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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
The revolutionary of Muscovite group wanted to affiliate the AITUC with the Red Labour Union framed at _____________ |
| A. | Calcultta |
| B. | India |
| C. | Moscow |
| D. | China |
| Answer» D. China | |
| 2. |
In 1969, the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist [ML] was formed under the leadership of _____________ |
| A. | Amir Hyder Khan |
| B. | P.Sundarayya |
| C. | EMS |
| D. | Charu Majumdar |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
On 8th of April 1929, members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association attacked the assembly chamber of the Imperial LegislativeCouncil in _____________ |
| A. | Delhi |
| B. | Bengal |
| C. | Punjab |
| D. | Bombay |
| Answer» B. Bengal | |
| 4. |
_____________ was organised from among the Indian soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the Japanese. |
| A. | AIKS |
| B. | Individual Satyagraha |
| C. | Homerule League |
| D. | INA |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
The main object of Khilafat Movement was to force the___________ Government to change its attitude towards Turkey and to restore the Sultan. |
| A. | American |
| B. | Austrian |
| C. | Serbian |
| D. | British |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
Nobel laureate _________ resigned the title knight from the British soon after the Jalianwala bagh Massacre as a protest. |
| A. | Sri Aurobindo |
| B. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| C. | EMS |
| D. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October _______. |
| A. | 1889 |
| B. | 1869 |
| C. | 1900 |
| D. | 1859 |
| Answer» C. 1900 | |
| 8. |
The Workers and Peasants Party [WPP] was founded in Bengal on 1st November _____________ |
| A. | 1931 |
| B. | 1928 |
| C. | 1925 |
| D. | 1920 |
| Answer» D. 1920 | |
| 9. |
The trade union activities were so rampant that in 1928 Viceroy LordIrwin arrested the prominent leaders and brought them to _____________ for trial. |
| A. | Delhi |
| B. | Peshawar |
| C. | Bombay |
| D. | Meerut |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
____________ along with Ali Brothers went to a nationwide tour during which he addressed the Indians in hundreds of meetings. |
| A. | Gandhi |
| B. | Motilal Nehru |
| C. | J.M Sengupta |
| D. | CR Das |
| Answer» B. Motilal Nehru | |
| 11. |
The Indian Statutory Commission [Simon Commission] was a group of____________British Members of Parliament that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study constitutional reform. |
| A. | five |
| B. | four |
| C. | seven |
| D. | three |
| Answer» D. three | |
| 12. |
The First National Trade union organisation The All India Trade UnionCongress AITUC was established in _____________ |
| A. | 1933 |
| B. | 1920 |
| C. | 1918 |
| D. | 1916 |
| Answer» C. 1918 | |
| 13. |
Kalpana Datta Joshi was born in _____________ |
| A. | Delhi |
| B. | Chittagong |
| C. | Travancore |
| D. | Peshawar |
| Answer» C. Travancore | |
| 14. |
The Government of India Act 1919 had introduced the system of ____________ to govern the provinces of British India. |
| A. | Diarchy |
| B. | Ryotwari |
| C. | Permanent settlement |
| D. | Doctrine of Lapse |
| Answer» B. Ryotwari | |
| 15. |
__________ addressed all the Indians to wear Khadi [homespuncloth] instead of British-made textiles. |
| A. | Sukhdev |
| B. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| C. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| D. | Tilak |
| Answer» C. Rabindranath Tagore | |
| 16. |
Surya Sen was a prominent _____________ freedom fighter. |
| A. | Bombay |
| B. | Kerala |
| C. | Delhi |
| D. | Bengal |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed in _____________ as a result of their trial in the `Lahore conspiracy case`. |
| A. | 1931 |
| B. | 1927 |
| C. | 1923 |
| D. | 1934 |
| Answer» B. 1927 | |
| 18. |
The Naxalbari peasant uprising that occurred in the northern part of _____________ is the last of the major uprisings India has witnessed. |
| A. | Tripura |
| B. | Assam |
| C. | Bombay |
