MCQ on Development of Press in Modern India [History of Press]

Let’s take an online test on GK Questions and Answers on the History of Press in India.

Question 1. Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?

(A) Lord Minto

(B) Lord Curzon

(C) Lord Lytton

(D) Lord Ripon

Question 2. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?

(A) Lord Hastings

(B) Lord Curzon

(C) Lord Ripon

(D) Lord Lytton

Question 3. The first newspaper in India was__________.

(A) Sambad Kaumadi

(B) Pioneer

(C) Hindustan Times

(D) Bengal Gazette

Question 4. Who among the following had primarily implemented the Press Censorship? 

(A) Dalhousie

(B) John Adams

(C) Hastings

(D) Wellesley

Question 5. Under whose Governor-General ship was the Vernacular Act repealed?

(A) Lord Dufferin

(B) Lord Curzon

(C) Lord Lytton

(D) Lord Ripon

Question 6. Who was the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a journalist? 

(A) Surendra Nath Banerjee

(B) Motilal Ghosh

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Question 7. Who in America started to issue newspaper ‘Free India’?

(A) Tarak Nath Das

(B) Lala Hardayal

(C) G.D. Kumar

(D) Ram Nath Puri

Question 8. Persian Weekly ‘Miratul Akhbar’ was published by ________.

(A) Maulana Shibli Nomani

(B) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(D) Lala Lajpat Rai

Question 9. The first Hindi Newspaper ‘Udatt Martand’ (30th May, 1826) was published from _________.

(A) Lucknow

(B) Allahabad

(C) Patna

(D) Kolkata

Question 10. From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?

(A) Pondicherry

(B) Madras

(C) Calcutta

(D) Bombay

Question 11. In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published?

(A) Marathi

(B) English

(C) Hindi

(D) Urdu

Question 12. The first Newspaper published by the Indians in the English language was _________.

(A) Native Opinion

(B) Young India

(C) The Hindu

(D) Hindu Patriot

Question 13. The editor of the ‘Hindu Patriot’ who strongly supported the Indigo Movement was _______. 

(A) Digambar Biswas

(B) Dinbandhu Mitra

(C) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

(D) Hem Chandrakar

Question 14. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’?

(A) Lokmanya Tilak

(B) S.C. Bose

(C) M.G. Ranade

(D) Arbind Ghosh

Question 15. Which of the following newspapers used to be published from Patna?

(A) Dawn

(B) Prabhakar

(C) Punjab Kesari

(D) Indian Nation

Question 16. Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities?

(A) Young India

(B) Ghadar

(C) Yugantar

(D) Sandhya

Question 17. The ‘Young India’ was started as a weekly by _________.

(A) Swaraj Party

(B) Ghadar Party

(C) The Extremist Party

(D) The Home Rule Party

Question 18. The first editor of the journal ‘Indian Opinion’ was _________.

(A) Mansukhal Nazar

(B) Mahadev Desai

(C) Albert West

(D) M.K. Gandhi

Question 19. Which one of the following was not the language in which ‘Indian Opinion’ paper was published?

(A) Urdu

(B) Tamil

(C) Gujarati

(D) English

Question 20. Which of the following papers was essentially the mouthpiece of the policies of liberals?

(A) Free Press Journal

(B) Young India

(C) Leader

(D) New India

Question 21. Who among the following started the newspaper’s ‘Som Prakash’?

(A) Surendranath Banerjee

(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(D) Dayanand Saraswati

Question 22. Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticized Congress for various reasons? 

(A)Bangawasi

(B) Kesari

(C) Kaal

(D) All of these

Question 23. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle? 

(A) Swadesh Mitra

(B) Free Hindustan

(C) Kesari

(D) Gadar

Question 24. Who founded the ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’?

(A) Sisir Kumar Ghose

(B) S.N. Banerjee

(C) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

(D) Girish Chandra Ghosh

Question 25. The journal ‘Ghadar’ of Ghadar Party was a ________.

(A) Daily Journal

(B) Weekly Journal

(C) Fortnightly Journal

(D) Monthly Journal