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1. **What was the main objective of the Non-Cooperation Movement?**

- a) To demand immediate independence
- b) To protest the Rowlatt Act
- c) To support the Khilafat Movement and demand self-governance
- d) To oppose the Simon Commission
- **Answer: c) To support the Khilafat Movement and demand self-governance**

2. **Who among the following was the Viceroy of India during the Quit India Movement?**
- a) Lord Irwin
- b) Lord Linlithgow
- c) Lord Wavell
- d) Lord Mountbatten
- **Answer: b) Lord Linlithgow**

3. **Which session of the Indian National Congress passed the resolution for 'Poorna
Swaraj' (Complete Independence)?**
- a) Calcutta Session, 1928
- b) Lahore Session, 1929
- c) Karachi Session, 1931
- d) Lucknow Session, 1916
- **Answer: b) Lahore Session, 1929**

4. **What was the main reason behind the failure of the Simon Commission?**
- a) It proposed dominion status for India
- b) It did not include any Indian members
- c) It supported British imperial interests
- d) It was opposed by the Muslim League
- **Answer: b) It did not include any Indian members**

5. **The Salt March, led by Mahatma Gandhi, started from Sabarmati Ashram and ended at
which place?**
- a) Dandi
- b) Surat
- c) Bombay
- d) Porbandar
- **Answer: a) Dandi**

6. **Which of the following acts ended the system of dyarchy in provinces and introduced
provincial autonomy?**
 - a) Government of India Act, 1919
- b) Government of India Act, 1935
- c) Indian Councils Act, 1909
- d) Indian Independence Act, 1947
- **Answer: b) Government of India Act, 1935**

7. **Who was the President of the Indian National Congress during the partition of Bengal in
1905?**
- a) Dadabhai Naoroji
- b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- d) Surendranath Banerjee
- **Answer: c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale**

8. **The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in which year?**

- a) 1919
- b) 1920
- c) 1921
- d) 1922
- **Answer: a) 1919**

9. **Who among the following leaders was not associated with the Ghadar Party?**
- a) Lala Har Dayal
- b) Sohan Singh Bhakna
- c) Bhagat Singh
- d) Kartar Singh Sarabha
- **Answer: c) Bhagat Singh**

10. **What was the main focus of the Nehru Report of 1928?**
- a) To demand dominion status for India
- b) To outline a constitutional framework for India
- c) To criticize British economic policies
- d) To promote Hindu-Muslim unity
- **Answer: b) To outline a constitutional framework for India**

11. **Who was the founder of the Swaraj Party?**

- a) C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru
- b) Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
- c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant
- d) Sardar Patel and Rajendra Prasad
- **Answer: a) C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru**

12. **The Cabinet Mission Plan was proposed in which year?**

- a) 1942
- b) 1945
- c) 1946
- d) 1947
- **Answer: c) 1946**
13. **Who was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National
Congress?**
- a) Sarojini Naidu
- b) Annie Besant
- c) Aruna Asaf Ali
- d) Kamala Nehru
- **Answer: b) Annie Besant**

14. **Which leader is known for the phrase "Do or Die" during the Quit India Movement?**
- a) Subhas Chandra Bose
- b) Jawaharlal Nehru
- c) Mahatma Gandhi
- d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- **Answer: c) Mahatma Gandhi**

15. **Who led the tribal rebellion in Chota Nagpur against the British during the
Non-Cooperation Movement?**
- a) Alluri Sitarama Raju
- b) Birsa Munda
- c) Tana Bhagat
- d) Sidhu and Kanhu
- **Answer: c) Tana Bhagat**

16. **Which of the following leaders was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'?**
- a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- c) Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
- d) Liaquat Ali Khan
- **Answer: a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan**

17. **In which year did the Cripps Mission visit India?**
- a) 1940
- b) 1942
- c) 1944
- d) 1945
- **Answer: b) 1942**

18. **Who was the Viceroy of India during the implementation of the Montagu-Chelmsford
Reforms?**
- a) Lord Irwin
- b) Lord Chelmsford
- c) Lord Curzon
- d) Lord Wavell
- **Answer: b) Lord Chelmsford**

19. **The Indian Independence Act was passed by the British Parliament in which year?**
- a) 1946
 - b) 1947
- c) 1948
- d) 1949
- **Answer: b) 1947**

