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Which of the following reform movements was the first to be started in the 19th century?
(1) Prarthana Samaj
(2) Brahmo Samaj
(3) Arya Samaj
(4) Rama Krishna Mission

Who developed the idea that “means justify the ends”?
(1) Kautilya
(2) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(3) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(4) Mahatma Gandhi

Who said that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue, but the mind’?
(1) Aurobindo Ghosh
(2) Mahatma Gandhi
(3) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(4) Swami Vivekananda

Provincial Autonomy was one of the important features of the Act of
(1) 1935                   (2) 1919
(3) 1909                   (4) 1858

Who was the Governor-general of India during the Revolt of 1857?
(1) Lord Dalhousie
(2) Lord Canning
(3) Lord Mayo
(4) Lord Ripon

When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, “None will believe that a man like this in body and soul ever walked on this earth”?
(1) Bertrand Russell
(2) Leo Tolstoy
(3) Albert Einstein
(4) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

In violation of the Salt Laws, Gandhiji started a movement called
(1) Non-Cooperation movement
(2) Swadeshi Movement
(3) Civil Disobedience Movement
(4) None of the above

The Cabinet Mission came to India in
(1) 1943                   (2) 1944
(3) 1945                   (4) 1946

The first to come and last to leave India were
(1) the Portuguese
(2) the French
(3) the English
(4) the Dutch

Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress?

(1) Muhammed Ali Jinnah
(2) Badruddin Tyabji
(3) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
(4) Abul Kalam Azad

The administrative consequence of the Revolt of 1857 was transfer of power from

(1) East India Company to the British Crown
(2) British Crown to the East India Company
(3) East India Company to the Governor General
(4) British Crown to the Board of Directors

The issue on which the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 was launched was

(1) equal employment opportunities for Indians

(2) the proposed execution of Bhagat Singh
(3) salt monopoly exercised by the British Government
(4) complete freedom

Who was the last Governor-General of India?

(1) Sir Cripps
(2) Lord Mountbatten
(3) C. Rajagopalachari
(4) Sir Attlee

Which Directive Principle bears the direct impact of Gandhi’s moral philosophy?
(1) Equal pay for equal work
(2) Provision of free legal aid and advice
(3) Prohibition of the slaughter of cows
(4) Protection of the monuments of historical importance

Who represented India in the Second Round Table Conference?
(1) Sarojani Nadu
(2) Anne Besaint
(3) Aruna Asaf Ali
(4) None of these

Who declared as his ultimate aim the wiping of every tear from every eye?
(1) Jawaharlal Nehru
(2) Gandhiji
(3) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(4) Sardar Patel

In ends and means relationship, Gandhiji believed
(1) Means become good if they serve the end

(2) Means and ends are water- tight compartments

(3) Means determine the end
(4) End is everything, no matter what or how the means are