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200 MCQs on India's Revolutionary Phase (1907-1917)

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Based on the provided document, here is a comprehensive set of 200 multiple-choice

questions covering the first phase of revolutionary activities (1907-1917).

Section 1: Origins and Ideology

[Link] was the primary time frame for the first phase of revolutionary activities in India?

A) 1857-1885

B) 1907-1917

C) 1920-1930

D) 1942-1947

Answer: B

[Link] revolutionaries modeled their methodology after which international groups?

A) French Revolutionaries

B) American Patriots

C) Russian nihilists and Irish nationalists

D) Chinese Boxers

Answer: C

[Link] was the main purpose of “swadeshi dacoities”?

A) To frighten local villagers

B) To raise funds for revolutionary activities

C) To protest against foreign cloth

D) To establish a parallel government

Answer: B

[Link] first phase of revolutionary activism was a fallout of which movement?

A) Non-Cooperation Movement

B) Civil Disobedience Movement

C) Swadeshi and Boycott Movement

D) Quit India Movement


Answer: C

[Link] to the text, why did the Extremist leaders fail to counter the revolutionaries
ideologically?

A) They supported violence secretly

B) They were in prison

C) They failed to highlight the difference between mass revolution and individual violent
activity

D) They lacked a clear vision for independence

Answer: C

[Link] was the psychological objective of striking terror in the hearts of the rulers?

A) To force immediate negotiations

B) To arouse people and remove the fear of authority

C) To gain international sympathy

D) To cause a total economic collapse

Answer: B

[Link] were the primary targets of assassinations by revolutionaries?

A) All British citizens

B) Unpopular officials, traitors, and informers

C) Only Indian members of the police

D) Members of the Indian National Congress

Answer: B

[Link] movement’s fallout led to the start of the second phase of revolutionary activities?

A) Swadeshi Movement

B) Khilafat Movement

C) Non-Cooperation Movement

D) Home Rule Movement

Answer: C
[Link] did the youth turn to physical force for independence?

A) They were bored with peaceful protests

B) Peaceful avenues were closed due to government repression

C) They were inspired by the British Army

D) They wanted to test new weapons

Answer: B

[Link] first revolutionary groups in Bengal (1902) were organized in Midnapore under
whom?

A) Promotha Mitter

B) Barindra Kumar Ghosh

C) Jnanendranath Basu

D) Jatindranath Banerjee

Answer: C

Section 2: Bengal Revolutionary Activities

[Link] was the Anushilan Samiti founded in 1902?

A) Midnapore

B) Calcutta

C) Dacca

D) Chittagong

Answer: B

[Link] were the founding members of the Calcutta Anushilan Samiti?

A) Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh

B) Promotha Mitter, Jatindranath Banerjee, and Barindra Kumar Ghosh

C) Savarkar brothers

D) Rashbehari Bose and Sachin Sanyal

Answer: B
[Link] weekly newspaper was started by Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath
Dutta in 1906?

A) Kesari

B) Sandhya

C) Yugantar

D) Bande Mataram

Answer: C

[Link] phrase “Force must be stopped by force” was published in which journal after the
Barisal Conference?

A) The Indian Sociologist

B) Yugantar

C) Punjabee

D) Kal

Answer: B

[Link] 1907, an abortive attempt was made on the life of which official of Eastern Bengal
and Assam?

A) Sir Andrew Fraser

B) Sir Fuller

C) Magistrate Kingsford

D) Curzon-Wyllie

Answer: B

[Link] was the Lieutenant-Governor whose train revolutionaries tried to derail in


December 1907?

A) Sir Fuller

B) Sir Andrew Fraser

C) Lord Hardinge

D) Jackson
Answer: B

[Link] two revolutionaries threw a bomb at a carriage in Muzaffarpur in 1908?

A) Bhagat Singh and Rajguru

B) Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose

C) Barindra Ghosh and Ullaskar Dutt

D) Satyendranath Bose and Kanailal Dutta

Answer: B

[Link] was the intended target of the 1908 Muzaffarpur bomb attack?

A) Sir Andrew Fraser

B) Magistrate Kingsford

C) Lord Hardinge

D) Curzon-Wyllie

Answer: B

[Link] happened to Prafulla Chaki after the Muzaffarpur incident?

A) He was hanged

B) He escaped to Japan

C) He shot himself dead

D) He turned into a crown witness

Answer: C

[Link] Alipore conspiracy case is also known by what other names?

A) Delhi Conspiracy Case

B) Nasik Conspiracy Case

C) Manicktolla bomb conspiracy or Muraripukur conspiracy

D) Lahore Conspiracy Case

Answer: C

[Link] defended Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore conspiracy case?


A) Motilal Nehru

B) Chittaranjan Das

C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

D) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Answer: B

[Link] was the “approver” (Crown witness) shot dead in jail during the Alipore trial?

