Bihar STET History Questions: 40 Important MCQs with Answers
Practise 40 important Bihar STET History (Paper 2) MCQs with answers, covering topics from the Harappan Civilization to the Revolt of 1857.
This set of bihar stet history questions is designed for Bihar STET Paper 2 History aspirants who want fast, syllabus-focused revision. It includes 40 important MCQs with answers spanning the Harappan Civilization and Vedic Age through the Mauryan Age, Cholas, Delhi Sultanate, Mughal rulers like Akbar, the Revolt of 1857, and world history topics such as the French Revolution, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution and Second World War, so you can gauge your readiness across the full History syllabus in one sitting.
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40 Bihar STET History Questions with Answers
Second World War
The Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945) was attended by Stalin, Truman and, after the British election:
- (A) Clement Attlee
- (B) Winston Churchill throughout
- (C) Anthony Eden
- (D) Neville Chamberlain
Answer: (A) Clement Attlee
Explanation: Labour's victory replaced Churchill midway.
The 'Tehran Conference' (1943) was the first meeting of:
- (A) Nehru and Jinnah
- (B) Hitler and Mussolini
- (C) Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin together
- (D) Truman and Attlee
Answer: (C) Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin together
Explanation: They agreed on the D-Day invasion.
The five D-Day landing beaches included Omaha and Utah (US), Gold and Sword (British), and:
- (A) Dunkirk
- (B) Iwo Jima
- (C) Juno (Canadian)
- (D) Anzio
Answer: (C) Juno (Canadian)
Explanation: Omaha saw the heaviest casualties.
Japan's post-war constitution (1947) is famous for Article 9, which:
- (A) Renounces war as a sovereign right
- (B) Makes the Emperor absolute
- (C) Allows nuclear weapons
- (D) Bans elections
Answer: (A) Renounces war as a sovereign right
Explanation: It was drafted under US occupation.
Japan's suicide pilots who crashed planes into Allied ships were called:
- (A) Shogun
- (B) Kamikaze
- (C) Ninja
- (D) Samurai
Answer: (B) Kamikaze
Explanation: The word means 'divine wind'.
The INA trials were defended by a committee of lawyers including:
- (A) Bhulabhai Desai, Tej Bahadur Sapru and Nehru
- (B) Gandhi and Patel only
- (C) Jinnah and Liaquat Ali
- (D) Ambedkar alone
Answer: (A) Bhulabhai Desai, Tej Bahadur Sapru and Nehru
Explanation: Bhulabhai Desai led the defence.
The INA's first flag-hoisting on Indian soil took place in April 1944 at:
- (A) Calcutta
- (B) Chittagong
- (C) Moirang (Manipur)
- (D) Delhi
Answer: (C) Moirang (Manipur)
Explanation: It was hoisted by Colonel Shaukat Malik.
The first individual satyagrahi chosen by Gandhi in October 1940 was:
- (A) Jawaharlal Nehru
- (B) Rajendra Prasad
- (C) Sardar Patel
- (D) Vinoba Bhave
Answer: (D) Vinoba Bhave
Explanation: Nehru was the second.
The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on:
- (A) 9 August 1945
- (B) 8 May 1945
- (C) 6 August 1945
- (D) 15 August 1947
Answer: (A) 9 August 1945
Explanation: Japan announced surrender on 15 August 1945.
After WWII, the two superpowers were:
- (A) Germany and Japan
- (B) USA and USSR
- (C) Britain and France
- (D) China and India
Answer: (B) USA and USSR
Explanation: Their rivalry is called the Cold War.
The Cold War was called 'cold' because:
- (A) The superpowers did not fight each other directly
- (B) It was fought in the Arctic
- (C) No weapons existed
- (D) It happened in winter
Answer: (A) The superpowers did not fight each other directly
Explanation: They competed through alliances, arms and proxy wars.
The 'Trinity' test of July 1945 was:
- (A) A Japanese rocket
- (B) The first detonation of a nuclear weapon, in New Mexico
- (C) A D-Day rehearsal
- (D) A radar trial
Answer: (B) The first detonation of a nuclear weapon, in New Mexico
Explanation: It took place at Alamogordo.
The Nazi party's official name was the:
- (A) Fascist Party
- (B) Social Democratic Party
- (C) Communist Party of Germany
- (D) National Socialist German Workers' Party
Answer: (D) National Socialist German Workers' Party
Explanation: Its German abbreviation was NSDAP.