| D. | West Bengal |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
The Non-Cooperation movement reached a climax after the Gurkha assault on coolies on the river port of__________ |
| A. | Sambalpur |
| B. | Punjab |
| C. | Delhi |
| D. | Chandpur |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
_____________ was born in village Uttamazai [now in Pakistan] in a Pathan family. |
| A. | Tej Bahadur Sapru |
| B. | Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
| C. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| D. | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
In ___________, at the Lucknow Session, the 'moderates' and the' extremists' were united. |
| A. | 1916 |
| B. | 1899 |
| C. | 1897 |
| D. | 1896 |
| Answer» B. 1899 | |
| 22. |
Brigadier-Genera l_______ with his British troops entered the park at Jallianwala Bagh , closed the entrance of the park and commanded his army to fire on the gathered people without any warning. |
| A. | Sir Claude Auchinleck |
| B. | Sir Stafford Cripps |
| C. | General Sir Rob Lockhart. |
| D. | Reginald Dyer |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
The INA trials also known as _____________ |
| A. | The Red Fort Trials |
| B. | Lahore trials |
| C. | Bombay trials |
| D. | Allahabad trials |
| Answer» B. Lahore trials | |
| 24. |
In 1922, with Lotvala's help, _____________ launched the English weekly,Socialist, the first Indian Marxist journal. |
| A. | Satyabhakta |
| B. | M.N. Roy |
| C. | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| D. | Dange |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
The epilogue was theWagon Tragedyin which 61 of the 70 Moppila prisoners packed in a closed railway goods wagon and carried to __________ jails, died of suffocation on November 10, 1921. |
| A. | Calicut |
| B. | Kannur |
| C. | Coimbatore |
| D. | Delhi |
| Answer» D. Delhi | |
| 26. |
Police attempted to arrest the secretary of the Khilafat Committee of_________in Eranad on a charge of having stolen a pistol. |
| A. | Mambaram |
| B. | Valluvanad |
| C. | Payangadi |
| D. | Pokottur |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
The Congress held its annual session at Lahore in December 1929 and declared Purna Swaraj or Complete Independence as its ultimate goal. |
| A. | 1924 |
| B. | 1919 |
| C. | 1929 |
| D. | 1909 |
| Answer» D. 1909 | |
| 28. |
Goa, Daman and Diu were liberated from _____________ and annexed to India on 19th December, 1961. |
| A. | Portugal |
| B. | Dutch |
| C. | French |
| D. | British |
| Answer» B. Dutch | |
| 29. |
A Khilafat Committee was formed under the leadership of Mahammad Ali,_______, Maulana Azad and Hasrat Mohini to organise a country-wide agitation. |
| A. | Mohammed Ali Jinnah |
| B. | Shamsuddin Hussain |
| C. | Qutubuddin Ahmad |
| D. | Shaukat Ali |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
Non-Cooperation was a movement of passive resistance against British rule, which was initiated by ____________. |
| A. | Sir Stafford Cripps |
| B. | Motilal Nehru |
| C. | Sri Aurobindo |
| D. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
All India Kisan Sabha [AIKS] was formed at the _____________ session of theIndian National Congress in April 1936, with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati elected as its first president. |
| A. | Bengal |
| B. | Bihar |
| C. | Jaipur |
| D. | Lucknow |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Indian National Army, also known as the _____________ was formed for the liberation of India from the British rule. |
| A. | MSP |
| B. | Red shirts |
| C. | Punjab Regiment |
| D. | Azad Hind Fauj |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
_________ strictly advised the Non-Cooperators to observe truth and non-violence. |
| A. | Gandhiji |
| B. | Motilal Nehru |
| C. | Sri Aurobindo |
| D. | Tilak |
| Answer» B. Motilal Nehru | |
| 34. |
In March _____________ Sir Stafford Cripps came to India to hold talks with the Indian leaders, which failed because the British were not willing to promise independence to India. |
| A. | 1939 |
| B. | 1927 |
| C. | 1942 |
| D. | 1925 |
| Answer» D. 1925 | |