A) Narendra Gosain

B) Satyendranath Bose

C) Kanailal Dutta

D) Pulin Das

Answer: A

[Link] revolutionary was known as “Bagha Jatin”?

A) Jnanendranath Basu

B) Jatindranath Mukherjee

C) Jatindranath Banerjee

D) Barindra Kumar Ghosh

Answer: B

[Link] Barrah dacoity of 1908 was organized by which group?

A) Yugantar

B) Dacca Anushilan

C) Abhinav Bharat

D) Ghadrites

Answer: B

[Link] led the Dacca Anushilan Samiti during the Barrah dacoity?

A) Rashbehari Bose

B) Pulin Das
C) Sachin Sanyal

D) Bagha Jatin

Answer: B

Section 3: Major Conspiracies and Leaders

[Link] staged the bomb attack on Viceroy Hardinge in Delhi in 1912?

A) Khudiram Bose

B) Madanlal Dhingra

C) Rashbehari Bose and Sachin Sanyal

D) Chapekar brothers

Answer: C

[Link] was the bomb thrown at Viceroy Hardinge?

A) Red Fort

B) Chandni Chowk

C) India Gate

D) Parliament House

Answer: B

[Link] of the following was NOT executed in the Delhi Conspiracy trial?

A) Basant Kumar Biswas

B) Amir Chand

C) Avadh Behari

D) Rashbehari Bose

Answer: D

[Link] did Rashbehari Bose evade arrest after the Delhi conspiracy?

A) He hid in a temple

B) He escaped donning a disguise

C) He surrendered and was acquitted


D) He fought the police in a gun battle

Answer: B

[Link] was the name of the plan to bring German arms into India during WWI?

A) The Berlin Plan

B) The Zimmerman Plan (or German Plot)

C) The Ghadr Plan

D) The Kabul Mission

Answer: B

[Link] Jatin died after a gunfight with the police in which location?

A) Calcutta

B) Muzaffarpur

C) Balasore

D) Nasik

Answer: C

[Link] were the funds raised through taxicab and boat dacoities intended for?

A) To build a school

B) To fund the Indo-German conspiracy

C) To support the families of martyrs

D) To start a new newspaper

Answer: B

[Link] said “We shall die to awaken the nation”?

A) Aurobindo Ghosh

B) Bagha Jatin

C) Bhagat Singh

D) V.D. Savarkar

Answer: B
[Link] was a major reason for Muslims staying aloof from the revolutionary movement in
Bengal?

A) They supported the British

B) Overemphasis on Hindu religion

C) They had their own revolutionary groups

D) They were not invited

Answer: B

[Link] first revolutionary activity in Maharashtra was the Ramosi Peasant Force (1879)
organized by whom?

A) Tilak

B) Savarkar

C) Vasudev Balwant Phadke

D) Chapekar brothers

Answer: C

Section 4: Maharashtra and Punjab

[Link] festivals did Tilak use to propagate militant nationalism?

A) Diwali and Holi

B) Ganapati and Shivaji festivals

C) Baisakhi and Lohri

D) Durga Puja

Answer: B

[Link] Chapekar brothers murdered the Plague Commissioner of Poona in 1897. Who was
he?

A) Jackson

B) Curzon-Wyllie

C) Rand

D) Saunders
Answer: C

[Link] secret society was organized by Savarkar in 1899?

A) Anushilan Samiti

B) Mitra Mela

C) Bharat Mata Society

D) Yugantar

Answer: B

[Link] Mela merged into which organization in 1904?

A) Ghadar Party

B) Abhinav Bharat

C) Indian Home Rule Society

D) Berlin Committee

Answer: B

[Link] killed the Collector of Nasik, A.M.T. Jackson, in 1909?

A) Madanlal Dhingra

B) Anant Lakshman Kanhere

C) Prafulla Chaki

D) Bhagat Singh

Answer: B

[Link] was the motto of the journal ‘Punjabee’ brought out by Lala Lajpat Rai?

A) Inquilab Zindabad

B) Self-help at any cost

C) Swaraj is my birthright

D) Force against Force

Answer: B

[Link] organized the ‘Anjuman-i-Mohisban-i-Watan’ in Lahore?


A) Lala Lajpat Rai

B) Ajit Singh

C) Rashbehari Bose

D) Bhai Parmanand

Answer: B

[Link] was the journal of Ajit Singh’s extremist group called?

A) Kesari

B) Bharat Mata

C) Sandhya

D) The Indian Sociologist

Answer: B

[Link] act was passed in 1915 primarily to smash the Ghadr movement?

A) Rowlatt Act

B) Vernacular Press Act

C) Defence of India Act

D) Arms Act

Answer: C

[Link] was Bhagat Singh’s uncle who was a prominent revolutionary in Punjab?

