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1. The Battle of Plassey was fought in:
a. 1757
b. 1761
c. 1764
d. 1773
2. The Battle of Buxar was fought in:
a. 1757
b. 1764
c. 1772
d. 1781
3. Who was the Governor-General during the Battle of Buxar?
a. Warren Hastings
b. Robert Clive
c. Cornwallis
d. Wellesley
4. The Permanent Settlement was introduced by:
a. Warren Hastings
b. Cornwallis
c. Wellesley
d. Dalhousie
5. The Permanent Settlement was introduced in:
a. 1793
b. 1773
c. 1765
d. 1858
6. Ryotwari Settlement is associated with:
a. Cornwallis
b. Thomas Munro
c. Wellesley
d. Ripon
7. Mahalwari Settlement was introduced by:
a. Holt Mackenzie
b. Dalhousie
c. Bentinck
d. Curzon
8. The Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by:
a. Warren Hastings
b. Cornwallis
c. Wellesley
d. Ripon
9. The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by:
a. Dalhousie
b. Curzon
c. Ripon
d. Canning
10. The first Governor-General of India was:
a. Warren Hastings
b. Cornwallis
c. William Bentinck
d. Lord Canning
11. The Revolt of 1857 started from:
a. Delhi
b. Meerut
c. Kanpur
d. Lucknow
12. Mangal Pandey was associated with:
a. Revolt of 1857
b. Swadeshi Movement
c. Non-Cooperation Movement
d. Quit India Movement
13. Bahadur Shah II was exiled to:
a. London
b. Rangoon
c. Kabul
d. Lahore
14. The Indian National Congress was founded in:
a. 1885
b. 1905
c. 1919
d. 1920
15. The founder of the Indian National Congress was:
a. Dadabhai Naoroji
b. A.O. Hume
c. Gokhale
d. Tilak
16. The partition of Bengal took place in:
a. 1885
b. 1905
c. 1911
d. 1919
17. The Swadeshi Movement began in response to:
a. Rowlatt Act
b. Partition of Bengal
c. Jallianwala Bagh
d. Simon Commission
18. The slogan “Swaraj is my birthright” was given by:
a. Gandhi
b. Gokhale
c. Tilak
d. Lajpat Rai
19. The Muslim League was founded in:
a. 1885
b. 1906
c. 1916
d. 1920
20. The Morley-Minto Reforms were introduced in:
a. 1909
b. 1919
c. 1935
d. 1947
21. The Home Rule Movement was started by:
a. Gandhi and Nehru
b. Tilak and Annie Besant
c. Bose and Patel
d. Gokhale and Naoroji
22. Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:
a. 1915
b. 1919
c. 1920
d. 1930
23. The Champaran Satyagraha took place in:
a. 1915
b. 1917
c. 1919
d. 1922
24. The Rowlatt Act was passed in:
a. 1909
b. 1919
c. 1920
d. 1935
25. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in:
a. 1919
b. 1920
c. 1930
d. 1942
26. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place at:
a. Delhi
b. Lahore
c. Amritsar
d. Kanpur
27. The Non-Cooperation Movement was launched in:
a. 1919
b. 1920
c. 1930
d. 1942
28. The Chauri Chaura incident occurred in:
a. 1922
b. 1919
c. 1930
d. 1942
29. The Civil Disobedience Movement began with:
a. Quit India Movement
b. Dandi March
c. Swadeshi Movement
d. Home Rule Movement
30. The Dandi March took place in:
a. 1920
b. 1922
c. 1930
d. 1942
31. The Quit India Movement was launched in:
a. 1930
b. 1935
c. 1942
d. 1947
32. The slogan “Do or Die” is associated with:
a. Nehru
b. Gandhi
c. Bose
d. Patel
33. The Simon Commission came to India in:
a. 1919
b. 1927
c. 1930
d. 1942
34. The Simon Commission was boycotted because:
a. It supported partition
b. No Indian member was included
c. It opposed Swaraj
d. It increased taxes
35. The Government of India Act, 1935 introduced:
a. Separate electorates
b. Provincial Autonomy
c. Dyarchy in provinces
d. Partition
36. Who gave the “Drain of Wealth Theory”?
a. Gandhi
b. Tilak
c. Dadabhai Naoroji
d. Gokhale
37. The founder of Arya Samaj was:
a. Vivekananda
b. Dayanand Saraswati
c. Ram Mohan Roy
d. Annie Besant
38. Brahmo Samaj was founded by:
a. Swami Vivekananda
b. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c. Dayanand Saraswati
d. Keshab Sen
39. Ramakrishna Mission was founded by:
a. Vivekananda
b. Dayanand
c. Gandhi
d. Tilak
40. Aligarh Movement was started by:
a. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
b. Azad
c. Iqbal
d. Jinnah
41. The first session of INC was held at:
a. Bombay
b. Calcutta
c. Madras
d. Delhi
42. Who presided over the first session of INC?
a. Gandhi
b. W.C. Bonnerjee
c. Tilak
d. Naoroji
43. The Lucknow Pact was signed in:
a. 1905
b. 1909
c. 1916
d. 1920
44. The Khilafat Movement was launched in:
a. 1919
b. 1920
c. 1930
d. 1942
45. The founder of Forward Bloc was:
a. Gandhi
b. Patel
c. Subhas Chandra Bose
d. Nehru
46. Azad Hind Fauj was organized by:
a. Gandhi
b. Bose
c. Patel
d. Tilak
47. The Cripps Mission came to India in:
a. 1935
b. 1940
c. 1942
d. 1946
48. Cabinet Mission came to India in:
a. 1942
b. 1945
c. 1946
d. 1947
49. Mountbatten Plan was announced in:
a. 1942
b. 1946
c. 1947
d. 1950
50. India became independent in:
a. 1945
b. 1946
c. 1947
d. 1950
51. The Pitt’s India Act was passed in:
a. 1773
b. 1784
c. 1793
d. 1813
52. Regulating Act was passed in:
a. 1773
b. 1784
c. 1813
d. 1833
53. The first Governor-General of Bengal was:
a. Cornwallis
b. Warren Hastings
c. Wellesley
d. Bentinck
54. The Charter Act of 1813 ended the Company’s monopoly over:
a. Tea trade only
b. Trade with India
c. Trade with China
d. Salt trade
55. The Charter Act of 1833 made the Governor-General of Bengal the:
a. Governor-General of India
b. Viceroy
c. President of Council
d. Chief Justice
56. Lord William Bentinck is associated with the abolition of:
a. Child Marriage
b. Sati
c. Purdah
d. Untouchability
57. Sati was abolished in:
a. 1829
b. 1857
c. 1885
d. 1919
58. Widow Remarriage Act was passed in:
a. 1829
b. 1856
c. 1861
d. 1872
59. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is associated with:
a. Widow Remarriage
b. Swadeshi Movement
c. Home Rule
d. Khilafat
60. The Vernacular Press Act was passed by:
a. Lord Curzon
b. Lord Lytton
c. Lord Ripon
d. Lord Canning
61. Ilbert Bill controversy occurred during the tenure of:
a. Ripon
b. Curzon
c. Lytton
d. Dufferin
62. The Hunter Commission was related to:
a. Police reforms
b. Education
c. Judiciary
d. Revenue
63. The partition of Bengal was annulled in:
a. 1909
b. 1911
c. 1919
d. 1935
64. Capital of British India shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in:
a. 1905
b. 1909
c. 1911
d. 1919
65. The Ghadar Party was founded in:
a. India
b. England
c. USA
d. Germany
66. The founder of Ghadar Party was:
a. Lala Hardayal
b. Gandhi
c. Bose
d. Tilak
67. Annie Besant was associated with:
a. Arya Samaj
b. Home Rule Movement
c. Brahmo Samaj
d. Khudai Khidmatgar
68. The Kakori Conspiracy Case took place in:
a. 1925
b. 1930
c. 1942
d. 1919
69. Bhagat Singh was associated with:
a. INC Moderates
b. HSRA
c. Muslim League
d. Arya Samaj
70. Saunders was assassinated by:
a. Gandhi
b. Bhagat Singh and associates
c. Bose
d. Patel
71. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed in:
a. 1928
b. 1931
c. 1935
d. 1942
72. The Lahore Session of INC (1929) demanded:
a. Dominion Status
b. Complete Independence
c. Provincial Autonomy
d. Separate Electorates
73. “Purna Swaraj” resolution was passed in:
a. 1920
b. 1925
c. 1929
d. 1935
74. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in:
a. 1931
b. 1930
c. 1932
d. 1942
75. The Round Table Conferences were held in:
a. Delhi
b. Bombay
c. London
d. Lahore
76. Poona Pact (1932) was signed between:
a. Gandhi and Ambedkar
b. Gandhi and Jinnah
c. Nehru and Bose
d. Patel and Tilak
77. The Communal Award was announced by:
a. Churchill
b. Ramsay MacDonald
c. Attlee
d. Mountbatten
78. The founder of Depressed Classes Association was:
a. Gandhi
b. Ambedkar
c. Bose
d. Tilak
79. The Indian Independence Act was passed in:
a. 1942
b. 1946
c. 1947
d. 1950
80. Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?
