CBSE Class 12 History Understanding Partition MCQs

Question. Who was Penderal Moon ?
(a) Journalist
(b) None of these
(c) Personal Assistant to Mohd. Jinnah
(d) An Administrator in Bahawalpur

Answer : D

Question. Who was the writer of “Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara”?
(a) Pardeep
(b) Sikandar Hayat Khan
(c) Moh(d) Iubal
(d) Satyajit Ray

Answer : C

Question. Who was known as Frontier Gandhi?
(a) Nawab Salimmullah
(b) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(c) Sheikh Abdullah
(d) Maulana Abul Kalam

Answer : B

Question. Hindu Mahasabha was founded in __
(a) 1914
(b) 1913
(c) 1915
(d) 1912

Answer : C

Question. Lucknow pact was signed in
(a) 1916 Dec.
(b) 1917 Jan.
(c) 1929 Dec.
(d) 1915 Jan.

Answer : A

Question. Which of the following is not one of the advantages of oral history?
(a) It is in chronological order
(b) It broadens the scope of history
(c) It explores the experiences of the ignored people
(d) It provides information other than the government policy and official records

Answer : A

Question. Where is Noakhali located?
(a) East Bengal
(b) West Bengal
(c) United Province
(d) Punjab

Answer : A

Question. Urdu speaking people are known as___?
(a) Maranao
(b) Both A and C
(c) Muhajirs
(d) Ansar

Answer : C

Question. Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding the term ‘Communalism’?
(a) Communalism nurtures brotherhood and tolerance among different communities.
(b) Communalism refers to a politics that seeks to unify one community around a religious identity in hostile opposition to another community.
(c) Communalism is a particular kind of politicisation of religious identity
(d) Communalism defines communal identity as fundamental and fixed

Answer : A

Question. In which year Bangladesh got Independence?
(a) 1961
(b) 1971
(c) 1947
(d) 1957

Answer : B

Question. What is Tabligh?
(a) Comedy
(b) Propoganda
(c) Organization
(d) Terror

Answer : B

Question. Consider the following events:
1. Wavel plan
2. Cabinet mission
3. Direct Action Day
4. Formation of interim government
(a) 3, 4, 2, 1
(b) 1, 2, 4, 3
(c) 1, 2, 3, 4
(d) 2, 1, 3, 4

Answer : C

Question. Who proposed the Two Nation theory?
(a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(b) Shaukat Ali
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Answer : A

Question. Who coined the name Pakistan?
(a) None of these
(b) Sikandar Hayat Khan
(c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(d) Chaudhary Rehamt Ali

Answer : D

Question. Khushdeva Singh, a Sikh doctor who was posted in Dharampur was ____ specialist.
(a) Eye
(b) ENT
(c) Skin
(d) Tuberculosis

Answer : D

Question. Which of the following options is correct:
(a) The Constituent Assembly passed the Constitution on 26th November 1949.
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru Favoured a Strong Centre
(c) Dr. Ambedkar was chairman of the Drafting Committee
(d) Hindi was made National language

Answer : B

Question. In which year elections to the provincial legislatures were held for the first time ?
(a) 1937
(b) 1938
(c) 1936
(d) 1985

Answer : A

Question. In which year was the Lucknow Pact signed?
(a) 1918
(b) 1917
(c) 1919
(d) 1916

Answer : D

Question. Who is Sadat Hasan Manto?
(a) Freedom Fighter
(b) Urdu Writer
(c) Hindi Writer
(d) Urdu Journalist

Answer : B

Question. Who wrote ‘The Other Side of Silence’?
(a) Maulana Azad
(b) Prakash Tandon
(c) Urvashi Butalia
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer : C

Question. On which day the Muslim League announced, ‘Direct Action Day’?
(a) 15th August 1945
(b) 16th August 1945
(c) 15th August 1946
(d) 16th August 1946

Answer : D

Question. Choose the correct option:
(a) Muslim League demanded Pakistan in 1940
(b) Cabinet Mission came to India in March 1946
(c) Lord Mountbatten arrived in India in 1947
(d) All of these

Answer : D

Question. Which of the following options is correct:
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru favoured a strong centre.
(b) Dr. Ambedkar was chairman of the Drafting Committee.
(c) The Constituent Assembly passed the Constitution on 26th November 1949.
(d) Hindi was made National language.