| 35. |
During the first Round Table Conference, _____________ favoured the move of the British Government to provide separate electorate for the oppressed classes as was done in case of other minorities like Muslims, Sikh etc. |
| A. | Ambedkar |
| B. | Shaukat Usmani |
| C. | Nalini Gupta |
| D. | Singaravelu Chettiar |
| Answer» B. Shaukat Usmani | |
| 36. |
___________ started the historic Dandi March, by walking from Ahmedabad to Dandi, to break the law that had deprived the poor of his right to make his own salt. |
| A. | Sri Aurobindo |
| B. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| C. | Motilal Nehru |
| D. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
________ urged to boycott the British educational institutions, toresign from government jobs, and to leave British titles. |
| A. | Qutubuddin Ahmad |
| B. | Sukhdev |
| C. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| D. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
In October _____________ the Individual Satyagraha was launched by Gandhiji. |
| A. | 1940 |
| B. | 1930 |
| C. | 1942 |
| D. | 1920 |
| Answer» B. 1930 | |
| 39. |
The legislation of Indian Independence Act was designed by the PrimeMinister _____________ |
| A. | Lord Irwin |
| B. | Clement Attlee |
| C. | Lord Mountbatten |
| D. | Lord Wavell |
| Answer» C. Lord Mountbatten | |
| 40. |
The _____________ government sent a Cabinet Mission to India in March 1946 to negotiate with Indian leaders and agree to the terms of the transfer of power. |
| A. | Portuguese |
| B. | French |
| C. | Dutch |
| D. | British |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
Sir Stafford Cripps was a radical member of the _____________ |
| A. | Concervative party |
| B. | The Bombay Mutiny |
| C. | RIN Mutiny |
| D. | Labour Party |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
_____________ who led the Congress party, introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the concerns in India and the struggle of the people. |
| A. | Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
| B. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| C. | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| D. | Tej Bahadur Sapru |
| Answer» D. Tej Bahadur Sapru | |
| 43. |
In _____________ the educational boycott was extensive under the leadership of Lala Lajpat Rai. |
| A. | Punjab |
| B. | Orissa |
| C. | Uttar Pradesh |
| D. | Assam |
| Answer» B. Orissa | |
| 44. |
An All India Khilafat Conference was held at __________ on November 23,1919 with Gandhi as its president. |
| A. | Gujarat |
| B. | Punjab |
| C. | Delhi |
| D. | Calcutta |
| Answer» D. Calcutta | |
| 45. |
On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in _______ |
| A. | Ahmedabad |
| B. | Delhi |
| C. | Mumbai |
| D. | UP |
| Answer» D. UP | |
| 46. |
The Non Cooperation movement took place from September__________until February 1922. |
| A. | 1920 |
| B. | 1917 |
| C. | 1921 |
| D. | 1914 |
| Answer» B. 1917 | |
| 47. |
______ visited Malabar in 1921, giving a further impetus to the Khalifat movement. |
| A. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| B. | Motilal Nehru |
| C. | Sri Aurobindo |
| D. | Gandhiji |
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. |
In the second Round Table Conference, _____________ was appointed as the representative of the Congress, which was convened from 1st September to 1st December in the year 1931. |
| A. | Maulana Azad |
| B. | Annie Besant |
| C. | B.R.Ambedkar |
| D. | Gandhiji |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
In November of 1927, Prime Minister ____________appointed seven MPs[including Chairman Simon] to constitute the commission. |
| A. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| B. | Sir Stafford Cripps |
| C. | V. V. Giri |
| D. | Stanley Baldwin |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
___________ strongly appealed to all Indians to spend some time spinning khadi for supporting the independence movement of India. |
| A. | Motilal Nehru |
| B. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| C. | Sukhdev |
| D. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |