Revolt of 1857 MCQ with Answers for UPSC

Question 1. Mangal Pandey incident took place a _________.

(A) Lucknow

(B) Ambala

(C) Barrackpore

(D) Meerut

Question 2. The immediate cause of India’s first war of independence was __________.

(A) Economic exploitation of India

(B) Military discontent

(C) Suspicion about British interference in religion

(D) Doctrine of Lapse by Lord Dalhousie

Question 3. When was the new Enfield Rifle with greased cartridges introduced in the British Indian Army?

(A) February, 1857

(B) January, 1857

(C) December, 1856

(D) November, 1856

Question 4. With which uprising is Mangal Pandey associated?

(A) Barrackpore

(B) Delhi

(C) Meerut

(D)  None of these

Question 5. Which one of the following conceptions is true about the Revolt of 1857? 

(A) It was for the improvement of the administrative machinery in India

(B) It gave a death blow to the system of East India Company’s rule in India

(C) British historians have described it as a war of independence

(D) Indian historians have described it as an Indian mutiny

Question 6. Who among the following was bestowed with the title of Sahebe-Alam Bahadur by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857?

(A) Hasan Khan

(B) Bakht Khan

(C) Birjis Qadir

(D) Azimullah

Question 7. What was the main cause of 1857 revolt?

(A) Policy of British Empire

(B) Management of Christian Missionaries

(C) Military discontent

(D) Public Outrage

Question 8.The first war of Independence (1857) started from ________.

(A) Kanpur

(B) Meerut

(C) Jhansi

(D) Lucknow

Question 9. The first event relating to the war of Independence of 1857 was ___________.

(A) Revolt by Rani of Jhansi

(B) Marching of Sepoys to Delhi’s Red Fort

(C)  Begum Hazrat Mahal’s leadership of Oudh

(D) Kanpur’s Revolt and taking over the leadership by Nana Saheb

Question 10. Symbol of 1857 independence struggle was _________.

(A) Two swords

(B) Scarf

(C) Eagle

(D) Lotus and Chapatis

Question 11. Which one of the following centres of the uprising of 1857 was recaptured by the English?

(A) Kanpur

(B) Delhi

(C) Meerut

(D) Jhansi

Question 12. The birthplace of Maharani Lakshmi Bai, the heroine of the 1857 freedom struggle, is_______.

(A) Vrindaban

(B) Varanasi

(C)  Jhansi

(D) Agra

Question 13. Who among the following was the leader of the revolt during 1857 at Barielly?

(A) Virzis Qadir

(B) Maulvi Ahmad Shah

(C) Kunwar Singh

(D) Khan Bahadur

Question 14. Where is the Samadhi of Maharani Lakshmi Bai situated?

(A) Gwalior

(B) Jabalpur

(C) Mandu

(D) Mandla

Question 15. Maharani Lakshmi Bai had combated in last battle against ___________. 

(A) Havlock

(B) Niel

(C) Guff

(D) Hugh Rose

Question 16. The revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by ___________.

(A) Nana Saheb

(B) Rani Lakshmi Bai

(C) Tatya Tope

(D) Begum of Awadh

Question 17. The revolutionary woman who led the revolution of 1857 in Oudh was __________.

(A) Begum Hazrat Mahal

(B) Aruna Asaf Ali

(C)  Ahilya Bai

(D) Lakshmi Bai

Question 18. The largest number of soldiers participated in the struggle of 1857 came from __________.

(A) Rajasthan

(B) Bihar

(C) Awadh

(D) Bengal

Question 19. Who amongst the following was the leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad?

(A) Maulvi Liyaqat Ali

(B) Tatya Tope

(C) Azimullah

(D) Nana Saheb

Question 20. Who was the leader of 1857 struggle for freedom in Lucknow?

(A) Tatya Tope

(B) Hazrat Mahal

(C) Nana Saheb

(D) Zeenat Mahal

Question 21. Who was ‘commander-in-chief’ of Nana Saheb?

(A) Azimullah

(B) Tatya Tope

(C)  Birjis Qadir

(D) None of these

Question 22. Azimullah Khan was an advisor to _________.

(A) Kunwar Singh

(B) Rani Lakshmi Bai

(C) Tatya Tope

(D) Nana Saheb

Question 23. With reference to the ‘revolt of 1857’ who of the following was betrayed by ‘friend’ captured and put to death by the British?

(A) Tatya Tope

(B) Khan Bahadur Khan

(C) Kunwar Singh

(D) Nana Saheb

Question 24. The real name of which one of the following leaders of 1857 was ‘Ram Chandra Pandurang’?

(A) Mangal Pandey

(B) Nana Saheb

(C) Tatya Tope

(D) Kunwar Singh

Question 25. Indians were assured of many things in the declaration by Queen Victoria in 1858. Which among the following assurances was fulfilled by the British Government?

(A) There would be no interference in the social and religious beliefs of the Indians

(B) Equal treatment would be given to all subjets, Indians and Europeans

(C) ‘Status quo’ of the native rulers would be maintained

(D) Policy of annexation will be abandoned

Question 26. Which person of Jagdishpur took the lead of revolutionaries during the revolt of 1857 A.D.?

(A) Ram Singh

(B) Tirath Singh

(C) Chandra Shekhar

(D) Kunwar Singh

Question 27. The centre of 1857 revolt in Bihar from 15th July, 1857 to 20th January, 1858 was ___________.

(A) Jagdishpur

(B) Dheerpur

(C) Hamirpur

(D) Rampur

Question 28. Who among the following was the leader of the revolution of 1857 in Assam?

(A) Piali Barua

(B) Purandar Singh

(C) Kandarpeshwar Singh

(D) Diwan Maniram Dutta

Question 29. When did Queen Victoria declare the taking over of Indian Administration under British crown?

(A) 17 November, 1859

(B) 6 January, 1958

(C) 31 December, 1857

(D) 1 November, 1858

Question 30. After the revolt of 1857, the British recruited the Soldiers from the _________.

(A) Madras presidency and Marathas

(B) Gurkhas, Sikhs and Punjabis in the North

(C) Bengalis and Orria’s from the East

(D) Brahmins of U.P. and Bihar

Question 31. Which one of the following commissions is associated with the Army Reorganization after the suppression of the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Simon Commission

(B) Hunter Commission

(C) Peel Commission

(D) Public Service Commission

Question 32. Who was the leader of revolutionaries in Bihar during the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Shankar Shah

(B) Birsa Munda

(C) Babu Kunwar Singh

(D) Namdar Khan