20. **Who authored the book 'Hind Swaraj'?**

- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- c) Rabindranath Tagore
- d) Jawaharlal Nehru
- **Answer: a) Mahatma Gandhi**

21. **Who was the main architect of the 'August Offer'?**

- a) Lord Linlithgow
- b) Lord Wavell
- c) Lord Mountbatten
- d) Clement Attlee
- **Answer: a) Lord Linlithgow**

22. **Which act provided for the establishment of a federal court in India?**
- a) Government of India Act, 1919
- b) Government of India Act, 1935
- c) Indian Councils Act, 1909
- d) Indian Independence Act, 1947
- **Answer: b) Government of India Act, 1935**

23. **Who was the founder of the Indian National Army (INA)?**
- a) Rash Behari Bose
- b) Subhas Chandra Bose
- c) Mohan Singh
- d) Lala Lajpat Rai
- **Answer: c) Mohan Singh**

24. **In which year was the Rowlatt Act passed?**

- a) 1918
- b) 1919
- c) 1920
- d) 1921
- **Answer: b) 1919**

25. **Who among the following was not a part of the Cabinet Mission?**
- a) Lord Pethick-Lawrence
- b) A. V. Alexander
- c) Stafford Cripps
- d) Clement Attlee
- **Answer: d) Clement Attlee**

26. **Who was the first Governor-General of independent India?**

 - a) C. Rajagopalachari
- b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- c) Lord Mountbatten
- d) Jawaharlal Nehru
- **Answer: c) Lord Mountbatten**

27. **The Champaran Satyagraha was related to which crop?**

- a) Indigo
- b) Cotton
- c) Jute
- d) Tea
- **Answer: a) Indigo**

28. **Who was the leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha?**

- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- c) Jawaharlal Nehru
- d) Rajendra Prasad
- **Answer: b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel**

29. **Which event is considered the first mass movement in India?**

- a) Non-Cooperation Movement
- b) Civil Disobed

ience Movement
- c) Quit India Movement
- d) Swadeshi Movement
- **Answer: d) Swadeshi Movement**

30. **The 'Poorna Swaraj' resolution was adopted on which date?**

- a) 26th January 1930
- b) 15th August 1947
- c) 23rd March 1931
- d) 2nd October 1929
- **Answer: a) 26th January 1930**

31. **Who among the following was not associated with the Indian National Congress?**
- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) Subhas Chandra Bose
- c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- d) Bhagat Singh
- **Answer: d) Bhagat Singh**

32. **The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was founded in which year?**
- a) 1924
- b) 1925
- c) 1926
- d) 1927
 - **Answer: b) 1925**

33. **Who was the first Indian to be elected as a member of the British Parliament?**
- a) Dadabhai Naoroji
- b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- c) Mahatma Gandhi
- d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- **Answer: a) Dadabhai Naoroji**

34. **The Round Table Conferences were held in which city?**

- a) Delhi
- b) London
- c) Bombay
- d) Calcutta
- **Answer: b) London**

35. **Who was the British Prime Minister when India gained independence?**
- a) Winston Churchill
- b) Clement Attlee
- c) Anthony Eden
- d) Harold Macmillan
- **Answer: b) Clement Attlee**

36. **Who founded the All India Forward Bloc?**

- a) Subhas Chandra Bose
- b) Bhagat Singh
- c) Lala Lajpat Rai
- d) Bipin Chandra Pal
- **Answer: a) Subhas Chandra Bose**

37. **The Vernacular Press Act was enacted in which year?**

- a) 1875
- b) 1878
- c) 1882
- d) 1890
- **Answer: b) 1878**

38. **The slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad' was coined by which leader?**

- a) Bhagat Singh
- b) Chandrashekhar Azad
- c) Subhas Chandra Bose
- d) Maulana Hasrat Mohani
- **Answer: d) Maulana Hasrat Mohani**

39. **The Kakori Conspiracy Case was associated with which organization?**
- a) Indian National Congress
- b) Hindu Mahasabha
- c) Indian National Army
 - d) Hindustan Republican Association
- **Answer: d) Hindustan Republican Association**

