Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and Answers on Indian National Movement (II) Gandhian Era
Question 1: Which of the following statements on Gandhian Movement is not correct?
a) Mahatma Gandhi was in favour of mass movement
b) Gandhian Movements were non-violent in nature.
c) In Gandhian Movements, leadership had no role.
d) Mahatma Gandhi was in favour of passive resistance.
Answer: (c)
Question 2: Which of the following was not set up by Gandhi in South Africa?
a) A newspaper called “Indian Opinion.”
b) The Natal Indian Congress.
c) The Phoenix Ashram.
d) The Indian League.
Answer: (d)
Question 3: The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was?
a) Jadonang
b) Rani Gaidinliu.
c) Alluri Sitaram Raju
d) Thakkar Bapa
Answer: (a)
Question 4: The first venture of Gandhi in All India Politics?
a) Noncooperation Movement.
b) Rowlatt Sataygraha.
c) Champaran Movement
d) The Dandi March
Answer: (b)
Question 5: A novel and remarkable feature of the Civil Disobedience Movement was the widespread participation of
a) peasants.
b) students.
c) women
d) industrialists and merchants
Answer: (c)
Question 6: For whom did Gandhi say “that when I am gone, he will speak my language.”
a) Sardar Patel
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) U.N. Dhebar
d) J.B. Kriplani
Answer: (c)
Question 7: Which one of the following ashrams was not set up by Gandhi?
a) Phoenix Ashram
b) Tolstoy Farm
c) Sevagram
d) Gandhi Ashram
Answer: (d)
Question 8: The Sarabandi (no tax) Campaign of 1922 was led by?
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Chittaranjan Das
c) Rajaguru
d) Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (d)
Question 9: Seeds of Indian participating in the legislative council of the Governor General of India are embodied in the
a) Government of India Act, 1919
b) Indian Council Act, 1861
c) Indian Council Act, 1892
d) Indian Council Act, 1902
Answer: (c)
Question 10: Ramsay McDonald’s Communal Award gave?
a) privy-purses to native princess
b) communal representation to Muslim
c) reservations to Sikhs in election.
d) Separate electorates for depressed classes.
Answer: (d)
Question 11: Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore did not define India as a ‘nation’ because they were
a) appreciative of cultural divisiveness
b) opposed to the idea of homogeneity
c) supportive of ‘oneness’
d) critical of hegemonic culture
Answer: (b)
Question 12: Who among the follower were drafted the resolution on Fundamental Rights for the Karachi Sessions of Congress in 1931?
a) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
b) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai
Answer: (b)
Question 13: Who among the following freedom fighter was associated with the Foundation of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan?
a) Madan Mohan Malviya
b) Acharya Narendra Dev
c) K.M. Munshi
d) J.B. Kriplani
Answer: (c)
Question 14: Harvilas Sardar was the author of which Act?
a) Widow Remarriage Act
b) Hindu Women Succession Act
c) Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929
d) Hindu Civil Marriage Act
Answer: (c)
Question 15: During the freedom struggle, Aruna Ashaf Ali was a major woman organizer of underground activity in
a) Civil Disobedience Movement
b) Noncooperation Movement.
c) Quit India Movement.
d) Swadeshi Movement
Answer: (c)
Question 16:The first effort at drafting a Dominion Status Constitution of India was made in response to the?
a) Minto-Morley Reforms
b) Montague-Chelmsford Reform
c) Simon Commission.
d) First Round Table Conference.
Answer: (c)
Question 17: Gandhi undertook the longest nationwide tour of his life known as the?
a) Dandi March
b) Harijan Yatra
c) Non-cooperation March
d) Anti-Rowlatt Campaign
Answer: (b)
Question 18: Who was the founder of All Indian Harijan Sangh in 1932?
a) M.K. Gandhi
b) B.R. Ambedkar
c) Jagjivan Ram
d) Vinoba Bhave
Answer: (a)
Question 19: Who among the following founded the Ahmadabad Textile Labour Association?
a) M.K. Gandhi
b) Vallabhbhai Patel
c) N.M. Joshi
d) J.B. Kriplani
Answer: (a)
Question 20: Which one of the following aroused the wave of popular indignation that led to the massacre of by the British at Jallianwalla Bagh?
a) The Arms Act
b) The Public Safety Act
c) The Rowlatt Act
d) The Vernacular Press Act
Answer: (c)
Question 21: Gandhi coined the term “Harijan” for the people of lower caste, influenced by the philosophy of
a) Vivekanand
b) Vaishnawa Saints of Gujarat
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) Leo Tolstoy
Answer: (b)
Question 22: At which one of the following places did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?
a) Ahmedabad
b) Bardoli
c) Champaran
d) Kheda
Answer: (c)
Question 23: Gandhi cooperated with the British and he was awarded the Kaisari Hind Gold Medal for?
a) raising an ambulance unit during the second Boer War
b) supporting the British War efforts during the I World War
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) His constructive work in South Africa
Answer: (c)
Question 24: Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Congress Socialist Party?
a) M.N. Roy
b) Pattam Thanu Pillai
c) Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
d) Acharya Narendra Dev
Answer: (d)
Question 25: Who among the following was nominated by Mahatma Gandhi for the Presidentship of the Congress in 1939 against Subhash Chandra Bose?
a) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Pattabhi Sitaramya
c) Govind Ballabh Pant
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (d)
Question 26: Who among the following had moved the objective resolution which formed the basis of the preamble of the Constitution of India in the Constituent Assembly on 13th December 1946?
a) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Dr B.R. Ambedkar
c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (b)
Question 27: Who made the greatest contribution in organizing the Kisan Sabha Movement?
a) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
c) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Indu Lal Yagnik
Answer: (a)
Question 28: Which of the following works of Gandhi was the first to be written by him?
a) Hind Swaraj
b) Economics of Khadi
c) Ashram Observances in Action
d) From Yervada Mandir
Answer: (a)
Question 29: The day Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-cooperation Movement, a greater national leader died. He was
a) GK Gokhale
b) BG Tilak
c) CR Das
d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Question 30: Mahatma Gandhi Presided over the annual session of Congress only once at
a) Kakinada 1923
b) Belgaum 1925
c) Kanpur 1925
d) Guwahati 1926
Answer: (b)
Question 31: Due to the leadership and success in which one of the following did Vallabhbhai Patel get the title of ‘Sardar’?
a) Civil Disobedience Movement
b) Noncooperation Movement
c) Kheda Satyagraha
d) Bardoli Satyagraha
Answer: (d)
Question 32: Who among the following was a theosophist, educationist and an Indian national leader?
a) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
b) Madan Mohan Malviya
c) Annie Besant
d) Srinivasa Shastri
.
Answer: (c)
Question 32: Subhash Chandra Bose was regarding-elected as President of the Congress at the Tripuri Session in 1939 by defeating
a) Pattabhi Sitaramya
b) Rajendra Prasad
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: (a)
Question 33: The Rowlatt Act 1919 enabled the Government to suspend the Right of
a) Free Speech
b) Occupation
c) Movement
d) Habeas Corpus
Answer: (d)
Question 34: The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at
a) Aligarh
b) Dacca
c) Lucknow
d) Lahore
Answer: (b)
Question 35: ”At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom” was said by
a) Dr Rajendra Prasad
b) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Lord Mountbatten
d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Question 36: When the India Muslim League was introduced into the interim government in 1946, Liyaqat Ali Khan was assigned the portfolio of
a) foreign affairs
b) home
c) finance
d) defence
Answer: (c)
Question 37: The Viceroy upon whom a bomb was thrown but he did not change his attitude towards the Indians was
a) Lord Hardinge
b) Warren Hastings
c) Lord Curzon
d) Lord Chelmsford
Answer: (a)
Question 38: Who among the following Urdu poets was invited to the Second and Third Round Table Conference?
a) Faiz Ahmed Faiz
b) Joshi Malihabadi
c) Muhammad Iqbal
d) Firaq Gorakhpuri
Answer: (c)
Question 39: With which one of the following did the Civil Disobedience Movement in India commerce?
a) The Dandi March
b) No Tax campaign by Sardar Patel
c) The Unfulling of the National Flag by Nehru
d) Mahatma Gandhi’s going on fast
.
Answer: (a)
Question 40: In which one of the following provinces was a Congress ministry not formed under the Act of 1935?
a) Bihar
b) Madras
c) Orissa
d) Punjab
Answer: (d)
Question 41: Who among the following was the President of the All India States People Conference in 1939?
a) Jaya Prakash Narayan
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Sheikh Abdullah
d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (b)
Question 42: The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crime Act (1919) was popularly known as the
a) Rowlatt Act
b) Ilbert Bill
c) Indian Arms Act
d) Pitt’s India Act
Answer: (a)
Question 43: 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from?
a) Sevagram
b) Dandi
c) Sabarmati
d) Wardha
Answer: (b)
Question 44: Which one of the following commissions/committees was appointed by the British Government to investigate into the massacre into the Jalianwala Bagh?
a) Welby commission
b) Hunter Committee
c) Simon Commission
d) Butler Committee
Answer: (b)
Question 45: The Passive Resistance Association was first formed by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa 1906 to organize a campaign against introduction of?
a) Poll Tax
b) Certificate of Registration
c) Legislation against Indian business
d) Legislation to disenfranchise the Indians
Answer: (b)
Question 46 While delivering the presidential address, the Congress President who advocated the introduction of Roman script for Hindi language was?
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Abul Kalam Azad
d) Subhash Chandra Bose
Answer: (a)
Question 48: Which of the following did not belong “to the responsivists” group in the Swaraj Party formed to after cooperation to the government in order to safeguard Hindu interests?
a) Lokmanya Tilak
b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
c) Lala Lajpat Rai
d) N.C. Kelkar
Answer: (a)
Question 49: Who among the following leaders proposed to adopt complete independence as the goal of the Congress in the Ahmedabad session of 1921?
a) Abul Kalam Azad
b) Hasrat Mohani
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) M.K. Gandhi
Answer: (b)
Question 50: The earliest Indian politic economist and a great champion of Swadeshi was?
a) Dadabhai Naoroji.
b) Dr. R.C. Dutt
c) Aurobindo Ghosh.
d) M.G. Ranade.
Answer: (a)