(C)  The designation of the supreme authority was to be changed as the Governor General of Indiain-Council

(D)  The trading activities of the East India Company were to be abolished

Question 23. Which of the following is one of the reasons for considering Charter Act of 1813 important for India?

(A) It approved the development of a railway system in India

(B)  It made a financial allocation for the education of Indian people

(C)  It emphasised industrialisation in India

(D)  It banned propaganda by Christian Missionaries in India

Question 24. The monopoly of the East India Company in India’s trade was abolished in________.

(A) 1833

(B) 1813

(C) 1803

(D) 1793

Question 25. By a Regulation in 1793, the District Collector was deprived of his judicial powers and made the collecting agent only. What was the reason for such regulation?

(A) The judicial work demanded a deep knowledge of India and a good training in law and Lord Cornwallis felt that District Collector should be only a revenue collector

(B) Lord Cornwallis was alarmed at the extent of power concentrated in the District Collector and felt that such absolute power was undesirable in one person

(C)  Lord Cornwallis felt that judicial power should compulsorily be in the hands of Europeans. While Indians can be given the job of revenue collection in the districts

(D)  Lord Cornwallis felt that the District Collector’s efficiency of revenue collection would enormously increase without the burden of other work