This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Modern > Modern India – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modern India Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which autobiography is written by pandit jahawahlar Nehru. A) Waiting for visa. B) The story with my experiment with truth. C) Towards freedom. D) The history of the British India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Towards freedom. 2. Gandhi attended which round table conference? A) First. B) Second. C) Third. D) First and Second. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second. 3. What was the name of the British company? A) East India Company. B) West India Company. C) North India Company. D) South India Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) East India Company. 4. The First Session of the Indian National Congress was presided over by ..... A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) W.C. Bonnerjee. D) Next to the river. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) W.C. Bonnerjee. 5. Tanka, Jital and Dinar were coins made of ..... respectively A) Bronze, Silver, Copper. B) Gold, Silver, Copper. C) Gold, SIlver, Bronze. D) Silver, Copper, Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silver, Copper, Gold. 6. The birth and death years of Ambedkar are? A) 1889, 1957. B) 1891, 1955. C) 1889, 1956. D) 1891, 1956. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1891, 1956. 7. What desert lies along India's border with Pakistan? A) Taklamakan. B) Ghats. C) Thar. D) Gobi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thar. 8. Why would the Creek Indians create dams? A) To block other animals from catching the fish. B) To block the water so settlers could not pass through. C) To block the fish from swimming downstream. D) To block other tribes from their village. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To block the fish from swimming downstream. 9. Who was the most famous Beloved Women? A) Martha Washington. B) Hernando De Sota. C) Melissa Greer. D) Nancy Ward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nancy Ward. 10. Who Poineered the movement leading to the widow re-marriage Act? A) Dalhousie. B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy. C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. D) William Bentinck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. 11. Who among the following is related to Repeal of Vernacular Press Act of 1878? A) Lord Lytton. B) Lord Irwin. C) Lord Curzon. D) Lord Ripon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Ripon. 12. Upset by their position as second-class citizens, a group of Indians created the ..... to gain more rights. A) Amnesty India. B) Indian National Congress. C) Indian Liberties Coalition. D) Indian Rights Watch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indian National Congress. 13. Lord Macaulay was related with- A) Army reforms. B) Legal Codification. C) Abolition of Sati System. D) Permanent Settlement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legal Codification. 14. What group originally celebrated Holi? A) Buddhists. B) Jainists. C) Muslims. D) Hindus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hindus. 15. The maximum speed of vande bharat. A) 100. B) 180. C) 190. D) 160. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 180. 16. Bardoli Satyagraha Was Launched By A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Vallabhbhai Patel. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vallabhbhai Patel. 17. The Simon Commission came to India in 1928 was boycotted because A) All its Members were English Men. B) At that time large number of nationalist leaders were in Prison. C) The Chairman, Sir John Simon was very unpopular. D) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms had failed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All its Members were English Men. 18. In ..... year king George 5 and queen mary came to India through gateway of india. A) 1911. B) 1974. C) 1812. D) 1931. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1911. 19. Who was the First Asian Noble Prize Winner in the field of Science? A) Jagdish Chandra Bose. B) Jayant Narlikar. C) JRD Dad. D) Chandra Shekhar Venkat Raman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chandra Shekhar Venkat Raman. 20. WHO WAS THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF 1857 MUTINY? A) LORD WELLESLEY. B) LORD CORNWALLIS. C) LORD MOUNTBATTEN. D) LORD CANNING. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) LORD CANNING. 21. Who said about Gandhiji "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Albert Einstein. C) Winston Churchill. D) Lord Mountbatten. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Albert Einstein. 22. True or False. Hinduism and Buddhism believe in reincarnation. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 23. Who used peaceful protests to help protest British rule and promote equality in India? A) Nelson Mandela. B) Mohandas Gandhi. C) Martin Luther King Jr. D) F.W. DeKlerk. E) Buddha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mohandas Gandhi. 24. What type of government did the Creek have? A) Dictatorship. B) Monarchy. C) Democracy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Democracy. 25. Where did all of these civilizations develop? ● Mesopotamia ● Egypt ● China ● India A) In river valleys. B) In the mountian range. C) In the coastal region. D) In the rain forest region. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In river valleys. 26. What is the date of print of Hindustan times A) 19 April 1662. B) 9 February 2008. C) 25 June 1988. D) 3 November 1947. E) 22nd march 1946. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 22nd march 1946. 27. Who among the following is associated to the Silk Letter Conspiracy? A) Bhikizi Rustam Cama. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maulana Obaidullah Sindhi. 28. Who is the author of "unto this last" book? A) John Ruskin. B) Sushila Nayyar. C) Jawaharlal nehru. D) Louis Fischer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Ruskin. 29. When was the first Railway line opened in India? A) 1850. B) 1844. C) 1853. D) 1857. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1853. 30. With which of the following Raja Ram Mohan Roy can not be associated A) Sanskrit Education. B) Abolition of Sati. C) Promotion of English. D) Widow remarriage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Widow remarriage. 