Most Important Questions on Indian Nationalist Movement

Most Important Questions on Indian Nationalist Movement

1. Which viceroy had adopted the policy of ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?

(a) Lord Canning

(b) Lord Curzon

(c) Lord Dalhousie 

(d) Lord Wellesley

Ans. C

2. The partition of Bengal in 1905 was ordered by

(a) Lord Curzon

(b) Lord Mountbatten

(c) Lord Linlithgow

(d) Lord Macaulay

Ans. A

3. Which of the following is correct regarding the partition of Bengal?

(a) The idea of the partition had been brought up only for administrative reasons

(b) Viceroy Lord Hardinge, is remembered for the annulment of the Partition of Bengal in 1911

(c) Partition of Bengal was annulled to curb the menace of revolutionary terrorism

(d) The middle class of Bengal saw this as the rupture of their dear motherland as well as a tactic to diminish their authority

Ans. A

4. The Partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon in 1905 lasted until:

(a) the First World War when Indian troops were needed by the British and the partition was ended.

(b) King George V abrogated Curzon’s Act at the Royal Darbar in Delhi in 1911

(c) Gandhiji launched his Civil Disobedience Movement

(d) the Partition of India, in 1947 when East Bengal became East Pakistan

Ans. B

5. Who headed the 1916 Lucknow session of congress?

(a) Annie Besant

(b) Lokmanya Tilak

(c) A.C. Mazumdar

(d) Feroz Shah Mehta

Ans. C

6. With reference to the Home Rule League movement, choose the incorrect statement:

(a) It conveyed to the common people the message of Home Rule as Self-government.

(b) It advocated an overthrow of the government and no allegiance to the British government.

(c) Home rule agitation was joined by Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

(d) Commonweal and New India were the papers of the Home Rule League.

Ans. B

7. Who founded Indian Home Rule League?

(a) H. P. Blavatsky

(b) Sarojini Naidu

(c) Annie Besant

(d) B.G. Tilak

Ans. D

8. The Home Rule League was established at

(a) Madras

(b) Nagpur

(c) Belgaum

(d) Nasik

Ans. C

9. The founder of India Home Rule League of America was:

(a) Swami Vivekanand

(b) Radhakant Deb

(c) Lala Lajpat Rai

(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Ans. c

10. Which of the following Muslim League leaders joined the Home Rule League founded by Annie Besant?

(a) Muhammad Iqbal

(b) Muhammed Ali Jinnah

(c) Syed Ahmed Khan

(d) Abul Kalam Azad

Ans. B

11. What was the other name of All India for Home Rule League?

(a) Indian National Congress

(b) Swarajya Sabha

(c) Khilafat Movement

(d) Quit India Movement

Ans. B

12. Which among the given statements is not correct regarding the Kheda Satyagraha?

(a) Kheda Satyagraha took place in the year 1918

(b) The Kheda revolt was kept a pure Gujarati struggle.

(c) In the Kheda revolt, farmers were not united.

(d) None of the Above

Ans. C

13. The Kheda Satyagraha was started in which of the following state?

(a) Bihar

(b) Kerala

(c) Punjab

(d) Gujarat

Ans. D

14. Which among the following given statements about the Delhi Darbar, 1911 is incorrect?

(a) Darbar was organized to commemorate the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary as the Emperor and the Empress of India.

(b) The Congress proceed a resolution condemning the pomp and showed this Darbar at the cost of the poor Indians.

(c) In this Darbar, the King declared that the Capital of India would be transferred from Delhi to Calcutta.

(d) In the Darbar, it was also declared that the Partition of Bengal is canceled.

Ans. C

15. Under which lord was the ‘Policy of Paramountcy’ initiated?

(a) Lord Warren Hastings

(b) Lord Richard Wellesley

(c) Lord William Bentick

(d) None of the above

Ans. A

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