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1. Who was the Viceroy of India when the Partition of Bengal was planned and executed?
A) Lord Minto
B) Lord Curzon
C) Lord Dalhousie
D) Lord Northbrook
Answer: B) Lord Curzon
2. In which year was the Partition of Bengal officially implemented?
A) 1903
B) 1905
C) 1911
D) 1906
Answer: B) 1905
3. On which exact date did the Partition of Bengal come into effect?
A) 1st September 1905
B) 19th July 1905
C) 16th October 1905
D) 30th December 1906
Answer: C) 16th October 1905
4. What was the name of the new province created by joining East Bengal and Assam?
A) West Bengal and Bihar
B) Eastern Bengal and Assam
C) Greater Bengal
D) East India Province
Answer: B) Eastern Bengal and Assam
5. Which city was chosen as the capital of the new province of “Eastern Bengal and Assam”?
A) Calcutta
B) Shillong
C) Dhaka
D) Guwahati
Answer: C) Dhaka
6. Who was appointed as the first Chief Commissioner of Assam when it was created in 1874?
A) Andrew Fraser
B) Colonel R.H. Keatings
C) J. Bamfylde Fuller
D) Herbert Risley
Answer: B) Colonel R.H. Keatings
7. Which British officer proposed changing the geographical boundary of Madhya Pradesh and Bengal in 1901?
A) William E. Ward
B) Andrew Fraser
C) Lord Minto
D) John Brodric
Answer: B) Andrew Fraser
8. Which journal published the famous article “Bangar Sarbanash” on 6th July 1904?
A) The Bengali
B) Yugantar
C) Sanjibani
D) Sandhya
Answer: C) Sanjibani
9. Who was the editor of the nationalist journal Sanjibani?
A) Surendranath Banerjee
B) Krishna Kumar Mitra
C) Arabinda Ghose
D) Bhupendra Dutta
Answer: B) Krishna Kumar Mitra
10. Where was the first protest meeting against the proposed partition of Bengal held on 14th July 1905?
A) Calcutta Town Hall
B) Khulna (Bagerbari)
C) Dhaka Palace
D) Rajabazar
Answer: B) Khulna (Bagerbari)
SEBA Class 10 History Chapter 1 MCQ
11. Which college students first staged a classroom walkout on 18th July 1905 to join the movement?
A) Ripon College
B) Presidency College
C) Bengal National College
D) Aligarh College
Answer: A) Ripon College
12. Who presided over the massive public meeting held at the Town Hall of Kasimbazar, Calcutta on 7th August 1905?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Maharaja Manindra Chandra Nandi
C) Ananda Mohan Bose
D) Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: B) Maharaja Manindra Chandra Nandi
