Nationalism in India

1.Why did Gandhiji organise Satyagraha in 1917 in Kheda district of Gujarat?

• To support the plantation workers
• To protest against high revenue demand
• To support the mill workers to fulfil their demand
• To demand loans for the farmers

ans: To protest against high revenue demand

2. Why was Satyagraha organised in Champaran in 1916?

• To oppose the British laws
• To oppose the plantation system
• To oppose high land revenue
• To protest against the oppression of the mill workers

ans: To oppose the plantation system

3. Why was the Simon Commission sent to India?

• To look into the Indian constitutional matter and suggest reform
• To choose members of Indian Council
• To settle disputes between the government and the Congress leaders
• To set up a government organization

ans: To look into the Indian constitutional matter and suggest reform

4. Why was Alluri Sitarama Raju well known?

• He led the militant movement of tribal peasants in Andhra Pradesh
• He led a peasant movement in Avadh
• He led a satyagraha movement in Bardoli
• He set up an organisation for the uplifment of the dalits

ans: He led the militant movement of tribal peasants in Andhra Pradesh

5. Why did General Dyer open fire on peaceful crowd in Jallianwalla Bagh? Mark the most important factor?

• To punish the Indians
• To take revenge for breaking martial laws
• To create a feeling of terror and awe in the mind of Indians
• To disperse the crowd

ans: To create a feeling of terror and awe in the mind of Indians

6. What kind of movement was launched by the tribal peasants of Gudem Hills in Andhra Pradesh?

• Satyagraha Movement
• Militant Guerrilla Movement
• Non-Violent Movement
• None of the above

ans: Militant Guerrilla Movement

7. Who among the following two leaders led the Khilafat Movement?

• Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali
• Gandhiji and Sardar Patel
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Abul Kalam Azad
• Abul Kalam Azad and Jawaharlal Nehru

ans: Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali

8. Why did Gandhiji withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement? [Delhi 2011]?

• Gandhiji realised that people were losing interest in the movement
• Gandhiji felt that the movement was turning violent in many places
• Some Congress leaders wanted to participate in elections to Provincial Councils
• Some Congress leaders wanted more radical mass agitations

ans: Gandhiji felt that movement was turning violent in many places

9. Who were the Sanatanis?

• Saints
• Dalits
• Labours
• High-caste Hindus

ans:High-caste Hindus

10. The main problem with the Simon Commission was that?

• It was an all British commission
• It was formed in Britain
• It was set up in response to the nationalist movement
• It supported the Muslim League

ans: It was an all British commission

11.Hind Swaraj was written by?

• Abul Kalam Azad
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Sardar Patel
• Subhas Chandra Bose

ans: Mahatma Gandhi

12. Why did the Indians oppose the Rowlatt Act?

• It introduced the Salt Law
• It increased taxes on land
• It gave the British the power to arrest and detain a person without a trial
• It put a ban on the Congress party

ans: It gave the British the power to arrest and detain a person without a trial

13. Due to the effect of the Non-Cooperation movement on the plantation workers in Assam, they?

• left the plantations and headed home
• went on strike
• destroyed the plantations
• None of these

ans: left the plantations and headed home

14.The resolution of Puma Swaraj was adopted at which session?

• Karachi Congress
• Haripur Congress
• Lahore Congress
• Lucknow Congress

ans: Lahore Congress

15. Which one of the following Viceroys announced a vague offer of dominion status for India in October 1929? [All India 2012]?

• Lord Mount batten
• Lord Dalhousie
• Lord Irwin
• None of these

ans: Lord Irwin

16. Which of the following was Mahatma Gandhi novel method of fighting against the British?

• He used violent method of stone pelting
• He used arson to bum down government offices
• He fought with the principle of an eye for i an eye
• He practised open defiance of law, ; peaceful demonstration, satyagraha and non-violence

ans: He practised open defiance of law, ; peaceful demonstration, satyagraha and non-violence

17. What does satyagraha mean? Choose one from j the following options?

• Satyagraha means use of physical force to inflict pain while fighting
• Satyagraha does not inflict pain, it is a : non-violent method of fighting against oppression
• Satyagraha means passive resistance and is a weapon of the weak
• Satyagraha was a racist method of mass agitation

ans: Satyagraha does not inflict pain, it is a : non-violent method of fighting against oppression

18. What was the purpose of imposing the j Rowlatt Act?

• The Rowlatt Act forbade the Indians to : qualify for administrative services
• The Rowlatt Act had denied Indians the right to political participation
• The Rowlatt Act imposed additional taxes on Indians who were already groaning under the burden of taxes
• The Rowlatt Act authorised the government to imprison any person i without trial and conviction in a court of j law

ans: The Rowlatt Act authorised the government to imprison any person i without trial and conviction in a court of j law

19. Where did the brutal Jallianwala Massacre j take place?

• Amritsar
• Meerut
• Lahore
• Lucknow

ans: Amritsar

20. Why did General Dyer order to open fire on a i peaceful demonstration at Jallianwala Bagh? Choose from the given options?

