CTET 2024 Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

The correct answer is D, It was founded in 1928 at Amritsar in Punjab. This is the untrue statement, because the HSRA was founded at Firozeshah Kotla in Delhi, not at Amritsar. In 1928 Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and other young revolutionaries met at the Firozeshah Kotla ground in Delhi and turned the Hindustan Republican Association into the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. The word 'Socialist' showed that they wanted freedom along with a society free from exploitation. In December 1928 its members shot the police officer Saunders at Lahore to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. A is a true statement, since Saunders was killed by Bhagat Singh and Rajguru. B is true, because Bhagat Singh and his comrades set up the organisation. C is true, because Firozeshah Kotla in Delhi is exactly where it was founded. Exam tip: HRA founded 1924 at Kanpur; HSRA founded 1928 at Firozeshah Kotla, Delhi.

The correct answer is C, 18 years and 14 years. The 1929 Act fixed these as the lowest ages at which men and women could marry. It is also called the Sarda Act, after Har Bilas Sarda, who moved the bill in the Central Legislative Assembly. The Act was passed in 1929 and came into force on 1 April 1930, and it applied to people of all religions. NCERT's history book treats it as a milestone in the long campaign of reformers against child marriage. Independent India raised the limits to 21 years for men and 18 years for women in 1978, and the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 later replaced the old law. A is wrong because the Act did not fix 17 years for men and 15 years for women. B is wrong because 20 and 18 were never the ages set by this Act. D is wrong because 21 and 18 came only with the 1978 amendment, not in 1929. Exam tip: Sarda Act 1929, boys 18 and girls 14; amendment of 1978, 21 and 18.

The correct answer is D, Tarabai Shinde. She wrote Stripurushtulna, meaning 'A Comparison between Women and Men', in Marathi in 1882. Tarabai Shinde was a woman educated at home in Poona, and her book openly criticised the social differences between men and women. It asked why the same society that forgave men punished women so harshly, which is why it is counted among the first feminist writings in India. NCERT's Class 8 history book mentions her book alongside the work of Pandita Ramabai. A is wrong because Periyar started the Self-Respect Movement in the Tamil region and attacked caste and Brahmanical texts. B is wrong because Pandita Ramabai, a great Sanskrit scholar, wrote about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women and started a widows' home at Poona. C is wrong because Veerasalingam Pantulu formed an association for widow remarriage in the Telugu-speaking areas of Madras Presidency. Exam tip: Tarabai Shinde, Stripurushtulna (1882); Jyotirao Phule, Gulamgiri (1873).