laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | History Struggle for Independence of India History Multiple Choice Questions SET 3

When Mahatma Gandhi was arrested who among the following took over the leadership of Salt Satyagraha ?

1. Vinoba Bhave
2. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
3. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
4. Abbas Tayyabji

✅ Correct Answer: 3

At midnight on December 31, 1929 who unfurled the tricolor flag on Indian Independence on the banks of the Ravi at Lahore?

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Subhas Bose
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Motilal Nehru

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When was the first Independence day unofficially celebrated before Independence?

1. On 26th January 1929
2. On 26th January 1931
3. On 26th January 1935
4. On 26th January 1930

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In what session did Congress declared complete Independence (Poorna Swaraj) as its goal?

1. Lahore session held in 1929
2. Madras session held in 1927
3. Ahmadabad session held in 1921
4. Gaya session held in 1922

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following leaders were associated with the Revolt of Khasis in 1820-32?

1. Tirut Singh and Bar Manik
2. Sambu Singh
3. Sidhu and Kanu
4. Vir Manik

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Mahatma Gandhi in 1919 decided to launch a nation wide satyagraha against the proposed ________

1. Simon Commission
2. Rowlatt Act
3. Salt Act
4. Pitt’s India Act

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Champaran, the site of Gandhi’s first experiment in Satyagraha, is located in the state of

1. Bihar
2. Kerala
3. Gujarat
4. Punjab

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which Satyagraha was held at Nagpur in 1923?

1. Salt Satyagraha
2. Individual Satyagraha
3. Ryots Satyagraha
4. Flag Satyagraha

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha in 1928? .

1. Morarji Desai
2. M. K. Gandhi
3. Mahadev Desai
4. Vallabhbhai Patel

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A resolution declaring Purna Swaraj (complete Independence) as Indian’s political goal was passed in the __________ Congress of 1929

1. Shimla
2. Lahore
3. Madras
4. Calcutta

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Where did Gandhiji form the Satyagrah Sabha?

1. Bombay
2. Calcutta
3. Poona
4. Nagpur

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where did Gandhiji form the Satyagrah Sabha?

1. Bombay
2. Calcutta
3. Poona
4. Nagpur

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The India Independence Bill was first presented in the House of Commons in London on

1. August 101947
2. August 11947
3. July 141947
4. July 41947

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Kheda Satyagraha is related to __________

1. Gujarat
2. Calcutta
3. Thana
4. Malabar

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Champaran and Kheda Satyagrahas were led by

1. Jawaharlal Nehru B.C. D.
2. M. K. Gandhi
3. Sardar Patel
4. Pant

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What was the another name of ‘Pledge of Indian Independence’?

1. Declaration of Independence
2. Declaration of Constitution
3. Declaration of Constituent Assembly
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What was the another name of ‘Pledge of Indian Independence’?

1. Declaration of Independence
2. Declaration of Constitution
3. Declaration of Constituent Assembly
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who had become the first Governor-General of India after independence?

1. Dr Rajendra Prasad
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Pethick Lawrence
4. Lord Mountbatten

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following was the prime objective of M.K Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha?

1. Complete Independence for India
2. Economic relief to the common people
3. Repeal of salt laws
4. Curtailment of the Government’s powers

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Name three important forms of Satyagraha

1. Non-cooperation civil disobedience and boycott
2. Boycott civil disobedience and rebellion
3. Non-cooperation revolution and referendum
4. Revolution plebiscite and boycott

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The famous Quit India Resolution was passed on

1. August 8 1942
2. August 28 1942
3. . April 4 1928
4. April 24 1928

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Indian Independence Act was passed in

1. 18 July 1947
2. 01 August 1947
3. 01 June 1947
4. 01 September 1947

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Indian Independence Act was passed in

1. 18 July 1947
2. 01 August 1947
3. 01 June 1947
4. 01 September 1947

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The first Satyagraha of Gandhiji for the cause of indigo farmers was observed at

1. Champaran B. C. D.
2. ChauriChaura
3. Bardoli
4. Sabarmati

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Neel Darpan’ a play depicting the revolt against the Indigo planters was written by

1. Dinbandhu Mitra
2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
3. Rabindranath Tagore
4. Naveen Chandra Sen

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Neel Darpan’ a play depicting the revolt against the Indigo planters was written by

1. Dinbandhu Mitra
2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
3. Rabindranath Tagore
4. Naveen Chandra Sen

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The leader who quit politics, retired to Pondicherry and set up an ashram there, was

1. Lokmanya TiIak
2. Dadabhai Naoroji
3. Bhikaji Cama
4. Sri Aurobindo Ghose

✅ Correct Answer: 4

From where did Acharya Vinoba Bhave start the Individual Satyagraha in 1940?

1. Nadiad in Gujrat
2. Pavnar in Maharashtra
3. Adyar in Tamil Nadu
4. Guntur in Andhra Pradesh

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Champaran Satyagraha was in __________

1. Gujarat
2. Bombay
3. Bihar
4. Madras

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Given below are the names of prominent leaders and their respective operational areas during the the revolt period. Select the incorrect pair

1. Rani Laxmibai – Indore
2. Khan Bahadur Khan – RuhelKhand
3. Kunwar Singh – Sahabad
4. Nana Saheb – Kanpur

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Ahmedabad Satyagraha of Gandhi was directed against

1. British mill owners and government officials
2. Indian mill owners and non government officials
3. British non-government officials
4. Indian government officials

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi at

1. Bombay
2. Calcutta
3. Gujarat
4. Poona

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Satyagraha finds expression in

1. Sudden outbursts of violence
2. Armed conflicts
3. Non-Cooperation
4. Communal riots

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following was not included in Pakistan by the Independence Act?

1. East Bengal
2. The West Punjab
3. Sind
4. West Bengal

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When was the August Kranti pulled back?

1. 1947
2. 1942
3. 1943
4. 1945

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who introduced the Ryotwari System in India?

1. Munro and Charles Reed
2. Lord Cornwallis
3. John shore
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Gandhiji, which of the following are the major means of Satyagraha ?,(A) non-cooperation,(B) Strike,,(C ) Demostration,(D) Civil disobedience

1. A and B are correct
2. A and D are correct
3. B and D are correct
4. C and D are correct

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Champaran Satyagraha was led by ______

1. Amaresh Chakravarty
2. Pulinbehari Sarkar
3. Gandhi
4. Patel

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The Home Rule Society, popularly called ‘India House’ , had been established in London to promote the cause of Indian independence, by

1. Lala Hardayal
2. Madan Lal Dhingra
3. Shyamji Krishna Varma
4. V D Savarkar

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Where did Mahatma Gandhi first apply his technique of Satyagraha?

1. Dandi
2. Noakhali
3. England
4. South Africa

✅ Correct Answer: 4