The approximate death toll of WWII is estimated at:
- (A) 1 crore
- (B) 10 lakh
- (C) 50 lakh
- (D) 7 to 8.5 crore (70–85 million)
Answer: (D) 7 to 8.5 crore (70–85 million)
Explanation: It was the deadliest conflict in history.
The INA fought alongside which country's forces?
- (A) Britain
- (B) Japan
- (C) USA
- (D) China
Answer: (B) Japan
Explanation: It aimed to free India from British rule.
The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was answered by the Western powers with the:
- (A) Berlin Wall
- (B) Berlin Airlift
- (C) Invasion of Moscow
- (D) Nuclear strike
Answer: (B) Berlin Airlift
Explanation: Supplies were flown into West Berlin.
The Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack was:
- (A) Tomoyuki Yamashita
- (B) Isoroku Yamamoto
- (C) Chuichi Nagumo
- (D) Hideki Tojo
Answer: (B) Isoroku Yamamoto
Explanation: Nagumo commanded the carrier strike force.
The Allied campaign in Burma involving long-range penetration groups called 'Chindits' was led by:
- (A) Slim
- (B) Auchinleck
- (C) Joseph Stilwell
- (D) Orde Wingate
Answer: (D) Orde Wingate
Explanation: Stilwell commanded US-Chinese forces in north Burma.
The diary of a Jewish girl hiding in Amsterdam during the war was written by:
- (A) Helen Keller
- (B) Anne Frank
- (C) Marie Curie
- (D) Rosa Parks
Answer: (B) Anne Frank
Explanation: She died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
The Muslim League celebrated the resignation of Congress ministries in December 1939 as:
- (A) Pakistan Day
- (B) Day of Deliverance
- (C) Independence Day
- (D) Direct Action Day
Answer: (B) Day of Deliverance
Explanation: Direct Action Day was in August 1946.
The Yalta Conference agreed that the USSR would enter the war against Japan within how long after Germany's defeat?
- (A) Three months
- (B) One week
- (C) One year
- (D) Five years
Answer: (A) Three months
Explanation: It declared war on 8 August 1945, exactly three months later.
The 1944 conference that drew up proposals for the UN was held at:
- (A) Dumbarton Oaks
- (B) Locarno
- (C) Bandung
- (D) Versailles
Answer: (A) Dumbarton Oaks
Explanation: It was held in Washington, D.C.
The Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who issued transit visas to thousands of Jews in 1940 was:
- (A) Yamamoto
- (B) Chiune Sugihara
- (C) Shigemitsu
- (D) Hideki Tojo
Answer: (B) Chiune Sugihara
Explanation: He acted against his government's instructions.
Hitler's 1941 'Commissar Order' instructed German troops to:
- (A) Protect Soviet civilians
- (B) Execute Soviet political commissars on capture
- (C) Retreat from Moscow
- (D) Free all prisoners
Answer: (B) Execute Soviet political commissars on capture
Explanation: It violated the laws of war.
The USSR declared war on Japan in August 1945 and invaded:
- (A) India
- (B) Manchuria
- (C) Australia
- (D) Hawaii
Answer: (B) Manchuria
Explanation: This was agreed at the Yalta Conference.
Plassey and Buxar
The British 'Bihar Opium Agency' was headquartered at:
- (A) Ranchi
- (B) Munger
- (C) Patna (Gulzarbagh)
- (D) Gaya
Answer: (C) Patna (Gulzarbagh)
Explanation: The Gulzarbagh factory building now houses a government press.
Early Indian Nationalism
The Swadeshi movement was formally proclaimed at a meeting in Calcutta Town Hall on:
- (A) 16 October 1905
- (B) 7 August 1905
- (C) 1 January 1906
- (D) 12 December 1911
Answer: (B) 7 August 1905
Explanation: The boycott resolution was passed there.
Mauryan Age
Chandragupta Maurya's conquest of the south is suggested by Tamil Sangam references to the:
- (A) Vamba Moriyar (Mauryan newcomers)
- (B) Satavahanas
- (C) Cholas of Tanjore
- (D) Pallavas of Kanchi
Answer: (A) Vamba Moriyar (Mauryan newcomers)
Explanation: Poets like Mamulanar mention Mauryan expeditions.
