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History MCQs – Set 1 - Modern India

1.Who among the following was elected permanent president of Muslim League in 1908?

(a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

(b) Nawab Moshin-ul-Mulk

(c) Nawab Salimullah

(d) Aga Khan

2.Who among the following had accompanied Gandhi to the Second Round Table Conference in 1931?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Sarojini Naidu

(c) Madan Mohan Malviya

(d) Sarojini Naidu and Madan Mohan Malviya

3.Who among the following was responsible for killing Curzon Wyllie in London?

(a) V. D. Savarkar

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Shyamaji Krishnavarma

(d) Madan Lal Dhingra  

4.Who among the following as not associated with Swaraj Party? 

(a) Motilal Nehru

(b) Chakravarti Rajagopalachari 

(c) Chittaranjan Das

(d) N C Kelkar

5.Who among the following had founded the Asiatic Society?

(a) David Hare 

(b) William Jones

(c) William Carey

(d) Ram Mohan Roy 

6.Who was the founder of Naujawan Bharat Sabha?

(a) Bhagat Singh 

(b) Jayaprakash Narayan 

(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(d) Rukmani Lakshmipth.

7.Which among of the following was popularly known as Black Act?

(a) Rowlatt Act

(b) Ilbert Bill

(c) Indian Councils Act 1909

(d) None

8.On August 8, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi delivered his famous "do or die" speech at Gawalia Tank Maidan.  Gawalia Tank Maidan is situated in which city?

(a) Bombay

(b) Amritsar

(c) Surat

(d) Delhi

9.During the course of which movement is Mahatma Gandhi said to have exclaimed: "On bended knees I asked for bread and I have received stone instead." 

(a) Khilafat movement

(b) Non cooperation movement

(c) Dandi March

(d) Quit India Movement

10.Who among the following had convinced Gandhi to take meat in order to be muscular and strong?

(a) Sheikh Mahtab

(b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

(c) Karsandas

(d) Laxmidas


Answers: 

1-d: 

2-d: 

3-d: 

4-b: The Swaraj Party or the Congress-Khilafat Swarajya Party was formed on 1 January 1923 by C R Das and Motilal Nehru. 

5-b: 

  • Asiatic Society was founded on 15th January, 1784. William Jones was the first president of the Asiatic Society. The journal called Asiatic Researches was published by the society. 
  • William Jones (1746-94) came to Calcutta as a judge of the Supreme Court under the governor generalship of Waren Hastings. 

6-a:Naujawan Bharat Sabha was founded by Bhagat Singh in 1926

7-a:

8-a:

  • On August 8, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi delivered his famous "do or die" speech at Mumbai's Gawalia Tank Maidan, This famous speech marked the beginning of Quit India Movement.
  • Gawalia Tank Maidan is also called August Kranti Maidan.

9-c:

10-a:







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