Development of Press in Modern India MCQ Question Answer

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Development of Press in Modern India MCQ Question Answer

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1. Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act of 1878?

(A) Lord Ripon

(B) Lord Lytton

(D) Lord Minto

2. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?

(A) Lord Lytton

(B) Lord Ripon

(D) Lord Hastings

3. The first newspaper in India was

(A) Bengal Gazette

(B) Hindustan Times

(D) Sambad Kaumadi

4. Who among the following had primarily implemented the Press Censorship?

(A) Wellesley

(B) Hastings

(D) Dalhousie

5. Under whose Governor-General ship was the Vernacular Act repealed?

(A) Lord Ripon

(B) Lord Lytton’

(D) Lord Dufferin

6. Who was the first Indian to go to jail in performance of his duty as a journalist?

(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(B) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Surendra Nath Banerjee

7. Who in America started to issue newspaper ‘Free India’?

(A) Ram Nath Puri

(B) G.D. Kumar

(D) Tarak Nath Das

8. Persian Weekly ‘Miratul Akhbar’ was published by

(A) Lala Lajpat Rai

(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(D) Maulana Shibli Nomani

9. The first Hindi Newspaper ‘Udatt Martand’ (30th May, 1826) was published from

(A) Kolkata

(B) Patna

(D) Lucknow

10. From where the ‘Indian Mirror’ newspaper was published in 1880?

(A) Bombay

(B) Calcutta

(D) Pondicherry

11. In which one of the following languages was the first issue of the Journal Ghadar published?

(A) Urdu

(B) Hindi

(D) Marathi

12. The journal ‘Ghadar’ of Ghadar Party was a

(A) Monthly Journal

(B) Fortnightly Journal

(D) Daily Journal

13. Who founded the ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’?

(A) Girish Chandra Ghosh

(B) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

(D) Sisir Kumar Ghose

14. Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?

(A) Gadar

(B) Kesari

(D) Swadesh Mitra

15. Which one of the popular magazines of the revolutionary period criticized the Congress for various reasons?

(A) Bangawasi

(B) Kaal

(D) All of these

16. Who among the following started the newspaper’s ‘Som Prakash’?

(A) Dayanand Saraswati

(B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(D) Surendranath Banerjee

17. Which of the following papers was essentially the mouthpiece of the policies of liberals?

(A) New India

(B) Leader

(D) Free Press Journal

18. Which one of the following was not the language in which ‘Indian Opinion’ paper was published?

(A) English

(B) Gujarati

(D) Urdu

19. The first editor of the journal ‘Indian Opinion’ wa

(A) M.K. Gandhi

(B) Albert West

(D) Mansukhal Nazar

20. The ‘Young India’ was started as a weekly by

(A) The Home Rule Party

(B) The Extremist Party

(D) Swaraj Party

21. Which journal was not associated with revolutionary activities?

(A) Sandhya

(B) Yugantar

(D) Young India

22. The first Newspaper published by the Indians in the English language was

(A) Hindu Patriot

(B) The Hindu

(D) Native Opinion

23. The editor of the ‘Hindu Patriot’ who strongly supported the Indigo Movement was

(A) Hem Chandrakar

(B) Harish Chandra Mukherjee

(D) Digambar Biswas

24. Who affiliated himself with the English Journal ‘Vande Matram’?

(A) Arbind Ghosh

(B) M.G. Ranade

(D) Lokmanya Tilak

25. Which of the following newspapers used to be published from Patna?

(A) Indian Nation

(B) Punjab Kesari

(D) Dawn

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26. The ‘Swadesh Vahini’ was edited by

(A) C.V. Raman Pillai

(B) C.N. Mudaliar

(D) C.R. Reddy

27. The English Newspaper ‘Independent’ was associated to

(A) Mahatma Gandhi

(B) C.R. Das

(D) Motilal Nehru

28. Through which newspaper published from Kanpur, Vijay Singh Pathik made the Bizaliya movement the subject of discussion in India?

(A) Kesai

(B) Pratap

(D) Majusha

29. ‘Harijan’ was started by

(A) Tilak

(B) Gokhale

(D) Naoroji

30. The first issue of a weekly paper ‘Harijan’ started by Gandhiji was published on February 11, 1933 from which of the following cities?

(A) Bombay (now Mumbai)

(B) Ahmedabad

(D) Nasik

31. The Marathi fortnightly ‘Bahiskrit Bharat’ was started by

(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(B) B.R. Ambedkar

(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

32. …… was related to Bahiskrit Bharat.

(A) Atmaram Pandurang

(B) Jyotiba Phule

(D) B.R. Ambedkar

33. Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?