A) Lala Lajpat Rai

B) Ajit Singh

C) Bhai Parmanand

D) Kartar Singh Saraba

Answer: B

[Link] caused the decline of extremism in Punjab in May 1907?

A) A failed assassination attempt

B) Ban on political meetings and deportation of Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh
C) Lack of funds

D) Influence of Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: B

[Link] which country did Rashbehari Bose escape in 1915?

A) Germany

B) USA

C) Japan

D) Afghanistan

Answer: C

[Link] Maharashtra, which cities emerged as centers of bomb manufacture?

A) Nasik, Poona, and Bombay

B) Nagpur and Aurangabad

C) Solapur and Satara

D) Wardha and Ahmednagar

Answer: A

[Link] was the “brain, leader, and moving spirit” behind the Nasik conspiracy?

A) Tilak

B) Savarkar

C) Bagha Jatin

D) Lala Hardayal

Answer: B

[Link] organization was modeled after Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’?

A) Anushilan Samiti

B) Abhinav Bharat

C) Ghadar Party

D) Berlin Committee
Answer: B

Section 5: Revolutionary Activities Abroad

[Link] started the ‘India House’ in London in 1905?

A) V.D. Savarkar

B) Lala Hardayal

C) Shyamji Krishnavarma

D) Madam Bhikaji Cama

Answer: C

[Link] was the name of the journal published by Shyamji Krishnavarma?

A) Bande Mataram

B) The Indian Sociologist

C) Talwar

D) Ghadar

Answer: B

[Link] revolutionary assassinated Curzon-Wyllie in London in 1909?

A) Anant Kanhere

B) Madanlal Dhingra

C) Khudiram Bose

D) Udham Singh

Answer: B

[Link] Bhikaji Cama brought out which journal from Paris and Geneva?

A) Yugantar

B) Bande Mataram

C) The Indian Sociologist

D) Kesari

Answer: B
[Link] was the headquarters (Yugantar Ashram) of the Ghadar Party located?

A) London

B) Vancouver

C) San Francisco

D) Berlin

Answer: C

[Link] Ghadr Party was organized around which weekly newspaper?

A) The Talwar

B) The Ghadr

C) India House

D) Free Hindustan

Answer: B

[Link] was the primary moving spirit and organizer of the Ghadr Party?

A) Rashbehari Bose

B) Lala Hardayal

C) Sachin Sanyal

D) Shyamji Krishnavarma

Answer: B

[Link] ‘Swadesh Sevak Home’ was set up in which city?

A) Seattle

B) San Francisco

C) Vancouver

D) London

Answer: C

[Link] ship was involved in the 1914 incident where 370 passengers were turned back
from Canada?
A) SS Titanic

B) Komagata Maru

C) SS Rajputana

D) INS Vikrant

Answer: B

[Link] did the Komagata Maru ship finally anchor in India in September 1914?

A) Bombay

B) Madras

C) Calcutta (Budge Budge)

D) Surat

Answer: C

[Link] many people died in the conflict with the police at Budge Budge?

A) 10

B) 22

C) 50

D) 100

Answer: B

[Link] was the date fixed by Ghadrites for an armed revolt in India?

A) August 15, 1915

B) February 21, 1915

C) January 26, 1915

D) December 12, 1914

Answer: B

[Link] Berlin Committee for Indian Independence was established in 1915 by whom?

A) Lala Hardayal

B) Virendranath Chattopadhyaya
C) Madam Cama

D) Shyamji Krishnavarma

Answer: B

64.A ‘provisional Indian government’ was organized in Kabul by whom?

A) Subhash Chandra Bose

B) Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, Barkatullah, and Obaidullah Sindhi

C) Rashbehari Bose

D) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: B

[Link] Singapore Mutiny of 1915 was carried out by which units?

A) 1st Gorkha Rifles

B) 5th Light Infantry and 36th Sikh battalion

C) Bengal Army

D) Madras Regiment

Answer: B

Section 6: Evaluation and Summary

[Link] was the main achievement of the Ghadr movement according to the text?

A) It liberated Punjab

B) It successfully assassinated many officials

C) It preached militant nationalism with a completely secular approach

D) It established a permanent army

Answer: C

[Link] did the Ghadrites fail politically and militarily?

A) They were pro-British

B) They lacked organized leadership and underestimated preparation

C) They had too much money


D) The Indian public hated them

Answer: B

[Link] was considered “unsuited for the job of an organiser” among the Ghadr leaders?

A) Kartar Singh Saraba

B) Lala Hardayal

C) Barkatullah

D) Ramchandra

Answer: B

[Link] statement by Montagu in 1917 contributed to the cooling of revolutionary


passions?

A) Declaration of War

B) August 1917 statement regarding constitutional reforms

C) Partition of Bengal

D) Announcement of the Rowlatt Act

Answer: B

[Link] arrival on the political scene offered a new hope of non-violent struggle?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Subhash Chandra Bose

C) Mahatma Gandhi

D) Sardar Patel

Answer: C

[Link] journal was NOT associated with revolutionary activities in Bengal?

