MCQ on Moderate Groups and Extremist Phase in Congress (1885-1905)

Question 1. Most of the moderate leader hailed from ________. 

(A) Punjab

(B) Both rural and urban area

(C) Urban areas

(D) Rural areas

Question 2. Who of the following continuously from 1904 onwards emphasized on the grant of ‘self-rule’ to India?

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji

(B) Firoz Shah Mehta

(C) Aurobindo Ghosh

(D) S.N. Banerjee

Question 3. The method to protest of moderate leaders of the Congress was ________.

(A) Civil disobedience

(B) Passive resistance

(C) Constitutional agitation

(D) Non-Co-operation

Question 4. Which one of the following movements has contributed to a split in the Indian National Congress resulting in the emergence of ‘moderates’ and ‘extremists’?

(A) Civil Disobedience Movement

(B) Quit India Movement

(C) Quit India Movement

(D) Swadeshi Movement

Question 5. Which one of the following was not an extremist?

(A) G.K. Gokhale

(B) Udham Singh

(C) Madan Lal

(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Question 6. Who among the following was not an outstanding leader of Militant Nationalism?

(A) Lala Lajpat Rai

(B) Lokmanya Tilak

(C) Bipin Chandra Pal

(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Question 7. Who accused Indian National Congress of practising ‘politics of pray, petition and protest’?

(A) Sardar Bhagat Singh

(B) Subhash Chandra Bose

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D) Lala Hardayal

Question 8. Who called the Indian National Congress as a ‘Begging Institute’?

(A) B.C. Pal

(B) Aurobindo Ghosh

(C) Tilak

(D) None of the above

Question 9. Indian National Movement came to be dominated by the extremists after _________.

(A) 1919

(B) 1914

(C) 1909

(D) 1906

Question 10. Which one of the following leaders belonged to the Extremist wing of the Congress? 

(A) S.N. Banerjee

(B) G.K. Gokhale

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Aurobindo Ghosh

Question 11.

• Assertion(A): Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a communalist.
• Reason (R): He used religion as a political weapon.

Select your answer by using the codes given below.

(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true

(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(C)  Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

Question 12. Alongwith Mahatma Gandhi who amongst the following Muslims did lift the bier of Bal Gangadhar Tilak?

(A) M.A. Ansari

(B) Maulana A.K. Azad

(C) Mohammad Ali

(D) Shaukat Ali

Question 13. Ganpati festival in Maharashtra was started by_______.

(A) Aurobindo Ghosh

(B) Bipin Chandra Pal

(C) M.G. Ranade

(D) B.G. Tilak

Question 14. The Indian Muslims, in general, were not attracted to the extremist movement because of the________.

(A) extremists policy of harping on Hindu part

(B) the indifference is shown to Muslim aspirations

(C) anti-Muslim attitude of extremist leaders

(D) influence of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Question 15. Which one of the following defines extremist ideology during the early phase of Indian freedom movement? 

(A) Organizing coups against the British empire through military revolt

(B) Providing national educational according to the requirements of the country

(C) Obtaining self-Government by aggressive means in place of petitions and constitutional ways

(D) Stimulating the production of indigenous articles by giving them preference over imported commodities

Question 16. Which extremist leader of the freedom movement was given 6 years jail punishment in 1908?

(A) Aurobindo Ghosh

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D) Bipin Chandra Pal

Question 17. After the sentence of B.G. Tilak, who among the following had pleaded for mercy and said ‘My interest in Tilak is that of a Sanskrit scholar’? 

(A) William Jones

(B) Bipin Chandra Pal

(C) Max Muller

(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore

Question 18. Who called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the ‘Father of Indian Unrest’?

(A) Henry Cotton

(B) Valentine Chirol

(C) Vincent Smith

(D) Lord Curzon

Question 19. Who among the following is known as father of ‘Indian Unrest’?

(A) Mahatma Gandhi

(B) Lokmanya Tilak

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) A.O. Hume

Question 20. Who among the following leaders was a supporter of ‘Swadeshi’?

(A) Subhash Chandra Bose

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji

(C) Feroz Shah Mehta

(D) Aurobindo Ghosh

Question 21. Who of the following was not a moderate?

(A) Madan Mohan Malviya

(B) A.O. Hume

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Question 22. Who among of the following was considered by Lala Lajpat Rai as his political guru?

(A) Mazzini

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji

(C) Vivekananda

(D) Garibaldi

Question 23. Who is popularly known as ‘Sher-ePunjab’?

(A) Udham Singh

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) Bhagat Singh

(D) Rajguru

Question 24. Who among the following was not known as a moderate in the National Movement?

(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(B) M.G. Ranade

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak