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1. The English East India Company introduced by --- c) Raja ram mohan Roy
was started in a) Lord Dalhousie d) Lala Hansraj
a) 1600 A.D. b) 1644 A.D. b) Lord Amherst 
c) 1664 A.D. d) 1608 A.D. c) Lord Hastings     
   d) Lord Meyo   
    
a)  b)   a) 
c)  d)  a)   b) 
2. The battle of Plassey was b)  c) 
fought in --- c)  d) 
a) 1764 A.D. b) 1757 A.D. d)  11. The policies of the moderates
c) 1765 A.D. d) 1728 A.D. 7. --was annexed by Lord were described by the
   Dalhousie due to Extremist as
 misgovernment a) Political mendicancy
a)  1764 b)  1757 a) Satara b) Subsidiaries
c)  1765 d)  1728 b) Jhansi c) Mandatories
3. The founder of the British c) Ayodhi d) Open door policy
Empire in India was --- d) Ranchi  
a) Robert Clive b) Dupleix  
c) Mir Jafar d) Mir Kazim  a) 
    b) 
 a)  c) 
a)  b)  b)  d) 
c)  d)  c)  12. Home Rule League in Bombay
4. The 1st Chief Justice of British India d)  was formed by
was--- 8. Under the Regulating Act, the a) Nehru b) Mrs. Annie Besant
a) Sir Thomas supreme court was set up at c) Tilak d) Bharathiar
b) Sir Elijah Impey a) Calcutta b) Madras   
c) Sir Morse c) Bombay d) Travancore 
d) Sir Clive     a)  b) 
   c)  d) 
 a)  b)  13. To form the interim
a)  c)  d)  Government Nehru sought the
b)  9. The sepoy mutiny first broke help of
c)  out in --- a) Abul Kalam Azad
d)  a) Barrackporeb) Delhi b) Jinnah
5. Who is called the Father of c) Kanpur d) Jhansi c) Salimullahkhan
Indian Civil Service  d) Khan Abdul Ghaffarkhan
a) John Shore b) Cornwallis a)  b)     
c) Wellesley d) Sir Thomas c)  d)  
    10. Lord William Bentinck passed a) 
    an Act in 1829 to abolish Sati b) 
 due to the efforts of c) 
a)  b)  a) Mrs. Annie Besant d) 
c)  d)  b) Swami Vivekanandha
6. Doctrine of Lapse was
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14. Lord Cornwallis introduced 20. Who among the following was the 24.Who gave a new slogan “One reli-
a) Mahalwari System political Guru of Gandhiji? gion One caste and One God for
b) Permanent Revenue Settlement a) Surendra Nath Banerjee mankind”?
c) Ryotwari System b) Gopala Krishna Gokhale a) Mahatma Gandhi
d) Jagirdari System c) Bala Gangadhara Tilak b) B.R. Ambedkar
 d) Bipin Chandra Pal c) Narayana Guru
a)   d) E.V.R. Periyar
b)   “   
c)  a)     ”  
d)  b)  
15. English was adopted as the offi- a) 
c) 
cial language of British India in b) B.R. 
d) 
   c) 
21. Which among the following was
 d) 
the provision of the Government
a) 1833 b) 1835 25.Who made the famous declaration
c) 1837 d) 1839 of India Act of 1858? known as the “Deepavali Declara-
16. The practice of Sati was abolished a) Creation of Court of Directors tion” on October 31, 1929
during the administration of and Board of Control a) Ramsay Mac Donald
a) Warren Hastings b) Extension of Company’s rule b) Atlee
b) Lord Cornwallis for twenty years. c) Mr. Baldwing d) Lord Irwin
c) Lord Wellesley c) Establishment of India 
d) Lord William Bentinck Council with fifteen members 
‘’ d) Cancellation of all previous 
 treaties. a) 
a)   b) 
b)   c) Mr. d) 
c)  a)    26.Who said this? “I am Indian tom
d)      tom waking up all the sleepers so
17. Who profounded Wardha Scheme  that they may wake and work for
of Education? b)     their motherland”
a) Mahatma Gandhi  a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru c)  b) Aurbindo Ghosh
c) Dr. Radha Krishnan  c) Mrs. Annie Beasant
d) Hartog d)    d) Lord Wavell
           “
  