Answer : A

Question. A separate Electorate was given to the Muslims in
(a) 1892
(b) 1909
(c) 1919
(d) 1935

Answer : B

Question. The policy of ______ encouraged Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to fight for the right of the Muslims.
(a) Divide and Rule
(b) Addition and Rule
(c) Do or Die
(d) None of the above

Answer : A

Question. Lucknow pact was signed in
(a) Dec. 1929
(b) Jan 1915
(c) Dec. 1916
(d) Jan 1917

Answer : C

Question. The Hindu Mahasabha established in ______ also worked on communal lines.
(a) 1914
(b) 1915
(c) 1916
(d) 1917

Answer : C

Question. Bangladesh was established in
(a) 1948
(b) 1952
(c) 1971
(d) 1975

Answer : C

Question. Mohammad Iqbal was a poet who wrote in the language of:
(a) Urdu
(b) Arabic
(c) Hindi
(d) English

Answer : A

Question. Unionist Party belonged to
(a) Punjab
(b) Bengal
(c) Madras
(d) All of these

Answer : A

Question. The event that brought the British Raj in India to its knees was
(a) Pakistan Resolution
(b) Quit India Movement
(c) Second World War
(d) Provincial elections

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following is not one of the advantages of oral history?
(a) It broadens the scope of history.
(b) It is in chronological order.
(c) It provides information other than the government policy and official records.
(d) It explores the experiences of the ignored people.

Answer : B

Question. Who is the writer of the song ‘Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara’?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Mohammad Iqbal

Answer : D

Question. Direct Action Day was celebrated on
(a) 16 Aug 1943
(b) 26 Jan 1930
(e) 15 Aug 1947
(d) 16 Aug 1946

Answer : D

Question. Choudhry Rehmat Ali, who coined the name Pakistan or 'Pak-stan', was a student at the
(a) Bristol University.
(b) Cambridge University.
(c) Durham University.
(d) Oxford University.

Answer : B

Question. Muslim league was established in
(a) 1906
(b) 1909
(c) 1911
(d) 1916

Answer : A

Question. The Unionist Party, which represented all landlords, was most strong in the province of:
(a) Punjab
(b) Sind
(c) Baluchistan
(d) Bengal

Answer : A

Question. The number of cadres the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) had by 1940 was over
(a) 100,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 400,000.

Answer : A

Question. The Lahore session of the Muslim League in 1940 was presided over by
(a) Choudhry Rehmat Ali.
(b) M. A. Jinnah.
(c) Maulana Azad.
(d) Mohammad Iqbal.

Answer : B

Question. When were separate electorates granted to the Muslims by the colonial rulers?
(a) 1905
(b) 1907
(c) 1908
(d) 1909

Answer : D

Question. Till 1938, many Congressmen attended the meetings of the
(a) Unionist Party
(b) Muslim League
(c) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(d) Hindu Mahasabha

Answer : D

Question. When was the Lucknow Pact signed?
(a) 1915
(b) 1916
(c) 1919
(d) 1921

Answer : B

Question. In which of the following year, elections to the provincial legislatures were held for the first time?
(a) 1906
(b) 1918
(c) 1937
(d) 1947

Answer : C

Question. Many members of the Indian National Congress participated in the meetings of the Hindu Mahasabha till
(a) 1938.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1935.

Answer : A

Question.  ______ of December 1916 was an understanding between the Congress and the Muslim league.
(a) Bombay Pact
(b) Kolkata Pact
(c) Lucknow Pact
(d) Madras Pact

Answer : C

Question. Who gave the ‘Two-Nation’ theory?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(c) Shaukat Ali
(d) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

Answer : B

Question. Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding the Partition of India?
(a) People were rendered homeless.
(b) People lost all of their immovable and movable assets.
(c) Boundary dispute was the main issue of this Partition.
(d) Women were mistreated.

Answer : C

Question. Consider the following events:
Wavel plan
Cabinet mission
Direct Action Day
Formation of interim government.
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 1, 2, 4, 3
(c) 2, 1, 3, 4
(d) 3, 4, 2, 1

Answer : A

Question. When was Hindu Mahasabha founded?
(a) 1915
(b) 1916
(c) 1917
(d) 1918

Answer : A

Question. The main cause of arise of Muslim Communalism was:
(a) Wahabi Movement
(b) Communal preaching by Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan
(c) ‘Divide and rule’ policy of the British
(d) All of the above

Answer : D

Question. How many members were there in the Cabinet Mission (1946)?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

Answer : C

Question. Communalism, in the context of politics, refers to the idea of unifying communities on the basis of:
(a) race
(b) religion
(c) caste
(d) language

Answer : B

Question. Who was known as Frontier Gandhi?
(a) Maulana Abul Kalam
(b) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(c) Sheikh Abdullah
(d) Nawab Salimmullah

Answer : B