Wind- Up Session| Modern History| Day 09

Questions

1. Consider the following campaigns of Indian independence movement.

1. Campaign supporting Ilbert bill.
2. Campaign demanding better treatment for Indian labours abroad in other British
colonies.
3. Campaign against Vernacular press Act 1878.
4. Call for increase in expenditure on health, sanitation and education.

How many of the above were led by Indian national congress.

(a) Only one pair.
(b) Only two pair.
(c) Only three pair.
(d) All four pairs.

2. “I am here, therefore, to invite and submit cheerfully to the highest penalty that can be
inflicted upon me for what in law is deliberate crime and what appears to be the
highest duty of a citizen.” Gandhi made this court speech in which year?

(a) 1917
(b) 1922
(c) 1931
(d) 1942

3. Consider the following pairs,

Event Viceroy

1. Establishment of Lord Minto II

Muslim league.
2. Jallianwalla Bagh Lord Chelmsford.
Massacre.

3. Poorna Swaraj Lord Irwin.

Resolution.
 How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

(a) Only one pair

(b) Only two pair.
(c) All three pairs.
(d) None.

4. Consider the following statements regarding lord Ripon,

1. He was known as the father of local self government.

2. It was during his tenure, the first factory act, to improve the labour conditions was
passed.
3. Appointed a commission to review the progress of education in the country since the
despatch of 1854.

How many of the statements given above are correct?

(a) Only one pair.
(b) Only two pair.
(c) All three pairs.
(d) None.

5. Consider the following statements:

Statement 1:

Amrita Bazar Patrika founded by Sisir Kumar Ghosh turned into an English Newspaper
in 1878.

Statement 2:

The Vernacular Press Act was designed to control the vernacular press and effectively
punish and repress seditious writing.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

(a) Both statement 1 and statement 2 is correct and statement 2 is the correct
explanation of statement 1.
(b) Both statement 1 and statement 2 is correct and statement 2 is not the correct
explanation of statement 1.
(c) Statement 1 is correct, but statement 2 is incorrect.
(d) Statement 1 is incorrect, but statement 2 is correct.