1.Why did the Congress gave up its deal of a united India and accepted partition ?
(a) The Congress leaders succumbed to the temptation of power and struck a deal with the British
(b) The Congress leaders felt that partition was a lesser evil than a civil war
(c) The country was sinking into a civil war
(d) All of the above

2.Which of the following was not recommended by the Communal Award announced by the British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald ?
(a) To reserve three per cent of seats for women in all Provincial Legislatures except NWFP
(b) To retain the system of separate electorate for the minorities
(c) To recognise the Depressed Classes as minority community and to grant them right of separate electorate
(d) To give proportionate representation to the minorities in the Provincial Governments

3. The main programme of Bengal revolutionary terrorists who came to the fore on account of government repression and frustration caused by the failure of the political struggle was
(a) To have a trial of strength with the British Government
(b) To assassinate unpopular officials after the fashion of the Irish terrorists and the Russian Nihilists
(c) To generate a mass revolution
(d) All of the above

4. The Cripps Proposals included which of the following?
1. India was promised Dominion status
2. A Constitution-making body consisting of the elected representatives from British India and members from the Princely States
3. Setting up of an Executive Council composed of Indians alone
4. It suggested partition of India Select correct answers from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 4

5. List I
A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
C. Rabindranath Tagore
D. Mahatma Gandhi
List II
1. “The British rule is a roller formidable in its weight and power having its uses, but it does not help the soil to become fertile.”
2. “Nationalism is a divinely appointed Shakti of the internal and must do its God Given ork before it returns to the bosom of the  Universal Energy from which it came.”
3. “A true Nationalist desires to build on old foundations. We don’t want to anglicise our institutions and denationalise them in the name of Social and Political Reforms.”
4. “I am not a visionary; I claim to be a practical idealist.”
Codes:
     A B C D
(a) 4 3 1 2
(b) 1 2 3 4
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 3 4 2 1

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