Free MCQ Quiz on Modern History 

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Best Modern History 50 MCQ

Q1: Who established the Muhammedan Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh?

a) Abul Kalam Azad
b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
d) Aga Khan
Answer: c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Q2: The Veda Samaj of Madras was inspired by ––.

a) Brahmo Samaj
b) Arya Samaj
c) Ramakrishna Mission
d) Theosophical Society
Answer: a) Brahmo Samaj

Q3: Who among the following advocated the ideology of “oru jati, oru matam, oru daivam manushyanu” (one caste, one religion, one God for humankind)?

a) Narayana Guru
b) Ayya Vaikundar
c) Jyotirao Phule
d) E.V. Ramasamy Naicker (Periyar)
Answer: a) Narayana Guru (Mock Test Now)

Q4: R.G. Bhandarkar was a popular leader of which reformist organization?

a) Brahmo Samaj
b) Arya Samaj
c) Prarthana Samaj
d) Theosophical Society
Answer: c) Prarthana Samaj

Q5: The Principal of a Sanskrit College representing the mixture of Indian and Western culture was – – – -.

a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
d) Dayanand Saraswati
Answer: a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Q6: Who started the temple entry movement in 1927?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) B.R. Ambedkar
c) Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
d) K. Kelappan
Answer: b) B.R. Ambedkar

Q7: Which of the following institutions was founded by M.G. Ranade and G.V. Joshi?

a) Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
b) Deccan Education Society
c) Servants of India Society
d) Bombay Presidency Association
Answer: a) Poona Sarvajanik Sabha

Q8: Who was the founder of Widow Remarriage Association (1861)?

a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
b) M.G. Ranade
c) Jyotirao Phule
d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: b) M.G. Ranade

Q9: Who was the founder of Dharma Sabha?

a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
b) Radhakant Deb
c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
d) Debendranath Tagore
Answer: b) Radhakant Deb

Q10: Who founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha, formed to discover spiritual truth?

a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
b) Debendranath Tagore
c) Keshub Chandra Sen
d) Swami Vivekananda
Answer: b) Debendranath Tagore (Mock Test Now)

Q11: Jyotiba Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth Seeker’s Society) in –––––.

a) 1870
b) 1873
c) 1875
d) 1880
Answer: b) 1873

Q12: In 1867, Keshab Chandra Sen helped Atmaram Pandurang in establishing the Prarthana Samaj in ––––––.

a) Calcutta
b) Bombay
c) Madras
d) Pune
Answer: b) Bombay

Q13: Where was the Vaikom Satyagraha (1924-25)?

a) Tamil Nadu
b) Andhra Pradesh
c) Karnataka
d) Kerala
Answer: d) Kerala

Q14: Which of the following modern states witnessed the origin of the ‘Vaikom’ movement?

a) Tamil Nadu
b) Kerala
c) Karnataka
d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: b) Kerala

Q15: Who was the founder of the Satyashodhak Samaj in the 19th century?

a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
b) Jyotiba Phule
c) M.G. Ranade
d) B.R. Ambedkar
Answer: b) Jyotiba Phule

Q16: Who was the then Governor-General of British India, when ‘Sati Pratha’ became illegal and punishable?

a) Lord Dalhousie
b) Lord William Bentinck
c) Lord Canning
d) Lord Hardinge
Answer: b) Lord William Bentinck

Q17: Which governor general of India abolished Sati system in 1829 by declaring it an offence?

a) Lord Hastings
b) Lord William Bentinck
c) Lord Auckland
d) Lord Hardinge
Answer: b) Lord William Bentinck

Q18: The practice of Sati was abolished under the governorship of __.

a) Lord Dalhousie
b) Lord William Bentinck
c) Lord Canning
d) Lord Mayo
Answer: b) Lord William Bentinck

Q19: Who among the following was one of the founders of the Indian Association established in 1876?

a) Surendranath Banerjee
b) Anandamohan Bose
c) Both a and b
d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: c) Both a and b (Mock Test Now)

Q20: Who among the following was the president of the Indian National Congress during its 1915 session?

a) Surendranath Banerjee
b) S.P. Sinha
c) Ambica Charan Mazumdar
d) Annie Besant
Answer: b) S.P. Sinha

Q21: Who was the first woman president of the Indian National Congress?

a) Sarojini Naidu
b) Nellie Sengupta
c) Annie Besant
d) Indira Gandhi
Answer: c) Annie Besant

Q22: The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in –––––.

a) Calcutta
b) Bombay
c) Madras
d) Allahabad
Answer: b) Bombay

Q23: Self-rule or ‘Swaraj’ as the ultimate goal of the Indian National Congress was announced by Dadabhai Naoroji in which of the following sessions of the Indian National Congress?

a) Calcutta Session, 1906
b) Surat Session, 1907
c) Lahore Session, 1929
d) Faizpur Session, 1936
Answer: a) Calcutta Session, 1906

Q24: Who was the president of the second session of the Indian National Congress?

a) W.C. Bonnerjee
b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) Badruddin Tyabji
d) George Yule
Answer: b) Dadabhai Naoroji

Q25: The origin of the Directive Principles of State Policy can be traced to which of the following?

a) Nehru Report, 1928
b) Karachi Resolution, 1931
c) Government of India Act, 1935
d) August Offer, 1940
Answer: b) Karachi Resolution, 1931
(Explanation: The Karachi Resolution of 1931 explicitly laid down fundamental rights and economic policies, which formed the basis for the Directive Principles later.)