31. Given below is the succession order of Mughal sultans. Find the correct one A) Babar-Humayun-Akbar-Jahangir-Shahjahan-Aurangzeb. B) Akbar-Babar-Shajahan-Humayun-Aurangzeb-Jahangir. C) Babar-Humayun-Akbar-Shajahan-Jahangir-Aurangzeb. D) Jahangir-Shajahan-Aurangzeb-Akbar-Babar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Babar-Humayun-Akbar-Jahangir-Shahjahan-Aurangzeb. 32. Who is known as the father of Local self Government in India? A) Lord Hasting. B) Lord Curzon. C) Lord Dalhousie. D) Lord Ripon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Ripon. 33. What was the goal of the Indian National Congress, or INC? A) Help India gain its' independence from Great Britain. B) Create separation between Hindus and Muslims. C) Create a socialist economy. D) Establish Bangladesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help India gain its' independence from Great Britain. 34. Means "truth force" A) Viceroy. B) Sepoy. C) Amritsar. D) Satyagraha. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satyagraha. 35. Historians refer to the Indian modern period as Ancient period A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. Iqta, Jagir and Amaram were A) Land Grants. B) Land Assignments. C) Tax free lands. D) Inam Grants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Land Assignments. 37. Which of the following books is important in order to understand the economic history of colonial India? A) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India. B) The Story of My Experiments with Truth. C) Towards Freedom. D) Discovery of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India. 38. Education is the dynamic side of A) Sociology. B) Economics. C) Psychology. D) Philosophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philosophy. 39. How did India finally gain its independence from colonial rule? A) The United States sent in troops to free India from the colonial government in control. B) Strong leaders urged people to protest the colonial power peacefully and non-violently. C) European countries stepped in and declared India independent after a civil war. D) Armed groups held elections in an effort to overtake the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strong leaders urged people to protest the colonial power peacefully and non-violently. 40. Which of the following is not a historical monument? A) India Gate. B) Rashtrapati Bhavan. C) Gateway of India. D) Bengal Gazette. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bengal Gazette. 41. Consider the following statement (s) related to the Indian National CongressI. The Poorna Swarajya resolution was passed in Lahore session of the Congress held in DecemberII. The Congress Working Committee, -which met on January 2, 1930, decided that January 26, 1930, should be observed as the PoornaSwarajya Day.Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct? A) Only I. B) Only II. C) Both I and II. D) Neither I nor II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both I and II. 42. Which commission is regarded as "Magna Carta of Modern Education in India" ? A) Sargent Report. B) Macaulay's Minutes. C) Hartog Commission. D) Wood's dispatch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wood's dispatch. 43. Turkan-i-chahalgani was organised by A) Raid. B) On the left. C) Alauddin Khalji. D) Iltutmish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iltutmish. 44. ..... simplifies the study of history & highlights important trends of development within a particular period A) History. B) Administration. C) Division. D) Periodisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periodisation. 45. ..... is racial segregation or separation. A) Discrimination. B) Activist. C) Caste system. D) Apartheid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apartheid. 46. The division of history into 3 periods is uniform for the entire world. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 47. What rivalry developed over how India should be governed after independence? A) Buddhist-Muslim. B) Muslim-Jewish. C) Hindu-Buddhist. D) Hindu-Muslim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hindu-Muslim. 48. The interim Government at the centre was formed in 1946: A) After Mountbatten came to India for transfer of power to Indians. B) After the visit of the Cabinet Mission. C) Before the visit of the Cabinet Mission. D) As a result of Cripps Mission. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After the visit of the Cabinet Mission. 49. 'Freedom is my birthright and I shall have it 'was the slogan raised by ..... A) BAL GANGADHAR TILAK. B) LALA LAJPAT RAI. C) Bhagat Singh. D) RABINDRANATH TAGORE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BAL GANGADHAR TILAK. 50. How many gods are there in Hinduism? A) Many. B) Seven. C) Three. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Many. 51. What god is worshipped during Holi by surrounding a bonfire? A) Brahma. B) Buddha. C) Vishnu. D) Shiva. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vishnu. 52. MAHATMA STARTED WEARING LOIN CLOTH SINCE A) 1919. B) 1903. C) 1921. D) 1906. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1921. 53. The Bell Shaped Capitals in Ashokan capitals were adopted from the architecture style of A) Persia. B) Macedonia. C) Kerala. D) Pakistan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persia. 54. Revenue surveys were conducted to know about population, castes and religion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 55. Gandhi went to school in London to study ..... A) Medicine. B) Law. C) Business. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Law. 56. In which year Vernacular Press Act was passed? A) 1882. B) . C) 1878. D) 1884. E) 1875. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) . 57. Since apartheid ended, most black South Africans are now rich. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 58. Where did the Chickasaw live? A) Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi. B) West Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi. C) Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi. 59. Which of the following is not the feature of 1935 Government of India Act? A) Provincial Autonomy. B) Bicameral legislature. C) Federal Court. D) Dyarchy at the Province. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dyarchy at the Province. 60. During the European Colonial Period, which nation was the most expansive? A) France. B) Denmark. C) Spain. D) Britian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Britian. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesModern India Quiz 1Modern India Quiz 3Modern India Quiz 4Modern India Quiz 5Modern India Quiz 6Modern India Quiz 7Modern India Quiz 8Modern India Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books