Indian Freedom Struggle I (1857 – 1917) Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions

Question : 31

Who among the following led the agitation against the partition of Bengal (1905)?

a) Ravindra Nath Tagore

b) C.R. Das

c) Ashutosh Mukherjee

d) Surendra Nath Banerjee

Answer: (d)

Surendranath was one of the most important public leaders who protested the partition of the Bengal province in 1905.

Question : 32

Arrange the following events in correct chronological order and answer the questions on the basis of the codes given below:

  1. Ilbert Bill Controversy
  2. The First Delhi Darbar
  3. The Queen’s Proclamation
  4. First Factory Act
Codes:

a) 3, 4, 1, 2

b) 1, 2, 3, 4

c) 2, 1, 3, 4

d) 3, 2, 4, 1

Answer: (d)

The Queen’s proclamation announced in 1858. The first Delhi Durbar was organised in 1877. First Factory Act passed in 1881. The Ilbert Bill had unleashed a vitriolic controversy in 1884.

Question : 33

Who of the following termed the revolt of 1857 as Indian War of Independence for the first time?

a) Ishwari Prasad

b) Ramesh Chandra Majumdar

c) V.D. Sawarkar

d) Tara Chand

Answer: (c)

It was at the beginning of the twentieth century that the 1857 revolt came to be interpreted as a “planned war of national independence”, by V.D. Savarkar in his book, First War of Indian Independence.

Question : 34

Consider the following statement and identify with the help of the codes given below.
The Viceroy who made the statement and when: In my belief, Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise.
Codes:

a) Lord Dufferin, during the farewell speech at Calcutta

b) Lord Curzon, in a letter to the Secretary of States in 1900

c) Lord Curzon, while announcing the partition of Bengal

d) Lord Minto, while addressing the Muslim delegation which met him at Shimla in 1906

Answer: (b)

Lord Curzon was the Viceroy of India in 1898. He was mainly famous for the partition of Bengal.

He was very much keen to suppress the Indian national movement.

Question : 35

Arrange the following events of the Indian Revolution of 1857 in their correct chronological order with the help of the codes given below:

  1. Incident of Mangal Pandey at Barrackpur.
  2. Incident of Soldiers at Merrut
  3. Uprising at Jhansi
  4. Uprising at Kanpur
Codes:

a) 2, 3, 1, 4

b) 1, 2, 3, 4

c) 4, 3, 2, 1

d) 4, 2, 1, 3

Answer: (b)

  1. Incident of Mangal Pandey at Barrackpur (29 March 1857).
  2. Incident of soldiers of Meerut (10 May 1857).
  3. Uprising at Jhansi (June 1857).
  4. Uprising at Kanpur (5th June 1857).

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