Partition of Bengal (1905) and the Indigenous Movement

474. In the context of the Indian Freedom Struggle, 16th October 1905 is well known for which one of the following reasons?
(A) The formal proclamation of the Swadeshi Movement was made in Calcutta town hall
(B) Partition of Bengal came into effect
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji declared that the goal of the Indian National Congress was Swaraj
(D) Lokmanya Tilak started Swadeshi Movement in Poona
Ans: (B)
475. Which of the following occurred last?
(A) Annexation Policy
(B) Partition of Bengal
(C) Permanent Settlement
(D) Subsidiary Alliance
Ans: (B)
476. Which movement started after the Partition of Bengal?
(A) Civil Disobedience
(B) Swadeshi Movement
(C) Quit India Movement
(D) Non-co-operation Movement
Ans: (B)
477. Name the Viceroy of India concerned with the Bengal partition.
(A) Lord Hardinge
(B) Lord Curzon
(C) Lord Lytton
(D) Lord Minto
Ans: (B)
478. Anti-partition movement of Bengal was initiated on
(A) 20th July 1905
(B) 7th August 1905
(C) 16th October 1905
(D) 7th November 1905
Ans: (B)
479. Who among the following led the agitation against the partition of Bengal (1905)?
(A) Surendra Nath Banerjee
(B) C.R. Das
(C) Ashutosh Mukherjee
(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Ans: (A)
480. The Lieutenant Governor of Bengal at the time of the Partition of Bengal was
(A) Sir Andrew Fraser
(B) H.H. Risley
(C) Brodrick
(D) A.T. Arundel
Ans: (A)
481. Who was the first to suggest the boycott of British goods in Bengal?
(A) Aurobindo Ghosh
(B) Krishna Kumar Mitra
(C) Motilal Ghosh
(D) Satish Chandra Mukherjee
Ans: (B)
482. Who among the following were the critics of the Swadeshi movement and pleaded for a better understanding between the East and the West?
(A) W.C. Banerjee
(B) S.N. Banerjee
(C) R.N. Tagore
(D) B.G. Tilak
Ans: (C)
483. Partition of Bengal was done mainly for
(A) To divide the Hindu and Muslims
(B) For administrative convenience
(C) To weaken the growth of Nationalism in Bengal
(D) For the development of Bengal
Ans: (C)
484. Boycott of British goods was adopted as a national policy in
(A) 1899 

(B) 1901
(C) 1903 

(D) 1905
Ans: (D)
485. What was the immediate cause for the launch of the Swadeshi Movement?
(A) The partition of Bengal was done by Lord Curzon
(B) A sentence of 18 months of rigorous imprisonment was imposed on Lokmanya Tilak
(C) The arrest and deportation of Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh; and the passing of the Punjab Colonization Bill
(D) Death sentence pronounced on the Chapekar brothers
Ans: (A)
486. The ‘Swadeshi’ and ‘Boycott’ were adopted as methods of struggle for the first time during the
(A) agitation against the Partition of Bengal
(B) Home Rule Movement
(C) Non-co-operation Movement
(D) visit of the Simon Commission to India
Ans: (A)
487. In which year partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon was cancelled?
(A) 1911
(B) 1904
(C) 1906
(D) 1907
Ans: (A)
488. Bengal was partitioned in 1905, but due to opposition it was again divided in
(A) 1906 

(B) 1916
(C) 1911 

(D) 1909
Ans: (C)
489. The Partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon in 1905 lasted until
(A) The First World War, when Indian troops were needed by the British and the partition, was ended
(B) King George V abrogated Curzon’s Act at the Royal Durbar in Delhi in 1911
(C) Gandhi launched his Civil Disobedience Movement
(D) The Partition of India in 1947 when East Bengal became East Pakistan
Ans: (B)
490. When was Bengal reunited due to the protests by Indians?
(A) 1905
(B) 1911
(C) 1947
(D) 1971
Ans: (B)
491. Who among the following led the Swadeshi Movement at Delhi?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Ajit Singh
(C) Lajpat Rai
(D) Syed Haidar Raja
Ans: (D)
492. Who was the leader of the Swadeshi Movement in Madras?
(A) Srinivas Shastri
(B) Rajagopalachari
(C) Chidambaram Pillai
(D) Chintamani
Ans: (C)
493. With reference to the period of the extremist nationalist movement in India with its spirit of Swadeshi, which one of the following statements is not correct?
(A) Liyakat Hussain led the Muslim peasants of Barisal in their agitations
(B) In 1889, the scheme of national education was formulated by Satish Chandra Mukherjee
(C) The Bengal National College was founded in 1906 with Aurobindo as the Principle
(D) Tagore preached the cult of Atmasakti, the main plank of which was the social and economic regeneration of the villages
Ans: (A)
494. Vande Mataram became the theme song of the Indian National Movement during
(A) Swadeshi Movement
(B) Champaran Movement
(C) Anti-movement of Rowlett Act
(D) Non-Cooperation Movement
Ans: (A)
495. The British journalist H.W. Nevinson was associated with
(A) Non-Co-operation Movement
(B) Civil Disobedience Movement
(C) Swadeshi Movement
(D) Quit India Movement
Ans: (C)
496. Which of the statement is not correct regarding the ‘Swadeshi Movement?
(A) Some specific Muslims joined in it
(B) Women’s actively participated in this movement
(C) Neither this movement affected Bengal farmers nor they were joined
(D) It was limited to Bengal
Ans: (D)

497. The following programmes were launched by the nationalist against the partition of Bengal.

1. Boycott

2. Swadeshi

3. Non-Co-operation

4. National education Select the correct answer

(A) 1, 2 and 3 

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 1, 3 and 4 

(D) 1, 2 and 4

Ans: (D)

498. Who among the following had founded the ‘Indian Society of Oriental Art’ to revive ancient art traditions of India?

(A) Abanindranath Tagore

(B) Nand Lal Bose

(C) Asit Kumar Haldar

(D) Amrita Shergill

Ans: (A)