Revolt of 1857 MCQ Questions with Answers Set 2

Question 1. The King of Jagdishpur was _______.

(A) Kunwar Singh

(B) Lakshmi Bai

(C) Tatya Tope

(D) Nana Saheb

Question 2. Who defeated the joint army of British and Jodhpur during the revolt of 1857?

(A) Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa

(B) Maharaja Ram Singh

(C) Nawab Vazeer Khan of Tonk

(D) Tatya Tope

Question 3. Which amongst the following place was not a centre of the revolution of 1857?

(A)  Auwa

(B) Neemuch

(C) Jaipur

(D) Ajmer

Question 4. Who of the following had struggled against Britishers in 1857?

(A) Makhan Lal Chaturvedi

(B) Shahdat Khan

(C) Ramprasad Bilsmil

(D) Chandrashekhar Azad

Question 5. Who of the following was the bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Nawab Liaquat Ali

(B) Maulana Fazi-i-Haq Khairabadi

(C) Maulvi Imadadullah

(D) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah

Question 6. The Revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet __________. 

(A) Iqbal

(B) Ghalib

(C) Zauq

(D) Mir Taqi Mir

Question 7. Original residence of Eminent Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib was __________.

(A) Lucknow

(B) Lahore

(C) Delhi

(D) Agra

Question 8. Who among the following was not associated with the Revolt of 1857? 

(A) Bhagat Singh

(B) Bahadur Shah Jafar

(C) Rani Lakshmi Bai

(D) Tatya Tope

Question 9. Which part of Bihar was unaffected with the Revolt of 1857?

1. Danapur
2. Patna
3. Ara
4. Muzaffarpur
5. Munger

Choose the correct answer from code given below.

(A) 3, 4 and 5

(B) Only 4

(C) Only 5

(D) Only 4 and 5

Question 10. Which among the following British officers lost their lives at Lucknow?

1. General John Nicholson
2. General Neil
3. Major Havlock
4. Sir Henry Lawrence

Select the correct answer from the code given below.

(A)1, 2 and 3

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 1, 3 and 4

(D)  All of these

Question 11. Which of the following groups did not participate in the revolt of 1857?

1. Agricultural Labour
2. Sahukar
3. Farmers
4. Landlords

Select your answer of the following code.

(A) 2 and 4

(B) Only 2

(C) Only 1 and 2

(D) Only 1

Question 12. Consider the following.

• Assertion (A): The first war of Independence in 1857 failed to secure freedom from the British Government
• Reason (R): The leadership of Bahadur Shah Zafar did not have popular support and most of the Indian rulers of important States shied away from the struggle.

Select the correct answer from the code 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 13. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

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Question 14. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below.

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Question 15. Match List-I (leaders of the revolt of 1857) with List-II (their areas of operation).

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Question 16. Who was the prominent Indian Historian who did not accepted 1857 Revolution as a Revolution?

(A) Dr. R.C. Majumdar

(B) Savarkar

(C) Dr. S.N. Sen

(D) Tarachand

Question 17. The statement ‘the so-called first national war of independence was neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence’ is associated with _________.

(A) V.D. Savarkar

(B) Tarachand

(C) S.N. Sen

(D) R.C. Majumdar

Question 18. The first Indian to write in Indian language on the causes of the uprising of 1857 was _________.

(A) Syed Ahmed Khan

(B)  Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

(C) V.D. Savarkar

(D)None of the above

Question 19. Modern Historian, who called the Revolt of 1857 as the first Independence War was __________.

(A) Ashok Mehta

(B) V.D. Savarkar

(C) Dr. S.N. Sen

(D) Dr. R.C. Mazumdar

Question 20. Who called the Revolt of 1857 a conspiracy?

(A) T.R. Homes

(B) Sir John Lawrence

(C) Sir John K.

(D) Sir James Outram and W. Taylor

Question 21. The British were able to suppress the uprising of 1857 in Rajput state because __________.

(A) The newspaper could not project the true aim of revolution

(B) The soldiers in cantonments were not prepared to accept leadership of revolution from outside Rajasthan

(C) The educated middle class supported the British

(D) The local Rajput rulers did not support revolutionary

Question 22. First freedom struggle of 1857 failed because __________.

(A) There was lackness of the unity of purpose in Indian sepoys

(B) British Soldiers were better equipped and organised rather than Indians

(C) Generally, Native Kings supported British

(D)  All of the above

Question 23. What was the main cause of the failure of the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Lack of Hindu-Muslim unity

(B) Its effect was within limited area

(C) Lack of common strategy and central organization

(D) Non-participations of Landlords

Question 24. Who was the British Prime Minister during the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Gladstone

(B) Attlee

(C) Palmerston

(D) Churchill

Question 25. Who has made Allahabad the emergency headquarters in 1857?

(A) Lord William Bentinck

(B) Lord Wellesley

(C) Lord Cornwallis

(D) Lord Canning

Question 26. At the time of 1857-Revolt who was the British Commanding Officer at Barrackpore? 

(A) Sir Hugh Wheeler

(B) Hearsey

(C) Colonel Finnis

(D) Henry Lawrence

Question 27. Who was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?

(A) Lord Lytton

(B) Lord Hardinge

(C) Lord Dalhousie

(D) Lord Canning

Question 28. Who was the Governor-General of India during the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Lord Bentinck

(B) Lord Canning

(C) Lord Minto

(D) Lord Dalhousie

Question 29. Which one of the following territories was not affected by the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Lucknow

(B) Jagdishpur

(C)  Chittor

(D) Jhansi

Question 30. The educated middle class in India __________.

(A) Supported the revolt of 1857

(B) Fought against native rulers

(C) Remained neutral to the revolt of 1857

(D) Opposed the revolt of 1857

Question 31. Which dynasty supported British maximum during the 1857 Freedom Movement? 

(A) Lodhis of Ramgarh

(B) Bhonsles of Nagpur

(C) Holkers of Indore

(D) Scindias of Gwalior

Question 32. Who among the following was not related with the Revolt of 1857?

(A) Maulvi Shemadullah

(B) Uddham Singh

(C) Kunwar Singh

(D) Begum Hazrat Mahal