INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQs

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQs

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1. Who declared, "The only hope for India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead"?
1. Gopalkrishan Gokhale
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Swami Vivekanand

Answer d

2. Who was the advocate at the famous INA trials?
1. Bulabhai Desai
2. Asaf Ali
3. Subhash Chandra Bose
4. C. Rajagopalachari

Answer a

3. The British Cabinet Mission which came to India in March 1946 did not have as its member
1. Lord Pethick-Lawrence
2. Sir Stafford Cripps
3. AV Alexander
4. Campbell Johnson

Answer d

4. Who was referred to as the "ambassador of hindu-muslim unity" by Sarojini Naidu in the early years of Gandhian Period?
1. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
2. Shaukat Ali
3. Maulana Azad
4. Abdul Gaffar Khan

Answer a

5. Who has been referred to as the "conscience keeper" of Gandhiji?
1. G Rajagopalachari
2. R Tagore
3. V Patel
4. GK Gokhale

Answer a

6. In November 1945 three former INA officers were charged with waging war against the King-emperor. Point the odd man out.
1. Col Sah Nawaj
2. Captain Sehgal
3. Lt Dhillon
4. Damodar Chapekar

Answer d

7. The first National Congress deliberated upon
1. only one resolution regarding the Indianisation of the Civil Service
2. nine resolutions concerning various issues
3. not single resolution as they lacked consensus of opinion
4. none of the above

Answer b

8. In the following, who was not among the first speakers at the Indian National Congress session of 1885, December 28?
1. AO Hume
2. A Subramania Aiyer
3. KT Telang
4. Surendra Nath Bannerji

Answer d

9. "The sleeping giant of Asia has woken up and no power on Earth can stop him now". Who said it and for whom?
1. Lenin, for the textile workers who came out on the streets in protest against Tilak's transportation in July, 1908
2. MK Gandhi, for the poor peasants when they participated in the Bardoli Satyagraha
3. Subhash Chander Bose, for the INA soldiers
4. None of the above

Answer a

10. The partition of Bengal was revoked by the British Government in the year
1. 1919
2. 1917
3. 1914
4. 1911

Answer d

11. The Rowlatt Act was passd in the year
1. 1931
2. 1919
3. 1920
4. 1942

Answer b

12. Initially an associate of Gandhi, he left the Congress, broke off with Gandhi and launched a radical social movement called the "Self-Respect Movement". The reference here is to
1. Chhatrapati Maharaj
2. EVR Naicker
3. P Tyagaraya Chetti
4. Jyotirao Govindrao Phule

Answer b

13. What was the chief programme of the Swaraj Party?
1. council entry
2. constitutional opposition
3. rural reconstruction programme
4. none of the above

Answer a

14. Swaraj Party took part in the election in
1. 1923,1926
2. 1919, 1923
3. 1920, 1926
4. 1919, 1920

Answer a

15. In 1923, Swaraj Party gained absolute majority in
1. Legislative Assembly
2. UP Council
3. Bengal Council
4. CP Council

Answer d