A) Sandhya

B) Yugantar

C) Kal (Note: Kal was in Maharashtra)

D) Bande Mataram
Answer: C

[Link] “Zimmerman Plan” was also known as what?

A) The Alipore Plot

B) The Indo-German Conspiracy

C) The Delhi Conspiracy

D) The Nasik Case

Answer: B

[Link] which year did the Alipore conspiracy case take place?

A) 1905

B) 1908

C) 1912

D) 1915

Answer: B

[Link] revolutionary activities in Bengal were severely limited by what social factor?

A) Lack of education

B) Narrow upper caste social base

C) Extreme poverty

D) Pro-British sentiment

Answer: B

[Link] revolutionary group was founded by Promotha Mitter?

A) Ghadar Party

B) Anushilan Samiti

C) Abhinav Bharat

D) Berlin Committee

Answer: B

Section 7: Additional Fact-Check MCQs


[Link] the Delhi Conspiracy trial, who was known as the person behind the plan but evaded
arrest?

A) Sachin Sanyal

B) Rashbehari Bose

C) Bagha Jatin

D) Basant Kumar Biswas

Answer: B

[Link] leader’s house was on Muraripukur Road, giving the conspiracy one of its names?

A) Aurobindo Ghosh

B) Barindra Kumar Ghosh

C) Pulin Das

D) Jnanendranath Basu

Answer: B

[Link] was the punishment initially given to Barindra Ghosh and Ullaskar Dutt?

A) Life imprisonment

B) Death penalty

C) Deportation to London

D) Fine of 10,000 rupees

Answer: B

[Link] were the two co-accused who shot the approver Narendra Gosain in jail?

A) Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose

B) Satyendranath Bose and Kanailal Dutta

C) Barindra Ghosh and Aurobindo Ghosh

D) Basant Kumar Biswas and Amir Chand

Answer: B

[Link] February 1910, where was a deputy superintendent of police shot dead?
A) Outside a temple

B) Leaving the Calcutta High Court

C) At a railway station

D) In his own house

Answer: B

[Link] 8: Bengal and Northern India (81-110)

What was the “taxicab dacoity” associated with?

A) The Ghadr Party in San Francisco

B) The Jugantar party to work out the Indo-German conspiracy

C) The Dacca Anushilan Samiti’s fund-raising

D) The Ramosi Peasant Force

Answer: B

[Link] was asked by Jatin Mukherjee to take charge of Upper India for an insurrection?

A) Sachin Sanyal

B) Rashbehari Bose

C) Lala Hardayal

D) Barindra Ghosh

Answer: B

[Link] “German Plot” was intended to involve a mutiny by which forces?

A) The British Royal Navy

B) The Indian Armed Forces

C) The Ramosi Peasant Force

D) The Russian Nihilists

Answer: B

[Link] fort was planned to be seized during the Zimmerman Plan?

A) Red Fort
B) Fort St. George

C) Fort William

D) Gwalior Fort

Answer: C

[Link] did the German Plot fail?

A) Germany refused to send arms

B) The plot was leaked by a traitor

C) The revolutionaries were killed in a train crash

D) The Indian people protested against it

Answer: B

[Link] what year did Bagha Jatin die?

A) 1908

B) 1912

C) 1915

D) 1917

Answer: C

[Link] “Delhi Conspiracy Trial” followed an assassination attempt on whom?

A) Lord Curzon

B) Lord Hardinge

C) Andrew Fraser

D) Magistrate Kingsford

Answer: B

[Link] city became the new capital of India in 1912?

A) Calcutta

B) Bombay

C) Delhi
D) Madras

Answer: C

[Link] was the maker of bombs in the Alipore Conspiracy case?

A) Aurobindo Ghosh

B) Ullaskar Dutt

C) Kanailal Dutta

D) Prafulla Chaki

Answer: B

[Link] was the alternative name for the Alipore Conspiracy case involving Muraripukur
Road?

A) Manicktolla bomb conspiracy

B) Nasik conspiracy

C) Dacca dacoity

D) Berlin Committee plot

Answer: A

[Link] was the sentence for Aurobindo Ghosh in the Alipore case?

A) Death penalty

B) Life in prison

C) Acquitted of all charges

D) Transportation for life

Answer: C

[Link] revolutionary was executed for the Delhi Conspiracy?

A) Rashbehari Bose

B) Basant Kumar Biswas

C) Sachin Sanyal

D) Bagha Jatin
Answer: B

[Link] among the following was an associate of Ajit Singh in Punjab?

A) Sufi Ambaprasad

B) Pulin Das

C) Anant Kanhere

D) Madanlal Dhingra

Answer: A

[Link] western Anushilan Samiti emerged as which party under Jatin Mukherjee?

