Indian freedom Struggle

General Knowledge for Entrance Exams - Multiple Choice Question Bank for competitive exams in India Sample Question Papers

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

“I am restless I thirst for the distant, the far- away” Whose words are these?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. Subhas Chand Bose
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Abdul Kalam Azad
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Rabindranath Tagore was a protagonist of

  1. Liberalism
  2. Neo-Hinduism
  3. Bengali Chauvinism
  4. Philosophy of renunciation
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following leaders of modern India is wrongly paired with the year of his birth?

  1. Rabindranath Tagore-1861
  2. Mahatama Gandhi-1869
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru-1889
  4. M.A. Jinnah-1872
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following suggested the winding up of the Indian Congress after India attained independence?

  1. C. Rajagoplachari
  2. Acharya Kripalani
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Jayaprakash Narain
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Those who joined the Mahatma Gandhi during the Champaran struggle included:

  1. Vallabhbhai & Vinobha Bhave
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru & Rajendra Prasad
  3. Rajendra Prasad & Anugraha Narayan Singh
  4. Mahadev Desai & Maniben Patel
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

”Al Hilal” was a newspaper started for propagating nationalism by:

  1. Abdul Kalam Azad
  2. MK Gandhi
  3. Mohammed Ali
  4. Syed Ahmed Khan
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following statements about Tagore is wrong?

  1. He believed in the multi-religious, multi-racial nationalism of India.
  2. He renounced his knighthood in1919 as a protest against the Jallianwala massacre.
  3. He was a humanist.
  4. He is accepted Gandhism as the gospal truth.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from

  1. Sevagram
  2. Dandi
  3. Sabarmati
  4. Wardha
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Home Rule Movement was started by

  1. Bal gangadhar Tilak
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Vivekananda
  4. Dr. Annie Besant
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Gandhiji kept fast unto death (which is wrong):

  1. Ahmedabad-1918
  2. Yervada Jali 1932
  3. The Aga Khan Palace Poona-1943
  4. Calcutta –1947
  5. Delhi-1948
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following titles was surrendered by Gandhi durning the Non-co-operation movement?

  1. Rt. Honorable
  2. Rai Bahadur
  3. Hind Kesari
  4. Kaiser-e-Hind
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The leader of Bardoli Satyagrath(1928) was:

  1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. Vithalbhai J. Patel
  4. Mahadev Desai
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mahatma Gandhi's ideas were influenced by the works of

  1. Ruskin
  2. Thoreau
  3. Tolsty
  4. All of them
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many years did Gandhiji spend in Africa?

  1. 10 years
  2. 15 years
  3. About 16 years
  4. About 22 years
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When was the first non-cooperation movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi?

  1. 1917
  2. 1918
  3. 1919
  4. 1920
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For how many years was Jawaharlal Nehru the Prime Minister of India?

  1. 14
  2. 16
  3. 17
  4. 18
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Of the following who was not a signatory to the historic Poona Pact of 1932?

  1. B. R .Ambedkar
  2. Madan Mohan Malaviya
  3. C. Rajagopalachari
  4. M.K. Gandhi
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Mahatma Gandhi launched the Satyagraha Movement in 1919

  1. as a protest against the atrocities committed at Jallianwala Bagh
  2. as a protest against the Rowlatt Act
  3. both of these
  4. neither of these
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Champaran, where Gandhiji had his first major experiment in Satyagraha in India, is in the state of

  1. Gujarat
  2. Maharashtra
  3. Bihar
  4. Madhya pradesh
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

”It is a post dated cheque drawn upon a crashing bank” Who said this about the Cripps' Mission?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. Mahatma Gandhi
  3. J.B. Kripalani
  4. Jaiprakash Narayan
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi:Muk Naik
  2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak:Young India
  3. Annie Besant: Commonwealth
  4. B.R.Ambedkar:Kesari
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Salt Satyagraha was launced by Gandhiji in the year

  1. 1928
  2. 1929
  3. 1930
  4. 1931