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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. |
On December 25, 1925 a communist conference was convened by a man called _____________ |
| A. | Amir Hyder Khan |
| B. | P.Sundarayya |
| C. | E.M.S. Namboodiripad |
| D. | Satyabhakta |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
The _____________ was initially formed under Mohan Singh, after the fall of Singapore, the captain in the 1/14th Punjab Regiment in the British Army. |
| A. | Congress party |
| B. | Labour Party |
| C. | AIKS |
| D. | INA |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
_____________ was the Deputy Prime minister of India. |
| A. | Farouq Abullah |
| B. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| C. | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| D. | Indira Gandhi |
| Answer» D. Indira Gandhi | |
| 4. |
During the First World War,__________ joined the central powers against Britain. |
| A. | France |
| B. | Britain |
| C. | Turkey |
| D. | America |
| Answer» D. America | |
| 5. |
The Poona Pact took place at _____________ Jail in Pune, Maharashtra on 24th September, 1932. |
| A. | Allahabad |
| B. | Lucknow |
| C. | Yerawada |
| D. | Vellore |
| Answer» D. Vellore | |
| 6. |
The Communist Party of India was founded in _____________ on 17 October 1920, soon after the Second Congress of the Communist International. |
| A. | Calcutta |
| B. | pinarai |
| C. | Peshawar |
| D. | Tashkent |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
_____________ movement stimulated the entire nation and it came to be known as Civil Disobedience Movement. |
| A. | Chauri Chaura |
| B. | Mumbai |
| C. | Kheda |
| D. | Dandi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 8. |
Prime Minister _____________ declared a state of emergency in India in 1975. |
| A. | Sanjaya Gandhi |
| B. | Moraji Desai |
| C. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| D. | Indira Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Mahatma Gandhi went to Champaran in _______ in 1917 at the request of the poor peasants to enquire about the situation as they were compelled by British indigo planters to grow indigo on 15% of their land and part with the whole crop for rent. |
| A. | Uttar Pradesh |
| B. | Gujarat |
| C. | Mumbai |
| D. | Bihar |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
The Socialist Party formed in _____________ wanted to cement coherence between the moderate and the radical trade unions. |
| A. | 1928 |
| B. | 1924 |
| C. | 1934 |
| D. | 1920 |
| Answer» D. 1920 | |
| 11. |
All India Kisan Sabha [AIKS] was formed at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress in April _____________ |
| A. | 1939 |
| B. | 1936 |
| C. | 1947 |
| D. | 1931 |
| Answer» C. 1947 | |
| 12. |
On March 12, ___________ Gandhi launched a new Satyagraha against the tax on salt known as Dandi March. |
| A. | 1930 |
| B. | 1928 |
| C. | 1920 |
| D. | 1917 |
| Answer» B. 1928 | |
| 13. |
Congress leaders, like Lokamanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi, viewed the _______ as an opportunity to bring about Hindu-Muslim unity against British. |
| A. | Womens' movement |
| B. | Peasant movement |
| C. | Khudai Khidmatgars |
| D. | Khalifat Movement |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
Whos uncle, Ajit Singh was a pioneer in opposing the Colonization Act 1905 and had to remain in exile till the country gained independence. |
| A. | Baikuntha Shukla |
| B. | Lala Lajpath rai |
| C. | Surya Sen |
| D. | Bhagat Singh |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
In 1941, _____________ had escaped from India and had reached Germany. |
| A. | A.K.Gopalan |
| B. | S.A. Dange |
| C. | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| D. | Subhash Chandra Bose |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Bipin Chandra Pal and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were amongst the prominent Indians who expressed their admiration of _____________ and the new rulers in Russia. |
| A. | Lenin |
| B. | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| C. | Ramsay Macdonald |
| D. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Answer» B. Abdul Ghaffar Khan | |
| 17. |
India introduced _____________ in 1958 to put down separatist movements in certain parts of the country. |
| A. | CENTO |
| B. | NATO |
| C. | AFSPA |
| D. | SEATO |
| Answer» D. SEATO | |
| 18. |
On December 25, 1925 a communist conference was organised in _____________ |
| A. | Kanpur |
| B. | Calicut |
| C. | Bombay |
| D. | Madras |
| Answer» B. Calicut | |
| 19. |
The programs of_________involved the surrender of titles and offices and resignation from the nominated posts in the government body. |
| A. | Labour movement |
| B. | Khudai Khidmatgars |
| C. | Women's movement |
| D. | Non-cooperation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
The Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent on October 17,1920, soon after the _____________ Congress of the Communist International. |
| A. | third |
| B. | Second |
| C. | fourth |
| D. | First |
| Answer» C. fourth | |
| 21. |
The___________ report with its diarchy could satisfy a few only. |
| A. | Sir Stafford Cripps |
| B. | Lord Irwin |
| C. | Lord Wavell |
| D. | Montagu-Chelmesford |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
When the movement reached great success, it ended unexpectedly after the violent clash at Chauri Chaura in________ |
| A. | Bihar |
| B. | Delhi |
| C. | Uttar Pradesh |
| D. | Kashmir |
| Answer» D. Kashmir | |
| 23. |
___________ accorded Mahatma [Great Soul] title to Gandhi in the year 1920. |
| A. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| B. | Motilal Nehru |
| C. | Tilak |
| D. | Mohammed Ali Jinnah |
| Answer» B. Motilal Nehru | |
| 24. |
Annie Besant joined the ______ in 1914. |
| A. | CPI |
| B. | CSP |
| C. | CPI[ml] |
| D. | Congress |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
Chelmsford was the___________of India. |
| A. | Vice chancellor |
| B. | Captain |
| C. | Governor |
| D. | Viceroy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
In 1916 ________ along with Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the HomeRule Movement. |