A) Ghadar Party

B) Jugantar

C) Mitra Mela

D) Ramosi Force

Answer: B

[Link] did Bagha Jatin wait for the delivery of German arms?

A) Calcutta

B) Balasore

C) Dacca

D) Singapore

Answer: B

[Link] Punjab, what fueled extremism besides the events in Bengal?

A) Religious riots

B) Rise in land revenue and irrigation tax

C) A ban on the Urdu language

D) The establishment of India House

Answer: B

[Link] was the radical Urdu poet active in the Punjab extremism?
A) Aga Haidar

B) Lalchand ‘Falak’

C) Syed Haider Raza

D) Bhai Parmanand

Answer: B

[Link] Punjabi leader was deported alongside Lala Lajpat Rai in 1907?

A) Bhagat Singh

B) Ajit Singh

C) Kartar Singh Saraba

D) Rashbehari Bose

Answer: B

[Link] first phase of revolutionary activities ended around which year?

A) 1912

B) 1915

C) 1917

D) 1920

Answer: C

[Link] social base did the revolutionary movement in Bengal primarily have?

A) Peasant-based

B) Narrow upper caste

C) Working class

D) Pan-Islamic

Answer: B

[Link] journal was published in Bengal to advocate revolutionary activity?

A) Kal

B) Kesari
C) Sandhya

D) Bharat Mata

Answer: C

102.“Force must be stopped by force” was a response to which event?

A) Alipore trial

B) Barisal Conference

C) Delhi Durbar

D) Partition of Bengal

Answer: B

[Link] founded the Anjuman-i-Mohisban-i-Watan?

A) Lala Lajpat Rai

B) Ajit Singh

C) Bhai Parmanand

D) Aga Haidar

Answer: B

[Link] the Alipore case, Barindra Ghosh’s death penalty was commuted to what?

A) Deportation to London

B) Life in prison

C) 10 years hard labor

D) Execution by hanging

Answer: B

[Link] was the public prosecutor shot dead in Calcutta in 1909?

A) Narendra Gosain

B) Andrew Fraser

C) An unnamed public prosecutor

D) Jackson
Answer: C

[Link] 1912 Delhi bomb attack took place during which event?

A) A political rally

B) A religious festival

C) Official entry into the new capital

D) A secret meeting

Answer: C

[Link] was the maker of bombs mentioned alongside Barindra Ghosh?

A) Ullaskar Dutt

B) Prafulla Chaki

C) Sachin Sanyal

D) Basant Kumar Biswas

Answer: A

[Link] was the charge against the Ghosh brothers in the Alipore case?

A) Tax evasion

B) Waging war against the King

C) Conducting dacoities

D) Disobeying the Press Act

Answer: B

[Link] did the state respond to the revolutionary heroism of the youth?

A) By granting immediate independence

B) By offering constitutional reforms in 1907

C) With heavy State repression

D) By ignoring the activities

Answer: C

[Link] second phase of revolutionary activity followed which movement?


A) Swadeshi

B) Non-Cooperation

C) Civil Disobedience

D) Quit India

Answer: B

Section 9: Maharashtra and Punjab Details (111-140)

[Link] were the “Chapekar brothers”?

A) V.D. and G.D. Savarkar

B) Damodar and Balkrishna

C) Barindra and Aurobindo

D) Kartar and Raghubar

Answer: B

[Link] what year did the Chapekar brothers murder Rand?

A) 1879

B) 1897

C) 1899

D) 1904

Answer: B

[Link] was the British officer killed alongside Rand in 1897?

A) Lt. Ayerst

B) Sir Fuller

C) Curzon-Wyllie

D) A.M.T. Jackson

Answer: A

[Link] secret society was founded in 1904?

A) Mitra Mela
B) Abhinav Bharat

C) Anushilan Samiti

D) Ghadr Party

Answer: B

115.A.M.T. Jackson, killed in 1909, was the Collector of which district?

A) Poona

B) Nasik

C) Bombay

D) Nagpur

Answer: B

[Link] was described as being what kind of scholar?

A) Scientist

B) Indologist

C) Economist

D) Mathematician

Answer: B

[Link] was V.D. Savarkar’s sentence in the Nasik conspiracy case?

A) Death penalty

B) Transportation for life and forfeiture of property

C) 5 years of house arrest

D) Acquittal

Answer: B

[Link] journal was published in Maharashtra to advocate revolutionary activities?

A) Sandhya

B) Kal

C) Punjabee
D) Bande Mataram

Answer: B

[Link] was the primary goal of the Ramosi Peasant Force?

A) To lower farm taxes

B) To rid the country of British by disrupting communications

C) To support the Indian National Congress

D) To fight against the zamindars

Answer: B

[Link]’s journals were Kesari and which other?