a)  22. For the first time in independent  
b)     
India, a non-Congress ministry
c) Dr.  ”
was formed under the leadership
d)  a)  b) 
of
18. In which year the Vernacular Press c) Mrs. 
Act was passed? a) V.P.Singh b) Narasimha Rao d) 
    c) Morarji Desai 27.In which place swadeshi steam
 d) A.B. Vajpayee Navigation company was started
a) 1878 b) 1882  by V.O. Chidambaram?
c) 1898 d) 1902    a) Madurai b) Vedaranyam
19. The Indian National Congress was  c) Tuticorin d) Tirunelveli
founded by a)  b)     
a) W.C.Banerjee c)    
b) A.O.Hume d)  
c) Mahatma Gandhi 23.Who is considered as the ‘morning a)  b) 
d) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose star of the Reformation’? c)  d) 
   a) Erasmus b) Martin Luther 28.Who was the first President of All
 c) John Huss d) John Wycliffe India Trade Union Congress?
a)   a) Lala Lajpat Rai
b)   b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c)  a)  b)  c) Subas Chandra Bose
d)  c)  d)  d) J.B. Kripalani
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     c) Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan 34.Who was called the Grand Old man
 d) Saifuddinkitchlu of India?
a)     a) B.G. Tilak
b)     b) Bipin Chadrapal
c)     c) Dadabhai Naoroji
d)     d) Lokmanya
29.Who aroused Muslim fears by writ-     
ing that “the objective of the con- a) Mr. b) Mr. 
gress is to transfer the political con- c)  a)  b) 
trol of the country from the British d)  c) 
to the Hindus”? d) 
a) Mr. Archbold b) Mr. Beck 35.Which agitation is called as the
“Blue Mutiny”?
30.Which is incorrectly matched?
A. Common Wheel - Annie Besant a) Chipko movement
B. The Young India - Lala Lajpat Rai b) Indigo agitation
C. RastGafter - Dadabai Naoroji c) Bhils agitation
D. The Bengalee - Rajaram Mohan Roy d) Santhal Rebellion
    
A.    
B.    a) 
C.    b) 
D.    c)  d) 
a) A b) B 36.Point out the correct statement
c) C d) D regarding Bardoli movement.
31.Choose the incorrect pair regarding National Movement: a) The Bardoli programme of
A. Congress League pact at Lucknow - 1916 Gandhi laid stress on removal
B. Massacre of Jalian Wala Bagh - 1919 of untouchability
C. Disappearance of Subash Chandra - 1945 b) The Bardoli programme laid
Bose from his Calcutta house
stress on non co-operation.
D. Split in the Congress at Surat - 1907
c) The Bardoli programme laid

stress on civil disobedience

d) The Bardoli programme laid
A.  
B.   stress on communal harmony
C.    
D.   
a) A b) B 
c) C d) D a)   

32.The chronological order of the free- 33.Who wrote the popular patriotic b)  
dom movement in India is song, “Sarae Jahan Se Accha”? 
1. Mountbatten Plan a) Ravindranath Tagore c)    
2. Wavell Plan b) Mohammad Iqbal 
3. Cripps Mission c) Bankim Chandra chatterji d) 
4. Cabinet Mission d) Abul Fazl 
    37.Who was the founder of Swaraj
  party?
  a)  a) Motilal Nehru
  b)  b) Jawaharlal Nehru
  c)  c) Rajaji d) Tilak
  d)  
a) 4, 3, 2, 1 b) 1, 2, 3, 4 a) 
c) 3, 2, 4, 1 d) 2, 3, 1, 4 b) 
c)  d) 
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38.Whose document has been called 43.“Do or Die” slogan was associated 47.The Forward Bloc was founded by
as “Magna carta of India”? with whom? a) M.N. Roy b) Joshi
a) Lord canning a) Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose c) J.B. Kripalani
b) Queen Victoria b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Subash Chandra Bose
c) Rani of Jhansi c) Mahatma Gandhi 
d) Lord Dalhousie d) Bhagat Singh 
   “” a)  b) 
  c) 
a)  a)  d) 
b)  b)  48.Who was called the Portuguese
c)  d)  c)  d)  Knight Courtier and Sea Captain?
39.Who coined the slogan “Jai Jawan 44.The founder of the Satya Sodhak a) Vascodacama b) Columbus
Jai Kisan”? Samaj was c) Ferdinand
a) Lal Bahadur Shastri a) Atmaram Pandurang d) Barthalomeu Diaz
b) Lala Lajpat Rai b) Gopal Hari Deshmukh 
c) Motilal Nehru d) Patel c) M.G. Ranade   
“   ”  d) Jyothibai Phule 

