History British acts and Policies Test 3 Welcome to your History British acts and Policies Test 3 Name Email 1.Indian Universities Commission was set up in which of the following years? (a) 1902 (b) 1897 (c) 1882 (d) 1909 None 2.Which of the following Acts ended the monopoly of the East India Company over trade with India? (a) Regulating Act of 1793 (b) Charter Act of 1813 (c) Charter Act of 1833 (d) Regulating Act of 1773 None 3.Which Committee among the following was formed in Bombay in March 1919? (a) Hunter Committee (b) Khilafat Committee (c) Sargent Committee (d) Sapru Committee None 4.In which year was the office of the first Accountant General established in India? (a) 1858 (b) 1845 (c) 1890 (d) 1867 None 5.In which year did the British Government announce Morley-Minto Reforms in India? (a) 1905 (b) 1919 (c) 1932 (d) 1909 None 6.Who among the following was a great advocate of English education in India? (a) TB Macaulay (b) Jonathan Duncan (c) William Jones (d) Warren Hastings None 7.In order to curb the East India Company traders’ unrestrained commercial activities and to bring about some order in territories under the Company control, the British Parliament enacted a series of laws among which the ______ stood first. (a) Charter Act of 1813 (b) Government of India Act 1833 (c) Regulating Act of 1780 (d) Regulating Act of 1773 None 8.Which law was imposed in India during the command of General Dyer? (a) Preventive detention (b) Discrimination law (c) Simon law (d) Martial law None 9.By which British statute were Indian representatives, for the first time, allocated seats for election in Indian Legislative Councils? (a) Government of India Act, 1833 (b) Indian Councils Act, 1892 (c) Government of India Act, 1915 (d) Indian Councils Act, 1861 None 10.The capital of the British Indian Empire was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in: (a) 1911 (b) 1905 (c) 1907 (d) 1909 None 11.In 1877, which of the following viceroys organised a durbar to acknowledge Queen Victoria as the Empress of India? (a) Lord Lytton (b) Lord Ripon (c) Lord Minto (d) Lord Dufferin None 12.Whose proclamation of November 1, 1858 declared that thereafter India would be governed by and in the name of the British Monarch through a Secretary of State? (a) King Louis’ (b) King Philips’ (c) Queen Victoria’s (d) Queen Elizabeth’s None 13.Which of the following Acts was enacted in British India in the year 1878? (a) Indian Contract Act (b) Transfer of Property Act (c) Vernacular Press Act (d) East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act None 14.Which of the following princely states was annexed by the British under the pretext of 'misgovernment of the Nawab'? (a) Udaipur (b) Awadh (c) Nagpur (d) Satara None 15.Which of the following statements is correct? (a) In 1774, the Asiatic Society was founded by Sir Williams Jones. (b) In 1775, the Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated in the Battle of Plassey. (c) In 1776, the first railway service began from Bombay to Thane. (d) In 1793, the Cornwallis code was enacted. None 16.In which of the following years was the Cornwallis Code enacted? (a) 1857 (b) 1793 (c) 1805 (d) 1723 None 17.In which of the following years was the Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament? (a) 1945 (b) 1942 (c) 1946 (d) 1947 None 18.After the battle of ______ in 1757, the British achieved political power in India. (a) Aliwal (b) Buxar (c) Plassey (d) Saragarhi None 19.Which governor general introduced the policy of Subsidiary Alliance, under which the indian ruler agreed to keep British forces in his territory ? (a) Lord Wellesley (b) Lord Cornwallis (c) Lord William Bentick (d) Lord Mayo None 20.Who was the Prime Minister of Britain/UK when the British Parliament passed an independence bill for India in July 1947? (a) Clement Attlee (b) Neville Chamberlain (c) Ramsay Macdonald (d) Winston Churchill None 21.Who among the following was NOT a minister of Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946 ? (a) Sir Stafford Cripps (b) Lord Wavell (c) Sir Pethick Lawrence (d) Alexander None Time's up