British Period Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Question : 31

“The greater the number of the forts you hold the weaker will be your power. Let our forces be on the sea, because if we should not be powerful at sea, everything will be at once against it” whose words are these?

a) Vasco-da-Gama

b) Albuquerque

c) Da Almeida

d) Duarte Pacheo

Question : 32

Why was Bombay handed over to the British by the Portuguese?

a) The Portuguese handed it over to the British after a peace-treaty in Europe

b) The marriage of Charles II with The Portuguese princes Catherine of Braganza

c) The defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British in 1588

d) Due to Portuguese independence from Spain

Question : 33

To which of the following governor general goes the credit of taking steps to stop the human sacrifices practiced by the Khonds in Orissa under the erroneous belief that there by the fertility of the land was increased?

a) Lord Ellenborough

b) First Lord Hardinge

c) Lord Dalhousie

d) Lord Canning

Question : 34

Which one of the following statements related to the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773 during the American War of Independence is correct?

a) The revolutionaries stealthily entered into the ships and threw all the chests of tea into the water

b) The revolutionaries hosted a Tea Party in the honour of Charles Townshend, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer in order to place their grievances before him

c) It marked a celebration when Lord North, the successor of Townshend, repealed some of the duties imposed by Townshend

d) It was a protest against the Quebec Act

Question : 35

Railways were introduced in India when the Governor- General of India was

a) Curzon

b) Dalhousie

c) Hardinge

d) Ripon