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History & Culture Test 8
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Negative marks are -0.33 per wrong answer
Right answer is 1 mark
No time limit but finish in 30 mins
Solution can be found at below chapters:
Test series is based on following chapters.
History & Culture Chapter 11:ECONOMIC CRITIQUE OF COLONIALISM
History & Culture Chapter 12: FREEDOM OF PRESS
Q1: Prominent Indian economists were
GV Joshi, G Subramanium iyer, GK Gokhale, PC Ray
RC Dutt
MG Ranade, Nauroji
all
Q2: Drain Theory
It said that large part of Indian capital would go into salaries and pensions of British officers, charges for maintaining an army and home charges
Foreign capital would only exploit India further and suppress Indian capital.
both
none
Q3: home charges include
charges needed to maintain administration, army,
war expense, pensions to returned officers and expense in maintaining the colony
both
none
Q4: The printing press was brought to India by the
French
Portuguese missionaries
Dutch
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Q5: ___ was the first Indian newspaper in 1780.
Bengal gazette
Times of India
Pudari
Daily mail
Q6:Wellesley curtailed freedom of press in 1798 as it was
for Englishmen in India to prevent French from publishing anything that harmed the English.
prevent anti imperial news
both
none
Q7: vernacular press act was passed by Lord Lytton to
curb freedom of press of Indian language readers
curb freedom of press of English language readers
both
none
Q8: The most notable journalist activist was B. G. Tilak who founded
Kesari [Marathi]
Maharatta [English] papers
both
none
Q9: The swadeshi movement was started as a response to the partition decision taken by Lord
Curzon
Dufferin
Mayo
Morley
Q10: Decision to partition bengal was taken due
administrative reasons
to crush the national movement at its nerve center “Calcutta”.
both
none
Q11: Split in congress was due to
ideological differences
objectives during swadeshi movement
both
none
Q12: During swadeshi movement which ideology was more effective
moderate
extremist
both
none
Q13: Split in Congress was under leadership of
Nauroji
GK Gokhale
BG Tilak
RB Ghosh
Q14: Failures of the Swadeshi movement:
They weren’t able to garner support of mass Muslims especially Muslim peasantry
The entire leadership was imprisoned in one stroke making the movement leaderless.
It lacked an effective organization and a party structure.
all
Q15: Revolutionary extremism started after
Non cooperation
Quit India
Swadeshi
Chalo Delhi
Q16: Moderates succeeded at:
creating a political education and awareness
mobilize the masses
form roots amongst the masses
all
Q17: Carrot and stick policy of british involved
repressing the extremists
making promises to the moderates for reforming institutions.
both
none
Q18:Extremists succeeded in
effectively critiqued the moderates
introducing the youth to politics of the bomb.
creating an effective expression to the public anger
a and b
Q19: Lala hardayal is associated with
Home rule
Quit India
Ghadar
all
Q20: Ghadar movement failed as:
khalsa branded them as fallen Sikhs
naïve attempts to turn the army’s loyalty too failed without effective leadership.
government had successfully penetrated the Ghadar.
all
Q21: Success of the Ghadar revolt:
Deepened nationalist conscious
Evolved and tested new strategies for struggle
Created a tradition of resistance, secularism, democracy and egalitarianism.
all
Q22: “If god tolerates untouchability I wouldn’t recognize him as god”. - said by
Mahatma phule
BR Ambedkar
BG Tilak
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Q23: The Lucknow session of Congress was famous for
Tilak and the extremists were welcomed back to congress by the president Ambika Mazumdar
Congress - league pact which was engineered by Tilak and Besant with support of Jinnah.
both
none
Q24: She became the first woman president of the congress
Ambika majumdar
sarojini naidu
Madam cama
Annie besant
Q25: Home rule league failed as
the moderate congress workers were put off by passive resistance ideas from Tilak.
Besant herself couldn’t decide whether the government’s promise of reforms should be accepted or rejected.
Tilak went to London to pursue a libel case and was absent for critical months. All factors meant that the home rule movement was leaderless.
all
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