| A. | Sri Aurobindo |
| B. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| C. | Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| D. | Annie Besant |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
RIN Mutiny occurred on 18th February _____________ |
| A. | 1946 |
| B. | 1939 |
| C. | 1948 |
| D. | 1937 |
| Answer» B. 1939 | |
| 28. |
The newly elected government of _____________ dispatched the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India to formulate proposals for the formation of a government that would lead an independent India. |
| A. | Clement Attlee |
| B. | Lord Mountbatten |
| C. | Elizabeth II |
| D. | Lord Wavell |
| Answer» B. Lord Mountbatten | |
| 29. |
Meerut Conspiracy case was in the year _____________ |
| A. | 1929 |
| B. | 1926 |
| C. | 1932 |
| D. | 1924 |
| Answer» B. 1926 | |
| 30. |
_____________ being constantly followed up by the police, had to hide at the house of Sabitri Devi, a widow, near Patiya. |
| A. | Narendra Mohan Sen |
| B. | Pratul Ganguly |
| C. | Sachindra Nath Sanyal |
| D. | Surya Sen |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
_____________ was the last Viceroy of India under British rule. |
| A. | Lord Wavell |
| B. | Lord Rippon |
| C. | Lord Irwin |
| D. | Lord Mountbatten |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
The Lahore Congress of 1929 was monumental in the political career of _____________ as well as the history of India's freedom struggle. |
| A. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| B. | K. Damodaran |
| C. | B.R.Ambedkar |
| D. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
_____________ became the president of the Haripura Indian National Congress against the wishes of Gandhiji in 1938. |
| A. | Shamsuddin Hussain |
| B. | Qutubuddin Ahmad |
| C. | Maulana Shaukat Ali |
| D. | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
After the failure of the Second Round Table conference, Mr. _____________ announced the Communal Award on August 16, 1932. |
| A. | Ghulam Hussain |
| B. | B.R.Ambedkar |
| C. | R.C. Sharma |
| D. | MacDonald |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
The greatest success of Jawaharlal Nehru's non-committal international politics was the formation of _____________ |
| A. | SAPTA |
| B. | CEC |
| C. | TMS |
| D. | NAM |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
On 1 May 1923 the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan was founded in Madras, by _____________ |
| A. | Singaravelu Chettiar |
| B. | Satyabhakta |
| C. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| D. | Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| Answer» B. Satyabhakta | |
| 37. |
The Act of 1919 reformed some of the maladies of the Morley-Minto Reforms of _____________ and introduced Diarchy in the provinces. |
| A. | 1931 |
| B. | 1919 |
| C. | 1935 |
| D. | 1909 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
The Rowlatt Act, Jaliwanwala Bagh massacre and Martial Law in__________. caused the native people not to trust the British Government anymore. |
| A. | Bihar |
| B. | Bombay |
| C. | Punjab |
| D. | Delhi |
| Answer» D. Delhi | |
| 39. |
The speed with which the Khilafat agitation spread, especially in the________ and Valluvanad taluks in Malabar, created alarm in official circles. |
| A. | Edapal |
| B. | Kannur |
| C. | Tellicherry |
| D. | Eranad |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
The non-cooperation movement took place from September ___________ to February 1922 and initiated Gandhi era in the Independence Movement of India. |
| A. | 1917 |
| B. | 1916 |
| C. | 1920 |
| D. | 1914 |
| Answer» D. 1914 | |
| 41. |
In 1946, upon persuasion of________, Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly accepted the proposal of partition and independence offered by the British cabinet, in order to evade a civil war. |
| A. | Sukhdev |
| B. | Rajguru |
| C. | Mohammed Ali Jinnah |
| D. | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
_____________ adopted the methods of Satyagraha in his fight against the racial discrimination of the American authorities in 1950. |
| A. | B.R.Ambedkar |
| B. | Motilal Nehru |
| C. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| D. | Martin Luther King |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
Mahatma Gandhi assassinated on 30th _____________1948. |
| A. | December |
| B. | October |
| C. | March |
| D. | January |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
Indian National Army was formed in South-East Asia in the year _____________ by pioneering Indian Nationalists and prisoners who wanted to throw off the yoke of foreign domination and liberate the country. |
| A. | 1939 |
| B. | 1936 |
| C. | 1942 |
| D. | 1931 |
| Answer» D. 1931 | |
| 45. |
In December 1929, the Congress held its annual session at Lahore under the presidentship of _____________ |
| A. | Tej Bahadur Sapru |
| B. | Mohammad Ali Jinnah |
| C. | B.R.Ambedkar |
| D. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
The South Asian Association for regional Cooperation [SAARC] was established on 8 December _____________ |
| A. | 1985 |
| B. | 1975 |
| C. | 1957 |
| D. | 1947 |
| Answer» B. 1975 | |
| 47. |
The _____________ Congress of the Communist International sent a message to the AITUC to overthrow capitalism and imperialism. |
| A. | fourth |
| B. | third |
| C. | second |
| D. | first |
| Answer» B. third | |
| 48. |
The_________Era in the Indian Freedom Struggle took place with the Non Cooperation Movement. |
| A. | Sri Aurobindo |
| B. | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| C. | Gokhale |
| D. | Gandhi |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
The _____________ which was formed in November 1927 by the British Government to chart and conclude a Constitution for India, included members of the British Parliament only. |
| A. | Simon Commission |
| B. | cabinet mission |
| C. | Cripps Mission |
| D. | swarajist party |
| Answer» B. cabinet mission | |
| 50. |
On 9th August _____________ the revolutionists ransacked the train. This now famous incident is known as the Kakori train robbery. |
| A. | 1925 |
| B. | 1923 |
| C. | 1921 |
| D. | 1920 |
| Answer» B. 1923 | |