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History MCQ Class 10 ICSE Objective for Students
Quick Quiz
George Washington’s Appointment as Commander in Chief:
(a) in December 1773, after the Boston Tea Party
(b) at the First Continental Congress in September 1774
(c) at the Second Continental Congress in 1775
(d) by the Continental Congress at the Declaration of Independence on 4th July, 1776
Option c – at the Second Continental Congress in 1775
Alexander Kerensky’s Role:
(a) the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution
(b) a close confidant of Lenin, with whose help the Czar was dethroned
(c) the head of the Czar’s army
(d) an advisor of Joseph Stalin
Option a – the head of the Provisional Government in Russia before the October Revolution
Correct Combination of Year and Event in the French Revolution:
(a) 1789: Napoleonic Code
(b) 1791: Tennis Court Oath
(c) 1792: National Convention
(d) 1804: New Constitution of France
Option c – 1792: National Convention
Builder of the ‘Miner’s Friend’ Steam Engine in 1698: ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
(a) Thomas Savery
(b) Thomas Newcomen
(c) James Watt
(d) Richard Arkwright
Option a – Thomas Savery
Renaissance Humanist Culture Statement:
(a) It slackened the control of religion over human life
(b) It believed that human nature was many-sided
(c) It was concerned with good manners
(d) It criticized material wealth, power, and glory
Option d – It criticized material wealth, power, and glory
Average Life Span of Workers in Manchester during the Mid-19th Century Industrial Revolution:
(a) 17 years
(b) 30 years
(c) 55 years
(d) 62 years
Option a – 17 years
The ancient city which is mentioned in the Mahabharata and Mahabhashya both is ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
A) Viratnagar (Bairath)
B) Madhyamika (Nagari)
C) Raidh
D) Karkot
Option b – Madhyamika (Nagari)
The official “Agronomai” during the Mauryan age was related to which of the following fields?
A) Weight and measurement
B) Administrative management
C) Construction of roads
D) Revenue management
Option c – Construction of roads
The “Rajtarangini” composed by Kalhana in the twelfth century is the main source of
A) History of Assam
B) History of Nepal
C) History of Medieval Kashmir
“Indica” was written by ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
A) Strabo
B) Megasthenes
C) Justin
D) Pliny
Option b – Megasthenes
Who among the following rulers advised his subjects through this inscription? “Whosoever praises his religious sect or blames other sects out of excessive devotion to his own sect, with the view of glorifying his own sect, he rather injures his own sect very severely.”
A) Ashoka
B) Samudragupta
C) Harshavardhana
D) Krishnadeva Raya
Option a – Ashoka
Which dynasty made ‘Chitrangadapur’ the capital?
A) Chedi Dynasty
B) Pandu Dynasty
C) Kalchuri Dynasty
D) Maurya Dynasty
Option b – Pandu Dynasty
With reference to the period of the Gupta dynasty in ancient India, the towns Ghantasala, Kadura, and Chaul were well-known as
A) Ports handling foreign trade
B) Capitals of powerful kingdoms
C) Places of exquisite stone art and architecture
D) Important Buddhist pilgrimage centers
Option a – Ports handling foreign trade
The word ‘Denisovan’ is sometimes mentioned in media in reference to
A) Fossils of a kind of dinosaur
B) An early human species
C) A cave system found in North-East India
D) A geological period in the history of the Indian subcontinent
Option b – An early human species
Raja Ram Mohan Roy died on 7th September 1833 in : ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Bristol
2. Birmingham
3. Chicago
4. Canada
Option 1 – Bristol
When was the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act passed?
1. 1852
2. 1856
3. 1860
4. 1865
Option 2 – 1856
Who became famous under the pen-name of Lokahitawadi?
1. G.H. Deshmukh
2. B.R. Ambedkar
3. M.G. Ranade
4. B.G. Tilak
Option 1 – G.H. Deshmukh
Who founded the Dinbandhu Sarvajanik Sabha in 1886?
1. Karsondas Mulji
2. D.K. Karve
3. M.G. Ranade
4. Jyotiba Phule
Option 4 – Jyotiba Phule
Which was the first vernacular paper started in India? ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Samachar Darpan
2. Shome Prakash
3. Bengal Gazettee
4. The Maratha
Option 1 – Samachar Darpan
Who among the following earned the epithet ‘Liberator of the Indian Press?
1. William Bentinck
2. Charles Metcalfe
3. Lord Ripon
4. Lord Curzon
Option 2 – Charles Metcalfe
Who said, “What we see around us today is a fallen nation … a nation whose primitive greatness lies buried in ruins.”?
