1. Who was hailed as the Vaikom Veerar (Vaikom Hero) in the 1925 Kanchipuram Session Indian National Congress for his participation in Vaikom Satyagraha?

(a) Narayana Guru

(b) Ayya Vaikundar

(c) E. V. Ramasami

(d) Thycaud Ayya Swami

E. V. Ramasami is the right answer.
E. V. Ramasami (Periyar) came with his wife Nagamma and a group of followers offered Satyagraha on April 14 1924. As the head of the Satyagraha, Periyar was imprisoned twice.

2. Dalawa Kulam is associated with which historical incident of Kerala?

(a) Mapila Lahala

(b) Vaikom Satyagraha

(c) Salt Satyagraha

(d) Quit India

Vaikom Satyagraha is the right answer.
During the time of Avittom Thirunal Bala Rama Varma (1782 – 1810), two hundred Ezhava young men, in and around Vaikom decided to enter the temple and worship. A date was fixed. As they were nearing the temple the King's messenger along with a large number of armed personnels started attacking the unarmed civilians. The dead bodies were collected and buried in the pond at the northeastern side of the temple. It seems Dalawa Kunchukutti Pillai had ordered the massacre; hence the pond came to be known as Dalawa Kulam. The pond is no longer there. It is filled in and the present private bus stand is constructed there.

3. The social reformer who is credited with starting the progressive theater movement of Kerala

(a) V. T. Bhattathiripad

(b) John Abraham

(c) Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi

(d) Vakkom Moulavi

V. T. Bhattathiripad is the right answer.
Adukkalayil Ninnu Arangathekku was the first play in Malayalam to have a definite and concrete social objective and which was produced in 1930 itself as part of a very powerful social reformist movement led by Namboodiri Yogakshema Sabha.

4. Who founded the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana?

(a) Narayana Guru

(b) Chattampi Swamikal

(c) Padmanabhan Palpu

(d) Kumaranasan

Padmanabhan Palpu is the right answer
He is considered as the "political father" of the Ezhavas, who are numerically the largest caste in the region now encompassed by the state of Kerala. In 1903, he founded the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana that had as its first president Narayana Guru.

5. The Kerala poet attended the all India Conferences of the Indian Congress in 1922 and 1927 and rejected a royal honour bestowed upon him by the Prince of Wales during his India visit in 1922

(a) Kumaranasan

(b) Vallathol Narayana Menon

(c) Cherusseri Namboothiri

(d) Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer

Vallathol is the right answer.
Vallathol is regarded as the greatest nationalist poet of Malayalam. Vallathol remained a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and wrote the poem "Ente Gurunathan" ("My Great Teacher") in his praise. At the same time, he felt attracted by the Communist ideology and wrote poems praising the achievements of the Soviet Union. He wrote several patriotic poems hailing India's nationalist movement. Vallathol is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali. He played a prominent role in setting up the Kerala Kalamandalam at Cheruthuruthy, near the banks of Bharathapuzha River. The honorific Mahakavi (Malayalam: "great poet") was applied to him in 1913 after the publication of his Mahakavya Chitrayogam.

6. Who was the only poet in Malayalam who became mahakavi without writing a mahakavyam.

(a) Kumaranasan

(b) Vallathol Narayana Menon

(c) Cherusseri Namboothiri

(d) Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer

Kumaranasan is the right answer.
He wrote the epic poem Buddha Charitha for which he got inspiration from Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia. While in Duravastha, he revealed his revolutionary zeal for fighting caste distinctions; a few other poetic works had a distinct Hindu/Buddhist slant. A highly philosophical poem, 'Veena Poovu' is an allegory of the transience of the mortal world, which is depicted through the description of the varied stages in the life of a flower. The first word Ha, and the last word Kashtam of the entire poem is often considered as a symbolism of him calling the world outside "Ha! kashtam".
Ulloor published his mahakavya Umakeralam in 1914. Until then, only Pandalam Kerala Varma's Rukmamgadacharitham was considered as a complete mahakavya in Malayalam.

7. Who was the founder and publisher of the newspaper Swadeshabhimani which was banned and confiscated by the Government of Travancore in 1910 due to its criticisms against the government and the Diwan of Travancore, P.Rajagopalachari.

(a) Narayana Guru

(b) Chattampi Swamikal

(c) Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi

(d) Vakkom Moulavi

Vakkom Moulavi is the right answer.
Maulavi started the Swadeshabhimani newspaper on 19 January 1905, declaring that the paper will not hesitate to expose injustices to the people in any form, but on 26 September 1910, the newspaper and press were sealed and confiscated by the British Police, and the editor Ramakrishna Pillai was arrested and banished from Travancore to Thirunelveli. Maulavi was considered one of greatest reformers in the Kerala Muslim community, and is sometimes referred to as the "father of muslim renaissance".

8. The schools in Kerala came to be colloquially known as pallikudam because of

(a) Mother Theresa

(b) Alphonsama

(c) Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi

(d) Chavara Kuriakose Kathanar

Chavara Kuriakose Kathanar is the right answer.
In 1864, while he was serving as the Vicar General of Syrian Catholics, he ordered to start a school along with every church (palli) which was successful in making free education available for everyone. Thus schools in Kerala came to be known as pallikudam.

9. The social reformer who was responsible for introducing noon day meals in schools, a practice later adopted by the rulers of Travancore and then by the Indian government?

(a) Narayana Guru

(b) Chavara Kuriakose Kathanar

(c) Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi

(d) Vakkom Moulavi

Chavara Kuriakose Kathanar is the right answer.

10. The social reformer who found the third printing press in Kerala and the first press founded by a Malayali without the help of foreigners

(a) Narayana Guru

(b) Chattampi Swamikal

(c) Brahmananda Swami Sivayogi

(d) Kuriakose Kathanar

Chavara Kuriakose Kathanar is the right answer.

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