Modern India –II Unit 4 Questions with answers

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Paper -11 (Modern India-II)
Unit-IV (Multiple Choice)
1. MA Jinnah was born on
(a) 25
th
December, 1876
(b) 25
th
December, 1877
(c) 25
th
December, 1878
(d) 25
th
December, 1879
2. Who was the first Governor General of Pakistan?
(a) Liaquat Ali Khan
(b) MA Jinnah
(c) Nawaz Sharif
(d) Benazir Bhutto
3. Who was the first to advocate Two Nations theory?
(a) MA Jinnah
(b) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
(c) VD Savarkar
(d) BR Ambedkar
4. Who popularised the term „Hindutva‟ to create a collective Hindu identity?
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh
(b) VD Savarkar
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Iswar Chandra Vidhya Sagar
5. Hindu Mahasabha was founded in
(a) 1909
(b) 1912
(c) 1915
(d) 1919
6.The Communal Award was announced by
(a) Ramsay Mc Donald
(b) Clement Attlee
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Lord Mount Batten
7. Who had organised Abinava Bharat?
(a) Tilak
(b) Prafulla Chaki
(c) Dr Satya Pal
(d) VD Savarkar
8. The Punjab Hindu Sabha was founded in
(a) 1907
(b) 1909
(c) 1910
(d)1912
9. The Akalidal Movement aimed at bringing reforms at
(a) Temples
(b) Mosques
(c) Gurudwares
(d) Politics

10. Sikh Gurudwar Bill was introduced in
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(a)1912
(b) 1915
(c) 1920
(d) 1925
11. Sangh Parivar is a
(a) Hindu Nationalist Organisation
(b) Hindu Nationalist Organisation
(c) Hindu Nationalist Organisation
(d) None of the above
12. RSS was founded in
(a) 1912
(b) 1919
(c) 1922
(d) 1925
13. RSS tries to unite
(a) Hindu community
(b) Muslim community
(c) Sikh community
(d) India as a whole
14. Indian National Congress accepted partition of India because of
(a) Muslim League‟s demand
(b) Their sympathy with Muslim
(c) Mountbatten Plan
(d) The historical development of Communalism
15. The Muslim League passed a resolution, demanding the creation of Pakistan in
(a) 1935
(b) 1940
(c) 1942
(d) 1945
16.The Muslim League was founded in
(a) 1885
(b) 1889
(c) 1905
(d) 1906
17. The Muslim League was founded under the leadership of
(a) MA Jinnah
(b) Aga Khan
(c) Hasrat Mohani
(d) AO Hume.
18. The main principle of Hindutva was
(a) to establish the hegemony of Hindus and the Hindu way of life
(b) to establish friendly relations with other minority groups
(c) to sow the seeds of divisiveness between different religious communities
(d) to alienate Hindus from the main stream of Indian nationalism.
19. Who called Pakistan a bargaining counter for Jinnah?
(a) Sardar Patel
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
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20. Who was the first President of the Muslim League
(a) Sardhar Patel
(b) MA Jinnah
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Sir Agha Khan III

21. The constitution of the Muslim League was written by
(a) Sir Agha Khan
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Bipan Chandra Pal
(d) MA Jinnah
22. In India, Communalism took a violent turn in
(a) 1935
(b) 1939
(c) 1942
(d) 1945
23.The constitution of the Muslim League was espoused in the so called
(a) The White Book
(b) The Red Book
(c) The Secret Book
(d) The Green Book
24. Communalism was the by-product of
(a) British policy of Divide and Rule
(b) Indian Nationalism
(c) Indian National Congress
(d) Muslim League
25. The „Discovery of India‟ was written by
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Jawahar Lal Nehru
26. „My experiments with Truth‟ was written by
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Jawahar Lal Nehru
27. Who said, “He who does what is beneficial to the people of this country, be he a
Muhammedan or an Englishman, is not alien”
(a) Motilal Nehru
(b) CR Das
(c) Tilak
(d) MK Gandhi
28. All India Muslim League was formed by Aga Khan and Nawab Salimullah Khan in
(a) 1905
(b) 1906
(c) 1907
(d) 1908

29. Ghandhi-Jinnah talk failed because of
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(a) The rajaji formula
(b) Jinnah’s concept of Pakistan
(c) The maltreatment of Jinnah by the British
(d) Widespread communal riots
30. One of the main instruments with which the British hoped to fight the rising nationalist
movement was
(a) Indian National Congress
(b) Hindu Mahasabha
(c) Brahmo Samaj
(d) Muslim League
31. The Indian Association was founded in
(a) 1885
(b) 1870
(c) 1876
(d) 1885
32. Economic nationalism was propounded by
(a) MK Gandhi
(b) the extremists
(c) the moderates
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji
33. The first session of All India Hindu Mahasabha was held in
(a) January, 1915
(b) February, 1915
(c) March, 1915
(d) April, 1915
34. Who was the President of All-India States People‟s Conference in 1939?
(a) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) CR Das
35. The religious organisation within the ambit of Sangh Parivar was
(a) Bharatya Janata Party
(b) Bajrang Dal
(c) Vishva Hindu Parishad
(d) RSS
36. Muslim League was founded under the leadership of
(a) MA Jinnah
(b) Sayyid Ahmad Khan
(c) Aga Khan and Nowab Mosin-ul-Mulk
(d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
37. The headquartes of the Muslim League was
(a) Delhi
(b) Lahore
(c) Mumbai
(d) Lucknow
38.Election symbol of the Muslim League was
(a) Lotus
(b) Crescent and Star
(c) Palm
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(d) Elephant
39. The headquarters of Hindu Mahasabha was
(a) New Delhi
(b) Culcutta
(c) Chennai
(d) Surat

40. The mentor of both Gandhi and Jinnah was
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(c) Feroz Shah Mehta
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

FILL IN THE BLANKS
1. MA Jinnah served as the leader of All India Muslim League from.......................(1913)
2. The first Governor General of Pakistan was...........(MA Jinnah)
3. The leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha was...........(VD Savarkar)
4. Hindu Mahasabha was founded in.......(1915)
5. The Muslim League was founded in.......(1906)
6. The Hindu Mahasabha was formed to protect the rights of the......(Hindus)
7. The Akalidal Movement led to the introduction of......(Gurdwara Bill)
8. Gurdwara Bill was introduced in.....(1925)
9. The full form of RSS was...........(Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)
10. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was founded in.......(1925)
11. The Sangh Parivar represents the ........(Hindu nationalist movement)
12. The Communal Award was announced by........( Ramsay Mc Donald)
13. The first President of the Muslim League.........(Sir Agha Khan-III)
14. Abinava Bharat was organised by.......(VD Savarkar)
15.The constitution of the Muslim League was written by.....(Sir Agha Khan-III)
16. The second stage of communalism was called....(Liberal communalism)
17. India’s Struggle for Independence was written by.....(Bipan Chandra)
18. The third or the last stage of communalism was called......(extreme/fascist communalism)
19. The seed of Communalism in India was sown by..........(The British)
20. Hindu Mahasabha was formed in 1915 to counter the movement of the........(Muslim
League)

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