Social Studies 3

Released and then rearrested several times for his suspected role in violent acts, ______ was finally allowed to proceed to Europe after he contracted tuberculosis and was released for ill health. While ill in his enforced exile, he wrote The Indian Struggle, 1920–1934 and discussed India’s independence movement with European leaders.

• Jawaharlal Nehru

• Mohandas Gandhi

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak

• Subhas Bose

The ______ have been known since a hymn in the Rigveda that portrays the Brahman, the Kshatriya, the Vaishya, and the Shudra as coming forth at creation from the mouth, arms, thighs, and feet of the purusha. The term itself comes from the Sanskrit term for color.

• varnas

• castes

• jatis

• vedas

What little information there is about ______ life has been handed down mainly through legend and tradition. However, there is no doubt that he was born in 1469 in the village of Rai Bhoi di Talwandi.

• Siddhartha Gautama’s

• Rishabhanatha’s

• Guru Nanak’s

• Muhammad’s

In order to assert his control, ______ staged a coup in 1960, dissolving the National Assembly, revoking the constitution, and imprisoning political leaders. He then had a new constitution enacted in 1962 that helped institute direct rule by the monarchy.

• King Tribhuvan

• King Birendra

• King Mahendra

• King Dipendra

Like other high peaks in the region, ______ has long been revered by local peoples. Its most common Tibetan name, Chomolungma, means "Goddess Mother of the World" or "Goddess of the Valley." The Sanskrit name Sagarmatha means "Peak of Heaven."

• Annapurna

• Kanchenjunga

• K2

• Mount Everest

All of the statements above describe ______.

• Liaquat Ali Khan

• Mohammed Ali Jinnah

• Chaudhry Mohammad Ali

• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

______ was raised in northern Gujarat. He joined the pro-Hindu Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) organization in the early 1970s and set up a unit of its students' wing. He rose in the RSS hierarchy, which significantly benefited his subsequent political career in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

• Manmohan Singh

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee

• Narendra Modi

• Rajiv Gandhi

______ is the capital of West Bengal and former capital of British India. The city is centered on the east bank of the Hugli River and is the dominant urban center of eastern India.

• Mumbai

• Delhi

• Chennai

• Kolkata

The Boundary Commission was created by Lord Mountbatten in July of 1947 to recommend how the subcontinent would be divided into the future nations of India and Pakistan. Despite having never ventured east of Paris, ______ was named the chair of the commission.

• Allan Octavian Hume

• Cyril Radcliffe

• William Jones

• Thomas Macaulay

_____ was the viceroy of India from 1898 until 1905. In 1904, he was recommended to stay in office, but his previously stellar reputation was quickly tarnished by infighting and unrest leading to his resignation being accepted by King Edward VII.

• Lord Irwin

• Lord Linlithgow

• Lord Wavell

• Lord Curzon