Question 1. The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides movement in India was ___________.
(A) Baden-Powell
(B) Richard Temple
(C) Robert Montgomery
(D) Charles Andrews
Question 2. With reference to Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following statements is not correct?
(A) In 1931, the Congress Session at Karachi opposed GandhiIrwin Pact
(B) Bhagat Singh was one of the founders of Hindustan Republican Socialist Association
(C) Subhash Chandra Bose formed the Forward Bloc
(D) The Rowlatt Act aroused a wave of popular indignation and led to the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Question 3. The statement “I am a socialist and a republican and am no believer Kings and Princes” is associated with ___________.
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Jai Prakash Narayan
(C) Achyut Patwardhan
(D) Narendra Dev
Question 4. Who among the following had been described as the high priest of Communism in India?
(A) Ashok Mehta
(B) M.R. Masani
(C) Acharya Narendra Dev
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Question 5. Who one of the following is the biographer of Jawaharlal Nehru?
(A) Webb Miller
(B) Louis Fischer
(C) Dom Moraes
(D) Frank Moraes
Question 6. Who is known as father of Dyarchy?
(A) Sir Leonil Cartis
(B) Lord Macaulay
(C) Hector Munaro
(D) Lord Clive
Question 7. Of the four forms of political protests mentioned below, which one is derived from the name of the person who used it as a political weapon for the first time?
(A) Strike
(B) Shut-down
(C) Seige
(D) Boycott
Question 8. Of the following events, which stands third in chronological order?
(A) Dandi March
(B) Quit India Movement
(C) Non-Co-operation Movement
(D) Champaran Movement
Question 9. Which lady contributed the largest in the Indian Politics after 1947?
(A) Rabari Devi
(B) Tarkeshwari Sinha
(C) Kamla Rani Singh
(D) Aruna Asaf Ali
Question 10. “It will be our blunder if we leave people of Bihar and their Government unsafe before the violence and uncivilized attacks of league leaders”. In the year 1946 who told this?
(A) Sardar Patel
(B) Rajendra Prasad
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Question 11. Who raised the demand of ‘Complete Independence’ for the first time in 1921?
(A) Maulana Hasrat Mohani
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Maulana Muhammad Ali
Question 12. Who has hailed Mohd. Ali Jinnah most responsible for the partition of India?
(A) Lord Mountbatten
(B) Lord Linlithgow
(C) Lord Irwin
(D) Lord Curzon
Question 13. Who amongst the following presided over the All Parties Muslim Conference held at Delhi on 31st December 1928?
(A) Karim Jalal
(B) Faiz Hussain
(C) M.A. Jinnah
(D) Agha Khan
Question 14. The Banaras Session of August 1923 of the Hindu Mahasabha was presided over by____________.
(A) Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai
(C) Rajendra Prasad
(D) Swami Shraddhananda
Question 15. Identify the years that are closest to the founding of the Communist Party of India and the RSS, respectively.
(A) 1925, 1939
(B) 1928, 1929
(C) 1925, 1925
(D) 1915, 1914
Question 16. The real name of the ‘Frontier Gandhi’ is__________.
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(C) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) Purushottam Das Tandon
Question 17. Who among the following is popularly known as the ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
(A) Maulana Muhammad Ali
(B) Jatin Das
(C) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Question 18. What was the name of the movement started by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan against British?
(A) Red Shirt
(B) Khilafat
(C) Quit India
(D) None of these
Question 19. Who of the following attacked Dr. B.R. Ambedkar by saying “Ambedkar has had his leadership thrust upon him by a benign British Government because his services were necessary to embarrass the Nationalist leaders”?
(A) Sir Mirza Ismail
(B) Dr. B.S. Moonje
(C) Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Question 20. The native State of Tripura became involved in the Freedom movement early in the 20th century because
(A) There were already some groups fighting against the kingship and its protector, the British
(B) The tribes of the state were fiercely freedom-loving
(C) The Bengal revolutionaries took shelter in Tripura
(D) The kings of Tripura were always anti-British
Question 21. Rajendra Prasad belonged to___________.
(A) Uttar Pradesh
(B) Madhya Pradesh
(C) Bihar
(D) None of the above
Question 22. The great poet Rabindra Nath Tagore emerged as a great painter when he was__________.
(A) Seventy years
(B) Fifty years
(C) Twenty years
(D) Seven years
Question 23. Jagat Narayan Lal was sent to____________.
(A) Hazaribagh Jail
(B) Bhagalpur Jail
(C) Camp Jail
(D) Bankipur Jail
Question 24. The Samadhis of Kasturba and Mahadev Desai are situated in the premises of__________.
(A) Alipur Central Jail
(B) Ahmadnagar Fort Jail
(C) Yervada Jail
(D) Agha Khan Palace, Poona
Question 25. The tomb of Kasturba Gandhi is situated in the premises of__________.
(A) Yerwada Jail
(B) Agha Khan Palace Pune
(C) Ahmadnagar Fort Jail
(D) Alipur Central Jail