Q.1) Which of the following trio leaders referred to as Lal, Bal and Pal during the freedom movement?
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
(b) Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopala Krishna Gokhale
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and C. Rajagopalachari
Q.2) Which of the following incident ended the historic fast of Gandhi?
(a) Poona Pact
(b) Issue of White Paper
(c) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
(d) Arrival of Simon Commission
Q.3) What was the Ilbert Bill intended for?
(a) To remove racial discrimination in employment
(b) To enable India District Magistrates and Session Judges to try Europeans
(c) To save Indians from racial humiliation
(d) To change the method of recruitment in the Indian Civil Service
Q.4) The Battle of Wandiwash was fought between:
(a) The Nizam of Hyderabad and the French
(b) The English and the French
(c) The English and Hyder Ali
(d) The Nawab of Carnatic and the English
Q.5) Which of the following British official initiated the Doctrine of Lapse?
(a) Lord Wellesley
(b) Lord Auckland
(c) Lord Dalhousie
(d) Warren Hastings
Answers-
Ans.1 (a), Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Bombay, and Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal, the triumvirate were popularly known as Lal Bal Pal, changed the political discourse of the Indian independence movement.
Ans. 2 (a), Poona Pact was an agreement between Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi signed on September 24, 1932. This pact ended Gandhi’s fast unto death.
Ans.3 (b), The Ilbert Bill was a legislative act introduced in 1883 during the tenure of Viceroy Ripon and written by Sir Courtenay Pergine Ilbert. The act stipulated that Indian judges could try Europeans.
Ans.4 (b), Battle of Wandiwash, (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern India during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63)
Ans.5 (c), The doctrine of lapse, a formula formulated by Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of India (1848–56), to deal with questions of succession in Hindu Indian states