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ADVANCE BATCH FOR GS PRELIMS – 2016
MODERN INDIAN HISTORY - PRACTICE TEST – 2
Time Allowed: 30 Mins.
Maximum Marks: 48
Test Code: 1792
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1.
The Bethune School founded in Calcutta in
4.
1849 was for:
(a) Propagation
Which of the following pair is correctly
matched?
of
Western
cultural
Movement/
Founder
elements
Organisation
(b) Eradication of Untouchability
(c) Women's Education
1. Young Bengal
(d) Evoking a sense of pride in India's Past
Movement
2. The Servants of
2.
Which of the following statements about the
:
Henry Derozion
:
Dadabhai Naoroji
India Society
Arya Samaj movement are true?
3. Aligarh Movement :
1. It was essentially a conservative and
Select the correct answer using the code
reactionary movement.
below.
2. The movement was against idolatry and
polytheism.
3. The
Samaj
Abul Kalam Aajad
(a) 1 only
started
the
Shuddhi
(b) 1 and 2 only
movement in a bid to reconvert Hindus
(c) 1 and 3 only
who had converted to other religions.
(d) 2 only
Select the correct answer using the code
given below.
(a) 1 and 2 only
5.
(b) 1 and 3 only
Consider the statements about Ramakrishna
Mission. Which of the following is/are
(c) 2 and 3 only
correct?
(d) 1, 2 and 3
1. Ramakrishna mission was founded by
3.
With respect to education and empowerment
of women during freedom struggle, consider
the following statements.
Swami Vivekananda.
2. Ramakrishna mission was a deeply
religious body and considered itself a
1. Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar founded
Sanskrit college at Calcutta, to improve
women education in India.
2. In western India, Professor D K Karve
made efforts for promotion of women
education and widow remarriage.
sect of Hinduism.
3. Swami
materialism
Vivekananda
of
rejected
west
and
favored spiritualism of east to produce
happiness for mankind.
3. Ishawar Chandra Vidya Sagar founded
Select the correct answer from the code
the Bethune school.
Which of the statements given above is/are
given below.
correct?
(a) 1 only
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1 and 3 only
(d) 2 and 3 only
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6.
Which among the following organizations
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were not started by Raja Rammohan Roy?
Young Bengal Movement raise their voice?
1. Atmiya Sabha
1. Protection of ryots from Zamindars
2. Brahma Sabha
2. Employment
of
Indians
in
higher
Government grades
3. Hindu College
4. Tatvabodhini Sabha
3. Better treatment of Indian Labour abroad
Select the correct answer using codes given
Select the correct answer using the codes
below:
given below.
(a) 1 and 4 only
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1, 2 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(c) 3 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2 and 3 only
7.
On which of the following issues did the
Which of the following statements regarding
10.
denounced
polytheism
and
faith
Mission
(b) The Mission opposed caste system and
untouchability.
Karma and transmigration of soul.
the
Ramakrishna
charity and social service.
(b) It discarded the idea of doctrine of
discarded
the
(a) The Mission also focused on doing
idol
worship and also the caste system.
(c) It
made
different from the Arya Samaj Movement?
the Brahmo Samaj is incorrect?
(a) It
What
in
(c) The Mission valued and practiced image
divine
worship.
incarnation.
(d) The Mission supported better conditions
(d) It was based on the teachings of Vedas
for the women.
and Upanishads.
11.
8.
Consider the following statements regarding
nature of socio and religious movement of
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan:
nineteenth century:
1. He started Mohammaden Anglo-Oriental
1. They were a result of western impact
College at Aligarh.
alone on Indian society.
2. He advocated partition of India and
formation of Pakistan.
3. He
opposed
political
2. They emphasized the importance of
religious reform for social reform.
activity
of
3. They were of reformist nature and not
revivalist.
muslims.
3
Consider the following statements about the
Which of the statements given above is/are
Which of the statements given above is/are
correct?
correct?
(a) 1 only
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
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12.
In the context of the Shiromani Akali Dal
14.
With reference to Brahmo Samaj consider
(SAD) during the early 20th century,
the following statements:
consider the following statements:
1. It demonstrated that sati had no religious
1. It was the body that organized struggle
sanction.
to reform Gurudwara.
