INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQS SET 22

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQS SET 22

211) Individual Civil Disobedience movement was launched in
A) 1942
B) 1940
C) 1945
D) 1947

Answer: 1940
   
212) Which one of the following regarding the India Councils Act of 1909 is not true ?
A) enlarged the legislatures both at the Centre and in the Provinces
B) provided direct election to the central legislature
C) introduced separate electorates at the insistence of the Muslims
D) included Indians in the Central Executive for the first time

Answer: provided direct election to the central legislature
   
213) Who gave Vallabh Bhai Patel the title of 'sardar' ?
A) C Rajagopalachari
B) MK Gandhi
C) Nehru
D) MA Jinnah

Answer: MK Gandhi
   
214) Who was the heroine of the 1942 Quit India movement ?
A) Dr Annie Besant
B) Sucheta Kriplani
C) Aruna Asaf Ali
D) Sarojini Naidu

Answer: Aruna Asaf Ali
   
215) Who among the early nationalists worked in England to mobilise public opinion in favour of the Indian National movement ?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Lala Lajpat Rai
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) DE Wacha

Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji

216) Who said "Cowardice and ahimsa do not go together any more than water and fire" ?
A) Acharya Vinobha Bhave
B) Acharya Narendra Dev
C) Jai Prakash Narayan
D) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
   
217) Which of the following is not true about the Government of India Act 1919 ?
A) it is also known as the Montague Chelmsford Reforms
B) it paved the way for federalism by clearly separating the responsibilities of the Centre to Provinces
C) it made the Central Executive responsible to the Legislature
D) it extended the practice of communal representation

Answer: it made the Central Executive responsible to the Legislature
   
218) The three states which had not acceded to either Dominion by August 15, 1947, were all ruled by princes whose own religion was different from that of the majority of their subjects. Point the odd one out.
A) Bhopal
B) Jungarh
C) Hyderabad
D) Kashmir

Answer: Bhopal
   
219) He was the most passionate exponent of the extremists' point of view and the programme spelled out by him anticipated the one adopted by Gandhi some years later. The reference here is to
A) Lala Lajpat Rai
B) Aurobindo Ghose
C) BG Tilak
D) none of the above

Answer: Aurobindo Ghose
   
220) To counteract unfavourable articles on India in the British Press and to supply authentic information, a journal was started in 1890. Name it
A) Dawn
B) News Chronicle
C) India
D) Wheel of History

Answer: India