• He wanted to show his power
• Firing was ordered because it was an unruly crowd
• Because his object, as he declared later, was to produce a moral effect to create fear in the minds of satyagrahis
• He ordered to fire because he noticed a j sudden unrest in the crowd

ans: Because his object, as he declared later, was to produce a moral effect to create fear in the minds of satyagrahis

21.Who was the writer of the book Hind Swaraj?

• Rabindranath Tagore
• B.R. Ambedkar
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Jawahar Lai Nehru

ans: Mahatma Gandhi

22. Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919 in the city of?

• Bombay
• Calcutta
• Lucknow
• Amritsar

ans:Bombay

23. The Non-cooperation Khilafat Movement began in?

• January 1921
• February 1922
• December 1929
• April 1919

ans:January 1921

24. Which of the following was the reason for calling off the Non-cooperation Movement by Gandhiji?

• Pressure from the British Government
• Second Round Table Conference
• Gandhiji arrest
• Chauri-Chaura incident

ans: Chauri-Chaura incident

25. Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi, was the leader of which of the following movements?

• Khilafat Movement
• Militant Guerrilla Movement of Andhra Pradesh
• Peasants Movement of Awadh
• Plantation Workers Movement in Assam

ans: Peasants Movement of Awadh

26. Who set up the Oudh Kisan Sabha?

• Alluri Sitaram Raju
• Jawahar Lai Nehru and Baba Ramchandra
• Jawaharlal Nehru and Shaukat Ali
• Mahatma Gandhi

ans: Jawahar Lai Nehru and Baba Ramchandra

27. Under the presidency of Jawahahar Lai Nehru, the Lahore Congress Session of 1929 formalised the demand of?

• abolition of Salt Tax
• Puma Swaraj or complete independence
• boycott of Simon Commission
• separate electorate for the dalits

ans: Puma Swaraj or complete independence

28. The Simon Commission was boycotted because?

• there was no British Member in the Commission
• it demanded separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims
• there was no Indian Member in the Commission
• it favoured the Muslims over the Hindus

ans: there was no Indian Member in the Commission

29. A form of demonstration used in the Non-cooperation Movement in which people block the entrance to a shop, factory or office is?

• Boycott
• Begar
• Picketing
• Bandh

ans: Picketing

30. Who formed the Swaraj Party within the Congress?

• Jawahar Lai Nehru and Motilal Nehru
• Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mahatma Gandhi
• Jawahar Lai Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
• C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

ans: C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

31. Who founded the Depressed Classes Association in 1930?

• Alluri Sitaram Raju
• C.R. Das
• M.R. Jayakar
• Dr B.R. Ambedkar

ans: Dr B.R. Ambedkar

32. Which party did not boycott the Council elections held in the year 1921?

• Swaraj Party
• Justice Party
• Muslim League
• Congress Party

ans: Justice Party

33. What do you mean by the term Begarl?

• An Act to prevent plantation workers to leave the tea gardens without permission
• The forced recruitment of soldiers in rural areas during World War I
• Labour that villagers were forced to contribute without any payment
• Refusal to deal and associate with people, or participate in activities as a form of protest

ans: Labour that villagers were forced to contribute without any payment

34. Where did Mahatma Gandhi start his famous Salt March on 12th March 1930?

• Dandi
• Chauri-Chaura
• Sabarmati
• Surat

ans: Sabarmati

35. Which industrialist attacked colonial control over Indian economy and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement?

• Dinshaw Petit
• Purshottamdas Thakurdas
• Dwarkanath Tagore
• Seth Hukumchand

ans: Purshottamdas Thakurdas

36. Who visualised and depicted the image of Bharat Mata through a painting?

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Natesa Sastri
• Abanindranath Tagore

ans: Abanindranath Tagore

37. Gandhiji march from Sabarmati to Dandi is called the -------?

ans:Salt March

38. The Depressed Classes Association was formed by -------?

ans:Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

39. The Muslim League was started by -------?

ans:Muhammad Ali Jinnah

40. The Statutory Commission that arrived in India in 1928 was led by -------?

ans:John Simon

41. The Swaraj Party was set up by ------- and -------?

ans:Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das

42. The Indian tricolor was first designed at the time of -------?

ans:Swadeshi Movement

43. ------- presided over the Lahore session of Congress in 1929?

ans:Jawaharlal Nehru

44. During the First World War, the Indian Industrialists suffered huge loss. (True/False)?

ans: False

45. Gandhiji idea which emphasized truth and non-violence is referred as Swaraj. (True/False)?

ans:False

46. Khilafat Movement was led by the Ali Brothers. (True/False)?

ans:True

47. Baba Ramchandra and JawaharLal Nehru headed Oudh Kisan Sabha. (TVue/False)?

ans:True

48. The term begar means homeless labour. (True/False)?

ans:False

49. Alluri Sitarama Raju could perform miracles. (True/False)?

ans:True

50. The four volume collection of Tamil folktales - "The folklore of Southern India" was published by Natesa Sastri. (True/False)?

ans:True