a. Rajendra Prasad
b. Mountbatten
c. Nehru
d. Patel
81. The Constituent Assembly first met in:
a. 1946
b. 1947
c. 1948
d. 1950
82. The Cabinet Mission proposed:
a. Partition immediately
b. Constituent Assembly
c. End of Congress
d. Martial law
83. Direct Action Day was observed by:
a. Congress
b. Muslim League
c. HSRA
d. Arya Samaj
84. Direct Action Day took place in:
a. 1942
b. 1946
c. 1947
d. 1950
85. The founder of Banaras Hindu University was:
a. Madan Mohan Malaviya
b. Gandhi
c. Nehru
d. Gokhale
86. Aligarh Muslim University developed from:
a. Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
b. Hindu College
c. Presidency College
d. Fergusson College
87. Servants of India Society was founded by:
a. Tilak
b. Gokhale
c. Gandhi
d. Naoroji
88. Young Bengal Movement was led by:
a. Henry Vivian Derozio
b. Vidyasagar
c. Dayanand
d. Vivekananda
89. Theosophical Society in India was associated with:
a. Annie Besant
b. Tilak
c. Gandhi
d. Bose
90. The founder of Prarthana Samaj was:
a. Atmaram Pandurang
b. Vivekananda
c. Syed Ahmad Khan
d. Tilak
91. The INA Trials were held at:
a. Red Fort
b. Lahore Fort
c. Agra Fort
d. Delhi Secretariat
92. Who gave the slogan “Jai Hind”?
a. Gandhi
b. Bose
c. Nehru
d. Patel
93. “Give me blood, and I will give you freedom” was said by:
a. Gandhi
b. Tilak
c. Bose
d. Bhagat Singh
94. The first woman President of INC was:
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Annie Besant
c. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
d. Aruna Asaf Ali
95. Sarojini Naidu became INC President in:
a. 1925
b. 1917
c. 1930
d. 1942
96. The Simon Commission was headed by:
a. John Simon
b. Cripps
c. Attlee
d. Chelmsford
97. The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms are related to:
a. 1909 Act
b. 1919 Act
c. 1935 Act
d. 1947 Act
98. Dyarchy in provinces was introduced by:
a. 1909 Act
b. 1919 Act
c. 1935 Act
d. 1858 Act
99. The Government of India Act, 1858 transferred power to:
a. British Parliament
b. British Crown
c. East India Company
d. Governor-General alone
100. Queen Victoria’s Proclamation was issued in:
a. 1757
b. 1858
c. 1885
d. 1905
101. The Revolt of 1857 in Kanpur was led by:
a. Tantia Tope
b. Nana Saheb
c. Begum Hazrat Mahal
d. Kunwar Singh
102. The Revolt of 1857 in Lucknow was led by:
a. Begum Hazrat Mahal
b. Rani Lakshmibai
c. Nana Saheb
d. Bahadur Shah II
103. The Revolt of 1857 in Jhansi was led by:
a. Begum Hazrat Mahal
b. Rani Lakshmibai
c. Kunwar Singh
d. Tantia Tope
104. Kunwar Singh led the Revolt of 1857 in:
a. Bihar
b. Punjab
c. Delhi
d. Bengal
105. The Vernacular Press Act was known as:
a. Black Act
b. Gagging Act
c. Charter Act
d. White Act
106. The Ilbert Bill aimed at:
a. Land reforms
b. Judicial equality
c. Education reform
d. Army reform
107. Indian National Congress split at Surat in:
a. 1905
b. 1907
c. 1909
d. 1911
108. The Moderates in INC believed in:
a. Revolutionary methods
b. Constitutional methods
c. Armed struggle
d. Boycott only
109. Extremists in INC advocated:
a. Petitions only
b. Passive loyalty
c. Assertive nationalism
d. Neutrality
110. Lal-Bal-Pal refers to:
a. Three Moderates
b. Three Revolutionaries
c. Three Extremist leaders
d. Three Governors
111. Lala Lajpat Rai was known as:
a. Frontier Gandhi
b. Punjab Kesari
c. Deshbandhu
d. Lokmanya
112. Bal Gangadhar Tilak started:
a. Kesari
b. Harijan
c. Young India
d. Al-Hilal
113. Gandhiji started the newspaper Young India in:
a. English
b. Hindi
c. Urdu
d. Bengali
114. The Ahmedabad Mill Strike took place in:
a. 1918
b. 1917
c. 1920
d. 1930
115. Kheda Satyagraha was related to:
a. Textile workers
b. Peasants
c. Students
d. Soldiers
116. The leader of Bardoli Satyagraha was:
a. Nehru
b. Patel
c. Bose
d. Azad
117. Vallabhbhai Patel earned the title “Sardar” after:
