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1. Consider the following statements: 1) Ramprasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan and Rajendra Lahiri were hanged in Lahore Conspiracy case. 2) Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were tried in the Kakori Train Robbery case. Choose the correct statement: (a) Only 1 (b) Only 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 2. Which of the following statement is true regarding the ebb and flow of tides? (a) The time between the high tide and low tide, when the water level is falling, is called the flow. (b) The time between the low tide and high tide, when the tide is rising, is called the ebb. (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of the above
3. How much water can be added to a bucket which contains 40 L of milk at the cost price of Rs. 3.50 per litre, so that the cost of milk reduced to Rs 2 per litre? (a) 25 L (b) 28 L (c) 30 L (d) 35 L 4. Consider the following statements regarding Surya Sen: 1) Surya Sen was the secretary of the Chittagong District Congress Committee. 2) Surya Sen had participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement. 3) He was a teacher in the national school in Calcutta. Choose the correct statements: (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (c) Only 3 (d) Neither 1 nor 3 5. Consider the important reorganization steps taken by Bhagat Singh and Chandra Shekhar Azad for Hindustan Republican Association: 1) Hindustan Republican Association was renamed Hindustan Socialist Republican Association or HSRA. 2) HSRA adopted socialism as its official goal. 3) Chandra Shekhar Azad was involved in a bid to blow up Viceroy Irwin’s train. Choose the correct statements: (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (c) All of the above (d) Neither 1 nor 2 ANSWERS 1. (d) The most important action of the HRA was the Kakori robbery where they held down a train at Kakori and looted its official railway cash.  Government crackdown the Kakori robbery and this led to arrests of many revolutionaries of the HRA; of whom 17 were jailed, four transported for life and four namely, Bismil, Ashfaqullah, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri were hanged. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were tried in the Lahore conspiracy. 2. (d) The ebb is the outgoing phase, when the tide drains away from the shore; and the flow is the incoming phase when water rises again 3. (c)  4. (a) Surya Sen was the secretary of the Chittagong District Congress Committee. Hence, he participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement and become a teacher in the national school in Chittagong. He was imprisoned from 1926 to 1928 for revolutionary activity and afterwards continued working in the Congress. He was a lover of poetry and an admirer of Tagore and Quiz Nazrul Islam. Surya Sen presented phenomenon leadership role during the Chittagong Armoury Raid. 5. (d) At a historic HRA meeting in 1928, the participants including Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Bhagwaticharan Vohra from Punjab and Bejoy Kumar Sinha, Shiv Verma and Jaidev Kapur from UP  decided to work under a collective leadership and adopted socialism as its official goal. Revolution was no longer equated with militancy and violence. Its objective was to be national liberation that is imperialism was to be overthrown but beyond that a new socialist order was to be achieved, ending exploitation of man by man. Azad was involved in a bid to blow up Viceroy Irwin's train near Delhi in 1929 and he was killed in a police encounter in a park in Allahabad.  


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