    a) b) 
a) 
 c) 
b) 
a)  d) 
c)  d) 
b)  49.From which novel was the Na-
40.Name the freedom fighter who was
c) M.G.  d)  tional song of Vande Mataram
affected by leprosy in Trichy Jail
45.Zamindari system was introduced taken?
a) V.O.Chidambaram Pillai
by a) Bavani Mandir b) Sandhya
b) Subramania Bharathiar
c) Subramania Siva a) Thomas Munroe c) Kesari d) Anand Math
d) V.V. Subramania Iyer b) Lord Cornwallis 
     c) Venkata Subbaiah d) Myrdal 
       a)  b) 
  c)  d) 
a)  a)  50. During the freedom struggle on
b)  b)  which day the Indian National Con-
c)  c)  d)  gress celebrated the Poorna
d) V.V.  46.Name the first Indian who became Swaraj?
41.Who was the first English President the member of the British Parlia- a) January 26, 1930
of the Indian National Congress? ment b) January 26, 1929
a) Alfred Web b) George Yule a) Gandhiji c) August 15, 1930
c) Sir Henry Cotton b) V.O. Chidambaram Pillai d) August 15, 1929
d) Sir William Wedderburn c) Subramaniya Aiyer    
    d) Dadabhai Naoroji     
    
a)   b)   a) 
c)  a)  b) 
d)  b)  c) 
42.Who founded the Mohammedan c)  d) 
Anglo oriental college? d) 
a) Jinnah 51.Match the following:
b) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan a) Simon Commission 1. 1928
c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad b) Nehru Report 2. 1932
d) Maulana Hussain Ahmed c) Second Round Table Conference 3. 1927
d) Communal Award 4. 1931
   
 a)   
a)  b)   
b)  c)   
c)  d)   
d)  A B C D A B C D
a) 1 4 3 2 c) 3 1 2 4
b) 3 1 4 2 d) 2 4 1 3
4
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52. Match the List I and List II and Choose the correct code given below: 56.In which Indian National Congress
List I List II session, Mahatma Gandhi was
a) Amrit Basaa Patrika 1. Dadabhai Naoroji made its President?
b) Indian Mirror 2. Sisir Kumar Gosh a) Nagpur b) Gaya
c) Voice of India 3. G. Varma
c) Belgaum d) Kanpur
d) Advocate 4. N.N. Sen

 I   II     
    
I II 
a)    a)  b) 
b)    c)  d) 
c)   G. 57. Which Act is called as Black Act by
d)   N.N. the Indians?
A B C D A B C D a) Vernacular Press Act
a) 2 4 1 3 c) 4 3 1 2 b) Indian Arms Act
b) 3 2 4 1 d) 4 2 3 1 c) Rowlatt Act d) Opium Act
53. Match List I with List II and select your answer from the codes given be-
   
low the lists:

List I List II
a) Rajaram Mohan Roy 1. The Kesari a) 
b) Annie Besant 2. Sambad Kaumudi b) 
c) Bharathiyar 3. The New India c)  d) 
d) Bala Gangadhar Thilak 4. India 58.Given the correct chronological
order:
 A B     I. Pitt’s India Act
 II. Minto-Morley Act
A B III. Regulating Act
a)    IV. Montague - Chelmsford Act
b)    
c)   
I. 
d)   
A B C D A B C D II. 
a) 2 3 4 1 c) 1 3 4 2 III. 
b) 3 2 1 4 d) 4 2 1 3 IV. 
54. Match the following and choose the correct answer from the codes a) II, I, III, IV b) IV, II, III, I
given below: c) III, I, II, IV d) I, II, III, IV
a) Home Rule Movement 1. 1920 59.Who bestowed the title Sardar on
b) Non-Co-operation Movement 2. 1942 Vallabhai Patel?
c) Salt satyagraha 3. 1916 a) Dadabhai Naoroji
d) Quit India Movement 4. 1930 b) Jawaharlal Nehru
 c) Mahatma Gandhi
a)   
d) Rajendra Prasad
b)   
c)    ‘’
d)    
A B C D A B C D a) 
a) 3 1 4 2 c) 3 4 1 2 b) 
b) 4 2 3 1 d) 4 1 2 3 c) 
55.Which is wrongly matched? d) 
a) Ramakrishna Mission - Swami Vivekananda 60.During 1857 revolt which army re-
b) Brahmo Samaj - Raja Ram Mohan Roy mained loyal to the British?
c) Arya Samaj - Keshav Chandra Sen a) Bombay Army b) Bengal Army
d) Theosophical Society - Annie Besant
c) Madras Army d) Ayodh Army

