INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQS SET 73

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT MCQS SET 73

721) Who was invited by Lord Wavell to form the Interim Government in India in 1946?
A) C Rajagopalachari
B) Sardar Patel
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Rajendra Prasad

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
   
722) Consider the following statements
1. Both Congress and Muslim League refused the offer of the Cripps Mission.
2. The Interim Government formed in 1946 had nominees of the Congress only and not those of the Muslim League.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Both 1 and 2
D) Neither 1 nor 2

Answer: Only 1
   
723) Consider the following statements
1. The first Governor-General of India under the British Rule was Warren Hastings.
2. The first Governor-General of Free India was Dr Raiendra Prasad.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Both 1 and 2
D) Neither 1 nor2

Answer: Neither 1 nor2
   
724) The Constituent Assembly of India was chosen on the basis of the provincial elections of 1946. With the withdrawi of the Muslim League from the Constituent Assembly, it turned out that majority of the Assembly members were also members of the Congress. Under that circumstance, how was the Constituent Assembly given a broader social basis?
A) By nominating independent members from various minority groups
B) By nominating independent members from various caste and religious groups
C) By nominating independent members of different castes, religious groups and women
D) By taking in representatives of the Princely States and asking for written submission from the public at large

Answer: By nominating independent members of different castes, religious groups and women
   
725) Which protfolio was held by Dr Rajendra Prasad in the Interim Government formed in the year 1946?
A) Defence
B) External affairs and common wealth relations
C) Food and agriculture
D) None of the above

Answer: Food and agriculture

726) Who among the following had moved the objectives resolution which formed the basis of the Preamble of the Constitution of India in the Constituent Assembly on 13th December, 1946?
A) Dr BR Ambedkar
B) Dr Rajendra Prasad
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
   
727) It made its proposals in May. It still wanted a united India. There was to be a Federal Union composed of British provinces. The above quotation is related to
A) Simon Commission
B) Gandhi Irwin Pact
C) Cripps Mission
D) Cabinet Mission

Answer: Cabinet Mission
   
728) Assertion (A) The Congress rejected the Cripps proposals.
Reason (R) The Cripps Mission consisted solely of whites.
A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
B) Both A and R is true, but R is not a correct explanation of A
C) A is true, but R is false
D) A is false, but R is true

Answer: Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
   
729) Who among the following were official Congress negotiators with Cripps Mission?
A) Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel
B) Acharya JB Kripalani and C Rajagopalachari.
C) Pandit Nehru and Maulana Azad.
D) Dr Rajendra Prasad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

Answer: Pandit Nehru and Maulana Azad.
   
730) An important aspect of the Cripps Mission of 1942 was
A) that all Indian States should join the Indian Union as a condition to consider any degree of autonomy for India
B) the creation of an Indian Union with Dominion status very soon after the Second World War
C) the active participation and cooperation of the Indian people, communities and political parties in the British war effort as a condition for granting independence with full sovereign status to India after war
D) the framing of a Constitution for the entire Indian Union, with no separate Constitution for any province and a Union Constitution to be accepted by all provinces

Answer: the creation of an Indian Union with Dominion status very soon after the Second World War