13. What did the people of Bengal observe on 16th October 1905, the day partition was enforced?
A) Independence Day
B) National Mourning Day
C) Victory Day
D) Republic Day
Answer: B) National Mourning Day
14. Who proposed that every household in Bengal should avoid cooking on 16th October 1905 as a sign of mourning?
A) Ramendra Sundar Trivedi
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Bipin Chandra Paul
D) Rasbihari Bose
Answer: A) Ramendra Sundar Trivedi
15. Who initiated the ‘Rakhibandhan’ ceremony on 16th October 1905 to promote Hindu-Muslim unity?
A) Surendranath Banerjee
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Arabinda Ghose
D) Sister Nivedita
Answer: B) Rabindranath Tagore
16. Who laid the foundation stone of the ‘Federal Hall’ in Calcutta on 16th October 1905?
A) Ananda Mohan Bose
B) Dadabhai Naoraji
C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
D) Lalmohan Ghosh
Answer: A) Ananda Mohan Bose
17. Who edited the extremist weekly newspaper Yugantar in 1906?
A) Brahmabandhab Upadhya
B) Bhupendra Dutta
C) Satish Chandra Mukherjee
D) Kaliprasanna Kabyabisharad
Answer: B) Bhupendra Dutta
18. Who founded the nationalist institution named ‘Dawn Society’?
A) Taraknath Palit
B) Satish Chandra Mukherjee
C) Nilratan Sarkar
D) Prafulla Chandra Ray
Answer: B) Satish Chandra Mukherjee
19. Who was the first principal of the Bengal National College established in August 1906?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Arabinda Ghose
C) Bipin Chandra Paul
D) Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: B) Arabinda Ghose
20. Which prominent institution later evolved from the Bengal Technical Institute?
A) Calcutta University
B) Jadavpur University
C) Patna University
D) Aligarh Muslim University
Answer: B) Jadavpur University
Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi Movement Multiple Choice Questions SEBA 2026-27
21. Who started the ‘Lakshmi Bhandar’ on Cornwallis Street to sell indigenous goods?
A) Sarala Devi Choudhurini
B) Sister Nivedita
C) Swarnakumari Devi
D) Bhabaneswari Devi
Answer: A) Sarala Devi Choudhurini
22. What was the real name of Sister Nivedita, who inspired the Swadeshi movement?
A) Margaret Elizabeth Noble
B) Annie Besant
C) Mary Carpenter
D) Florence Nightingale
Answer: A) Margaret Elizabeth Noble
23. Which London newspaper described Bengal women as “the most obstinate and most dangerous antagonist of the English”?
A) The Times
B) Daily Telegraph
C) Manchester Guardian
D) Daily News
Answer: B) Daily Telegraph
24. Who established ‘Bengal Chemicals’ on 25th July 1906?
A) Jagadish Chandra Bose
B) Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
C) Nilratan Sarkar
D) Jamshedji Tata
Answer: B) Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
25. Who founded the ‘Banga Lakshi Cotton Mill’ on 14th August 1906?
A) Nilratan Sarkar
B) Taraknath Palit
C) Jamshedji Tata
D) Nawab Salimullah Khan
Answer: A) Nilratan Sarkar
26. In which year did Jamshedji Tata establish an iron factory in India?
A) 1905
B) 1906
C) 1907
D) 1911
Answer: C) 1907
27. Who was the Muslim leader of Dhaka that supported Lord Curzon and received a soft-loan of Rs. 14 Lacs?
A) Aga Khan
B) Nawab Salimullah Khan
C) Nawab Vikar-Ul-Mulk
D) Halim Gajnabi
Answer: B) Nawab Salimullah Khan
28. When was the All India Muslim League officially established?
A) 16th October 1905
B) 30th December 1906
C) 12th December 1911
D) 17th December 1905
Answer: B) 30th December 1906
29. Who presided over the historic Dhaka session where the Muslim League was formed?
A) Nawab Salimullah Khan
B) Nawab Vikar-Ul-Mulk
C) Aga Khan
D) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Answer: B) Nawab Vikar-Ul-Mulk