   
a)   
b)      
c)    
d)    a) 
a) A b) B b) 
c) C d) D c) 
d) 
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61.By which of the following incidents,      71.Who among the following first
Motilal Nehru, initially a moderate,     conceived the idea of the forma-
took to extremist nationalism?     tion of Indian National Army?
a) partition of Bengal  a) Rash Behari Bose
b) Surat Split a)  b) Mohan Singh
c) Internment of Annie Besant b)  c) Subash Chandra Bose
d) Chauri - Chaura Incident c)  d) Niranjan Singh Gill
   d)   “ 
     66.Mahatma Gandhi was murdered ”  
   on 
 a) 30th January 1949 a) 
a)  b)  b) 20th January 1948 b) 
c)  c) 30th January 1948 c) 
d)  d) 30th August 1948 d) 
62.Who accused Indian National Con-  72. Who among the following wrote
gress of practising ‘politics of a)  the book, “India Wins Freedom?”
prayer, petition and protest”? b)  a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
a) Bipin Chandra Pal c)  b) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Lala Lajpat Rai d)  c) Rajendra Prasad
c) Bala Gangadhar Tilak 67.Direction Action Day was observed d) Sardar Vallabhai Patel
d) Subhash Chandra Bose by the Muslim League on  “
    a) 15th August 1945  ” 
   b) 26th August 1946 
 c) 16th August 1946 a) 
 d) 16th September 1946 b) 
a)   c) 
b)   d) 
c)  a)  73.Kattapomman was hanged to
d)  b)  death at Kayatharu in the year
63.After which incident Rabindranath c)     
Tagore returned his knight hood to d)  
the British Raj? 68.In 1935, the first dance function of a) 1769 b) 1779
a) Introduction of Vernacular Mrs. Rukmani Arundel took place c) 1789 d) 1799
Press Act 1878 at 74. Subash Chandra Bose set up Indian
b) Partition of Bengal 1905 a) The Brahma Samaj meeting National Army Head Quarters at
c) Jallian Wala Bagh Incident 1919 b) The Ramakrishna mission a) Nepal and Rangoon
d) Indian Council Act of 1919 meeting b) Rangoon and Singapore
    c) Theosophical society meeting c) Singapore and Tibet
 d) Prarthana Samaj meeting d) Tokyo and Nepal
      
a)    
b)  a)  
c)  b)  a) 
d)  c)  b) 
64.Who was the premier of Madras d)  c) 
Presidency, when Simon Commis- 69.Swami Vivekananda was born in d) 
sion visited in 1927? the year 75.Which of the following party was
a) B. Subbarayan b) P.T. Rajan 
a) 1853 b) 1865 in power in the UK when India got
c) Rajaji d) T.M. Nair
    c) 1863 d) 1873 Independence?
    70.Who among the following is called a) Conservative party
   as Grand Old Lady of Indian Na- b) Socialist party
 tionalism? c) Labour party d) Liberal party
a)  b)  a) Vijayalakshmi Pandit    
c)  d)  b) Sarojini Naidu c) Annie Besant   
65.Where K. Kamaraj was kept in d) Ambujammal   
prison in 1930? where did he hoist   

the Indian National Flag in 1947?   
a) Alipore, sathyamoorthy’s  a) 
house a)  b) 
b) Delhi, Chennai Fort b)  c) 
c) Andaman, Delhi fort c)  d)  d) 
d) Vellore, Virudunagar Home
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 Maths 87. The diameter of a semicircular
Area/ grass plot is 14m. Find the cost of
fencing the plot at Rs.10 per
76. Area of a semicircle is ____ times  metre
the area of the circle 
a) two b) four a) Rs.3600 b) Rs.36
a)  b) 
c) one-half d) one-quarter c)  d)  c) Rs.360 d) Rs.3.6
 81. The number of quadrants in a    
_____  circle is ______     
a)  b)   _____       
c)  d)    
77. Perimeter of a semicircle is ____ a)  b) 2 c) 3 d) 4 
82. Quadrant of a circle is ____ of the a)  b) 
π2 circle c)  d) 
a)  r units
 2  a) one-half b) one-fourth 88. The radius of a circle is 21 cm. Find
b) π  2 r units c) one-third d) two- thirds the area of a quadrant of the circle
____  a) 345.5 cm2 b) 346.5 cm2
c) 2r units 
c) 343.5 cm2 d) 342.5 cm2
d) π  4 r units a)  b) 
    