A) Maharatta

B) Punjabee

C) Yugantar

D) The Sociologist

Answer: A

[Link] were the “Ali brothers” mentioned in the context of internment?

A) Extremist leaders from Punjab

B) Radical pan-Islamists interned during WWI

C) Founders of the Anushilan Samiti

D) Members of the Berlin Committee

Answer: B

[Link] issue fueled Punjab extremism besides taxes and famines?

A) The Partition of Bengal

B) Practice of ‘begar’ by zamindars

C) The murder of Curzon-Wyllie

D) The founding of the Ghadr Party

Answer: B
[Link] Punjab leader urged non-payment of revenue and water rates?

A) Ajit Singh

B) Lala Lajpat Rai

C) Bhai Parmanand

D) Aga Haidar

Answer: A

[Link] 1907, what did Ajit Singh and Lala Hardayal develop into?

A) Members of the British Parliament

B) Full-scale revolutionaries

C) Peaceful protesters

D) Judges

Answer: B

[Link] Bose escaped to Japan in which year?

A) 1907

B) 1912

C) 1915

D) 1917

Answer: C

[Link] leader later played an important part in founding the Indian National Army?

A) Bagha Jatin

B) Rashbehari Bose

C) V.D. Savarkar

D) Lala Lajpat Rai

Answer: B

[Link] type of rising did Rashbehari Bose discuss with Jatin in 1913?

A) A peaceful protest
B) An all-India armed rising of 1857 type

C) A student strike

D) A boycott of foreign goods

Answer: B

[Link] was the “United India House” located?

A) London

B) Vancouver

C) Seattle

D) San Francisco

Answer: C

[Link] reached the USA in 1911 and became a key Ghadr activist?

A) Taraknath Das

B) Sohan Singh Bhakna

C) Lala Hardayal

D) Ajit Singh

Answer: C

[Link] “Swadesh Sevak Home” was established in which city?

A) Seattle

B) Vancouver

C) San Francisco

D) London

Answer: B

[Link] revolutionary operated from Paris and Geneva after London became
dangerous?

A) Shyamji Krishnavarma

B) Madam Bhikaji Cama


C) V.D. Savarkar

D) Madanlal Dhingra

Answer: B

[Link] chose Berlin as his base after 1909?

A) Virendranath Chattopadhyaya

B) Lala Hardayal

C) Shyamji Krishnavarma

D) Barkatullah

Answer: A

[Link] Ghadrites intended to bring about a revolt in India during which war?

A) Second World War

B) First World War

C) Boer War

D) Crimean War

Answer: B

[Link] the Singapore Mutiny, who was one of the leaders?

A) Jamadar Chisti Khan

B) Lala Hardayal

C) Rashbehari Bose

D) Bagha Jatin

Answer: A

[Link] Singapore Mutiny occurred on which date?

A) February 15, 1915

B) February 21, 1915

C) December 12, 1912

D) August 15, 1917


Answer: A

[Link] battalion participated in the Singapore Mutiny?

A) 5th Light Infantry

B) 36th Sikh battalion

C) Both A and B

D) Neither A nor B

Answer: C

[Link] was the outcome for the leaders of the Singapore Mutiny?

A) They were acquitted

B) 37 persons were executed

C) They escaped to Japan

D) They were given scholarships

Answer: B

[Link] many people were transported for life after the Singapore Mutiny?

A) 22

B) 37

C) 41

D) 100

Answer: C

[Link] statement by Montagu occurred in 1917?

A) Declaration of Independence

B) August 1917 statement

C) Partition of Punjab

D) Arrest of Gandhi

Answer: B

[Link] release of prisoners under which rules helped cool down passions?
A) Rowlatt Rules

B) Defence of India Rules

C) East India Company Rules

D) Press Act Rules

Answer: B

Section 10: Ghadr and International Missions (141-170)

[Link] were the “moving spirits” behind the Ghadr Party?

A) Lala Hardayal and Ramchandra

B) Bhagwan Singh and Kartar Singh Saraba

C) Barkatullah and Bhai Parmanand

D) All of the above

Answer: D

[Link] Komagata Maru ship carried passengers mainly of which groups?

A) Hindu and Parsi

B) Sikh and Punjabi Muslim

C) Bengali and Tamil

D) Christian and Buddhist

Answer: B

[Link] which city did the Komagata Maru start its journey?

A) Singapore

B) Calcutta

C) Vancouver

D) London

Answer: A

[Link] long did the passengers face privation off the Canadian coast?

A) Two weeks
B) Two months

C) Six months

D) One year

Answer: B

[Link] incident in 1914 created an “explosive situation” in Punjab?

A) Delhi Conspiracy

B) Komagata Maru incident

C) Alipore Bomb case

D) Singapore Mutiny

Answer: B

[Link] Budge Budge conflict happened near which city?

