History MCQs – Set 3 - Modern India

Q.1. In which city was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated on 30 January, 1948?

(a) Delhi

(b) Bombay

(d) Allahabad

Q.2. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when India became independent?

(a) Clement Attlee

(b) Winston Churchill

(d) Ramsay MacDonald

Q.3. In which year did Burma (Myanmar) cease to be a part of India?

(a) 1924

(b) 1935

(d) 1937

Q.4. How many volunteers had accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on the famed Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha starting on March 12, 1930?

(a) 76

(b) 77

(d) 79

Q.5. Name the city where Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi in 1919 to protest against the Rowlatt Act.

(a) Bombay

(b) Lahore

(d) Ahmedabad

Q.6. Who among the following was a source of inspiration to Gandhi?

(a) Tolstoy

(b) Lenin

(d) None of the above

Q.7. Who among the following was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny, also known as Indian Mutiny by the British?

(a) Lord Dalhousie

(b) Lord Ellenborough

(d) Lord Auckland

Q.8. Who was the commander-in-chief of the army of Bahadur Shah Zafar during the Revolt of 1857?

(a) General Bakht Khan

(b) Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla

(d) Ahmadullah Shah

Q.9. Who declared eleven year old Birjis Qadr the Nawab of Oudh after the exile of Wajid Ali Shah to Calcutta during the Revolt of 1857?

(a) Begum Hazrat Mahal

(b) Begum Zeenat Mahal

(d) Abadi Bano Begum

Q.10. Where did Kuka movement take place with a view to overthrowing the British rule?

(a) Odisha

(b) Bihar

(d) Punjab

Answers:

Q. 1- (a)

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse on 30 January 1948 in the compound of Birla House in New Delhi.

Q. 2- (a)

Clement Attlee was the Prime Minister of Britain when India became independent. He belonged to the Labour Party.

Q. 3- (d)

Britain had separated Burma province from India in 1837 and made it a crown colony.

Q. 4- (c)

78 volunteers had accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on the famed 24-day Dandi March which lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930. This march on foot covered 240 miles (390 km). It is also called Salt Satyagraha.

Q. 5- (a)

Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Sabha in 1919 at Bombay to protest against the Rowlatt Act.

Q. 6 - (a)

The Kingdom of God is Within You written by Leo Tolstoy greatly influenced Gandhi.

Q. 7 - (c)

Lord Canning was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny. Under the Government of India Act 1858 the position of Governor General of India was changed to that of Viceroy of India. The first Viceroy of India was Lord Canni

Q. 8 - (a)

General Bakht Khan was the commander-in-chief of the army of Bahadur Shah Zafar during the Revolt of 1857.

Q. 9. - (a)

Begum Hazrat Mahal was one of the important leaders of the Revolt of 1857. She was the wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the ruler of Oudh, who was deposed by the British in 1856 and sent to exile in Calcutta. She led the revolt at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.

Acting as a regent of her eleven year old son Brijis Qadr, she ruled Awadh and under her tutelage the administration was reorganized.

Q. 10. - (d)

Initially started as a religious movement with a view to reforming the Sikh religion by purging it of the degenerate features, Kuka movement, founded in 1840 in the Western Punjab, turned into a political struggle against the British. The founder of Kuka movement was Bhagat Jawahar Mal.

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