40. **Who authored the book 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'?**
- a) Dadabhai Naoroji
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) Jawaharlal Nehru
- d) B. R. Ambedkar
- **Answer: a) Dadabhai Naoroji**

41. **The Simon Commission was boycotted because:**

- a) It included only British members
- b) It proposed dominion status
- c) It recommended partition
- d) It supported the Rowlatt Act
- **Answer: a) It included only British members**

42. **Who was the British Viceroy during the Second Round Table Conference?**
- a) Lord Irwin
- b) Lord Willingdon
- c) Lord Linlithgow
- d) Lord Wavell
- **Answer: b) Lord Willingdon**

43. **Who wrote the book 'Annihilation of Caste'?**

- a) Jawaharlal Nehru
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) B. R. Ambedkar
- d) Rabindranath Tagore
- **Answer: c) B. R. Ambedkar**

44. **Which movement is associated with the slogan "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan"?**
- a) Quit India Movement
- b) Green Revolution
- c) Swadeshi Movement
- d) Bhoodan Movement
- **Answer: b) Green Revolution**

45. **Who among the following was known as the 'Nightingale of India'?**
- a) Sarojini Naidu
- b) Annie Besant
- c) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
- d) Indira Gandhi
- **Answer: a) Sarojini Naidu**

46. **Who started the Bhoodan Movement?**

- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) Vinoba Bhave
 - c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- d) Jawaharlal Nehru
- **Answer: b) Vinoba Bhave**

47. **The Chauri Chaura incident led to the suspension of which movement?**
- a) Civil Disobedience Movement
- b) Non-Cooperation Movement
- c) Quit India Movement
- d) Swadeshi Movement
- **Answer: b) Non-Cooperation Movement**

48. **Which leader formed the Azad Hind Fauj?**

- a) Bhagat Singh
- b) Chandrashekhar Azad
- c) Subhas Chandra Bose
- d) Sardar Patel
- **Answer: c) Subhas Chandra Bose**

49. **In which year did the Indian National Congress split into two groups - moderates and
extremists?**
- a) 1905
- b) 1907
- c) 1916
- d) 1920
- **Answer: b) 1907**

50. **The Cabinet Mission of 1946 was led by:**

- a) Clement Attlee
- b) Lord Pethick-Lawrence
- c) Stafford Cripps
- d) A. V. Alexander
- **Answer: b) Lord Pethick-Lawrence**

51. **Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian Civil Services examination?**
- a) Satyendranath Tagore
- b) Dadabhai Naoroji
- c) Lala Lajpat Rai
- d) Surendranath Banerjee
- **Answer: a) Satyendranath Tagore**

52. **Who started the Home Rule Movement in India?**

- a) Mahatma Gandhi
- b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- c) Jawaharlal Nehru
- d) Lala Lajpat Rai
- **Answer: b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak**

53. **Which newspaper was started by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa?**

 - a) Young India
- b) Harijan
- c) Indian Opinion
- d) Navjivan
- **Answer: c) Indian Opinion**

54. **The Champaran Satyagraha marked Gandhiji's first active involvement in which
issue?**
- a) Land revenue
- b) Labor rights
- c) Farmers' rights
- d) Education
- **Answer: c) Farmers' rights**

55. **Who led the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal?**

- a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- b) Bipin Chandra Pal
- c) Lala Lajpat Rai
- d) Aurobindo Ghosh
- **Answer: b) Bipin Chandra Pal**

56. **Which event marked the beginning of the end of British rule in India?**
- a) Cripps Mission
- b) Quit India Movement
- c) Cabinet Mission
- d) Indian National Army trials
- **Answer: b) Quit India Movement**

57. **Who gave the slogan "Do or Die"?**

- a) Subhas Chandra Bose
- b) Mahatma Gandhi
- c) Jawaharlal Nehru
- d) Bhagat Singh
- **Answer: b) Mahatma Gandhi**

58. **In which year was the Indian National Army (INA) formed?**
- a) 1941
- b) 1942
- c) 1943
- d) 1944
- **Answer: b) 1942**

59. **Who among the following wrote the book 'India Wins Freedom'?**
- a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- b) Jawaharlal Nehru
- c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- d) B. R. Ambedkar
- **Answer: a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad**
60. **The Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in which city?**
- a) Delhi
- b) Amritsar
- c)Mumbai

