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Who among the following killed Curzon Wyllie in London?

  1. Bhagat Singh

  2. C. P. Mitra

  3. Madanlal Dhingra

  4. Prasad Bismil
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Curzon Wyllie was murdered by an Indian student Madanlal Dhingra. Dhingra shot Wyllie at a Bloomsbury lecture hall in July 1909. He shot at Curzon Wyllie with V.D. Savarkar and some other revolutionaries. He claimed that he had murdered Curzon as a patriotic act and in revenge of the inhuman killing of Indians by British Government in India.

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The secret society Abhinav Bharat was established in ________.

  1. 1902

  2. 1903

  3. 1904

  4. 1905
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Abhinav Bharat Society was a secret society founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar in 1904. It believed in armed revolution. It carried out a few assassinations of British officials, after which the Savarkar brothers were convicted and imprisoned. The society was formally disbanded in 1952.

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"With this salt, l am shaking the foundations of the Empire."
This statement was made during a nonviolent campaign which was led by whom?

  1. Nelson Mandela

  2. Patrick Henry

  3. Sun Yat-sen

  4. Mohandas K. Gandhi

  5. Brennus of Gaul
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

On 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic 'Dandi Salt March', where he broke the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government. Followed by seventy-nine ashramites, Gandhi embarked on his march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi that is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

On 6th April 1930, after a prayer, Gandhi raised a lump of salty mud and declared, ‘with this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire’. He then boiled it in seawater, producing illegal salt. He asked his thousands of followers to do the same and broke the salt law.

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

  1. Truth

  2. Love

  3. Passion

  4. Fear
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A Correct answer
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.

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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
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A Correct answer
Explanation

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

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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
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B Correct answer
Explanation

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

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Who gifted us with truth and honesty in Politics?

  1. Gopalkrishna Gokhale

  2. Lok Manya Tilak

  3. Dadabhai Naroji

  4. Mahatma Gandhi
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D Correct answer
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.

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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened in the year _________.

  1. 1919 AD

  2. 1922 AD

  3. 1924 AD

  4. 1930 AD
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A Correct answer
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. 

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The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in 1918.

  1. True

  2. False
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B Correct answer
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.