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The Nationalist Movement - II

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Gandhiji's first Satyagraha in India took place at

  1. Champaran
  2. Ahmedabad
  3. Kheda
  4. Transvaal
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following was set up to hold enquiry on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

  1. Simon Commission
  2. Hunter Commission
  3. Cripps Mission
  4. India State People's Conference
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following was not a step taken to promote the use of khadi?

  1. Compulsion for all members of the Congress to spin 2000 yards of yarn every month.
  2. Setting up of Khadi Bhandars
  3. Providing free khadi clothes to poor people
  4. Setting up of All India Spinner's Association
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The main reason for the protest against Simon Commission by the Indians was

  1. unfair suggestions given by it
  2. presence of General Dyer in the commission
  3. presence of no Indian in the commission
  4. brutal suppression of Lala Lajpat Rai's rally
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Gandhiji supported the Khilafat movement to

  1. protect the Ottoman empire
  2. get appreciation from Muslims
  3. unite Hindus and Muslims
  4. all of these
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which revolutionary was sentenced to death for attacking on the armoury at Chittagong?

  1. Surya Sen
  2. Jatin Das
  3. Ram Prasad Bismil
  4. Benoy Bose
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following was not a change made in the central legislature by the Government of India Act, 1919?

  1. Replacement of central legislature by two houses
  2. Elected members were to have majority in both houses, but no power.
  3. Introduction of Dual Government
  4. Members of the Executive Council were not responsible to the legislature.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Sardar Vallabhai Patel was also known as

  1. Iron Man
  2. Frontier Gandhi
  3. Netaji
  4. Gurudev
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Government of India Act, 1935

  1. separated Burma from India
  2. created provinces of Orissa and Sind
  3. made the Central legislature bicameral
  4. all of these
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What was/were the feature(s) of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?

  1. Participation of the INC in the Round Table conference
  2. Removal of tax on salt
  3. Release of prisoners arrested for participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement.
  4. All of these
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why did Gandhiji relaunch the Civil Disobedience movement?

  1. He was unhappy with the Gandhi-Irwin pact.
  2. He was dissatisfied with the second Round Table Conference.
  3. Killing of Lala Lajpat Rai by Britishers
  4. A resolution was passed to do so in the Karachi session of Congress.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which organisation was formed by Subhash Chandra Bose after quitting Congress in 1939?

  1. Indian Independence League
  2. Provisional Government of India
  3. All India Forward Bloc
  4. Indian National Army
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following was not made a part of Pakistan?

  1. West Punjab
  2. Sind
  3. NWFP
  4. NEFP
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The policy of Satyagraha was mainly inspired by

  1. Leo Tolstoy
  2. Jainism
  3. Upanishads
  4. All of these
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who was the viceroy of India when the Government of India Act,1919 was passed?

  1. Lord Hardinge
  2. Lord Chelmsford
  3. Lord Reading
  4. Lord Irwin
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