61) As per the census of 1921, millions of people died due to ________.

a) Epidemic and Famines

b) War

c) Riots

d) None of the above

Answer: Option (a)

62) Mahatma Gandhi returned to India in ________.

a) January 1916

b) January 1915

c) March 1921

d) April 1917

Answer: Option (b)

63) Which of the following statements is true about Satyagraha?

a) Satyagraha is not a physical force.

b) It is the weapon of the weak.

c) A Satyagrahi does not inflict pain on the adversary.

d) Option (a) and (c)

Answer: Option (d)

64) Which of the following statements is true about the Rowlatt Act?

a) It did not give the government powers to repress political activities.

b) It did not allow the detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.
c) It allowed the detention of political prisoners without trial for two years.

d) Gandhiji decided to launch nationwide Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act in 1920.

Answer: Option (c)

65) The infamous Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre took place when there was an annual
_______ fair.

a) Teeyan

b) Gurupurab

c) Lohri

d) Baisakhi

Answer: Option (d)

66) What was one of the main reasons behind Mahatma Gandhi’s decision to take up the
Khilafat Issue?

a) To bring more unity among Hindus and Muslims.

b) To bring more unity among Hindus and Christians.

c) To bring more unity among Christians and Muslims.

d) None of the above.

Answer: Option (a)

67)The Simon Commission, which faced widespread protests in India, was formed in which
year?

a) 1927
b) 1928
c) 1929
d) 1930
Answer: a) 1927

68) Who is the author of the book Hind Swaraj (1909)?

a) Bhagat Singh

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Subash Chandra Bose

d) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: Option (d)

69) At the Congress session at ________ in December 1920, a compromise was worked
out, and the Non-Cooperation programme was adopted.

a) Allahabad

b) Bombay

c) Nagpur

d) Calcutta

Answer: Option (c)

70) Which of the following statements about the effect of the Non-cooperation Movement are
true?

a) The import of foreign cloth halved between 1921 and 1922.

b) In many places, merchants and traders refused to trade in foreign goods or finance
foreign trade.

c) Production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.

d) All of the above.

Answer: Option (d)

71) Which of the following statements about the Non-cooperation Movement in Awadh is
false?

a) The Non-Cooperation Movement here was against talukdars and landlords.

b) In Awadh, the peasants were led by Baba Ramchandra.

c) The tenants had no security of tenure.

d) The peasants did not demand the abolition of begar.

Answer: Option (d)

72) The tribal people revolted against the British due to which of the following reasons?

a) The tribal people were prevented from entering the forests to graze their cattle.
b) The tribal people were prevented from collecting fuelwood and fruits.

c) The traditional rights of tribal people were denied.

d) All of the above.

Answer: Option (d)

73) The plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission
as per _________.

a) Inland Emigration Act of 1859

b) Inland Emigration Act of 1866

c) Inland Emigration Act of 1879

d) Inland Emigration Act of 1869

Answer: Option (a)

74) Gandhi decided to withdraw from the Non-Cooperation Movement in _________.

a) January 1922

b) February 1922

c) February 1919

d) January 1919

Answer: Option (b)

75) ______ and _____ formed the Swaraj Party.

a) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

b) Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru.

c) Jawaharlal Nehru and C.R. Das

d) Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi

Answer: Option (a)

76) Simon Commission arrived in India in ______.

a) 1928

b) 1930

c) 1932

d) 1942

Answer: Option (a)

77) Under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Lahore Congress formalised the demand
of ‘Purna Swaraj’ or full independence for India in ___________.

a) December 1929

b) January 1929

c) December 1930

d) December 1928

Answer: Option (a)

78) Mahatma Gandhi started his famous Salt March from his ashram in Sabarmati to Dandi,
covering a distance of _______.

a) 260 miles

b) 240 miles

c) 600 miles

d) 500 miles

Answer: Option (b)

79) Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi on _______, 1930.

a) April 6

b) April 16

c) March 6

d) May 6

Answer: Option (a)

80) Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on _______.

a) 5 April 1932

b) 5 March 1931

c) 5 May 1931

d) 5 June 1932

Answer: Option (b)

