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Q. Bakht Kfian was a soldier from
  • (A) Meerut
  • (B) Agra
  • (C) Bareily
  • (D) Delhi
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Bareily
Q. ………….. continued to fight a guerrilla war against British.
  • (A) Rani Lakshmibai
  • (B) Tantia Tope
  • (C) Nana Saheb
  • (D) Peshwa Baji Rao II
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Tantia Tope
Q. Name the rebel who taught guerilla war against British with support of several peasant leaders
  • (A) Tantia Tope
  • (B) Mangal Pandey
  • (C) Bahadur Shah
  • (D) Nana Saheb
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Tantia Tope
Q. Name the son of Begum Hazart Mahal from Lucknow
  • (A) Birjis Qadr
  • (B) Nana Saheb
  • (C) Kunwar Singh
  • (D) Baji Rao
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Birjis Qadr
Q. The place where Bahadur Shah Zafar was sent under the life imprisonment sentence by the British.
  • (A) Lucknow
  • (B) Meerut
  • (C) Delhi
  • (D) Rangoon
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Rangoon
Q. Who wanted to recognise his/her adopted son as the heir of his/her Jhansi kingdom?
  • (A) Nana Saheb
  • (B) Kunwar Singh
  • (C) Birjis Qadr
  • (D) Rani Lakshmibai
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Rani Lakshmibai
Q. Who was proclaimed leader of the Revolt of 1857 from Mughal Empire?
  • (A) Tantia Tope
  • (B) Kunwar Singh
  • (C) Bahadur Shah Zafar
  • (D) Nana Saheb
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Bahadur Shah Zafar
Q. The Mutiny started from
  • (A) Bareilly
  • (B) Delhi
  • (C) Agra
  • (D) Meerut
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Meerut
Q. How many sepoys were dismissed from service and sentenced to ten years in jail on 9 May, 1857?
  • (A) Eighty
  • (B) Eighty-five
  • (C) Ninety
  • (D) Ninety-five
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Eighty-five
Q. The sepoys were angry with the British because
  • (A) of their policy of divide and rule
  • (B) of the cartridge episode
  • (C) of their intolerating behaviour
  • (D) none of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) of the cartridge episode
Q. Which emperor blessed the Mutiny?
  • (A) Mir Zafar
  • (B) Bahadur Shah Zafar
  • (C) Bhakt Khan
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Bahadur Shah Zafar
Q. Who was given the title of viceroy?
  • (A) Chief Commissioner
  • (B) Governor General
  • (C) Forest Manager
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Governor General
Q. Who was Nana Saheb?
  • (A) Son of Peshwa Baji Rao II
  • (B) Son of Rani Lakshmi Bai
  • (C) Son of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Son of Peshwa Baji Rao II
Q. What do you mean by Sepoy?
  • (A) Tribals
  • (B) Peasant
  • (C) Soldier
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Soldier
Q. Which revolt is led by Nana Saheb the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II?
  • (A) Kanpur
  • (B) Awadh
  • (C) Jagdishpur
  • (D) Bithur
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Kanpur
Q. The greased cartridges given to the Indian soldiers was made of what?
  • (A) Fat of the hen
  • (B) Fat of the dog
  • (C) Fat of the goat and the sheep
  • (D) Fat of cow and pig
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Fat of cow and pig
Q. Subsidiary Alliance was imposed on Awadh in
  • (A) 1800
  • (B) 1801
  • (C) 1810
  • (D) 1815
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) 1801
Q. When was law making conversion to Christianity made easier?
  • (A) 1810
  • (B) 1815
  • (C) 1850
  • (D) 1855
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) 1850
Q. Which of the following is the decision taken by British to reform the Indian Society?
  • (A) Law against the practice of Sati
  • (B) They encouraged the remarriage of widow
  • (C) English education was actively promoted
  • (D) All of the above
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of the above
Q. Who was the Indian rulers under the Doctrine of Lapse introduced by Lord Dalhousie?
  • (A) They are not allowed to go out of their states.
  • (B) They could not have relations with foreign powers.
  • (C) They are not allowed to adopt an heir to the throne.
  • (D) could not keep an army.
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) They are not allowed to adopt an heir to the throne.
Q. When did Gangadhar Rao died?
  • (A) 1864
  • (B) 1845
  • (C) 1834
  • (D) 1853
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) 1853
Q. When did the revolt of Meerut break out?
  • (A) 1863
  • (B) 1825
  • (C) 1874
  • (D) 1857
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) 1857
Q. Who led the Revolt in Awadh?
  • (A) Zinat Mahal
  • (B) Lakshmibai
  • (C) Hazrat Mahal
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Hazrat Mahal
Q. When was Gwalior recaptured by British?
  • (A) 1863
  • (B) 1842
  • (C) 1825
  • (D) 1858
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) 1858
Q. Who was Gangadhar Rao?
  • (A) king of Banaras
  • (B) King of Jhansi
  • (C) King of Mewar
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) King of Jhansi
Q. Who published From ‘Sepoy to Subedar’?
  • (A) Wajid Ali Shah
  • (B) Tantia Tope
  • (C) Sitaram Pandey
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Sitaram Pandey
Q. Who was Tantia tope?
  • (A) Nawab of Jhansi
  • (B) King of Jhansi
  • (C) Freedom fighter
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Freedom fighter
Q. What were the effects of the revolt of 1857 on India?
  • (A) End of Mughal Empire
  • (B) Beginning of Mughal Empire
  • (C) End of British Empire
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) End of Mughal Empire
Q. Who was the leaders of the revolt who actively took part in it?
  • (A) Nana Sahib
  • (B) Tantiya Tope
  • (C) Rani Lakshmibai
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these
Q. Who was Mangal Pandey?
  • (A) Soldier
  • (B) Villager
  • (C) King
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Soldier

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Table of contents

  1. Bakht Kfian was a soldier from
  2. ………….. continued to fight a guerrilla war against British.
  3. Name the rebel who taught guerilla war against British with support of several peasant leaders
  4. Name the son of Begum Hazart Mahal from Lucknow
  5. The place where Bahadur Shah Zafar was sent under the life imprisonment sentence by the British.
  6. Who wanted to recognise his/her adopted son as the heir of his/her Jhansi kingdom?
  7. Who was proclaimed leader of the Revolt of 1857 from Mughal Empire?
  8. The Mutiny started from
  9. How many sepoys were dismissed from service and sentenced to ten years in jail on 9 May, 1857?
  10. The sepoys were angry with the British because
  11. Which emperor blessed the Mutiny?
  12. Who was given the title of viceroy?
  13. Who was Nana Saheb?
  14. What do you mean by Sepoy?
  15. Which revolt is led by Nana Saheb the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II?
  16. The greased cartridges given to the Indian soldiers was made of what?
  17. Subsidiary Alliance was imposed on Awadh in
  18. When was law making conversion to Christianity made easier?
  19. Which of the following is the decision taken by British to reform the Indian Society?
  20. Who was the Indian rulers under the Doctrine of Lapse introduced by Lord Dalhousie?
  21. When did Gangadhar Rao died?
  22. When did the revolt of Meerut break out?
  23. Who led the Revolt in Awadh?
  24. When was Gwalior recaptured by British?
  25. Who was Gangadhar Rao?
  26. Who published From ‘Sepoy to Subedar’?
  27. Who was Tantia tope?
  28. What were the effects of the revolt of 1857 on India?
  29. Who was the leaders of the revolt who actively took part in it?
  30. Who was Mangal Pandey?

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