Social and Religious Reform Movement MCQs with Answers Set 2

Question 1. ‘Satyarth Prakash’ was written by_________.

(A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

(B) Swami Vivekananda

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Question 2. The writer of ‘Satyartha Prakasha’ is__________.

(A) Swami Haridas

(B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

(C) Swami Nishchalananda

(D) Swami Vivekananda

Question 3. ‘Satyarth Prakash’ is a sacred book of _________.

(A) Prarthana Samaj

(B) Theosophical Society

(C) Brahmo Samaj

(D) Arya Samaj

Question 4. Which among the following organizations supported Shuddhi movement? 

(A) Prarthana Samaj

(B) Dev Samaj

(C) Brahmo Samaj

(D) Arya Samaj

Question 5. Who of the following said, ‘good Government is no substitute for self-Government’?

(A) Ravindranath Tagore

(B) Swami Dayananda

(C) Swami Vivekananda

(D) Lokmanya Tilak

Question 6. Who amongst the following first used the word ‘Swaraj’ and accepted Hindi as the national language?

(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(B) Swami Vivekananda

(C) Swami Dayanand

(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Question 7. Who was the founder of ‘Prarthana Samaj’? 

(A) M.G. Ranade

(B) M.G. Chandrakar

(C) Tilak

(D) Atmaram Pandurang

Question 8. Who was the chief director of Prarthana Samaj in Maharashtra?

(A) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

(B) Pandit Ramabai

(C) M.G. Ranade

(D) R.G. Bhandarkar

Question 9. Who among the following was the founder of ‘Dev Samaj’?

(A) Ram Krishna Paramhansa

(B) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Vallabhbhai Patel

Question 10. In 1873 who founded Satya Shodhak Samaj? 

(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(B) Shiv Nath Shastri

(C) Jyotiba Phule

(D)None of the above

Question 11. Which one of the following was the author of ‘Gulamgiri’?

(A) Periyar

(B) Mahatma Gandhi

(C) Jyotiba Phule

(D) B.R. Ambedkar

Question 12. Satya Shodhak Movement was launched by________.

(A) T.N. Nair

(B) Jyotiba Phule

(C) B.R. Ambedkar

(D) Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj

Question 13. Which of the following organizations was established by Mahatma Jyotiba Phule?

(A) Mahajan Sabha

(B) Satya Shodhak Samaj

(C) Sir Narayan Sabha

(D) Gopal Mandal

Question 14. Consider the following passage. Born in 1853 he was a Parsi from Western India. He was the editor of ‘Indian Spectator’ and ‘Voice of India’. He was a social reformer and was the chief crusader for the Age of Consent Act 1891. Who is being described in the above paragraph?

(A) Naoroji Furdon Ji

(B) B.P. Wadia

(C) B.M. Malabari

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji

Question 15. The Civil Marriage Act of 1872 had sought to curb the practice of child marriage by placing the minimum age of girls at_________.

(A)14 years

(B) 16 years

(C) 18 years

(D) None of these

Question 16. Who among the following had played an important role in passing the Native Marriage Act of 1872?

(A) Shyam Chandra Das

(B) Keshav Chandra Sen

(C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(D) Devendra Nath Tagore

Question 17. What did the Act V of 1843 make illegal?

(A) Slavery

(B) Sati

(C) Infanticide

(D) Child marriage

Question 18. Which of the following statements is not correct?

(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the supporter of Sati System

(B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded Arya Samaj in 1875

(C) The Government had passed an Act in 1856 under which Hindu widows could remarry

(D) In 1829, William Bentinck declared Sati System an offence by law

Question 19. Who among the following prominently fought for and got widow remarriage legalized?

(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(B) M.G. Ranade

(C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(D) Annie Besant

Question 20. The name of D.K. Karve of Western India figures in the context of which of the following?

(A) Widow Remarriage

(B) Women Education

(C)  Infanticide

(D) Sati Pratha

Question 21. During Indian Freedom Struggle, the National Social Conference was formed. What was the reason for its formation? 

(A) Different social reform groups or organizations of Bengal region united to form a single body to discuss the issues of larger interest and to prepare appropriate petitions/representation to the Government

(B) Indian National Congress did not want to include social reforms in its deliberations and decided to form a separate body for such a purpose

(C) Behramji Malabari and M.G. Ranade decided to bring together all the social reform groups of the country under one organization

(D)  None of statement (A), (B) and (C) given above is correct in this context

Question 22. His principle forte was social and religious reform. He relied upon legislation to do away with social ills and worked unceasingly for the eradication of child marriage, the purdah system. To encourage consideration of social problems on a national scale, he inaugurated the Indian National Social Conference, which for many years met for its annual sessions alongside the Indian National Congress?

(A) B.R. Ambedkar

(B) Mahadev Govind Ranade

(C) Behramji Merwanji Malabari

(D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Question 23. In which year ‘The Age of Consent Act’ was passed?

(A) 1905

(B) 1881

(C) 1891

(D) 1856

Question 24. The Greatest Parsi Social reformer of the 19th century was__________.

(A) Behramji M. Mallabari

(B) Navalji Tata

(C) Sir Rustom Behramji

(D) Sir Jamshedji

Question 25. The campaign for widow remarriage in Maharashtra was led by_________.

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji

(B) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

(C)  B.M. Malabari

(D) Vishnu Parashuram Pandit

Question 26. Which reformer of Maharashtra is also known ‘Lokhitvadi’?

(A) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

(B) Pandit Ramabai

(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(D) M.G. Ranade

Question 27. Who was the founder of Radha Swami Satsang?

(A) Swami Shraddhananda

(B) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri

(C) Shivdayal Sahab

(D) Haridas Swami

Question 28. The Bengali leader who opposed socio-religious reforms and supported orthodoxy was___________.

(A) Hemchandra De

(B) Hemchandra Biswas

(C) Nemisadhan Bose

(D) Radhakant Deb

Question 29. Satya Shodhak Samaj organized________.

(A) A peasant movement in Punjab

(B) An anti-caste movement in Maharashtra

(C) A temple-entry movement in Gujarat

(D) A movement for upliftment of tribals in Bihar

Question 30. Whose main aim was to uplift the backward classes?

(A) Ram Krishna Mission

(B) Arya Samaj

(C) Satya Shodhak Samaj

(D) Prarthana Samaj