History MCQs and Answers For Odisha Exam

History MCQs and Answers: History MCQs are very important for OPSC, OSSC, OSSSC & Other State Exams. Aspirants who are willing to apply for the various Government exams 2022 must go through the topics of History for competitive exams, as History is a key part of the syllabus.

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Q1. Where was the Congress Session held in 1907 at which the first split in Congress took place?

(a) Calcutta

(b) Meerut

(d) Surat

S1. Ans. (d)

Sol. The Indian National Congress which was established in 1885 was divided into two groups in the year 1907 session of Surat mainly into in extremists and moderates.

Q2. Subhash Chandra Bose became the President of the Congress Party in _____.

(a) 1932

(b) 1938

(d) 1943

S2. Ans.(b)

Sol. Subhash Chandra Bose became the President of the Congress Party in 1938.

In 1919, Bose headed to London to give the Indian Civil Services (ICS) examination and he was selected. Bose, however, resigned from Civil Services as he believed he could not side with the British.

Q3. “Abhinav Bharat” was founded in 1904 as a secret society of revolutionaries by :

(a) DamodarChapekar

(b) V. D. Savarkar

(d) Khudiram Bose

S3. Ans.(b)

Sol. Abhinav Bharat was a secret society founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in 1904.

Q4. Sir Thomas Roe visited the court of?

(a) Akbar

(b) Jahangir

(d) Aurangazeb

S4. Ans.(b)

Sol. Sir Thomas Roe was an English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. From 1615 to 1618, he was ambassador to the court at Agra, India, of the Great Mughal Ruler, Jahangir.

Q5. When was the Indian national song ‘VandeMataram’ sung for the first time on a political occasion?

(a) 1896 INC session

(b) 1903 INC session

(d) 1900 INC session

S5. Ans.(a)

Sol. The first political occasion when ‘VandeMataram’ was sung was the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.

The 1896 session of the Indian National Congress was held in Calcutta.

The Calcutta session of the INC in 1896 was presided by M. RahmathullaSayani.

Q6. Who among the following Mughal kings had sent Raja Ram Mohan Roy as his envoy to London?

(a) Alamgir II

(b) Shah Alam II

(d) Bahadur Shah II

S6. Ans.(c)

Sol. Akbar II sent Ram Mohan Roy as an ambassador to Britain and gave him the title of Mughal envoy to the Court of St. James, conferring on him the title of Raja.

Q7. The first woman president of Indian National Congress was____.

(a) Sarojini Naidu

(b) SuchetaKriplanai

(d) Annie Besant

S7. Ans.(d)

Sol. The first woman president of Indian National Congress was Annie Besant.

Besant converted to Theosophy in 1889.

She came to India in 1893 for the first time as part of the Theosophical Society.

Besant Launched All Indian hoem rule league in 1916 along with Balgangadhartilak.

Q8. Mutiny of 1857 was described as the First Indian War of Independence by –

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(b) Subhash Chandra Bose

(d) V. D. Savarkar

S8. Ans.(d)

Sol. Mutiny of 1857 was described as the First Indian War of Independence by V D Savarkar. It began on May 10 in the year 1857.

Q9. The Annual Session of the Congress in 1907 was held at:

(a) Tripura

(b) Surat

(d) Ahmedabad

S9. Ans.(b)

Sol. The Annual Session of the Congress in 1907 was held at Surat.

The Surat Split at the Surat session in 1907 was the division of the Indian National Congress into two parties – the Radicals and the Moderates.

Q10. The ‘Cabinet Mission’ of 1946 was led by

(a) Lord Linlithgow

(b) Lord Mountbatten

(d) Sir Montford

S10. Ans.(c)

Sol. Cabinet Mission of 1946 to India aimed to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British government to Indian leadership to provide India with independence. Formulated at the initiative of Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the mission had Lord Pethick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander.

Q11. Who was the European President of INC?

(a) Badruddin Tyabji

(b) W.C. Bonnerjee

(d) None

S11. Ans.(c)

Sol. In 1888 Allahabad, George Yule was the First European President of INC

Q12. Who raised the slogan “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it”?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b)Subhash Chandra Bose

(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

S12. Ans.(c)

Sol. “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it” is slogan raised by Bal Gangadhar Tilak at formation of his Home rule league in 1916.

Q13. To overthrow the British rule, Kuka Movement was organized in

(a) Punjab

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(d) Maharashtra

S13. Ans.(a)

Sol. The Kuka Movement marked the first major reaction of the people in the Punjab to the new political order initiated by the British after 1849.The Namdhari Movement, of which the Kuka Movement was the most important phase, aimed at overthrowing the British rule.

Q14. Who was the editor of the famous newspaper Kesari during the National struggle?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) Muhammad Iqbal

S14. Ans. (c)

Sol. Kesari is a newspaper founded in 1881 by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader of the Indian Independence movement. Bal Gangadhar Tilak used to run his two newspapers, the Kesari, in Marathi and Maratha in English.

Q15. Who was called ‘Grand Old Man of India’?

(a)Dadabhai Naoroji

(b)Jamshedji Tata

(c)Surendranath Bannerjee

(d)C. Rajagopalachari

S15. Ans. (a)

Sol. Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader.

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