a. Champaran Movement
b. Kheda Movement
c. Bardoli Satyagraha
d. Quit India Movement
118. The All India Trade Union Congress was founded in:
a. 1920
b. 1915
c. 1930
d. 1942
119. The Swaraj Party was founded by:
a. Gandhi and Nehru
b. C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru
c. Bose and Patel
d. Tilak and Besant
120. The Kakori conspiracy involved:
a. Congress leaders
b. Revolutionary nationalists
c. British officials
d. Muslim League leaders
121. Chittagong Armoury Raid was led by:
a. Bhagat Singh
b. Surya Sen
c. Bose
d. Rajguru
122. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was founded by:
a. Gandhi
b. Revolutionary nationalists
c. Moderates
d. Muslim League
123. The Lahore Conspiracy Case is associated with:
a. Bose
b. Bhagat Singh
c. Patel
d. Nehru
124. The August Offer was announced in:
a. 1935
b. 1940
c. 1942
d. 1946
125. Individual Satyagraha was launched in:
a. 1930
b. 1940
c. 1942
d. 1947
126. The first Individual Satyagrahi was:
a. Nehru
b. Vinoba Bhave
c. Patel
d. Rajendra Prasad
127. The Quit India Resolution was passed at:
a. Bombay
b. Delhi
c. Lahore
d. Calcutta
128. The INA was first formed by:
a. Subhas Bose
b. Mohan Singh
c. Rash Behari Bose
d. Patel
129. The Cabinet Mission consisted of:
a. Two members
b. Three members
c. Four members
d. Five members
130. The demand for Pakistan was formally made in:
a. Lahore Resolution, 1940
b. Lucknow Pact, 1916
c. Cripps Mission, 1942
d. Cabinet Mission, 1946
131. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was called:
a. Frontier Gandhi
b. Quaid-i-Azam
c. Lokmanya
d. Deshbandhu
132. The first Education Minister of independent India was:
a. Patel
b. Azad
c. Nehru
d. Rajendra Prasad
133. Who founded the newspaper Al-Hilal?
a. Gandhi
b. Azad
c. Tilak
d. Bose
134. Frontier Gandhi refers to:
a. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
b. Azad
c. Patel
d. Bose
135. Khudai Khidmatgar Movement was founded by:
a. Jinnah
b. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
c. Gandhi
d. Nehru
136. The first Law Member of the Governor-General’s Council was:
a. Macaulay
b. Cornwallis
c. Ripon
d. Curzon
137. Macaulay is associated with:
a. Revenue reforms
b. English Education
c. Police reforms
d. Army reforms
138. Wood’s Despatch was issued in:
a. 1854
b. 1835
c. 1882
d. 1904
139. Wood’s Despatch is known as the:
a. Magna Carta of English Education
b. Charter of Judiciary
c. Land Charter
d. Police Charter
140. Hunter Commission (1882) dealt with:
a. Judiciary
b. Education
c. Revenue
d. Army
141. Indian Universities Act was passed in:
a. 1904
b. 1905
c. 1919
d. 1935
142. Partition of Bengal was carried out by:
a. Curzon
b. Ripon
c. Lytton
d. Canning
143. The Swadeshi Movement encouraged:
a. Foreign goods
b. Indigenous industries
c. Military rule
d. Communal politics
144. Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood after:
a. Partition of Bengal
b. Jallianwala Bagh massacre
c. Quit India Movement
d. Non-Cooperation Movement
145. Mahatma Gandhi presided over INC session only once at:
a. Lahore
b. Belgaum
c. Surat
d. Karachi
146. Jawaharlal Nehru presided over the Lahore Session of INC in:
a. 1929
b. 1931
c. 1935
d. 1942
147. Karachi Session of INC (1931) is famous for:
a. Fundamental Rights Resolution
b. Partition Resolution
c. Home Rule
d. Swadeshi Resolution
148. The Cripps Mission failed mainly because:
a. No British support
b. Congress and League rejected proposals
c. War ended
d. Lack of funds
149. Lord Mountbatten was the:
a. First Viceroy
b. Last Viceroy of India
c. First Governor-General of Bengal
d. First President of India
150. The Constitution of India came into force on:
a. 15 August 1947
b. 26 January 1950
c. 26 November 1949
d. 30 January 1948