81. **Which Indian leader is known as the "Grand Old Man of India"?**

- a) Mahatma Gandhi

- b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

- c) Dadabhai Naoroji

- d) Lala Lajpat Rai

- **Answer:** c) Dadabhai Naoroji

82. **Who wrote the book "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India"?**

- a) Jawaharlal Nehru

- b) Dadabhai Naoroji

- c) Mahatma Gandhi

- d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

- **Answer:** b) Dadabhai Naoroji

83. **In which session of the Indian National Congress was the demand for 'Poorna Swaraj'
adopted?**

- a) Lahore, 1929

- b) Calcutta, 1920
 - c) Lucknow, 1916

- d) Bombay, 1904

- **Answer:** a) Lahore, 1929

84. **The 'Partition of Bengal' took place in which year?**

- a) 1905

- b) 1911

- c) 1907

- d) 1919

- **Answer:** a) 1905

85. **Who among the following was not associated with the Ghadar Party?**

- a) Lala Har Dayal

- b) Bhagat Singh

- c) Sohan Singh Bhakna

- d) Kartar Singh Sarabha

- **Answer:** b) Bhagat Singh

86. **The slogan "Inquilab Zindabad" was popularized by which Indian freedom fighter?**

- a) Subhas Chandra Bose

- b) Bhagat Singh

- c) Lala Lajpat Rai

- d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

- **Answer:** b) Bhagat Singh

87. **The Chauri Chaura incident led to the suspension of which movement?**
 - a) Non-Cooperation Movement

- b) Civil Disobedience Movement

- c) Quit India Movement

- d) Khilafat Movement

- **Answer:** a) Non-Cooperation Movement

88. **Who authored the book "Hind Swaraj"?**

- a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

- b) Mahatma Gandhi

- c) Jawaharlal Nehru

- d) Rabindranath Tagore

- **Answer:** b) Mahatma Gandhi

89. **Which organization was founded by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943?**

- a) Indian National Army (INA)

- b) Forward Bloc

- c) Swaraj Party

- d) Servants of India Society

- **Answer:** a) Indian National Army (INA)

90. **Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?**

- a) Sarojini Naidu

- b) Annie Besant

- c) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

- d) Kasturba Gandhi

- **Answer:** b) Annie Besant

91. **The 'Salt March' led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 is also known as the:**

- a) Quit India Movement

- b) Dandi March

- c) Non-Cooperation Movement

- d) Khilafat Movement

- **Answer:** b) Dandi March

92. **Which of the following leaders was associated with the founding of the All India Muslim
League in 1906?**

- a) Muhammad Ali Jinnah

- b) Agha Khan

- c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

- d) Syed Ahmed Khan

- **Answer:** b) Agha Khan

93. **Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?**

- a) Lord Chelmsford

- b) Lord Irwin

- c) Lord Curzon

- d) Lord Minto

- **Answer:** a) Lord Chelmsford

94. **The Cabinet Mission Plan, aimed at discussing the transfer of power to Indians, came
to India in which year?**

- a) 1942

- b) 1945
 - c) 1946

- d) 1947

- **Answer:** c) 1946

95. **Who started the newspaper 'Young India'?**

- a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

- b) Mahatma Gandhi

- c) Jawaharlal Nehru

- d) Lala Lajpat Rai

- **Answer:** b) Mahatma Gandhi

96. **The Rowlatt Act was passed in which year?**

- a) 1917

- b) 1919

- c) 1921

- d) 1923

- **Answer:** b) 1919

97. **The slogan "Jai Hind" was coined by which Indian leader?**

- a) Jawaharlal Nehru

- b) Mahatma Gandhi

- c) Subhas Chandra Bose

- d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

- **Answer:** c) Subhas Chandra Bose

98. **Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?**
 - a) Dadabhai Naoroji

- b) Bipin Chandra Pal

- c) Lala Lajpat Rai

- d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

- **Answer:** a) Dadabhai Naoroji

99. **The 'Home Rule Movement' in India was started by which two leaders?**

- a) Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

- b) Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru

- c) Subhas Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel

- d) Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad

- **Answer:** a) Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

100. **The Simon Commission, which faced widespread protests in India, was formed in
which year?**

- a) 1927

- b) 1928

- c) 1929

- d) 1930

- **Answer:** a) 1927