MCQ: NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF INDIA (INDIAN HISTORY)

MCQ: NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF INDIA (INDIAN HISTORY) 

1.The word 'Adivasi' was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by:

A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Thakkar Bappa

... Answer is D)

2.Simon Commission of 1927 was boycotted because:

A) There was no Indian member in the Commission.
B)There were differences among the members.
C) It supported the Muslim League
D) Congress felt that the people of Indian are entitled to Swaraj

... Answer is A)

3. In the interim government formed in 1946, the Vice President of the Executive Council was __________.

A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Dr Rajendra Prasad
C) C. Rajagopalachari
D) Dr S. Radhakrishnan

... Answer is A)
It was formed on 2nd September 1946.

4.Which one of the following events, was characterised by Montague as 'Preventive Murder'?

A) Shooting of Curzon- Wythe
B) Shooting of Mahatma Gandhi
C) Killing of INA activities
D) Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh

... Answer is D)
It took place on 13th April 1919.

5. Who was the first European to initiate the policy of taking part in the quarrels of the Indian princes with a view to acquire territories?

A) Duplex
B) Robert Clive
C) Warren Hastings
D) Albuquerque

... Answer is A)

6.Assertion (A): The British Sovereignty continued to exist in free India. Reason (R): The British sovereign appointed the last Governor General of free India.

A) Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
B) Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
C) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
D) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.

... Answer is D)

7.Lord Mountbatten came to India as a Viceroy with specific instruction to:

A) Balkanize the Indian sub-continent.
B) Keep India united if possible
C) Accept Jinnah's demand for Pakistan
D) Persuade the Congress to accept the partition.

... Answer is B)

8. The Governnor General who followed a spirited 'Forward' policy towards Afganistan was:

A) Elgin
B) Lytton
C) Minto
D) Dufferin

... Answer is B)
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton was the Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880.

9.Who among the following was associated with the suppression of thugs?

A) Captain Robert Pemberton
B) Alexander Burres
C) Captain Henry Sleeman
D) General Henry Prendergast

... Answer is C)

10.Assertion (A): The first ever Bill to make primary education compulsory in India was rejected in 1911. Reason (R): Discontent would have increased in every cultivator could read.

A)Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
B) Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
C) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
D) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.

... Answer is D)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale had introduced a bill in the imperial legislative Assembly, in 1911, to impliment the compulsory primary education fot children of 6-10 years of age.

11.Who among the following was a prominent leader of the Congress Socialist Party?

A) M.N. Roy
B) Acharya Narendra Dev
C) Ganesh Sankar Vadyanath
D) Pattam Thanu Pillai

... Answer is B)
Congress Socialist Party was founded on 1934.

12.The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crime Act (1919) was popularly known as_______

A) Rowlatt Act
B) Pitt's India Act
C) Indian Arms Act
D) Ilbert Bull

... Answer is A)
It was also known as Black Act.

13.The Sarabandi (no tax) campaign of 1922 was led by __________.

A) Bhagat Singh
B) Chittaranjan Das
C) Rajaguru
D) Vallabhai Patel

... Answer is D)
on 1922.

14.Assertion (A): The congress rejected the Cripps proposals. Reason (R): The Cripps Mission consisted solely of whites.

A) Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
B) Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
C) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
D) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.

... Answer is C)

15. The first venture of Gandhi in all-India politics was the:

A) Non-Cooperation Movement
B) Champaran Movement
C) Dandi March
D) Rowlatt Satyagraha.

... Answer is B)
It was on 1917 in Champaran district of Bihar.

16. Which of the following pairs in not correctly matched?

A) Jamnalal Bajaj--- Satyagraha Ashram at Wardha
B) Dadabhai Nauroji--- Bombay Association.
C) Lala Rajpat Rai--- National School at Lahore
D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak--- Satya Shodhak Sabha

... Answer is D)
Satyashodhak Sabha was founded by Jytirao Phule in Pune on 24th September, 1873.

17.Which of the following is not a feature of the Government of India Act of 1935?

A) A bicamerial legislature
B) Diarchy at the Centre as well as in the Proviences
C) An all India federation
D) Provincial autonomy

... Answer is B)

18.Assertion (A): Lord Linlithgow described the August Movement of 1942 as the most serious rebellion since Sepoy Mutiny. Reason (R): There was massive upsurge of the peasantry in certain areas.

A) Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
B) Both assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
C) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
D) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.

... Answer is A)

19.Which on of the following leaders of Congress was totally in favour of Cabinet Mission Plan?

A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Patel
D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

... Answer is C)

20. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from________.

A)Sevagram
B) Dandi
C) Sabarmati
D) Wardha

... Answer is C)
He started Dandi march from Sabarmati Ashram.