30. Where was the head office of the Muslim League transferred in March 1910?
A) Dhaka
B) Aligarh
C) Lucknow
D) Calcutta
Answer: C) Lucknow
Class 10 Social Science History Chapter 1 MCQ Solutions
31. Through which legislative act did Muslims secure separate electorates?
A) Regulating Act of 1773
B) Indian Councils Act (Morley-Minto Reform), 1909
C) University Law of 1904
D) Government of India Act, 1919
Answer: B) Indian Councils Act (Morley-Minto Reform), 1909
32. Who presided over the 1903 Madras session of the Indian National Congress?
A) Dadabhai Naoraji
B) Lalmohan Ghosh
C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
D) Ananda Mohan Bose
Answer: B) Lalmohan Ghosh
33. Who presided over the 1906 Calcutta session of Congress where “Swaraj” was first demanded?
A) Surendranath Banerjee
B) Dadabhai Naoraji
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: B) Dadabhai Naoraji
34. Which moderate leader immediately returned his ‘Knighthood’ title in protest against British policies?
A) Surendranath Banerjee
B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
C) Rashbehari Bose
D) R.C. Dutta
Answer: B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
35. In which year was the Partition of Bengal formally annulled (reunited)?
A) 1906
B) 1909
C) 1911
D) 1912
Answer: C) 1911
36. Where was the capital of British India shifted from Calcutta in 1911?
A) Bombay
B) Delhi
C) Dhaka
D) Madras
Answer: B) Delhi
37. What happened to the administration and capital of Assam after the reunification of Bengal in 1911?
A) It was merged with Burma
B) Its capital remained Dhaka
C) It came under a Chief Commissioner and its capital returned to Shillong
D) It became an independent state
Answer: C) It came under a Chief Commissioner and its capital returned to Shillong
37. Who wrote the famous patriotic song “Amar sonar Bangla Ami Tomake Bhal Basi”?
A) Dwijendralal Roy
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Rajanikanta Sen
D) Mukunda Das
Answer: B) Rabindranath Tagore
38. What was the primary name of the official proposal document of partition issued by Herbert Risley on 6th December 1903?
A) Carlyle Circular
B) Risley Papers
C) Curzon Minute
D) Allahabad Treaty
Answer: B) Risley Papers
39. Who was the Secretary of State for India who approved the partition proposal in June 1905?
A) John Brodric
B) Lord Morley
C) Lord Minto
D) Andrew Fraser
Answer: A) John Brodric
40. Which prominent leader started ‘Birastami Utsav’ and ‘Pratapaditya Utsav’ to train youth in physical culture?
A) Sarala Devi Choudhurini
B) Sister Nivedita
C) Bipin Chandra Paul
D) Arabinda Ghose
Answer: A) Sarala Devi Choudhurini
SEBA Class 10 History Partition of Bengal Objective Questions with Answers
41. What was the chief objective of the Anti-Circular Society formed on 4th November 1905?
A) To collect taxes for the British
B) To disobey Carlyle’s warning circular against student political participation
C) To promote foreign goods
D) To establish English high schools
Answer: B) To disobey Carlyle’s warning circular against student political participation
42. Who chaired the first Indian industrial summit held at Varanasi on 17th December 1905?
A) R.C. Dutta
B) Jamshedji Tata
C) Nilratan Sarkar
D) Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: A) R.C. Dutta
43. Which mother famously called upon women to join the mass movement after her son Bhupendra Nath Dutta was tortured?
A) Swarnakumari Devi
B) Bhabaneswari Devi
C) Sarala Devi Choudhurini
D) Kasturba Gandhi
Answer: B) Bhabaneswari Devi
44. Which region’s state was created on 7th February 1874 by combining six Brahmaputra valley districts with hill regions?
A) Manipur
B) Assam
C) Meghalaya
D) Nagaland
Answer: B) Assam
45. What was the second important political upheaval in India after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857?
A) Non-Cooperation Movement
B) Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi Movement
C) Quit India Movement
D) Civil Disobedience Movement
Answer: B) Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi Movement
46. Who made the famous statement: “The United Bengal is a big force, the partition will destroy this big unity”?
A) Lord Curzon
B) Herbert Risley
C) Andrew Fraser
D) Lord Minto
Answer: B) Herbert Risley
47. Who stated: “Boycotting means patriotism and the essence of patriotism is the non co-operation with the British in all respects”?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Arabinda Ghose
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D) Bipin Chandra Paul
Answer: B) Arabinda Ghose
48. In which year was the state of Assam placed under a Chief Commissioner for the first time?
A) 1826
B) 1874
C) 1905
D) 1911
Answer: B) 1874
49. What was the immediate economic impact of the Swadeshi Movement on British imports?
A) British imports increased rapidly
B) British imports came to be very low due to boycotts and local production
C) There was no change in import rates
D) British goods became mandatory for all citizens
Answer: B) British imports came to be very low due to boycotts and local production
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