1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2. Swami Vivekanand
3. Keshab Chandra Sen
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Option 3 – Keshab Chandra Sen
Which of the following is the most significant in the history of education in India?
1. Wood’s Education Despatch, 1854
2. Hartog Commitee, 1929
3. Hunter Commission, 1882-83
4. Saddler university Commission 1917-19
Option 1 – Wood’s Education Despatch, 1854
Who wrote Anandmath in 1882? ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Aurobindo Ghosh
2. Bankin Chandra Chatterjee
3. Rabindranath Tagore
4. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Option 2 – Bankin Chandra Chatterjee
Who started the Self-Respect Movement?
1. C.R. Reddi
2. E.V. Ramaswami Naicker
3. K. Kamaraj
4. Selvaraj Mudaliar
Option 2 – E.V. Ramaswami Naicker
Who is regarded as the first nationalist poet of modern India?
1. Henry Derozio
2. Rabindra Nath Tagore
3. Bankin Chandra
4. Subramania Bharti
Option 1 – Henry Derozio
The Vernacular Press Act was passed by : ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Lord Lytton
2. Lord Curzon
3. Lord Ripon
4. Lord Hardinge
Option 1 – Lord Lytton
Lal, Bal and Pal were :
1. Moderate national leaders
2. Extremist national leaders
3. Believers in the act of terrorism
4. Active terrorists
Option 2 – Extremist national leaders
The partition of Bengal was by whom?
1. Lord Cornwallis
2. Alfred Lyall
3. Warren Hastings
4. Lord Curzon
Option 4 – Lord Curzon
Who spoke the following words, “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”?
1. Aurobindo Ghosh
2. Bipin Chandra Pal
3. G.G. Agarkar
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Option 4 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Swadeshi Movement was intended to : ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Encourage the Indian industries
2. Provide people with more opportunities for work and greater employment
3. Make the struggle for independence mass-based
4. All of the above
Option 4 – All of the above
Abhinav Bharat Society was formed by :
1. Rasbehari Bose
2. K.T. Telang
3. Ganesh Savarkar
4. Lala Lajpat Rai
Option 3 – Ganesh Savarkar
Anushilan Samiti, the secret revolutionary society in Bengal was organised by :
1. Jatin Das
2. Batukeshwar Dutt
3. P. Mitra
4. Aswin Kumar Dutt
Option 3 – P. Mitra
Who coined the slogan Inquilab Zindabad?
1. Subhas Chandra Bose
2. Hem Chandra Das
3. Iqbal
4. Bhagat Singh
Option 4 – Bhagat Singh
The moving spirit behind the organization of the Ghadar Party was :
1. Madan Lal Dhingra
2. V.D Savarkar
3. Lala Hardayal
4. Lala Lajpat Rai
Option 3 – Lala Hardayal
The partition of Bengal was scrapped by ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Lord Minto
2. Lord Lyton
3. Lord Hardinge
4. Lord Ilbert
Option 3 – Lord Hardinge
The newspaper Indian Mirror was started by :
1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2. Keshab Chandra Sen
3. Rabindranath Tagore
4. Devendra Nath Tagore
Option 1 – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Who among the following was the founder of the Indian Trade Union Federation?
1. N.M. Joshi
2. V.V. Giri
3. M.N. Roy
4. Lala Lajpat Rai
Option 1 – N.M. Joshi
What was the organisation started by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Calcutta in 1814 called?
1. Vidya Sabha
2. Atmiya Sabha
3. Sanjibani Sabha
4. Gita Sabha
Option 2 – Atmiya Sabha
Which Mughal emperor gave Ram Mohan Roy the title of ‘Raja’? ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Akbar II
2. Shah Alam II
3. Alamgir II
4. None of the above
Option 1 – Akbar II
The Nehru Report of 1928 with proposals for constitutional reforms had been prepared by
1. Motilal Nehru
2. J.L.Nehru
3. Kamla Nehru
4. All of the above
Option 1 – Motilal Nehru
The civil disobedience movement had been led in the North-West Fron tier Province by
1. Sheikh Mohammed Abdu llah
2. Dr M.A.Ansari
3. Badruddin Tyabji
4. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Option 4 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Name the Mughal emperor occupying the throne of Delhi when the revolt of 1857 took place.
