CUET History MCQs Unit XIV Partition through Oral Sources

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

Answer : D

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

Answer : D

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

Answer : C

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

Answer : D

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

Answer : C

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

Answer : B

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

Answer : B

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

Answer : B

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

Answer : C

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

Answer : A

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

Answer : A

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

Answer : C

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

Answer : B

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

Answer : B

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

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) Hindi was made National language
d) Dr. Ambedkar was chairman of the Drafting Committee

Answer : B

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

Answer : D

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

Answer : D