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1. Symbol of the 1857 independence struggle was
(A) Lotus and Chapatis
(B) Eagle
(C) Scarf
(D) Two swords
2. The birthplace of Maharani Lakshmi Bai, the heroine of the 1857 freedom struggle, is
(A) Agra
(B) Jhansi
(C) Varanasi
(D) Vrindaban
3. Where is the Samadhi of Maharani Lakshmi Bai situated?
(A) Mandla
(B) Mandu
(C) Jabalpur
(D) Gwalior
4. The largest number of soldiers participated in the struggle of 1857 came from
(A) Bengal
(B) Awadh
(C) Bihar
(D) Rajasthan
5. The revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by
(A) Begum of Awadh
(B) Tatya Tope
(C) Rani Lakshmi Bai
(D) Nana Saheb
6. Maharani Lakshmi Bai had combated in last battle against
(A) Hugh Rose
(B) Guff
(C) Niel
(D) Havlock
7. Who among the following was the leader of the revolt during 1857 at Barielly?
(A) Khan Bahadur
(B) Kunwar Singh
(C) Maulvi Ahmad Shah
(D) Virzis Qadir
8. Which one of the following centres of the uprising of 1857 was recaptured by the English?
(A) Jhansi
(B) Meerut
(C) Delhi
(D) Kanpur
9. The first event relating to the war of Independence of 1857 was
(A) Kanpur’s Revolt and taking over the leadership by Nana Saheb
(B) Begum Hazrat Mahal’s leadership of Oudh
(C) Marching of Sepoys to Delhi’s Red Fort
(D) Revolt by Rani of Jhansi
10. What was the main cause of the 1857 revolt?
(A) Public Outrage
(B) Military discontent
(C) Management of Christian Missionaries
(D) Policy of the British Empire
11. The revolutionary woman who led the revolution of 1857 in Oudh was
(A) Lakshmi Bai
(B) Ahilya Bai
(C) Aruna Asaf Ali
(D) Begum Hazrat Mahal
12. Who amongst the following was the leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad?
(A) Nana Saheb
(B) Azimullah
(C) Tatya Tope
(D) Maulvi Liyaqat Ali
13. Who was ‘commander-in-chief’ of Nana Saheb?
(A) Azimullah
(B) Birjis Qadir
(C) Tatya Tope
(D) None of these
14. With reference to the ‘revolt of 1857’ who of the following was betrayed by ‘friend’ captured and put to death by the British?
(A) Nana Saheb
(B) Kunwar Singh
(C) Khan Bahadur Khan
(D) Tatya Tope
15. Indians were assured of many things in the declaration by Queen Victoria in 1858. Which among the following assurances was fulfilled by the British Government?
(A) Policy of annexation will be abandoned
(B) ‘Status quo’ of the native rulers would be maintained
(C) Equal treatment would be given to all subjets, Indians and Europeans
(D) There would be no interference in the social and religious beliefs of the Indians
16. After the revolt of 1857, the British recruited the Soldiers from the
(A) Brahmins of U.P. and Bihar
(B) Bengalis and Orria’s from the East
(C) Gurkhas, Sikhs and Punjabis in the North
(D) Madras presidency and Marathas
17. Who was the leader of revolutionaries in Bihar during the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Namdar Khan
(B) Babu Kunwar Singh
(C) Birsa Munda
(D) Shankar Shah
18. The real name of which one of the following leaders of 1857 was ‘Ram Chandra Pandurang’?
(A) Kunwar Singh
(B) Tatya Tope
(C) Nana Saheb
(D) Mangal Pandey
19. Azimullah Khan was an advisor to
(A) Nana Saheb
(B) Tatya Tope
(C) Rani Lakshmi Bai
(D) Kunwar Singh
20. Who was the leader of 1857 struggle for freedom in Lucknow?
(A) Zeenat Mahal
(B) Nana Saheb
(C) Hazrat Mahal
(D) Tatya Tope
21. Which one of the following commissions is associated with the Army Reorganization after the suppression of the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Public Service Commission