1. Shah Alam -II
2. Jahandar Shah
3. Bahadur Shah -II
4. Humayun
Option 3 – Bahadur Shah -II
The founder-president of India Independence League was ( History MCQ Class 10 ICSE MCQs )
1. Rash Behari Bose
2. Subhash Chandra Bose
3. M.K.Gandhi
4. Moti Lal Nehru
Option 1 – Rash Behari Bose
The state, from among the following, which was not annexed by the doctrine of lapse is
1. Baghat
2. Gwalior
3. Sambalpur
4. Satara
Option 2 – Gwalior
Who had founded the Deccan Educational Society?
1. Dadabhai Nauroji
2. C.R.Das
3. Swami Vivekananda
4. Mahadeva Govind Ranade
Option 4 – Mahadeva Govind Ranade
Who among the following had observed, upon Gandhi’s upon Gandhi’s assassination, “None will believe that a man like this body and soul ever walk ed on this earth”?
1. Bertrand Russel
2. Nelson Mandela
3. Albert Einstein
4. Leo Tolstoy
Option 3 – Albert Einstein
What is the first discourse that the Buddha had delivered at the Deer Park in Sarnath called?
1. Mahaparinirvana
2. Mahamastabhisheka
3. Mahabiniskraman
4. Dharmachakraparivartan
Option 4 – Dharmachakraparivartan
The famous Indo-Greek king to embrace Buddhism was
1. Alexander
2. Strato I
3. Menander
4. Democritus
Option 3 – Menander
Lord Cornwallis had introduced the land tenure system.
1. Zamindari
2. Ryotwari
3. Mahalwari
4. Inamdari
Option 1 – Zamindari
The correct chronological order of the four Buddhist councils held is
1. Rajagriha, Kashmir, Pataliputra, Vaishali
2. Vaishali, Rajagriha, Kashmir, Pataliputra
3. Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir
4. Pataliputra,Rajagriha, Kasmir, Vaishali
Option 3 – Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir
Who had converted Kanishka to Buddhism?
1. Parsva
2. Nagarjuna
3. Asvaghosa
4. Vasumitra
Option 3 – Asvaghosa
The Indus Valley civilization was discovered in the year
1. 1917
2. 1922
3. 1927
4. 1932
Option 2 – 1922
The achievements of Samudragupta have been chronicled in the
1. Hatigumpha inscription
2. Sarnath inscription
3. Girnar inscription
4. Allahabad pillar inscription
Option 4 – Allahabad pillar inscription
Who was the ruler of Chittor, when Alauddin Khilji attacked and conquered in 1303 AD?
1. Rana Kumbha
2. Rana Rattan Singh
3. Rana Hammir
4. Rana Sanga
Option 2 – Rana Rattan Singh
The two principal movements of Alauddin Khilji’s reign-the Alai Darwaza and Jama’ at Khana Masjid were constructed at
1. Agra
2. Delhi
3. Fatehpur Sikri
4. Gulbarga
Option 2 – Delhi
Who had preached “Rama and Rahim are two different names of the same God”?
1. Chaitanya
2. Santh Kabir
3. Ramanuja
4. Ramananda
Option 2 – Santh Kabir
The Paurana Qila was constructed in the reign of
1. Akbar
2. Humayun
3. Sher Shah
4. Jehangir
Option 3 – Sher Shah
The Charminar had been constructed by
1. Ali Adil Shah
2. Kanishka
3. Quli Qutb Shah
4. Jehangir
Option 3 – Quli Qutb Shah
Name the religious personality who exercised a great influence over Shivaji.
1. Tukaram
2. Guru Nanak Dev
3. Mirabai
4. Guru Ram Das
Option 4 – Guru Ram Das
The Act of …….. had introduced the system of separate electorates.
1. 1874
2. 1893
3. 1909
4. 1926
Option 3 – 1909
A letter to the Mughal emperor, Jehangir from King James I had been presented by
1. Lord Clive
2. Sir Thomas Roe
3. Lord Curzon
4. Captain Hawkins
Option 4 – Captain Hawkins
Which of the following is the oldest Purana?
(a) Matsya Purana
(b) Vayu Puranas
(c) Markandeya Purana
(d) None of the above
Option a – Matsya Purana
Kalika Purana is associated with which of the following religion?
(a) Vaishnav
(b) Shaktism
(c) Buddhism
(d) Jainism
Option b – Shaktism
Which of the following is the earliest Holy book of Jain?
(a) Twelve Angas
(b) Twelve Upangas
(c) Fourteen Purvas
(d) Fourteen Uppurva
Option c – Fourteen Purvas
In which one of the following languages was the earliest Jain literature compiled?
(a) Ardh-Magadhi
(b) Pali
(c) Prakrit
(d) Sanskrit
Option a – Ardh-Magadhi
Which one of the following is not a part of early Jain Literature?
