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District Magistrate Courts are also known as ________.

  1. Criminal Courts

  2. Supreme Courts

  3. High Courts

  4. Sessions Courts


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The courts in India are divided into three categories. The top court is the Supreme Court, the middle court is the High Court, and the lower court is the District Court. District Magistrate courts deal with the criminal cases at the district level.

The idea of Satyagraha emphasised on the need and search for __________.

  1. Truth

  2. Love

  3. Passion

  4. Fear


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

It suggested that if the cause was true, if the struggle was against injustice, then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor.

Who had said about Gandhiji - a "seditious Middle Temple Lawyer", now "Posing as a half naked fakir"?

  1. Winston Churchill

  2. Stafford Cripps

  3. Pathick Lawrence

  4. M.A. Jinnah


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Winston Churchill had described Gandhiji "as a seditious Middle Temple Lawyer, now, posing as a half naked fakir".

Stated below are some statements
a. The tribals, during the non-cooperation movement, demanded Swatantra Bharat
b. The non-cooperation programme was adopted at  the Calcutta session of the Congress
c. The Indian Councils Act, 1909 is also known as Morley-Minto reforms 
Which of these statements are true ?

  1. a and b

  2. a and c

  3. b and c

  4. a, b and c


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The non-cooperation programme was adopted at the Nagpur session of the Congress in December 1920.

Who gifted us with truth and honesty in Politics?

  1. Gopalkrishna Gokhale

  2. Lok Manya Tilak

  3. Dadabhai Naroji

  4. Mahatma Gandhi


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

 The idea of satyagraha emphasised the power of truth and the need to search for truth. It suggested that if the cause was true, if the struggle was against injustice, then physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor. People – including the oppressors – had to be persuaded to see the truth, instead of being forced to accept truth through the use of violence. By this struggle, truth was bound to ultimately triumph.

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened in the year _________.

  1. 1919 AD

  2. 1922 AD

  3. 1924 AD

  4. 1930 AD


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The Punjab region as a whole Amritsar, in particular, witnessed the worst scenes of violence in $1919$. 
In Amritsar, the news of Gandhi's arrest led to mob violence. ( Gandhiji was arrested due to Rowlatt satyagraha)
On $13^{th}$ April, $1919$, general Dyer ordered his troops to fire on a peaceful unarmed crowd assembled at Jallianwala Bagh. 

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in 1918.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Jallianwala Bagh mass killings happened on 13th April, 1919. The massacre took place when General Dyer ordered British Indian Army troops to open fire on the unarmed civilians who had gathered in the park.

Hindu-Muslim unity had been particularly reflected during the ____________ Movement.

  1. Swadeshi

  2. Quit India

  3. Khilafat

  4. Civil Disobedience


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Khilafat movement was an agitation by Indian Muslims, allied with Indian nationalists, to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam after World War I. The leaders joined forces with Mahatma Gandhi’s noncooperation movement for Indian freedom, promising nonviolence in return for his support of the Khilafat movement. This movement reflected great level of Hindu-Muslim unity.

Which one of the following leaders was not a part of the Non-cooperation movement?

  1. M. A. Ansari

  2. M. A. Zinnah

  3. Hakim Ajmal Khan

  4. Abul Kalam Azad


Correct Option: B

Martyrdom of Chandrashekhar Azad took place on which among the following dates?

  1. 27 February 1931

  2. 11 February 1931

  3. 13 April 1931

  4. 14 August 1931


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Martyrdom of Chandrashekhar Azad took place on 27 February 1931.