Struggle For Independence Of India
Part Number – – – 3
1.During Quit India Movement,’Parallel Government’ was constituted at–
A. Varanasi
B. Allahabad
C. Lucknow
D. Ballia
Answer: Option D
Explanation :During Quit India Movement (1942) parallel Government established in a part of India i.e in Ballia (By Chittu Pandey), Tamluk(Bengal), Satara(Maharastra). The parallel government of Satara ran for long time comparatively to others.
2.The father of extremist movement in India is—
A. Motilal Nehru
B. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
C. Vallabh Bhai Patel
D. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: Option D
Explanation :Lokmanya Tilak was one of the prominent Indian independence activists. He was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement. He was the father of Extremist Movement. The British Colonial authorities derogatorily called him ‘Father of the Indian Unrest’.
3. Two socio-religious reform movements founded in India in 1875 were—
A. Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj
B. Arya Samaj and Ramakrishna Mission
C. Theosophical Society and Arya Samaj
D. Aligarh Movement and Servants of Indian Society
Answer: Option C
Explanation :The Arya Samaj is a monotheistic Hindu reform movement founded in India by Swami Dayananda Saraswati in 1875 at Bombay. He was a sannyasin (ascetic) who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. The Theosophical Society was founded in the United States by Madam H.P Blavatsky and Colonel H.S. Olcott, who later came to India and founded the headquarters of the Society at Adyar near Madras in 1886.
4. Which movement got the support from both Hindus and Muslims?
A. Non-Cooperation Movement
B. Quit India Movement
C. Champaran Stayagraha
D. Anti-Partition Movement
Answer: Option A
Explanation :Non-Cooperation Movement got the support from both Hindus and Muslims. Muslims were opposing British government because of division of Turkey by the allied powers during frist world war.
5. Apart from the Quit India Movement which started on 9th August 1942, what other sensational activity of the freedom fighters was done on 9th August?
A. Salt Satyagraha
B. Boycott of Simon Commission
C. Champaran Satyagraha
D. Kakori Mail train robbery
Answer: Option D
Explanation :On 9th August 1925, Kakori Mail train robbery took place at the town of Kakori about 10 miles north west of Lucknow. The raiders were members of Hindustan Republican Association.
6. The Non-Cooperation movement had been launched by Gandhi in the year
A. 1916
B. 1919
C. 1920
D. 1923
Answer: Option C
Explanation :The Non-Cooperation Movement was a significant but short phase of the Indian independence movement from British rule. It was led by Mahatma Gandhi after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and lasted from 1920 to February 1922. It aimed to resist British rule in India through non-violent means, or “Ahimsa”.
7. In which year did Gandhiji start Satyagraha Movement?
A. 1919
B. 1917
C. 1934
D. 1909
Answer: Option B
Explanation :Gandhiji started first Satyagraha movement in 1909 in South Africa and in India started in 1917 from Champaran.
8. Which of the following was not one of the points stressed by Mahatma Gandhi while exhorting the people to join the Quit India Movement?
A. Forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims and think of yourselves as Indians only.
B. our quarrel is not with British people, we fight their imperialism and we must purge ourselves of hatred.
C. Feel from today that you are a free man and pot a dependent. Do or die. Either free India or die in the the attempt.
D. Freedom of India is an end that will purify all means employed to achieve it.
Answer: Option D
Explanation :Freedom of India is an end that will purify all means employed to achieve it was not one of the points stressed by Mahatma Gandhi while exhorting the people to join the Quit India Movement.
9. In violation of the Salt Laws, Gandhiji started a movement called
A. Non-Cooperation movement
B. Swadeshi Movement
C. Civil Disobedience movement
D. None of the above
Answer: Option C
Explanation :To violate salt law Gandhiji decided to march from Sabarmati to Dandi (12 March,1930 – 5 April,1930) with 78 delegates. This march is known as Dandi March. This was the beginning of civil disobedience in India and it spread over the different parts of country.
10. ‘Do or Die’ (Karenge ya Marenge) Gandhiji gave this Mantra to the nation on the eve of which mass movement?
A. Rowlatt Satyagraha
B. Salt Satyagraha
C. Quit India Movement
D. Non-Cooperation Movement
Answer: Option C
Explanation :Quit India Movement was started on 8 Aug,1942 in Bombay under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. In this movement he gave a slogan “Do or Die”. Mahatama Gandhi gave this slogan first time during this movement.
11. All India State’s Peoples Conference formed in 1927 launched popular movements in—
A. Princely States
B. British Provinces
C. Hill Regions
D. Tribal Areas
Answer: Option A.
Explanation :The first session of an All India States’ People’s Conference was held in Bombay in December 1927. The Conference brought together representatives from hundreds of Indian princely states, including Baroda, Bhopal, Travancore and Hyderabad.
12. Who among the following freedom fighter opposes the Annie Besant’s idea of launching Home Rule Movement?
A. G. K. Gokhale
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Aurobindo Ghosh
D. B. G. Tilak
Answer: Option A.
Explanation :G. K. Gokhale freedom fighter opposes the Annie Besant’s idea of launching Home Rule Movement.
13. Which of the following trio leaders referred to as Lal, Bal and Pal during the freedom movement?
A. Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
B. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal
C. Lal Bahadur Shastri, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopala Krishna Gokhale
D. Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: Option A
Explanation :The three dynamic leaders of Lokmanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, who had been promoting self-reliance and opposing the monopoly of the British goods in India, famously came together as the Lal-Bal-Pal trio.