(a) Therigatha
(b) Acarangasutra
(c) Sutrakritanga
(d) Brihatkalpasutra
Option a – Therigatha
Consider the following statements. I. Jatakas are the folklore literature of Jainism. II. Agams are Jain texts based on the discourses of Tirthankara. Select the correct answer using the code below. Codes
(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II
Option b – Only II
Which of the following is not included in ‘Tripitaka’?
(a) Vinaya Pitaka
(b) Sutta Pitaka
(c) Abhidhamma Pitaka
(d) Buddhapitaka
Option d – Buddhapitaka
Which of the following Buddhist texts contains the rules of monastic life?
(a) Digha Nikaya
(b) Vinaya Pitaka
(c) Abhidhamma Pitaka
(d) Vibhasha Shastra
Option b – Vinaya Pitaka
Rajatarangini’ written by Kalhana is associated with which of the following?
(a) Chandragupta’s reign
(b) Anthology of lyrics
(c) History of Kashmir
(d) Reign of Krishna Deva Raya
Option c – History of Kashmir
Which of the following is/are not a historical biography/biographies? I. Dipavamsa II. Harshacharita III. Vikramankadevacharita IV. Prithviraja Vijaya Select the correct answer from the codes given below.
(a) Only I
(b) II and Ill Only
(c) II, III, and IV Only
(d) I, II, III, and IV
Option a – Only I
Which of the following books is/are written by Fa-Hien?
(a) Fo-Kyo-Ki
(b) Si-Yu-Ki
(c) A record of the Buddhist Countries
(d) Both (a) and (c)
Option d – Both (a) and (c)
Who wrote Periplus of the Erythraean Sea?
(a) Ctesias
(b) Pliny
(c) Ptolemy
(d) None of the above/More than one of the above
Option d – None of the above/More than one of the above
Consider the following statement. I. Hiuen-Tsang wrote ‘Si-Yu-Ki’ or ‘The Records of Western World’. II. Al-Biruni wrote ‘Tahqiq-i-Hind’. Select the correct answer from the code below.
(a) Only I
(b) Only Il
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II
Option c – Both I and II
The earliest evidence of man in India is found in
(a) Nilgiri Hills
(b) Shiwalik Hills
(c) Nallamala Hills
(d) Narmada Valley
Option d – Narmada Valley
In which language was the ‘Shrimad Bhagavad Gita’ originally written?
(a) Sanskrit
(b) Urdu
(c) Pali
(d) Hindi
Option a – Sanskrit
Originally the Mahabharata was known as
(a) Brihatkatha
(b) Brahmins
(c) Brihatsamhita
(d) Jayasamhita
Option d – Jayasamhita
Consider the following statements. I. Ramayana considered as oldest epic (Adi Kavya) was written by Valmiki. II. It is divided into 7 Kandas viz-Bala, Ayodhya, Aranya, Kishkindha, Sundara, Yuddha, and Uttara.III. Sundara Kanda is biggest among all Kandas in Ramayana. Select the correct answer using the codes given below. Codes
(a) I and II
(b) I and III
(c) I, II, and III
(d) II and Ill
Option b – I and III
The number of Puranas is
(a) 16
(b) 18
(c) 19
(d) 21
Option b – 18
Sarga, Pratisarga, Vansa, Manvantara, and Vanshanucharita are the indicators of
(a) Vedas
(b) Puranas
(c) Upanishads
(d) Sutras
Option b – Puranas
The biggest museum in the country depicting the story of the development of human civilization and also known as Indira Gandhi Manav Sangrahalaya is situated in
(a) Bhopal
(b) New Delhi
(c) Mumbai
(d) Ahmedabad
Option b – New Delhi
The three-age system was divided into stone, bronze, and iron from the collection of the Copenhagen museum and was coined by
(a) Thomsen
(b) Lubbock
(c) Taylor
(d) Childe
Option a – Thomsen
The period in which the events occurred before the existence of written records is called
(a) historical period
(b) pre-historic period
(c) Vedic period
(d) None of the above
Option b – pre-historic period
Which one of the following places is famous for pre-historic paintings?
(a) Ajanta
(b) Bhimbetka
(c) Bagh
(d) Amravati
Option b – Bhimbetka
Which of the following Indian archaeologists first visited ‘Bhimbetka Caves and discovered the prehistoric significance of its rock paintings?
(a) Madho Swaroop Vatsa
(b) HD Sankalia
(c) VS Wakankar
(d) VN Mishra
Option c – VS Wakankar
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