INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQS SET 72

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQS SET 72

711) Consider the following statements relating to planning in India
1. In the year 1938, the National Planning Committee was set up in India under the Chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
2. The Bombay Plan .was prepared by . the Indian industrialists.
3. Acharya Kripalani prepared the Gandhian Plan.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) 1 and 2
D) None of these

Answer: 1 and 2
   
712) Which one among the following did not happen in the year 1946?
A) Announcement of the Cabinet Mission to India
B) 'Direct Action' call given by the Muslim League
C) Formation of Interim Government
D) Lord Mountbatten's appointment as Viceroy of India
 
Answer: Lord Mountbatten's appointment as Viceroy of India
   
713) The main programme of the red shirts (Khudai Khidmatgars or Servants of God) organised
by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in support of the Civil Disobedience Movement was
A) to proceed on the lines of terrorist and revolutionary activities
B) to propagate the Congress programme
C) to resist the military operations of the government in the North Western frontier province
D) to set up a para military organisation

Answer: to resist the military operations of the government in the North Western frontier province
   
714) Who of the following was the leader of a society popularly known as 'Red Shirts'?
A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
B) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
C) Muzaffar Ahmed
D) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
   
715) Which one of the following lndian freedom fighters coined the slogan 'Jai Hind'?
A) JL Nehru
B) BG Tilak
C) Sardar Patel
D) SC Bose

Answer: SC Bose

716) Who was the President of Indian National Congress at the time of partition of India?
A) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
D) Acharya JB Kripalani

Answer: Acharya JB Kripalani
   
717) Quit India Movement was lanuched in response to
A) Cabinet Mission Plan
B) Cripps Proposals
C) Simon Commission Report
D) Wavell Plan

Answer: Cripps Proposals
   
718) 26th October, 1947 is an important date in the Indian history, because of
A) Maharala Hari Singh's signing on instrument of accession
B) ceasefire with Pakistan
C) merger of Sindh
D) declaration of war over India by Pakistan

Answer: Maharala Hari Singh's signing on instrument of accession
   
719) Annie Besant was
1.responsible for starting the home Rule Movement
2.the founder of the Theosophical Society
3.once the president of the Indian National congress
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

A) Only 1
B) 2 and 3
C) 1 and 3
D) All of these

Answer: 1 and 3
   
720) Consider the following statements and identify with the help of the codes given below the person who made the statement
"It would be quite impossible for a few hundred British to administer against the active opposition of the whole of the politically minded population."
A) Jawaharlal Nehru in April, 1947 in an address to Congressmen at Lucknow
B) Clement Attlee January. 1947 in a private letter addressed to Ernest Bevin
C) Lord Mountbatten in December,1946 in a note given to British Parliament
D) Viceroy Wavell in January, 1946 in a letter to Secretary of State

Answer: Clement Attlee January. 1947 in a private letter addressed to Ernest Bevin