1. Which Charter Act made the provision for open competition for entering into civil service?

a) Charter Act of 1833

b) Charter Act of 1853

c) Govt of India act 1919

d) Govt of India act 1935

A is the right answer

2. Under which Act, a Federal Court was established to interpret the constitution and to settle disputes arising between the Federation and its constituent units?

a) Charter Act of 1833

b) Charter Act of 1853

c) Govt of India act 1919

d) Govt of India act 1935

D is the right answer.

3. Who is considered as the creator of modern police system in India?

a) Lord Cornwallis

b) Lord Bentinck

c) Lord Ripon

d) none of the above

A is the right answer.

4. Which Charter Act abolished the monopoly of the East India Company in Indian trade?

a) Charter Act of 1833

b) Charter Act of 1853

c) Charter Act of 1813

d) none of the above

C is the right answer.

5. Intermediaries were absent in which system of cultivation?

a) Permanent settlement

b) Ryotwari system

c) Mahalwari system

d) All the above

B is the right answer. Ryotwari system resultedin large profit for British as there was no intermediaries.

6. Which is/are the commercial crop(s) cultivated by British India?

a) Indigo

b) Sugar

c) Tea

d) All the above

D is the right answer. Besides these, opium,cotton,raw silk, pepper were also cultivated.

7. Interpolers were English men associated with East India company. They are

a) Intermediators between Company managers and farmers

b) Free Merchants

c) Local language translators

d) None of these

B is the right answer. They were English marchants who indulged in unauthorized private business.

8. In British India, Filatures are associated with the cultivation of

a) Opium

b) Silk

c) Cotton

d) Sugar

B is the right answer. They are workshops set up by the British where cocoons were spun into silk thread for exports.

9. Which one among the following was the major demand of Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928 organised under the leadership of Sardar Vallabhbai Patel?

a) Land to the tiller

b) Increase in wage

c) Rollback of newly hiked revenue rate

d) To implement subsidy for farmers

C is the right answer.

10. The Rowlatt Act was passed to

a) bring about agrarian reforms

b) curtail the national and revolutionary activities

c) have a favourable balance of trade

d) put Second World War criminals on trail

B is the right answer.

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