_____ c)  d) 
   
83. The central angle of a semicircle

π2 is _____
a)  r  a)  b) 
 2  
a)  b)  c)  d) 
b) π  2 r  89. Find the area of a semicircle
c)  d) 
c) 2r  whose radius is 14cm
84. The central angle of a quadrant is
d) π  4 r  ____ a) 308 cm2 b) 72 cm2
78. If the radius of a circle is 7m, then   ____ c) 318 cm2 d) 154 cm2
the area of the semicircle is ____ 
    
a) 77 m2 b) 44 m2 a)  b)  
2 c)  d) 00
c) 88 m d) 154 m2 a)  b) 
85. If the area of a semicircle is 84cm2,
 c)  d) 
then the area of a circle is
 ____
a) 144 cm2 b) 42 cm2 90. Perimeter of parallelogram
a)  b) 
c) 168 cm2 d) 288 cm2  
c)  d) 
 a) b x h b) 2 x (a+b)
79. If the area of a circle is 144 cm2, 
then the area of its quadrant is __ c) l x b d) 2 x (l + b)
2 2
a)  b) 
a) 144 cm b) 12 cm 91. Find the area of the shaded
c)  d) 
c) 72 cm 2
d) 36 cm2 86. The length of a chain used as the portion
      boundary of a semicircle park is
 36m. Find the area of the park.
_____ a) 154 m2 b) 616 m2

a)  b)  
c) 308 m2 d) 77 m2
c)  d)     a) 11 cm2 b) 11.14 cm2
80. The perimeter of the quadrant of  c) 11.11cm2 d) 11.2 cm2
a circle of diameter 84 cm is ____  

a) 150 cm b) 120 cm a)  b) 
c) 21 cm d) 42 cm a)  
b)  
c)  d) 
c)  d) 

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92. Find the Perimeter of the shaded
portion
a) 63.26 cm2 b) 62.51 cm2
c) 61.71 cm2 d) 65 cm2

a)  b) 
c)   d) 
93. A wire of length 24 cm is bent to
form a square. Find the area of the
square formed.
   
  
  

a)  b)  c)  d) 
94. In an isosceles trapezium
a) non parallel sides are equal
b) parallel sides are equal
c) height = base
d) parallel sides = non parallel
sides

a) 
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b)  a)  b)  c)  d) 
c)  98. A garden is in the form of a rect-
d)  angle of dimension 30 m x 20 m. A
 path of width 1.5 m is laid all
95. The circumference of a circular around the garden on the outside
field is 44 m. A cow is tethered to at the rate of ` 10 per sq.m.
a peg at the centre of the field. If    
the cow can graze the entire field, x 
find the length of the rope used   
to tie the cow. ` 
        
   
  a) 1590 b) 1380
    c) 2480 d) 2320
 99. Three equal circles of radius 3 cm
    touch one another. Find the area
enclosed by them.
  
     
a)  b)  c)  d)   
96. A silver wire when bent in the form 

of a square encloses an area of 121
sq.cm. If the same wire is bent in a) 2.35 b) 1.45 c) 3.25 d) 2.65
the form of a circle. Find the area 100. In the given figure, ABCD is a
square of side 14 cm. Find the area
of the circle.
    of the shaded portion
  
   
    ABCDcm 

 
  

a)  b)  c)  d) 
97. How many circles of radius 7 cm
can be cut from a paper of length
50 cm and width 32 cm.
     
 a) 21 b) 48 c) 42 d) 28

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 TNPSC CCSE-IV
TEST - 07

1 A 26 C 51 B 76 C
2 B 27 C 52 A 77 B
3 A 28 A 53 A 78 A
4 B 29 B 54 A 79 D
5 B 30 D 55 C 80 A
6 A 31 C 56 C 81 D
7 C 32 C 57 C 82 B
8 A 33 B 58 C 83 C
9 A 34 C 59 C 84 A
10 C 35 B 60 C 85 C
11 A 36 A 61 C 86 D
12 C 37 A 62 C 87 C
13 B 38 B 63 C 88 B
14 B 39 A 64 A 89 A
15 B 40 C 65 A 90 A
16 D 41 B 66 C 91 B
17 A 42 B 67 C 92 C
18 A 43 C 68 C 93 C
19 B 44 D 69 C 94 A
20 B 45 B 70 C 95 C
21 C 46 D 71 B 96 B
22 C 47 D 72 A 97 C
23 D 48 D 73 D 98 A
24 C 49 D 74 B 99 B
25 D 50 A 75 C 100 C