Q 1 – Who replaced Mir Jafar as the Nawab after his protest against the Company.
(a) Mir Qasim
(b) Bahadur Shah
(c) Aurangzeb
(d) Alivardhi Khan
Ans – (a) Mir Qasim
Q 2 – Who led the British army at the time of Battle of Plassey?
(a) Vasco-da-Gama
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Robert Clive
Ans – (d) Robert Clive
Q 3 – Who among the following states was annexed on the argument of misgovernment?
(a) Satara(1848)
(b) Sambhalpur (1850)
(c) Udaipur (1852)
(d) Awadh (1856)
Ans – (d) Awadh (1856)
Q 4 – Tipu Sultan stopped export through his kingdom in
(a) 1764
(b) 1772
(c) 1785
(d) 1790
Ans – (c) 1785
Q 5 – Who among the Mughal rulers led the Battle of 1857?
(a) Bahadur Shah
(b) Aurangzeb
(c) Sirajuddaulah
(d) Mir Jafar
Ans- (a) Bahadur Shah
Q 6 – 1st English factory on the Banks of river Hugli was setuped in?
(a) 1651
(b) 1764
(c) 1761
(d) 1696
Ans – (a) 1651
Q 7 – After the death of Arivardi Khan in 1756, who became the Nawab of Bengal?
(a) Murshid Quli Khan
(b) Mir Qasim
(c) Sirajuddaulah
(d) Mir Jafar
Ans – (c) Sirajuddaulah
Q 8 – Who were the three powerful Nawabs of Bengal?
(a) Siraj-ud-Daulah
(b) Murshid Quli Khan
(c) Ali Vardi Khan
(d) All of these
Ans – (d) All of these
Q 9 – The first English factory was set up in the year
(a) 1600
(b) 1651
(c) 1655
(d) 1665
Ans – (b) 1651
Q 10 – The Maratha chiefs were held together in a confederacy under the Peshwa, Who were the members?
(a) Scindia
(b) Holkar
(c) Bhonsle and Gaikwad
(d) All of these
Ans – (d) All of these
Q 11 – Who discovered the sea route to India in 1498?
(a) Columbus
(b) Dutch
(c) East India Company
(d) Vasco-da-Gama
Ans – (d) Vasco-da-Gama
Q 12 – Robert Clive committed suicide in the year
(a) 1770
(b) 1743
(c) 1767
(d) 1774
Ans – (d) 1774
Q 13 – Where did East India Company set up its trading factory?
(a) Son
(b) Ganga
(c) Hugli
(d) None of these
Ans – (c) Hugli
Q 14 – The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in the year
(a) 1743
(b) 1752
(c) 1761
(d) 1763
Ans – (c) 1761
Q 15 – What do you mean by Privy Council?
(a) King’s council
(b) King’s Mansion
(c) king’s kingdom
(d) None of these
Ans – (a) King’s council
Q 16 – Who introduced Doctrine of Lapse?
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Warren Hastings
(c) Maharaja Ranjit Singh
(d) None of these
Ans – (a) Lord Dalhousie
Q 17 – European trading companies were attracted to India due to
(a) cheap land
(b) cheap labour
(c) raw material like cotton silk and spices
(d) none of these
Ans – (c) raw material like cotton silk and spices
Q 18 – Which treaty gave the Divani to British?
(a) Treaty of Bengal
(b) Treaty of Bombay
(c) Treaty of Allahabad
(d) None of these
Ans – (c) Treaty of Allahabad
Q 19 – When was Battle of Plessey fought?
(a) 1757
(b) 1745
(c) 1796
(d) 1723
Ans – (a) 1757
Q 20 – True/False:
a). Whenever the Company saw a threat to its political or economic intersect, it resorted to direct military confrontation. True
b). The British originally came to India to establish colonial supremacy. False
c). Appointment of the Company as Diwan of Bengal in 1765 was done by Nawab of Bengal. True
d). After the death of Aurangzeb Bengal Nawabs refused to grant a concession to the British Company. True
e). The battle of Buxar ended in 1764. True
f). Second Anglo Maratha war was fought in 1757. False
g). The army was known as the sepoy army during the company’s rule. True
Q 21 – Which one was not a trading company?
(a) The Portuguese
(b) The Dutch
(c) The French
(d) The Japanese
Ans – The Japanese
Q 22 – Match the following
| Column I | Column II |
| 1. Awadh | Lord Hastings |
| 2. Supreme Court in Calcutta | Regulating Act of 1773 |
| 3. Haidar Ali | Kitoor (Karnataka today) |
| 4. Rani Channamma | Mysore |
| 5. Doctrine of Lapse | Lord Dalhousie |
| 6. Paramountcy | Misgovernment |
| 7. Tipu Sultan | Kitoor |
| 8. Dalhousie | Punjab |
| 9. Rani Channamma | Mysore |
| 10. Maharaja Ranjit Singh | Doctrine of Lapse |
| 11. Tipu Sultan was killed in | Battle of Plassey |
| 12. Sirajuddaulah lost | Battle of Seringapatam |
Ans –
| Column I | Column II |
| 1. Awadh | Misgovernment |
| 2. Supreme Court in Calcutta | Regulating Act of 1773 |
| 3. Haidar Ali | Mysore |
| 4. Rani Channamma | Kitoor (Karnataka today) |
| 5. Doctrine of Lapse | Lord Dalhousie |
| 6. Paramountcy | Lord Hastings |
| 7. Tipu Sultan | Mysore |
| 8. Dalhousie | Doctrine of Lapse |
| 9. Rani Channamma | Kitoor |
| 10. Maharaja Ranjit Singh | Punjab |
| 11. Tipu Sultan was killed in | Battle of Seringapatam |
| 12. Sirajuddaulah lost | Battle of Plassey |
Q 23 – Fill in the blanks:
- Satara was annexed in the year 1848 under the Doctrine of Lapse policy.
- Warren Hastings the 1st governor-general introduced several administrative reforms in sphere of justice.
- Under the Regulating Act of 1773 a new Supreme Court was established.
- In 1600, the East India Company acquired the royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I the Queen of England.
- The first English factory was set up on the banks of Hugli river.
- Tipu was defeated in the last Battle of Sriangapatna by the Company.
- The First English factory was set up on the banks of the Hugli
- Queen Elizabeth granted the East India Company the sole right to trade with the East
Q 24 – Which one of these was annexed on the basis of Dolhousie’s ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?
(a) Punjab
(b) Awadh
(c) Satara
(d) Hyderabad
Ans – (c) Satara
Q 25 – Rani Channamma was the ruler of
(a) Bengal
(b) Kitoor
(c) Agra
(d) delhi
Ans- (b) Kitoor