12th History Lesson 1 Riae of Nationqlism in india Book back Questions

 12th History Book Back Questions - New Book

1.Rise of Nationalism in India

I. Choose the correct answer:

1. When did Gandhi return to India from South Africa?

 (a) 1915 

(b) 1916 

 (c) 1917 

(d) 1918

2. In which year English Education was introduced in India?

 (a) 1825 

(b) 1835

 (c) 1845 

(d) 1855

3. Find the odd one. 

 (a) William Jones 

(b) Charles Wilkins 

 (c) Max Muller 

(d) Aurobindo Ghose

4. ‘Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it’ was said by 

 (a) Bala Gangadhar Tilak 

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji 

 (c) Subhash Chandra Bose 

(d) Bharathi

5. Match and choose the correct answer from the code given below. 

 (A) Bala Gangadhar Tilak - 1. Voice of India 

 (B) Dadabhai Naoroji - 2. Madras Time 

 (C) Macaulay - 3. Kesari

 (D) William Digby - 4. Minute on Indian Education

 Code 

 (a) 2, 4, 1, 3

 (b) 3, 1, 4, 2 

 (c) 1, 3, 2, 4 

(d) 4, 2, 3, 1

6. Which one of the following is correctly matched?

 (a) English Education Act – 1843

 (b) The abolition of slavery - 1859

(c) Madras Native Association -1852

 (d) Indigo revolt – 1835

7. Which is the correct chronological sequence of the following associations?

(i) East India Association (ii) Madras Mahajana Sabha

(iii) Madras Native Association (iv) The Servants of India Society

 Select the answer from the codes given below:

(a) ii, i, iii, iv (b) ii, iii, i, iv

(c) iii, iv, i, ii (d) iii, iv, ii, i

8. The Indian National Congress was founded by _________

(a) Subhash Chandra Bose (b) Gandhi

 (c) A.O. Hume (d) B.G. Tilak

9. The first President of the Indian National Congress was

(a) Surendranath Bannerjea (b) Badruddin Tyabji

(c) A.O. Hume (d) W.C. Bonnerjee

10. Who was called the ‘Grand Old Man of India?

(a) Bala Gangadhar Tilak (b) M.K. Gandhi

(c) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) Subhash Chandra Bose

11.Who wrote the book - ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’ ?

(a) Bala Gangadhar Tilak (b) Gopala Krishna Gokhale

(c) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) M.G. Ranade

12. Assertion (A): The British Government pursued a policy of free trade (or) laissez fair.

 Reason(R): India had comparative advantage from England's free trade policy.

(a) A is correct but R does not explain A.

(b) A is correct and R explains A.

(c) A is correct and R is incorrect.

(d) Both A and R are wrong.

13. Which of the following statements are correct on Orissa famine?

Statement I: In 1866 a million and a half people of Orissa died of starvation.

Statement II: During that time the British exported 200 million pounds of rice toBritain.

Statement III: The Orissa famine prompted Dadabai Naoroji to begin a life long investigation 

of poverty in India.

(a) I & II (b) I & III

(c) None of the above (d) All of the above

14. Assertion(A): Dadabhai Naoroji was elected thrice as the President of the Indian National Congress.

 Reason(R): The Indian National Movement upto 1905 was dominated by Constitutionalists.

(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

(c) A is true but R is false.

(d) A is false but R is true.