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Q.1What was the most important reason for Swadeshi and Boycott
movement?

[IAS 1988]

A: Lord's Curzon's plan to partition of Bengal

B: Curzon's Plan to cut the effect of growing popularity of Indian

National Congress.

C: Curzon's plan to control educational system of India.

D: 'Drainage of Wealth from India to England.

Answer - Lord Curzon's plan to partition of Bengal-

Q.2 Which revolutionary turned into a philosopher?

[IAS 1990]

A: Chittaranjan Das

B: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

C: Dadavai Naoroji
D: Arabindo Ghosh

Answer - Arabindo Ghosh

Q.3 Arrange by correct sequence.

(i) Rowlatt Act (ii) Gandhi Erwin Pact (iii) Morley Minto reforms (iv)
Elbert Bill

[CDS 2009]

A: iv - iii - i - ii

B: iv - ii - iii - i

C: iv - iii - ii - i

D: iii - i - ii - iv

Answer - option A

Q.4Which year British transferred the capital of India from

Calcutta to Delhi?

A: 1900

B: 1930

C: 1911

D: 1912

Answer - 1911

Q.5 Which among the following was lady representative from India
in the second round table conference?

[IAS 2009]
A: Sorojini Naidu

B: J. P Kripalini

C: Sucheta Kripalani

D: Lakshmi Ghosh

Answer - Sorojini naidu

Q.6 Which institution was founded by Gandhi?

A: Phoenix Ashram

B: Vishwa Bharati

C: Seva Ashram

D: Jawharlal Nehru university

Answer - Phoenix Ashram

Q.7 Which among the following revolutionaries was not hanged on

the charge of Kakori case?

[CDS 1991]

A: Ramprasad Bismil

B: Ashfaquallah

C: Manmatu Gupta

D: Bhagat Singh

Answer - Bhagat Singh

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Q.8 National demand - Swaraj was first spread by -

A: Dadavai Naoroji

B: Gandhi

C: Subhas Chandra Bose

D: Annie Besant

Answer - Dadavai Naoroji

Q.9 Viceroy of India during Jallianwala Bagh Massacre -

A: Lord Curzon

B: Lord Chelmsford

C: Lord Bentick

D: Lord Minto

Answer - Lord Chelmsford

Q. 10 Who set up Indian Independence League?

[IES 1995]

A: Subhas Chandra Bose

B: Rasbihari Bose

C: Jawaharlal Nehru

D: S.M Yoshi

Answer - Rasbihari Bose

Q.11 The Urdu poet who was representative of both second and
third round table conference -
[IAS 2006]

A: Aruna Asaf Ali

B: Muhammad Iqbal

C: Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

D: Fiaz Ahmad Faiz

Answer - Muhammad Iqbal

Q.12 First movement against British in India was -

A: Swadeshi Movement

B: Khilafat Movement

C: Quit India movement

D: Non-Cooperative movement

Answer - Swadeshi movement

Q.13 Who among the following founded the first women university
in India?

[NDA 1994]

A: J.P Kripalini

B: D.K Karve

C: Sorojini Naidu

D: Sucheta Kripalini
Answer - D.K Karve

Q.14 Why British shifted the capital from Calcutta to Delhi?

[CDS 2002]

A: It was not possible to control the western part of India from Calcutta.

B: Calcutta was the hotbed of revolutionaries.

C: The weather of Delhi was more suitable from Calcutta.

D: To prevent the advent of Portuguese

Answer - Option B

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Q. 15 The Vaikom Satyagraha in 1924 was led by -

[NDA 1998]

A: Kesava Menon

B: Chittanranjan Das

C: Mahatma Gandhi

D: Lala Latpat Rai

Answer Kesava Menon

Q.16During which period 'Mahatma' Titled given before the name

of Gandhi?

A: During Swadeshi Movement

B: During Champaran Satyagraha

C: During Implementation of Rowlatt Act in India.

D: During Surat Session of 1907

Answer : During Champaran Satyagraha.

Q.17Who was the first Indian leader who undergo imprisonment in

1882?

A: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

B: B.C Pal

C: C. Vijaraghavachari

D> S.M Joshi

Answer - C. Vijaraghavachari-

Q.18Who is the famous person returned the Knighthood to protest

against the atrocities of Jaliwanwala Bagh Massacre?

[IAS 2004]

A: Arabinda Ghosh

B: Rabindranath Tagore

C: Jawaharlal Nehru

D: Bipin Chandra Pal

Answer - Rabindranath Tagore

Q.19Swaraj was the goal of India's political efforts - said by Dadavai

Naoroji announced at -

[CDS 2003]
A: Calcutta session 1886

B: Calcutta session 1906

C: Lahore session 1885

D: Mumbai session 1889

Answer - Calcutta session 1906

Q.20 Who among the following revolutionary gave the slogan

'Inquilab Zindabad'?

[CDS 2002, I. Tax Central Excise 1993]

A: Mahatma Gandhi

B: Bipin Chandra Pal

C: Bhagat Singh

D: Syed Ahmed Khan

Answer - Bipin Chandra Pal

Q.21"I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before

dawn if it can be had". Who the great Indian leader said this line?

[ I. Tax & Central Excise 1990]

A: Annie Besant

B: Subhas Chandra Bose

C: Ashutosh Mukeherjee

D: Mahatma Gandhi

Answer - Mahatma Gandhi

Q.22Which viceroy of India passed the 'Ancient Monuments
Preservation Act'?
[Transmission Executive exam 1990]

A: Lord Ripon

B: Lord Curzon

C: Lord Mountbatten

D: Lord Chelmsford

Answer - Lord Curzon

Q.23 Why the Haripura Congress in 1938 remains a milestone in

Indian freedom struggle?

[NDA 2010]

A: Because In this congress all Indian leaders declared war against

British.

B: Because Jawaharlal Nehru was selected for the future PM of India.

C: Because congress introduced the idea of a planning commission.

D: Because people boycotted foreign goods and liquor.

Answer - Option C

Q.24 Death year of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is -

[MP PSC 1992]

A: 1956

B: 1965
C: 1951

D: 1953

Answer - 1956

Q.25Who was selected as president of Khilafat Conference met at

Delhi in 1919?

A: Mahatma Gandhi

B: Ali Jinnah

C: Motilal Nehru

D: Syed Ahmed Khan

Answer - Mahatma Gandhi

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