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Multiple choice civics the national movement (1935-42) cabinet mission freedom and partition of india prominent leaders in indian freedom movement

Which of the following was not one of the points stressed by Mahatma Gandhi while exhorting the people to join the Quit India Movement?

  1. Forget the difference between the Hindus and Muslims and think of yourselves as Indians only

  2. Our quarrel is not with British people, we fight their imperialism and we must purge ourselves of hatred

  3. Feel from today that you are a free man and pot a dependent. Do or die. Either free India or die in the attempt

  4. Freedom of India is an end that will purify all means employed to achieve it
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhi's speech on August 8, 1942, emphasized non-violence and the struggle against imperialism. Option D is the correct answer because Gandhi actually stated that the freedom of India was a goal that would purify the means, but he famously insisted that the means must be non-violent and pure to achieve such a noble end, making the statement in D a misrepresentation of his core philosophy.

Multiple choice civics the national movement (1935-42) cabinet mission freedom and partition of india prominent leaders in indian freedom movement

The Cripps Offer was regarded as a 'post dated cheque' by _________.

  1. Nehru

  2. Jinnah

  3. Gandhi

  4. Rajaji
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In March 1942, a mission headed by Stafford Cripps was sent to India with constitutional proposals to seek Indian support for the war. The Mission declared that entire India was to be a Dominion and after the war its constitution was to be framed by an elected body which was to be accepted by the British Government. Gandhi said that Cripps' offer of Dominion Status after the war was a "post-dated cheque drawn on a failing bank".

Multiple choice civics the national movement (1935-42) cabinet mission freedom and partition of india prominent leaders in indian freedom movement

The Indians were allowed to frame their Constitution by _____.

  1. The Council Act of $1909$

  2. Montford Reforms

  3. August Offer
  4. The Government of India Act of $1935$
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
The Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, issued a statement from Simla on 8 August 1940 known as the August Offer. It was an attemt to secure the cooperation of the Indians in WW II. Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of England at the time. Some of the provisions of the August Offer were:
1. Dominion status as the objective for India.
2. The number of the Indians in the Viceroy’s Executive council will be increased.
3. A representative Indian “Constitution Making Body” shall be appointed immediately after the war which would be responsible for framing the Constitution.