Renaissance
The Renaissance was mainly a revival of the learning of ancient:
- (A) India and Sri Lanka
- (B) China and Japan
- (C) Egypt and Persia
- (D) Greece and Rome
Answer: (D) Greece and Rome
Explanation: Classical texts were studied with new interest.
Gandhian Movements
Bi Amma (Abadi Bano Begum), active in the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movements, was the mother of:
- (A) Maulana Azad
- (B) Jinnah
- (C) Iqbal
- (D) The Ali brothers
Answer: (D) The Ali brothers
Explanation: She addressed public meetings wearing a burqa.
Akbar
Mughal miniature painting developed under Akbar in a workshop called the:
- (A) Diwan-i-Aam
- (B) Tasvir Khana
- (C) Ibadat Khana
- (D) Naqqar Khana
Answer: (B) Tasvir Khana
Explanation: Many Hindu and Muslim artists worked there.
Harshavardhana
Harsha rescued his sister Rajyashri from:
- (A) A ship at sea
- (B) A prison in Pataliputra
- (C) The Vindhya forest, as she was about to enter a fire
- (D) The Chinese court
Answer: (C) The Vindhya forest, as she was about to enter a fire
Explanation: Bana describes this dramatic rescue.
Delhi Sultanate (1206-1290)
Bughra Khan, who chose to remain in Bengal rather than claim Delhi, founded an independent line known as the:
- (A) Balbani dynasty of Bengal
- (B) Hussain Shahi dynasty
- (C) Pala dynasty
- (D) Ilyas Shahi dynasty
Answer: (A) Balbani dynasty of Bengal
Explanation: It ruled Lakhnauti until the early 14th century.
Later Sultanate and Regional Kingdoms
The Golconda sultanate was founded by:
- (A) Muhammad Quli
- (B) Quli Qutb Shah
- (C) Ahmad Nizam Shah
- (D) Yusuf Adil Shah
Answer: (B) Quli Qutb Shah
Explanation: He was a Turkman noble of the Bahmanis.
Harappan Civilization
The Neolithic site that shows the earliest farming in the Indian subcontinent and is regarded as a forerunner of the Harappan culture is:
- (A) Mehrgarh
- (B) Burzahom
- (C) Chirand
- (D) Bhimbetka
Answer: (A) Mehrgarh
Explanation: Mehrgarh in Baluchistan dates back to about 7000 BCE.
Revolt of 1857
The British general James Neill became notorious for:
- (A) Writing poetry
- (B) Saving Bahadur Shah
- (C) Founding schools
- (D) Brutal reprisals at Allahabad and Kanpur
Answer: (D) Brutal reprisals at Allahabad and Kanpur
Explanation: He was killed at Lucknow in 1857.
Cholas
Chola temples acted as banks by:
- (A) Issuing credit cards
- (B) Running stock exchanges
- (C) Lending money to village assemblies and individuals at interest
- (D) Printing currency notes
Answer: (C) Lending money to village assemblies and individuals at interest
Explanation: Interest was often paid in grain or ghee.
Industrial Revolution
Britain was called the 'workshop of the world' because:
- (A) It had the most farms
- (B) It produced manufactured goods for markets all over the world
- (C) It made only weapons
- (D) It was the largest country
Answer: (B) It produced manufactured goods for markets all over the world
Explanation: By the mid-19th century it led world industry.
French Revolution
Napoleon's agreement with the Pope in 1801 is called the:
- (A) Treaty of Paris
- (B) Peace of Amiens
- (C) Treaty of Tilsit
- (D) Concordat
Answer: (D) Concordat
Explanation: It recognised Catholicism as the religion of most French people.
Vedic Age and Mahajanapadas
The Rigveda is divided into how many books (mandalas)?
- (A) Twelve
- (B) Eighteen
- (C) Ten
- (D) Four
Answer: (C) Ten
Explanation: Books II to VII are the oldest.
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What topics are covered in Bihar STET History Paper 2 questions?
Bihar STET History (Paper 2) questions span Indian and world history, including the Harappan Civilization, Vedic Age and Mahajanapadas, Mauryan Age, Harshavardhana, Cholas, Delhi Sultanate, Akbar and later regional kingdoms, the Revolt of 1857, Early Indian Nationalism and Gandhian Movements, along with the Renaissance, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution and Second World War.
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