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Who is regarded as 'the Mother of the Indian Revolution'?

  1. Rani Lakshmi Bai

  2. Sarojini Naidu

  3. Madame Cama

  4. Priti Lata Wadderdar


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Bhikaji Cama was one the pioneers of India's struggle for independence. On August 21, 1907, an International Socialist Conference was being held at Stuttgart, a city in Germany. It was on this occasion that Bhikaji Rustom Cama unfurled the first version of the Indian national flag. She was popularly known as ‘The Mother of the Indian Revolution’.

Match the national leaders with the epithets by which they were known.

List-I List-II
A. Lala Lajpat Rai (i) Grand old man of India
B. BG Tilak (ii) Iron Man of India
C. CF Andrews (iii) Deenabandhu
D. Vallabhbhai Patel (iv) Lokmanya
E. Dadabhai Naoroji (v) Lion of Punjab
  1. A-i, B-ii, C-iii, D-iv, E-v

  2. A-v, B-iv, C-i, D-ii, E-iii

  3. A-v, B-iv, C-iii, D-ii, E-i

  4. A-v, B-iv, C-ii, D-iii, E-i


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Lala Lajpat Rai - Lion of Punjab
BG Tilak - Lokmanya
CF Andrews - Deenabandhu
Vallabhbhai Patel - Iron Man of India
Dadabhai Naoroji - Grand old man of India

Tilak started his career as a _________.

  1. Writer

  2. Professor

  3. Journalist

  4. Lawyer


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Tilak was a scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and ardent nationalist. He received his law degree in 1879. After finishing his education, he started teaching English and Mathematics at a private school in Poona. He developed the institution into a university college which aimed at educating the masses.

With Whom was the seven-year rule of "missions, omissions and commissions' associated?

  1. Lord Dalhousie

  2. Lord Curzon

  3. Lord Lytton

  4. Lord Mayo


Correct Option: B

The Shivaji Festival was inaugurated by Tilak in ___________.

  1. 1892

  2. 1894

  3. 1902

  4. 1906


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Tilak initiated Ganeshotsav and Shivaji Utsav in 1894 for national awakening. Shivaji Utsav was started on Fort Raigad. He used the traditional festivals to propagate nationalist ideas through songs and speeches.

Tilak was sentenced and transported to _______.

  1. Mandalay

  2. Malaya

  3. Australia

  4. Andaman


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In Kesari, Tilak defended the two young men and called for immediate swaraj. This was followed by the immediate arrest of Tilak by the British on charges of sedition. He was sentenced to a jail term from 1908 to 1914 in Mandalay in Burma. While n prison, he wrote `Gita Rahasya', a treatise on the Bhagavadgita.

Who was in command or the nationalist movement before Gandhi had assumed leadership of the Congress?

  1. C R Das

  2. Motilal Nehru

  3. Lala Lajpat Rai

  4. Lokmanya Tilak


Correct Option: D

Which of the following leader was not associated with extremist leadership of Indian National Congress?

  1. Lokmanya Tilak

  2. Aurobindo Ghosh

  3. Lala Lajpat Rai

  4. A. O. Hume


Correct Option: D

Which of the following trio leaders referred to as Lal, Bal and Pal during the freedom movement?

  1. Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal

  2. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal

  3. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopala Krishna Gokhale

  4. Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and C. Rajagopalachari


Correct Option: A

Which of the following leader was not a moderate leader ?

  1. Dada Bhai Naoroji

  2. Anand Charlu

  3. Bipin Chandra Pal

  4. Madan Mohan Malviya


Correct Option: C