INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQs

Indian National Movement

1. M A Jinnah and a section of the Muslim league was willing to give up separate electorate in favour of a joint electorate (with certain conditions) at the time of the
1. Cabinet Mission
2. Simon Commission
3. Wavell Plan
4. None of the above

Answer b

2. It led to the estrangement of M A Jinnah, who called it a "parting of the ways" with the Congress, went back to the separate electorates and formulated his famous 14 points. The reference here is to
1. failure of the Round Table Conference
2. the Nehru Report
3. the failure of non-cooperation movement
4. none of the above

Answer b

3. Which year did Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay write "Anandmath"?
1. 1858
2. 1892
3. 1882
4. none of the above

Answer c

4. Who is remembered as the pioneer of economic nationalism?
1. Bipin Chandra Pal
2. Gokhale
3. R C Dutt
4. Madan Mohan Malaviya

Answer c

5. Who wrote the play "Andher Nagari Chaupata Raja"?
1. Govardhanam M Tripathi
2. Munshi Premchand
3. Fakirmohan Senapati
4. Bhartendu Harishchandra

Answer d

6. The left wing within the Congress emerged under SC Bose and Nehru's initiative?
1. in the aftermath of the First World War
2. in the post non-cooperation period
3. as a result of world wide depression in the 1930's
4. none of the above

Answer b

7. Put the following events in correct chronological sequence.
1. march from Sabamati Ashram to Dandi beach
2. the Lahore Congress
3. Gandhi attends the second Round Table Conference
4. the Gandhi-Irwin Pact

Answer b,a,d,c

8. When the Simon Commission was appointed
1. Baldwin was the British Secretary of State
2. Birkenhead was the British India Minister
3. Irwin was the Viceroy of India
4. Labour party was in office in Britain

Answer c

9. Who proposed the Preamble before the drafting committee of the Constitution?
1. Jawahar Lal Nehru
2. B R Ambedkar
3. B N Rau
4. Mahatma Gandhi

Answer a

10. What was the ultimate goal of Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha?
1. repeal of salt laws
2. curtailment of the Government's power
3. economic relief to the common people
4. "purna swaraj" for India

Answer d

11. The movement that came to an abrupt end due to the Chauri Chaura incident was the
1. Wahabi Movement
2. Home Rule Movement
3. Non-Cooperation Movement
4. Civil Disobedience Movement

Answer c

12. The Moplah rebellion of 1921 broke out in
1. Assam
2. Kerala
3. Punjab
4. Bengal

Answer b

13. Who was the Congress president when India became free?
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3. J B Kriplani
4. Sardar Patel

Answer c

14. In which year did the British Government announce for the first time dominion status as the goal of British policy in India?
1. 1922
2. 1929
3. 1932
4. 1935

Answer b

15. The Government of India Act, 1935 prescribed a federation of the provinces and the princely states as its units. This part of the Act relating to the federation never took effect, because
1. the Congress did not accept it
2. the Muslim League did no accept it
3. some of the provinces did not accept it
4. the ruler of the Indian states never gave their consent to join the federation

Answer d

16. The Quit India campaign was launched by the National Congress after the failure of the
1. Cripps Mission
2. Simla Conference held at the instance of the Governor General, Lord Wavell
3. Cabinet Mission
4. None of the above

Answer a

17. The first attempt at introducing a representative and popular element in the governance of India made through
1. Indian Council Act, 1861
2. Indian Council Act, 1892
3. Indian Council Act, 1909
4. Government of India Act, 1919

Answer c

18. The formation of an interim Government set up on September 2, 1946 was first envisaged by
1. Cripps Mission
2. Wavell Plan
3. Cabinet Mission Plan
4. None of the above

Answer c

19. The main leaders of the Swaraj Party were
1. Vithalbhai J Patel and Dr Ansari
2. M N Roy and Muzaffar Ahmed
3. Motilal Nehru and C R Das
4. B R Ambedkar and P C Joshi

Answer c

20. The boundary between India and Pakistan was demarcated by
1. Lord Mountbatten
2. Sir Cyril Radcliffe
3. Sir Straffor Cripps
4. Lawrence

Answer b