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Who among the following did Gandhiji regard as his political Guru?
(1) Mahadev Desai
(2) Dayanand Saraswati
(3) Acharya Narendra Dev
(4) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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

(1) A.O. Hume
(2) Surendranath Banerjee
(3) W.C. Banerjee
(4) Badruddin Tayyabji

Which one of the following parties was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose?

(1) Abhinav Bharat
(2) Azad Hind Sena
(3) Revolutionary Army
(4) Forward Block

Which one of the following papers were edited by Gandhiji in South Africa?
(1) Indian Opinion
(2) Harijan
(3) Young India
(4) Indian Mirror

General Dyer, who was responsible for the Jallianwalan Bagh massacre, was shot dead by?

(1) Hasrat Mohini
(2) Vir Savarkar
(3) Udham Singh
(4) Jatin Das

The First Woman President of the Indian National Congress was
(1) Sarojini Naidu
(2) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
(3) Annie Besant
(4) Kadambani Ganguli

Indian National Congress split for the first time in its session at
(1) Allahabad                                       (2) Calcutta
(3) Surat                                              (4) Lahore

English education was introduced in India by

(1) Curzon                   (2) Macaulay
(3) Dalhousie               (4) Bentick

Which Governor General was called as the ‘Father of Local Self-Government’ in India?

(1) Lord Wellesley
(2) Lord Canning
(3) Lord William Bentinck
(4) Lord Ripon

What was the chief objective of the ‘Wahabi movement’?
(1) Forge cordial relations with the British
(2) Purify Islam
(3) Improve the condition of women
(4) Adopt rational education

Which of the following was published by Gandhiji during his stay in South Africa?
(1) Young India
(2) Indian Opinion
(3) Nav Jivan
(4) None of these

Who is referred to as ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
(1) Sheikh Abdullah
(2) Manilal Gandhi
(3) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(4) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Who referred to Mahatma Gandhi as “Father of the Nation” for the first time?
(1) Jawaharlal Nehru
(2) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
(3) C. Rajgopalachari
(4) Subhash Chandra Bose

Which title, given by the British Government to Mahatma Gandhi, was surrendered during the non-cooperation movement?

(1) Hind Kesari
(2) Rai Bahadur
(3) Rt. Honorable
(4) Kaisar-i-Hind

What was the immediate cause of the Mutiny of 1857?
(1) The discontentment of the soldiers
(2) The use of greased cartridges in the new Enfield Rifle
(3) The social conditions of India
(4) The introduction of railways and telegraphs

Who introduced the “Doctrine of Lapse” to expand British territories in India?

(1) Lord Hastings
(2) Lord Wellesley
(3) Lord William Bentinck
(4) Lord Dalhousie

The Sharda Act is related to
(1) Upliftment of scheduled tribes
(2) Upliftment of minorities
(3) Child Marriage
(4) Empowerment of women

Gandhiji’s ‘Satyagraha’ meant an attachment to the following two elements
(1) Knowledge and religion
(2) Truth and non-violence
(3) Truth and chastity
(4) Love of motherland and hate for colonial masters