Q26: In which of the following sessions of the Indian National Congress did George Yule become the President in 1888?

a) Bombay
b) Calcutta
c) Madras
d) Allahabad
Answer: d) Allahabad

Q27: In which of the following years did the resolution at the Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress dwell on how Independent India’s Constitution should look?

a) 1929
b) 1930
c) 1931
d) 1935
Answer: c) 1931

Q28: The Lucknow Pact of December 1916 was an understanding between the Indian National Congress and the _.

a) Muslim League
b) Hindu Mahasabha
c) Justice Party
d) Akali Dal
Answer: a) Muslim League

Q29: Who among the following presided over the special session of Congress in September 1923 and at the age of 35 became the youngest man to be elected as the President of the Congress?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Q30: Who was the President of the Indian National Congress when India won its freedom in the year 1947?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
c) J.B. Kripalani
d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: c) J.B. Kripalani (Mock Test Now)

Q31: What was the important feature/outcome of Lucknow Pact of 1916?

a) It led to the split of the Congress.
b) It brought about unity between the moderate and extremist factions of the Congress.
c) It granted separate electorates for Muslims.
d) Both b and c
Answer: d) Both b and c

Q32: In which of the following years did the Indian National Congress split at Surat and cause the session to break up?

a) 1905
b) 1906
c) 1907
d) 1908
Answer: c) 1907

Q33: With reference to the sessions of the Indian National Congress which of the following pairs is correct?

a) 1916 Lucknow – Moderates and Extremists reunited
b) 1929 Lahore – Demand for Home Rule
c) 1938 Haripura – Formation of Forward Bloc
d) 1942 Bombay – Quit India Resolution
Answer: a) 1916 Lucknow – Moderates and Extremists reunited

Q34: The Haripura Session of Indian National Congress was Presided over by –––––.

a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
c) Subhas Chandra Bose
d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: c) Subhas Chandra Bose

Q35: Subhas Chandra Bose was elected President of the Haripura Congress Session in ––––.

a) 1937
b) 1938
c) 1939
d) 1940
Answer: b) 1938

Q36: Who was elected the Congress president after the end of the Tripuri Crisis?

a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Rajendra Prasad
c) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: b) Rajendra Prasad

Q37: Who presided over the first session of Indian National Congress?

a) A.O. Hume
b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) W.C. Bonnerjee
d) Badruddin Tyabji
Answer: c) W.C. Bonnerjee

Q38: When was India National Congress established?

a) 1880
b) 1885
c) 1890
d) 1900
Answer: b) 1885

Q39: The first Muslim to be elected President of ‘Indian National Congress’ was?

a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
c) Badruddin Tyabji
d) Hakim Ajmal Khan
Answer: c) Badruddin Tyabji

Q40: Who was the President of Indian National Congress at the time of Indian independence?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) J.B. Kripalani
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: c) J.B. Kripalani

Q41: In which Congress Session, was the demand for ‘Purna Swaraj’ adopted?

a) Calcutta Session (1906)
b) Lahore Session (1929)
c) Karachi Session (1931)
d) Faizpur Session (1936)
Answer: b) Lahore Session (1929)

Q42: In which session did the Indian National Congress declare Purna Swaraj as its specific target?

a) Calcutta (1906)
b) Lucknow (1916)
c) Lahore (1929)
d) Karachi (1931)
Answer: c) Lahore (1929)

Q43: Who was the second woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and the first Indian woman to do so?

a) Annie Besant
b) Nellie Sengupta
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Answer: c) Sarojini Naidu

Q44: The Working Committee of National Congress sanctioned the resolution named ‘Quit India’ at

a) Wardha
b) Bombay
c) Calcutta
d) Delhi
Answer: a) Wardha

Q45: Which one of the following Pacts sought to resolve the Hindu-Muslim differences?

a) Poona Pact
b) Lucknow Pact
c) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
d) Shimla Pact
Answer: b) Lucknow Pact (Mock Test Now)

Q46: During the freedom struggle, who was the only President of Indian National Congress who resigned from the presidency even after being elected?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Subhas Chandra Bose
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: c) Subhas Chandra Bose

Q47: During which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress did Subhash Chandra Bose resign from the presidentship of INC?

a) Haripura Session (1938)
b) Tripuri Session (1939)
c) Ramgarh Session (1940)
d) Faizpur Session (1936)
Answer: b) Tripuri Session (1939)

Q48: In which year did the Lahore session of the Indian National Congress declare 26 January as Independence Day?

a) 1929
b) 1930
c) 1931
d) 1932
Answer: a) 1929

Q49: National Anthem of India, “Jana Gana Mana,” was sung for the first time in the____session of Indian National Congress.

a) 1906 Calcutta Session
b) 1911 Calcutta Session
c) 1917 Calcutta Session
d) 1919 Amritsar Session
Answer: b) 1911 Calcutta Session

Q50: Who was the President of Congress during Belgaum Summit of Congress in 1924?

a) Annie Besant
b) Mahatma Gandhi
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: b) Mahatma Gandhi

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