Mock Test-5 (Paper-1) (Question 1-50)

Total Questions: 50

11. Who was the founder of Sayyid dynasty?

Correct Answer: (a) Khizr Khan
Solution:Khizr Khan ibn Malik Sulaiman (reigned 1414-21) was the founder of the Sayyid dynasty, the ruling dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate, in northern India soon after the invasion of Timur and the fall of the Tughlaq dynasty. He was known to be an able administrator.

12. Consider the following:

1. Tughlaqabad Fort

2. Lodhi Garden

3. Qutub Minar

4. Fatehpur Sikri

The correct chronological order in which they were built is

Correct Answer: (b) 3, 1, 2, 4

13. In which battle Mohammad Ghori defeated Jaichand?

Correct Answer: (c) Battle of Chandawar (1194 AD)
Solution:After defeating Prithaviraj Chauhan Gori also attacked on Jayachanda in 1194. This was fought in chandawar place near Agra.

14. Consider the following statements:

Assertion (A): The works of most of the Bhakti Saints became immensely popular.

Reason (R): Most of the works were composed in regional languages and could be sung.

Correct Answer: (c) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
Solution:Bhakti saints preached the message of love and brotherhood through hymns. Their teachings were simple and very popular among masses as they preached in popular languages like Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Hindi and Telgu.

15. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

List-I (Traveller)List-II (Country from)
1. Marco PoloItaly
2. Ibn BattutaMorocco
3. NikitinRussia
4. Seydi Ali ReisTurkey

 

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Correct Answer: (c) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Solution:Marco Polo-Italy, Ibn Battuta-Morocco, Nikitin-Russia and Seydi Ali Reis-Turkey.

16. Which of the following movements drew women out from the seclusion of home?

1. Swadeshi Movement

2. Home Rule Movement

3. Non-Cooperation Movement

4. Civil Disobedience Movement

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Correct Answer: (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Solution:Women participated quite actively in the Indian national movement. They participated in the boycott of foreign goods, picketing of liquor shops, non-payment of taxes and so on.

They also appeared in huge numbers in the Non-cooperation movement of 1921 and the civil disobedience movement of 1930. Some prominent women nationalists were Kalpana Dutt, Bhikaji Cama and Kamladevi Ghattopadhyaya.

Annie Besant, the founder of the Home Rule Movement, too was a prominent leader and advocated the emancipation of the women lot (Indian women).

17. The Simon Commission was boycotted in India because

Correct Answer: (a) There was no Indian member in the commission
Solution:The new Tory government in Britain constituted a statutory commission under Sir John Simon. When the Simon Commission arrived in India in 1928, it was greeted with the slogan Go back Simon'. The problem was that the commission did not have a single Indian member. They were all British.

18. Which politician in British India had opposed to a Pakistan that would mean "Muslim Raj he re and Hindu Raj elsewhere"?

Correct Answer: (b) Sikandar Hayat Khan
Solution:"A Muslim Raj here and a Hindu Raj elsewhere, if that is what Pakistan means, I will have nothing to do with it." Sikander Hayat Khan was opposed to the partition of India.

19. J.E.D. Bethune was closely associated with

Correct Answer: (b) Female education
Solution:The Bethune School, founded in Calcutta was the first fruit of the powerful movement of women's education that arose in the 1840s and 1850s.

20. Which of the following statements about the social reformer, Raja Rammohun Roy, is false ?

Correct Answer: (a) Rammohan Roy belonged to the gentry class whose power had been diminished because of the imposition of the Permanent Settlement.