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The Civil Disobedience Movement was started with the action that _________.

  1. The people offered themselves to be sent to Jail

  2. The Government was compelled to call Round Table Conference

  3. The meeting was held against the Govemment

  4. Gandhiji acted against Salt Act
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, Gandhi with the accompaniment of seventy nine satyagrahis, violated the Salt Law by picking up a fistful of salt lying on the sea shore. They manually made salt on the shores of Dandi. 

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Gandhiji's civil disobedience movement was launched in 1930. When was it re-launched?

  1. 1930

  2. 1931

  3. 1932

  4. 1933
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Civil Disobedience Movement was relaunched in 1932 after Gandhiji returned to India after attending the Second Round Table Conference. Gandhiji came back 'empty-handed'.

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Lala Lajpat Rai suffered fatal injuries while protesting against _________.

  1. Cripps Mission

  2. Simon Commission

  3. Cabinet Commission

  4. Bengal Partition
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

On 30 October 1928, the Commission stepped in Lahore where it was met by protesters waving dark flags. The challenge was driven by Indian patriot Lala Lajpat Rai, who had moved a determination against the Commission in the Legislative Assembly of Punjab in February 1928. The protestors were lathi-charged. In one such lathi-charge by the police at Lahore, Lala Lajpatrai was wounded.

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Lala Lajpat Rai suffered fatal injuries during the demonstration against the __________.

  1. Cripps Mission

  2. Simon Commission

  3. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

  4. Rowlatt Act
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Wherever the commission went, protest rallies were organised. People strongly protested against the Commission everywhere, giving shouts of 'Simon, go back'. They were lathi-charged. In one such lathi-charge by the police at Lahore, Lala Lajpat Rai was wounded.

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Poorna Swaraj was declared in the Congress session of _______.

  1. Kanpur

  2. Surat

  3. Lahore

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

The Purna Swaraj declaration, or Declaration of the Independence of India, was promulgated by the Indian National Congress on 19 December 1929, resolving the Congress and Indian nationalists to fight for Purna Swaraj.

The flag of India had been hoisted by Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru on 31 December 1929. The Congress asked the people of India to observe 26 January as Independence Day. The flag of India was hoisted publicly across India by Congress volunteers, nationalists and the public.

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Poorna Swaraj was declared in _______.

  1. 1929

  2. 1930

  3. 1928

  4. 1931
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Purna Swaraj declaration, or Declaration of the Independence of India, was promulgated by the Indian National Congress on 19 December 1929, resolving the Congress and Indian nationalists to fight for Purna Swaraj.

The Congress asked the people of India to observe 26 January as Independence Day. January 26, 1930, was a red-letter day in the history of Indian nationalist movement as mass civil disobedience movement was launched on that day. People took a pledge to attain Poorna Swaraj or complete independence. 

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Lala Lajpat Rai was assaulted by the British during ___________.

  1. Salt Satyagraha

  2. Civil Disobedience Movement

  3. First war of Indian Independence

  4. Protest against the Simon Commission
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In a lathi-charge by the police at Lahore, Lala Lajpat Rai was wounded. some days thereafter, he succumbed to the injuries.

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Civil Disobedience Movement was led in the North-West Frontier Province by ____________.

  1. Shaikh Mohammad Abdullah

  2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  3. Dr. M. A. Ansari

  4. Sewa Singh Thikriwala
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan is the person who led Civil Disobedience Movement in North-West frontier province.  He was the most loyal follower of Gandhi and was called Frontier Gandhi. He began a satyagraha at Peshawar on 23 April 1930.

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The Civil Disobedience Movement came to an end because of the _______.

  1. Second Round Table Conference

  2. Gandhi-Irwin Pact

  3. Third Round Table Conference

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The civil disobedience movement came to end because of the Gandhi-Irwin pact. It was signed by Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 5 March 1931. 

Following were the provisions of the Gandhi-Irwin pact:

  •  Stopping of the civil disobedience movement by the Indian National Congress.
  •  Participation of Indian National Congress in the Round Table Conference.
  •  Withdrawal of all laws issued by the British Government forcing checks on the exercises of the Indian National Congress.
  •  The release of prisoners arrested during civil disobedience movement.
  • Removal of salt tax.