A) Delhi

B) Calcutta

C) Bombay

D) Lahore

Answer: B

[Link] were Kartar Singh Saraba and Raghubar Dayal Gupta?

A) British informers

B) Ghadr leaders who left for India to launch an attack

C) Founders of the Berlin Committee

D) Judges in the Delhi trial

Answer: B

[Link] targeted which group in the Punjab dacoities of 1915?

A) Local farmers

B) Moneylenders and debt records

C) British soldiers only


D) Post offices

Answer: B

[Link] which garrisons was the armed revolt of Feb 21, 1915 planned?

A) Ferozepur, Lahore, and Rawalpindi

B) Calcutta and Dacca

C) Bombay and Poona

D) Madras and Bangalore

Answer: A

[Link] many Ghadrites were hanged after the planned revolt failed?

A) 22

B) 45

C) 100

D) 5

Answer: B

[Link] happened to Sachin Sanyal after the failure of the Ghadr revolt?

A) He was hanged

B) He was transported for life

C) He fled to Japan

D) He was acquitted

Answer: B

[Link] Berlin Committee sent missions to which countries?

A) USA and Canada

B) Baghdad, Persia, Turkey, and Kabul

C) Japan and China

D) France and Ireland

Answer: B
[Link] was the President of the provisional Indian government in Kabul?

A) Barkatullah

B) Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh

C) Obaidullah Sindhi

D) Amanullah

Answer: B

[Link] was the crown prince of Kabul who helped the revolutionaries?

A) Mahendra Pratap

B) Amanullah

C) Obaidullah

D) Hardayal

Answer: B

[Link] Ghadr movement was described as having what ideological approach?

A) Deeply religious

B) Completely secular

C) Pro-monarchy

D) Communal

Answer: B

[Link]-scale detentions without trial were allowed by which act?

A) Press Act

B) Defence of India Act

C) Rowlatt Act

D) Arms Act

Answer: B

[Link] were Maulana Azad and Hasrat Mohani?

A) Ghadr party founders


B) Radical pan-Islamists interned for years

C) Berlin Committee members

D) Leaders of the Singapore Mutiny

Answer: B

[Link] “Berlin Committee for Indian Independence” was founded in which year?

A) 1905

B) 1913

C) 1915

D) 1917

Answer: C

[Link] mission intended to incite rebellion among Indian POWs?

A) Ghadar mission

B) Missions to Baghdad, Persia, and Turkey

C) Zimmerman mission

D) Swadeshi mission

Answer: B

[Link] was the “Yugantar Ashram”?

A) A school in Bengal

B) Headquarters of the Ghadr party in San Francisco

C) A prison in Calcutta

D) Tilak’s home in Poona

Answer: B

[Link] did the Ghadrites publish to promote their cause?

A) Textbooks

B) Revolutionary and anti-imperialist literature

C) Religious hymns
D) Cooking guides

Answer: B

[Link] Ghadrites aimed for a revolt in all British colonies. True or False?

A) True

B) False

Answer: A

[Link] Ghadrites were ex-soldiers and peasants from which region?

A) Bengal

B) Punjab

C) Maharashtra

D) Madras

Answer: B

[Link] term ‘Ghadr’ means what?

A) Peace

B) Revolt/Revolution

C) Sacrifice

D) Victory

Answer: B

[Link] leader’s views are quoted stating the object is to install a national government?

A) Subhash Chandra Bose

B) M.K. Gandhi

C) Madanlal Dhingra

D) B.G. Tilak

Answer: A

[Link] said “Will you not see the writing that these terrorists are writing with their
blood?”
A) B.G. Tilak

B) M.K. Gandhi

C) Subhash Chandra Bose

D) Madanlal Dhingra

Answer: B

[Link] Dhingra’s quote mentions offering blood for whose deliverance?

A) The British King

B) Mother India

C) The Ghadr Party

D) The German Emperor

Answer: B

168.B.G. Tilak’s quote in Kesari (1897) mentions which sacred book?

A) Quran

B) Srimat Bhagvad Gita

C) Bible

D) Vedas

Answer: B

[Link] quote mentions “a frog in a well”?

A) Gandhi’s

B) Tilak’s

C) Subhash Bose’s

D) Dhingra’s

Answer: B

170.“We shall die to awaken the nation” is attributed to whom?

A) Bhagat Singh

B) Bagha Jatin
C) Aurobindo Ghosh

D) V.D. Savarkar

Answer: B

Section 11: Summary and Final Recap (171-200)

[Link] was the first revolutionary group in Midnapore (1902)?

A) Anushilan Samiti

B) Mitra Mela

C) Ghadar Party

D) Jugantar

Answer: A

[Link] “Bande Mataram” journal was edited by whom abroad?

A) Shyamji Krishnavarma

B) Madame Bhikaji Cama

C) Lala Hardayal

D) Ajit Singh

Answer: B

[Link] the end, revolutionary activity was described as what kind of heroism?

A) Calculated

B) Quixotic

C) Mass-based

D) Passive

Answer: B

[Link] did revolutionaries go abroad according to the text?

A) For tourism

B) For shelter and revolutionary literature

C) To join the British Army


D) To study medicine

Answer: B

[Link] Alipore trial judge condemned the evidence against Aurobindo as being what?

A) Solid

B) Flimsy

C) Secret

D) International

Answer: B

[Link] was the “Maker of Bombs” mentioned in the Alipore case?

A) Ullaskar Dutt

B) Barindra Ghosh

C) Kanailal Dutta

D) Aurobindo Ghosh

Answer: A

[Link] conspiracy was also called the Muraripukur conspiracy?

A) Nasik

B) Alipore

C) Delhi

D) Ghadr

Answer: B

[Link] was the result of the gunfight in Balasore?

A) Revolutionaries won

B) Revolutionaries were killed or arrested

C) The British surrendered

D) The German arms were delivered

Answer: B
[Link] did Bagha Jatin die?

A) Hanged

B) Shot and died a hero’s death

C) Old age

D) Fasting

Answer: B

[Link] group founded the weekly Yugantar?

A) An inner circle within Anushilan

B) Abhinav Bharat

C) Ramosi Force

D) India House

Answer: A

[Link] year saw the attempt to derail Sri Andrew Fraser’s train?

A) 1902

B) 1907

C) 1908

D) 1912

Answer: B

[Link] was the victim of the 1908 Muzaffarpur bomb?

A) Kingsford

B) Two British ladies

C) Andrew Fraser

D) Hardinge

Answer: B

[Link] shot himself dead to avoid arrest after the Muzaffarpur bomb?

A) Khudiram Bose
B) Prafulla Chaki

C) Barindra Ghosh

D) Satyendranath Bose

Answer: B

[Link] was tried and hanged for the Muzaffarpur bombing?

A) Prafulla Chaki

B) Khudiram Bose

C) Barindra Ghosh

D) Kanailal Dutta

Answer: B

185.“Force must be stopped by force” was a quote from which weekly?

A) Kesari

B) Yugantar

C) Sandhya

D) Bande Mataram

Answer: B

[Link] were Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath Dutta?

A) Founders of Yugantar

B) Leaders of Ramosi Force

C) Founders of Ghadr Party

D) British officials

Answer: A

[Link] Ramosi Peasant Force aimed to raise funds through what?

A) Donations

B) Dacoities

C) Selling journals
D) Farming

Answer: B

[Link] was the status of the secret societies in Calcutta in the 1870s?

A) Very active

B) Honeycombed but not very active

C) Banned by the King

D) Led by Gandhi

Answer: B

[Link] founded the Indian Home Rule Society in London?

A) Savarkar

B) Shyamji Krishnavarma

C) Lala Hardayal

D) Madam Cama

Answer: B

[Link] scheme did Shyamji Krishnavarma use to bring youth to London?

A) Work permits

B) Scholarship scheme

C) Tourism visas

D) Military recruitment

Answer: B

[Link] did Savarkar and Hardayal become members after moving to London?

A) British Parliament

B) India House

C) Yugantar Ashram

D) Calcutta Anushilan

Answer: B
[Link] was Curzon-Wyllie?

A) A revolutionary

B) An India office bureaucrat

C) A judge in Muzaffarpur

D) A German sympathizer

Answer: B

[Link] was Savarkar extradited and transported for life?

A) 1905

B) 1910

C) 1915

D) 1917

Answer: B

[Link] Ghadrites fixed which date for the 1915 revolt?

A) Feb 21

B) Aug 15

C) Jan 26

D) Dec 25

Answer: A

[Link] was the “ultimate object of the revolutionaries” according to Subhash Bose?

A) Terrorism

B) Revolution to install a national government

C) Religious conversion

D) Cooperation with Britain

Answer: B

[Link] Defence of India Act was passed primarily to smash which movement?

A) Swadeshi
B) Ghadr

C) Ramosi

D) Non-Cooperation

Answer: B

[Link] courts and court-martials were part of which 1915 measures?

A) August Statement

B) Defence of India Act

C) Press Act

D) Berlin Plan

Answer: B

[Link] city was the headquarters for the ‘Ghadr’ weekly?

A) Vancouver

B) San Francisco

C) London

D) Berlin

Answer: B

[Link] first phase of activities was a byproduct of the growth of what?

A) Moderate politics

B) Militant nationalism

C) British education

D) Rural farming

Answer: B

[Link] promised “new hope” and contributed to the decline of revolutionary activity
after 1917?

A) Increased violence

B) The coming of Gandhi with non-violent non-cooperation


C) The end of the First World War

D) Better British leadership

Answer: B

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