(B) Peel Commission
(C) Hunter Commission
(D) Simon Commission
22. When did Queen Victoria declare the taking over of Indian Administration under British crown?
(A) 1 November, 1858
(B) 31 December, 1857
(C) 6 January, 1958
(D) 17 November, 1859
23. The centre of 1857 revolt in Bihar from 15th July, 1857 to 20th January, 1858 was
(A) Rampur
(B) Hamirpur
(C) Dheerpur
(D) Jagdishpur
24. Who among the following was the leader of the revolution of 1857 in Assam?
(A) Diwan Maniram Dutta
(B) Kandarpeshwar Singh
(C) Purandar Singh
(D) Piali Barua
25. Which person of Jagdishpur took the lead of revolutionaries during the revolt of 1857 A.D.?
(A) Kunwar Singh
(B) Chandra Shekhar
(C) Tirath Singh
(D) Ram Singh
26. Who defeated the joint army of British and Jodhpur during the revolt of 1857?
(A) Tatya Tope
(B) Nawab Vazeer Khan of Tonk
(C) Maharaja Ram Singh
(D) Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa
27. The King of Jagdishpur was
(A) Nana Saheb
(B) Tatya Tope
(C) Lakshmi Bai
(D) Kunwar Singh
28. Who of the following had struggled against Britishers in 1857?
(A) Chandrashekhar Azad
(B) Ramprasad Bilsmil
(C) Shahdat Khan
(D) Makhan Lal Chaturvedi
29. Which amongst the following place was not a centre of the revolution of 1857?
(A) Ajmer
(B) Jaipur
(C) Neemuch
(D) Auwa
30. The Revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet
(A) Mir Taqi Mir
(B) Zauq
(C) Ghalib
(D) Iqbal
31. Who among the following was not associated with the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Tatya Tope
(B) Rani Lakshmi Bai
(C) Bahadur Shah Jafar
(D) Bhagat Singh
32. Who of the following was the bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah
(B) Maulvi Imadadullah
(C) Maulana Fazi-i-Haq Khairabadi
(D) Nawab Liaquat Ali
33. Which dynasty supported British maximum during the 1857 Freedom Movement?
(A) Scindias of Gwalior
(B) Holkers of Indore
(C) Bhonsles of Nagpur
(D) Lodhis of Ramgarh
34. Original residence of Eminent Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib was
(A) Agra
(B) Delhi
(C) Lahore
(D) Lucknow
35. Original residence of Eminent Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib was
(A) Agra
(B) Delhi
(C) Lahore
(D) Lucknow
36. Which one of the following territories was not affected by the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Jhansi
(B) Chittor
(C) Jagdishpur
(D) Lucknow
37. The educated middle class in India
(A) Opposed the revolt of 1857
(B) Supported the revolt of 1857
(C) Remained neutral to the revolt of 1857
(D) Fought against native rulers
38. Who has made Allahabad the emergency headquarters in 1857?
(A) Lord Canning
(B) Lord Cornwallis
(C) Lord Wellesley
(D) Lord William Bentinck
39. Who was the Governor-General of India during the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Lord Dalhousie
(B) Lord Minto
(C) Lord Canning
(D) Lord Bentinck
40. Who was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?
(A) Lord Canning
(B) Lord Dalhousie
(C) Lord Hardinge
(D) Lord Lytton
41. At the time of 1857-Revolt who was the British Commanding Officer at Barrackpore?
(A) Henry Lawrence
(B) Colonel Finnis
(C) Hearsey
(D) Sir Hugh Wheeler
42. What was the main cause of the failure of the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Lack of Hindu-Muslim unity
(B) Lack of common strategy and central organization
(C) Its effect was within limited area
(D) Non-participations of Landlords
43. Who was the British Prime Minister during the Revolt of 1857?
(A) Churchill
(B) Palmerston
(C) Attlee
(D) Gladstone
View Answer44. The British were able to suppress the uprising of 1857 in Rajput state because
(A) The local Rajput rulers did not support revolutionary
(B) The educated middle class supported the British
(C) The soldiers in cantonments were not prepared to accept leadership of revolution from outside Rajasthan
(D) The newspaper could not project the true aim of revolution
View Answer45. First freedom struggle of 1857 failed because
(A) There was lackness of the unity of purpose in Indian sepoys
(B) Generally, Native Kings supported British
(C) British Soldiers were better equipped and organised rather than Indians
(D) All of the above
View Answer46. Modern Historian, who called the Revolt of 1857 as the first Independence War was
(A) Dr. R.C. Mazumdar
(B) Dr. S.N. Sen
(C) V.D. Savarkar
(D) Ashok Mehta
47. Who called the Revolt of 1857 a conspiracy?
(A) Sir James Outram and W. Taylor
(B) Sir John K.
(C) Sir John Lawrence
(D) T.R. Holmes
View Answer48. The statement ‘the so-called first national war of independence was neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence’ is associated with
(A) R.C. Majumdar
(B) S.N. Sen
(C) Tarachand
(D) V.D. Savarkar
View Answer49. The first war of Independence (1857) started from
(A) Lucknow
(B) Jhansi
(C) Meerut
(D) Kanpur
View Answer50. Who among the following was bestowed with the title of Sahebe- Alam Bahadur by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857?
(A) Azimullah
(B) Birjis Qadir
(C) Bakht Khan
(D) Hasan Khan
View Answer51. With which uprising is Mangal Pandey associated?
(A) Barrackpore
(B) Meerut
(C) Delhi
(D) None of these
52. The immediate cause of India’s first war of independence was
(A) Doctrine of Lapse by Lord Dalhousie
(B) Suspicion about British interference in religion
(C) Military discontent
(D) Economic exploitation of India