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Reforms in Indian Society

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the statue situated in England that is of a pioneer of the socio-religious reform movement.

a)

Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar

b)

Raja Rammohun Roy

c)

Swami Vivekananda

d)

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

2.

In 1829, who declared the practice of 'sati' as illegal ?

a)

Lord William Bentinck

b)

Keshab Chandra Sen

c)

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

d)

Colonel Olcott

3.

Who helped Drinkwater Bethune to set up a school for girls in Calcutta in 1849 ?

a)

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

b)

Annie Besant

c)

Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar

d)

Swami Vivekananda

4.

Who founded the Arya Samaj in 1875 ?

a)

Swami Dayanand Saraswati

b)

Raja Rammohun Roy

c)

Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar

d)

Ramakrishna Paramhansa

5.

Where did Annie Besant establish the Central Hindu School ?

a)

Lucknow

b)

Banaras

c)

Delhi

d)

Calcutta

6.

Who started the Young Bengal Movement?

a)

Annie Besant

b)

H S Olcott

c)

Vivian Derozio

d)

Blavatsky

7.

Who wrote the book titled 'Sathyarth Prakash'?

a)

Narayan Guru

b)

Rajaram Mohan Roy

c)

Dayanand Saraswati

d)

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

8.

Why was Ramakrishna Mission founded?

a)

To spread Hinduism

b)

To reconvert people

c)

To spread the thoughts and messages of Ramakrishna

d)

To spread the worship of Kali

9.

Who founded the Translation Society in 1864?

a)

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

b)

Nawab Abdul Latif

c)

Dadabhai Naoroji

d)

Naoroji Furdoonji

10.

Who attacked social evils like the dowry system through his writings in Hindi?

a)

Munshi Premchand

b)

Sri Narayan Guru

c)

Mahatma Phule

d)

Mahadev Govind Ranade

11.

Who has received the title of the 'Vidyasagar of the South'?

a)

Chembeti Naidu

b)

Sri Narayan Guru

c)

J.K. Madhavan

d)

Kandukuri Veeresalingam

12.

Name the two places where Singh Sabhas were held in the 1870s.

a)

Amritsar and Ludhiana

b)

Lahore and Karachi

c)

Amritsar and Lahore

d)

Amritsar and Karachi

13.

The Sharda Act of 1929 raised the age of marriage for girls to ________ years.

a)

12

b)

14

c)

16

d)

18

14.

The _________ college was established in Amritsar in 1892.

a)

Amritsar

b)

Khalsa

c)

Punjab

d)

Guru Nanak

15.

Which one of these is not the name of a reformer among the Parsees?

a)

Naoroji Furdoonji

b)

Sorabji Bengalee

c)

Rast Goftar

d)

Dadabhai Naoroji