14. In India, the Wahabi movement was started by __________
A. 1901
B. 1906
C. 1915
D. None of these
Answer: Option D
Explanation :Though Shah Waliullah started it, the actual founder of the Wahabi movement in India was Syed Ahmed (1786-1831) of Raibareilly in Uttar Pradesh. He came in touch with Aziz and 1820-21 onwards started preaching the ideals of Islamic reforms. Syed Ahmed was the founder of wahabi movement in india.
15. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct related to the Non-cooperation Movement?
I. It aimed to resist British rule in India through non violent means. Protestors would refuse to buy British goods, adopt the use of local handicrafts and picket liquor shops.
II. The ideas of Ahimsa and nonviolence, and Gandhi’s ability to rally hundreds of thousands of common citizens towards the cause of Indian independence, were first seen on a large scale in this movement through the summer 1920, they feared that the movement might lead to popular violence
A. Only I
B. Only II
C. Both I & II
D. Neither I nor II
Answer: Option C
Explanation :Both statement(s) are correct related to the Non-cooperation Movement. It aimed to resist British rule in India through nonviolent means. Protestors would refuse to buy British goods, adopt the use of local handicrafts and picket liquor shops. The ideas of Ahimsa and nonviolence, and Gandhi’s ability to rally hundreds of thousands of common citizens towards the cause of Indian independence, were first seen on a large scale in this movement through the summer 1920, they feared that the movement might lead to popular violence.
16. Which one is the correct chronological order of the following events?
I. Quit India Movement
II. Shimla Conference
III. Poona Pact
IV. Cabinet Mission
A. II, IV, I, III
B. III, IV,II, I
C. III, I, II, IV
D. IV, II, III, I
Answer: Option C.
Explanation :Correct Chronological order is:
Poona Pact (1932), Quit India movement(1942), Shimla conference (1945), Cabinet mission (1946).
17. What was the another name of ‘Quit India movement’?
A. Khilafat Movement
B. Swadeshi Movement
C. Home Rule Movement
D. August Kranti
Answer: Option D
Explanation :The Quit India Movement, or the ‘August Movement’, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British Rule of India.
18. Socialism is essentially a movement of—
A. Intellectuals
B. The poor people
C. The middle classes
D. The workers
Answer: Option D
Explanation :Socialism is a social and economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy. Modern socialism originated from an 18th-century intellectual and working class political movement that criticised the effects of industrialization and private property on society. So it is essentially a movement of the workers.
19. The non cooperation movement was called off due to—-
A. Jallianwalla Bagh Tragedy
B. Chauri Chaura Incident
C. Poona pact
D. Gandhi-Irwin pact
Answer: Option B
Explanation :Non-Cooperation movement started in 1920 under the leadership of M.K Gandhi. Non-Violence was basic and compulsory feature of this movement but in Chauri- Chaura (5th Feb, 1922) the principle of non-violence was not taken care of and Gandhi suspended the movement in Bardoli on 13 Feb, 1922.
20. Mahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement on March 12, 1930 by—–
A. asking the Viceroy through a letter containing Eleven Points Programme to remove the evils of the British rule
B. Dandi March to break the Salt Laws
C. asking the people to take Poorna Swaraj Pledge
D. launching the non-payment of taxes campaign
Answer: Option B
Explanation :The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. It gained worldwide attention which gave impetus to the Indian independence movement and started the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement.
21. In the absence of Gandhi, the Quit India Movement had been led by–
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Sarojini Naidu
C. Aruna Asaf Ali
D. Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: Option C
Explanation :Aruna Asaf Ali was an Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942.
22. Two great socio-religious reformers of the 19th century who provided inspiration to the Indian National Movement were–
A. Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekananda
B. Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendra Nath Tagore
C. MG Ranade and DK Karve
D. Keshab Chandra Sen and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Answer: Option A
Explanation :Two great socio-religious reformers of the 19th century who provided inspiration to the Indian National Movement were Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekananda.
23. The Non-Cooperation Movement was suspended in February 1922 on account of—-
A. the Chauri Chaura incident
B. Hindu Muslim riots
C. arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and his imprisonment for six years
D. all the above
Answer: Option A
Explanation :The Non-cooperation movement was withdrawn because of the Chauri Chaura incident. Although he had stopped the national revolt single-handedly, on 10 March 1922, Gandhi was arrested. On 18 March 1922, he was imprisoned for six years for publishing seditious materials.
24. The Bhoodan Movement had been started by
A. M K Gandhi
B. Acharya Kripalani
C. Jayaprakash Narayan
D. Vinoba Bhave
Answer: Option D
Explanation :The Bhoodan Movement or Land Gift Movement, was a voluntary land reform movement in India, started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village which is now in Telangana, India and known as Bhoodan Pochampally.
25. Which of the following event was the reason for the withdrawn of non cooperation movement?
A. Chauri Chaura incident
B. Jallianwala massacre
C. Gandhi Imprisionment
D. None
Answer: Option A.
Explanation :The Non-cooperation movement was withdrawn because of the Chauri Chaura incident. Although he had stopped the national revolt single-handedly, on 10 March 1922, Gandhi was arrested. This led to suppression of the movement and was followed by the arrest of other leaders.