(A) Al-Hilal

(B) Comrade

(D) Zamindar

34. Which Urdu newspaper was started by Lajpat Rai from Lahore in 1920?

(A) Vande Mataram

(B) People

(D) Vir Arjun

35. Given below are the names of freedom fighters and the newspapers started by them among these which combination is incorrect?

(A) Maulana Azad – Al-Hilal

(B) Lokmanya Tilak – Kesari

(D) Mahatma Gandhi – The Pioneer

36. Who among the following had launched the paper ‘Qaumi Awaz’?

(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru

(D) Khaliquzzaman

37. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(A) Navjiwan – M.K. Gandhi

(B) Swarajya – T. Prakasham

(D) Qaumi Awaz – Abul Kalam Azad

38. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Mahatma Gandhi – Mook Nayak

(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Young India

(D) B.R. Ambedkar – Kesari

39. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

(A) B.R. Ambedkar – Independent

(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Kesari

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji – Rast Goftar

40. Which of the following is correctly matched?

(A) Annie Besant – Young India

(B) Mahatma Gandhi – New India

(D) Surendranath Banerjee – Maratha

41. To whom Commonweal is related?

(A) B.G. Tilak

(B) Annie Besant

(D) None of the above

42. Who was the editor of the revolutionary paper ‘Vande Mataram’?

(A) Shyamji Krishna Verma

(B) Bipin Chandra Pal

(D) G.D. Savarkar

43. Which of the following newspapers advocated revolutionary terrorism during the period of Indian freedom struggle?

1. Sandhya

2. Yugantar

3. Kaal

Choose the correct answer from the code given below.

Code

(A) 1 and 2

(B) 1 and 3

(D) 1, 2 and 3

44. Which of the following were the two Newspapers published by Annie Besant?

1. Commonweal

2. New India

3. New Hindu

4. The Aryans

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

Code

(A) 1 and 2

(B) 1 and 3

(D) 3 and 4

45. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using code given below.

List-I (Newspaper)

(a) Bharat Mitra

(b) Rastra Mitra

(d) Nayak

List-II (Language)

1. Bengali

2. Gujarati

3. Hindi

4. Marathi

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 4 3

(B) 2 3 1 4

(D) 4 1 3 2

46. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below the lists.

List-I (Newspaper)

(a) Dainik Aaj

(b) The Leader

(d) The Pioneer

List-II (Founder)

1. George Allen

2. Jawahar Lal Nehru

3. Madan Mohan Malviya

4. Shiv Prasad Gupta

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 4 1 3 2

(D) 1 4 2 3

47. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List-I (Newspapers)

(a) Hindu

(b) Sudharak

(d) Bengali

List-II (Editors)

1. Dadabhai Naoroji

2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

3. G. Subramaniya Iyer

4. Surendra Nath Banerjee

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 3 4

(B) 1 3 2 4

(D) 3 2 1 4

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48. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List-I (Newspapers)

(a) Bombay

(b) Commonweal

(d) Search Light

List-II (Person who started it)

1. Annie Besant

2. Madan Mohan Malviya

3. Pheroz Shah Mehta

4. Sachindanand Singh

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 4 3 2

(B) 2 3 4 1

(D) 4 2 1 3

49. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List-I (Newspapers)

(a) Leader

(b) Bombay Chronicle

(d) Justice

List-II (Launcher/Publisher)

1. Madan Mohan Malviya

2. Firoz Shah Mehta

3. T.M. Nair

4. Motilal Nehru

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 4 3

(B) 4 3 2 1

(D) 4 1 2 3

50. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List-I

(a) Abul Kalam Azad

(b) Feroz Shah Mehta

(d) Mahatma Gandhi

List-II

1. Bombay Chronicle

2. Al-Hilal

3. Young India

4. New India

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 1 4 3

(B) 1 2 3 4

(D) 3 2 1 4

51. Match the following and select the correct answer from the code given below.

List-I

(a) Bipin Chandra Pal

(b) Arvind Ghosh

(d) Mohammad Ali

List-II

1. New India

2. Comrade

3. Vande Mataram

4. Sandhya

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 3 4 2

(B) 2 1 3 4

(D) 1 3 2 4

52. Match the list of the Editors with that of the Papers/Magazines, they were editing.

List ‘A’ (Editors)

(a) S.A. Dange

(b) Muzaffar Ahmad

(d) M. Singarvelu

List ‘B’ (Papers/Magazine)

1. Navayug

2. Inqilab

3. Labour Kisan Gazette

4. The Socialist

Code (a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 3 4

(B) 4 1 2 3

(D) 3 4 2 1

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