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Social Reformers MCQ Practice Test

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Q1. Who was the first Indian woman to earn a degree in Western medicine, graduating from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886?

Explanation: Anandi Gopal Joshi travelled to the United States in 1883 and graduated in 1886, becoming a pioneer of women's medical education in India; she died in 1887, aged 21. The old key 'Candeth Kanakalathammal' appears to be a fabricated name and no 'first children's hospital of 1880' is documented.

Q2. Which social reformer is credited with leading the Non-Cooperation Movement in India?

Explanation: Mahatma Gandhi led the Non-Cooperation Movement in India in 1920-1922, which aimed to achieve independence from British rule through non-violent means.

Q3. Which social reformer in India is credited with the establishment of the first women's college in the country, the Bethune College?

Explanation: Bethune College grew from the girls' school founded in Calcutta in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, with strong support from Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar; its degree-level (college) section opened in 1879, making it India's first women's college. Vidyasagar, the Bengali reformer, championed women's education and helped sustain the institution.

Q4. Which African American entrepreneur and activist built a fortune from hair-care products for Black women, becoming one of the first self-made female millionaires in the United States?

Explanation: Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919) developed the 'Walker System' of hair care, built a national sales force of Walker Agents, and donated heavily to the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign and Black education. Anthony, Wells, and Tubman were reformers, but none made a business fortune. The original stem's 'first woman to fly in a plane in 1909' claim is fabricated (no such record attaches to any option).

Q5. Which Indian independence leader, known as 'Punjab Kesari' (Lion of the Punjab), died in November 1928 after being injured in a police lathi charge during protests against the Simon Commission?

Explanation: Lala Lajpat Rai led the Lahore protest against the all-white Simon Commission on 30 October 1928, was struck by police lathis, and died on 17 November 1928. The old stem asked for a Gandhi-inspired non-violent leader while keying Savarkar, who led the Hindu Mahasabha rather than any non-violent mass movement.

Q6. Which social reformer, along with her husband Henry Blackwell, published The Lily, a women\u2019s rights newspaper in the mid-19th century?

Explanation: Lucy Stone was an American women's rights activist and the editor of The Lily, a newspaper that advocated for women's suffrage and property rights.

Q7. Who led the 240-mile Salt March from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi in 1930 to protest the British salt tax in colonial India?

Explanation: Mahatma Gandhi led the Salt March (March-April 1930), a defining act of civil disobedience against the salt tax; Gandhi himself drew on Thoreau's essay 'Civil Disobedience'. The old explanation wrongly credited Vinoba Bhave.

Q8. Which social reformer, who fought for women's rights in the United States, was a key figure in the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

Explanation: Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She played a key role in organizing the Seneca Falls Convention, which was the first women's rights convention in the United States.

Q9. Which formerly enslaved African American abolitionist and women's rights activist delivered the famous 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio?

Explanation: Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) escaped slavery in New York in 1826 and became an itinerant preacher and activist for abolition, women's rights, and prison reform; her Akron speech is one of the most famous of the era. Anthony and Stanton led the organized suffrage movement, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet and abolitionist lecturer. No '1857 Women's Pension March' exists — the original stem was fabricated (its explanation even referenced the Civil War, which began in 1861).

Q10. Which social reformer is credited with leading the National Woman's Suffrage Movement in the United States, and was a key figure in the 1913 Woman's Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.?

Explanation: Alice Paul was an American suffragist and women's rights activist who played a leading role in the National Woman's Party and organized numerous protests and marches, including the 1913 Woman's Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.

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