2. It confined its presence to Bengal.
2. Basic belief of this body was non-
3. It supported monotheism of Vedas and
violence.
Unitarianism of Christianity.
3. Leaders of SAD were highly active in
Which of the statements given above is/are
Swadeshi movement.
correct?
Which of the statements given above is/are
(a) 1 and 3
correct?
(b) 1 and 2 only
(a) 1 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
15.
13.
Consider the following statements with
With reference to the social reforms of 19th
regard to Indian women in 19th Century:
century, consider the following statements:
1. Women from both Hindu and Muslim
1. It led the creation of an alternate system
of modern english education.
property.
2. It was a part of the resistance against
colonial
cultural
and
community did not have right to inherit
ideological
hegemony.
2. Social position of Hindu and Muslim
women were similar.
3. Upper class women had greater freedom
3. It gave a platform for the later National
of movement than peseants.
movements.
Which of the statements given above is/are
Which of the statements given above is/are
correct?
correct?
(a) 1 only
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 2 only
(c) 3 only
(d) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
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16.
With
reference
to
religious
reform
18.
Consider the following statements regarding
movements of 19th and 20th century, which
Sayyid Ahmed Khan:
of the following statements is/are correct?
1. In the beginning he was an orthodox and
encouraged communalism but later he
1. Contributed in enhancing national as
emphasized on the unity of Hindu-
well as cultural consciousness.
2. Overemphasis
development
on
religion
of
led
Muslims.
to
2. He established a college in Aligarh to
communal
educate Indians about oppression of a
consciousness in some movements.
foreign rule.
3. In Northern India, division on rural
3. He advised educationally backward
peasantry on communal lines resulted in
Muslims to focus on modern education
violence.
only.
Which of the statements given above is/are
Which of the statements given above is/are
correct?
incorrect?
(a) 1 only
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 3 only
17.
(d) 1 and 3 only
Consider the following statements with
Consider the following with regard to
regard to Aligarh Muslim University:
Brahmo Tradition?
1. It was a center for spreading western
1. An individual has right to interpret a
sciences and culture.
religious text according to his own
2. Students were taught only English and
Urdu
and
learning
Sanskrit
was
intellect.
2. They opposed idolatry and superstitious
practices.
discouraged.
3. In its initial years it was exclusively for
3. They transcended the urban-rural divide
Muslims. Only later it was opened for all
and had decisive influence on villages of
communities.
Bengal.
Which of the statements given above is/are
Which of the statements given above is/are
correct?
correct?
(a) 1 only
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
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20.
Consider the following pairs:
22.
1. Jyotiba Phule: Started Bethune schools
With reference to Rammohan Roy, which of
the following statement is/are incorrect?
for girl's education.
1. He did not take up political reforms as
2. Dadabhai Naorozi : Professed legal
India's nationalism had yet not matured.
status and heritance rights for Parsi
2. He ardently supported modern western
womem.
ideas
against
Indian
philosophical
3. Paramhansa Mandali: Its members took
system.
food cooked by low caste people to
3. He believed in the infallibility of Vedas.
break caste barriers.
Which of the above pair/pairs is/are correctly
Select the correct answer using the codes
matched?
given below.
(a) 2 and 3 only
(a) 1, and 3 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 2 only
(c) 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
21.
With reference to the Young Bengal
movement,
consider
the
following
23.
With
reference
to
the
socio
cultural
statements:
awakening in the 19th century, consider the
1. This moderate movement was founded
following statements:
by Henry Vivian Derozio, who is
regarded as India's first nationalist poet.
2. His poems were able to arouse the
masses in Bengal.
1. It was a result of influence of modern
western culture.
2. It was a result of the realization of the
weaknesses in Indian culture.
3. It vigorously took up the causes of the
Which of the statements given above is/are
peasants.
true?
Which of the above statements is/are true?
(a) 1 only
(a) 1 only
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(b) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) None
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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24.
Consider the following statements:
1. Udasi mahants were the managers of the
gurudwara appointed by British.
2. 'Jatha' in Gurudwara reform movement,
refers to volunteers of the movement.
Which of the above statements given above
is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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