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MCQs

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Question 1. Consider the following events:

Annexation of Udaipur
Annexation of Jhansi
Annexation of Punjab

The correct chronological sequence of these event is:

3-4-2-1
2-1-3-4
2-4-3-1
3-1-2-4

Discuss Question

Answer: Option D. -> 3-1-2-4
Answer: (d)

Question 2. Lord Dalhousie introduced the first telegraph line in 1853, which ran between:

Calcutta and Bombay
Agra and Madras
Bombay and Thana
Calcutta and Agra

Discuss Question

Answer: Option D. -> Calcutta and Agra
Answer: (d)

Question 3. Identify the Acts passed by the British Government in 1856.

Religious disabilities Act

General Service Enlistment Act

Hindu Widow Remarriage Act

Abolition of the Sati (Regulation XVII)

i, ii, iii
i, iii, iv
ii, iii, iv
All of them

Discuss Question

Answer: Option A. -> i, ii, iii
Answer: (a)

Question 4. Arrange the following in correct chronological order

Third Carnatic War
First Burmese War
First Mysore War
Second Afghan War

Codes :

1, 4, 3, 2
1, 3, 2, 4
2, 4, 1, 3
3, 1, 2, 4

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> 1, 3, 2, 4
Answer: (b)Third Carnatic War (1756–1763)The First Anglo–Mysore War –(1767–1769)The First Anglo–Burmese War–(1824–1826)The Second Anglo–Afghan War (1878–1880)

Question 5. After his return to Britain, Robert Clive died in 1774 due to

A dreadful disease
Committed suicide
Was assassinated
Died under mysterious circumstances

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> Committed suicide
Answer: (b)

Question 6. Which one of the following statements about the rule of Saadat Khan in Awadh is not correct?

He suppressed the lawless and rebellious zamindars and thus increased the financial resources of his government
He carried out a fresh revenue settlement
He improved the lot of the peasants by levying equitable land revenue and by protecting them from oppressive zamindars
He took several steps to improve trade and commerce

Discuss Question

Answer: Option D. -> He took several steps to improve trade and commerce
Answer: (d)

Question 7. The suppression of Indian language newspapers under the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was caused by the criticism of

lavish lifestyle of the English officials
ill-treatment given to Indigo workers by their English masters
inhuman approach of English officials towards the victims of the famine of 1876-77
misuse of religious places of India by English officials

Discuss Question

Answer: Option B. -> ill-treatment given to Indigo workers by their English masters
Answer: (b)
The Vernacular Press Act in 1878 was passed by Lord Lytton and repealed by Lord Ripon.
The suppression of vernacular newspapers was caused by the criticism of ill-treatment given to indigo workers by their English masters.

Question 8. The Cape of Good Hope was discovered by

Vasco-da-Gama
Dc almeida
Albuquerque Diaz
Bartholomew

Discuss Question

Answer: Option D. -> Bartholomew
Answer: (d)

Question 9. “The greater the number of the forts you hold the weaker will be your power. Let our forces be on the sea, because if we should not be powerful at sea, everything will be at once against it” whose words are these?