History Quiz for SSC CGL 2016

1. Who was the President of Indian National Congress when the Mountbatten Plan was accepted?
(a) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(b) Sardar Patel
(c) Maulana Azad
(d) J.B. Kripalani


2. Provincial Autonomy was one of the important features of the Act of—
(a) 1935
(b) 1919
(c) 1909
(d) 1858

3. Who declared as his ultimate aim the ‘wiping of every tear from every eye’?
(a) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(b) Gandhiji
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Sardar Patel

4. Who led the Salt Satyagraha Movement with Mahatma Gandhi? 
(a) Annie Besant 
(b) Mridula Sarabhai
(c) Muthu Lakshmi 
(d) Sarojini Naidu

5. In the context of the Indian freedom struggle 16th October, 1905 is well-known for which one of the following reasons?
(a) Partition of Bengal took place
(b) The formal proclamation of Swadeshi Movement was made in Calcutta Town Hall
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji declared that goal of Indian National Congress was Swaraja
(d) Lokmanya Tilak started Swadeshi Movement in Poona

6. Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta Session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention OR of rejection of these four resolution become the cause of a split in Congress at the next Congress session held in Surat in 1907. Which one of the following was NOT one of those resolutions?
(a) Annulment of partitions of Bengal
(b) Boycott
(c) National Education
(d) Swadeshi

7. Who led the attack on European Club at Pahartali in chittagong?
(a) Pritilata Waddedar
(b) Surya Sen
(c) Anant Singh
(d) Loknath Bal

8. When was established the Muslim League?
(a) 1904
(b) 1906
(c) 1910
(d) 1915

9. Name one leader of the Home Rule Movement—
(a) Annie Besant
(b) Surendra Nath Bannerjee
(c) Aurobindo Ghosh
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal

10. Which Governor General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse?
(a) Lord Ripon
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Bentick
(d) Lord Curzon

11. Which one of the following nationalist leaders has been described as being radical in Politics but conservative in social issues?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhle
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Madan Mohan Malviya

12. The newspaper brought out by Bal Gangadhar Tilak to promote nationalism was—
(a) Yugantar
(b) Deshbhakti
(c) Kesari
(d) Kranti

13. Who called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the ‘Father of Indian Unrest’?
(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Vincent Smith
(c) Valentile Chirol
(d) Henry Cotton

14. Who founded Anushilan Samiti at Dhaka (Decca)?
(a) Pulin Bihari Das
(b) Pramath Nath Mitra
(c) Swani Shradhanand
(d) Barinda Kumar Ghosh

15. In which year did Lord Hardinge cancel the partition of Bengal?
(a) 1911
(b) 1904
(c) 1906
(d) 1907

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