This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Modern > Modern India – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Modern India Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who Amon the following was not a no-changer? A) Rajendra Prasad. B) Motilal Nehru. C) S. Rajagopalachari. D) Vallabhbhai Patel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motilal Nehru. 2. Movement of people from rural to urban areas A) Colonization. B) Urbanization. C) Secularism. D) Civil Disobedience. E) Imperialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urbanization. 3. During apartheid, nonwhites were discriminated against on ..... A) Where they could live and travel. B) What jobs they could have. C) Where they could go to school. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. By whom was the all India Trade Union founded? A) . Deenbandhu Mitra. B) B. Narayan Malhar Joshi. C) C. N. G. Ranga. D) D. Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. Narayan Malhar Joshi. 5. During whose era the Agra Canal was finished? A) Akbar. B) Jahangir. C) Bahadurshah zafar. D) British period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) British period. 6. There occurred three battles at the field of Panipat. Identify the battle which did not take place in Panipat A) Akbar VS Hemu. B) Babur VS Ibrahim Lodi. C) Babur VS Rana Sangha. D) Ahmad Shah Durrani VS Marathas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Babur VS Rana Sangha. 7. The ..... mountain system located in northeast India contains the highest peak in the world! Name this peak for an extra credit point ..... A) Spirit. B) Rocky. C) Appalachian. D) Himalayan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Himalayan. 8. Under India's new constitution, it is okay to discriminate based on caste and gender. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. What was the main religion in India when it was partitioned? A) Islam. B) Hinduism. C) Buddhism. D) Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinduism. 10. Who among the following, led the Sepoys at Kanpur in the 1857 Uprising? A) Lax rice white. B) Tantia Tope. C) Nana Suhaib. D) Kunwar Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nana Suhaib. 11. In which year did the partition of Bengal take place? A) 1990. B) 1905. C) 1910. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1905. 12. The Congress appointed an all-party Constitution Committee in 1928 to draft a new Constitution for India. As a result, there emerged a report drafted under the chairmanship of ..... A) Motilal Nehru. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) Tej Bahadur Sapru. D) B. R Ambedkar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motilal Nehru. 13. Consider the following statement (s) regarding Poona Pact (1932)I. It refers to an agreement between Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi signed on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune (now in Maharashtra), India.II. It was signed by Pt Madan Mohan Malviya and B.R. Ambedkar and some Dalit leaders to break the fast unto death undertaken by Gandhi in Yerwada prison to annul the Macdonald Award giving separate electorates to Dalits for electing members of state legislative assemblies in British India.Select the correct answer from the codes given below:Codes: 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. 14. Which of the following historians divided Indian history into three periods namely Hindu, Muslim and British? A) James Mill. B) Herodotus. C) Henry Reynolds. D) Anthony Grafton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Mill. 15. In 1638 a Mughal Emperor built the Taj Mahal for what reason? A) A military defense. B) A religious center of worship. C) A memorial for his wife. D) A school for royal children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A memorial for his wife. 16. Name the type of colonialism from the following features:involves fewer colonists and focuses on the access to natural resources, trading posts and indigenous labor A) Settler. B) Exploitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exploitation. 17. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India is written by A) Dadabhai Naoroji. B) Indira Gandhi. C) James Hicky. D) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dadabhai Naoroji. 18. Whean was the August Kranti pulled back? A) 1947. B) 1942. C) 1943. D) 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1942. 19. He proposed the Partition of Bengal in 1905. A) Lord Dalhousie. B) Lord Curzon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Curzon. 20. Who was proclaimed as the emperor of india during the great indian mutiny of 1857 A) Bahadur Shah Zafar. B) Rani of Jhansi. C) Kunwar Singh. D) Tantya Topi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bahadur Shah Zafar. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesModern India Quiz 1Modern India Quiz 2Modern 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