TNPSC General Tamil Important Questions with Answers Download as PDF

1. The plan of Sir Stafford Cripps envisaged that after the Second World War,
(a) India should be granted complete independence 
(b) India should be partitioned into two before granting independence 
(c) India should be made a republic 
(d) India should be given dominion status

2. Which one of the following recommended a change in the pattern of Dyarchy introduced under the Act of 1919?
(a) Simon Commission 
(b) Sapru Commission 
(c) Butler Commission 
(d) Muddiman Commission

3. The Cabinet Mission Plan envisaged for India
(a) Federation 
(b) Confederation 
(c) Quasi-Federation 
(d) Union of State

4. Which of the following Acts had introduced communal electorate system in India
(a) Indian council Act 1909 
(b) Government of India Act 1919 
(c) Indian Council Act 1861 
(d) Indian Council Act 1862

5. In the Federation established by the Act 1935, residuary powers were given to the
(a) Federal Legislature 
(b) Provincial Legislature 
(c) Governor General 
(d) Provincial Governors

6 .Who was the head of the committee, known as ‘Nehru Committee’?
(a) B K Nehru 
(b) Arun Nehru
(c) Motilal Nehru
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

7. Who was the first elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly? 
(a) B R.Ambedkar 
(b) B N. Rao 
(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

8. Delhi was declared as the capital of India in the Following year
(a) 1909 
(b) 1911 
(c) 1913 
(d) 1915

9. Who was the founder of Indian National Congress?
(a) A O. Hume 
(b) W C. Banerjee
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji 
(d) Motilal Nehru

10. Which one of the following is one of the the objects of the Indian National Congress in 1885 ?
(a) Promotion of friendship
(b) Eradication of Poverty
(c) Demand for Swaraj 
(d) Independence

11. Which of the Act Introduced Dyarchy in the provinces?
(a) Government of India Act 1909 
(b) Government of India Act 1919 
(c) Indian Council Act 1861 
(d) Indian Council Act 1862

12. Which of the following transferred power from the English East India Company to the British Crown?
(a ) The Better Government Act of 1858 
(b) Government of India Act 1919 
(c) Indian Council Act 1861 
(d) Government of India Act 1935

13. The Indian Constituent Assembly , after the partition, had the following number
(a) 298 
(b) 299
(c) 300 
(d) 301

14. The sequence in which the given terms are mentioned in the preamble to the Constitution of India is
(a) Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic, Republics
(b) Socialist, Secular, Sovereign, Democratic, Republic
(c) Secular, Socialist, Sovereign, Democratic, Republics
(d) Sovereign, Democratic, Socialist, Secular, Republics

15. The Indian Constitution Consists of
(a )Articles 298
(b) Articles 399
(c) Articles 388 
(d) Articles 395

16. Which of the plan provided for the Constitutional Assembly of India?
(a ) Cripps Plan
(b) August Offer
(c) Wavell Plan
(d) Cabinet Mission Plan

17. India is a
(a)Federal, Presidential, Republics
(b) Republic, Parliamentary, Unitary 
(c) Unitary, Presidential, Republics
(d) Federal, Parliamentary, Republics

18. The method of amendment of Indian Constitution has been incorporated in Article
(a) 378
(b) 299 
(c) 368
(d) 301

19. India has been described as
(a) Confederation of states 
(b) Federation of States
(c) Union of States 
(d) Centralization of State

20. Who had said that the preamble is the keynote to the Constitution
(a) K M. Munshi 
(b) B R. Ambedker
(c) D.D.Basu 
(d) Earnest Barker