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Nationalism in India

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India from South Africa?

a)

1920

b)

1915

c)

1921

d)

1914

2.

What did the idea of Satyagraha emphasise ?

a)

the power of truth and the need to search for truth, and physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor

b)

need to search for truth, and use physical force

c)

fight with arguments and violence

d)

agitation and violence

3.

Which areas did Gandhi organise the satyagraha?

a)

Champaran in Bihar and Ahmedabad

b)

Champaran in Bihar, Kheda district of Gujarat, Ahmedabad

c)

Kheda district of Gujarat, Ahmedabad

d)

Champaran in Bihar, Kheda district of Gujarat

4.

What was the Rowlatt Act of 1919?

a)

detention after trial for 3 years

b)

no hearing of cases

c)

detention of prisoners for 3 years without trial

d)

allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for two years

5.

When did the infamous Jallianwalla Bagh incident take place?

a)

13 April, 1919

b)

10 April 1920

c)

10 April. 1919

d)

13 April 1920

6.

Which British officer open- fired at the Jallianwala Bagh congregation ?

a)

Sir John Simon

b)

General Dyer

c)

Montgomery

d)

Mountbatten

7.

When and where was the Khilafat Committee formed?

a)

February 1920 Bombay

b)

March 1918, Gujarat

c)

January 1919, Bombay

d)

March 1919 Bombay

8.

What actions were taken during the Non Cooperation Movement ?

a)

the surrender of titles that the government awarded, and a boycott of civil services, army, police, courts and legislative councils, schools, and foreign goods.

b)

Boycott of foriegn goods and services

c)

Surrender of titles that the government awarded.

d)

boycott of civil services, army, police, courts and legislative councils, schools, and foreign goods

9.

Which two muslim brothers supported the movement along with Gandhi?

a)

Arbaaz Ali and Shujaat Ali

b)

Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali

c)

Arbaaz Ali and Shaukat Ali

d)

Shujaat Ali and Muhammad Ali

10.

When did the Non-Cooperation-Khilafat Movement begin?

a)

1920

b)

1919

c)

1921

d)

1922

11.

When did the Lahore Congress, under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru, formalise the demand of ‘Purna Swaraj’ or full independence for India?

a)

June 1929

b)

December 1929

c)

December 1930

d)

October 1928

12.

What was the cause of the Salt March by Gandhi and his companions?

a)

Salt was unevenly distributed

b)

because of the demand to abolish the salt tax

c)

part of the swaraj movement

d)

people could not afford salt

13.

What happened when Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, was arrested in April 1930?

a)

there meetings held by the Congress leaders

b)

he was executed

c)

Agitation started in different places

d)

angry crowds demonstrated in the streets of Peshawar, facing armoured cars and police firing, many were killed.

14.

What happened according to the Gandhi-Irwin pact of 1931?

a)

Gandhiji consented to participate in a Round Table Conference, in London and the government agreed to release the political prisoners.

b)

Salt tax was demolished

c)

peace talks took place between Gandhiji and Irwin

d)

there was discontentment according to the pact.

15.

Was the Round Table Conference in London successful for Gandhi?

a)

Yes, the demands were agreed to

b)

Partial agreements were made

c)

No, the negotiations broke down and Gandhi returned disappointed.

d)

Gandhi was treated disrespectfully

16.

Who were the leaders of the HSRA (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army) formed in 1928?

a)

Bhagat Singh and Batukeswar Dutta

b)

Bhagat Singh, Jatin Das and Ajoy Ghosh

c)

Batukeswar Dutta, Jatin Das and Ajoy Ghosh

d)

Jatin Das and Ajoy Ghosh

17.

In April 1929, who threw a bomb in the Legislative Assembly?

a)

Bhagat Singh, Jatin Das

b)

Jatin Das and Ajoy Ghosh

c)

Batukeshwar Dutta, Jatin Das

d)

Bhagat Singh and Batukeswar Dutta

18.

Which organizations did the Indian merchants and industrialists form to organise business interests in India?

a)

Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress

b)

Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FICCI)

c)

Did not form any organization

d)

Both A and B

19.

What was the motive of these business organizations?

a)

the industrialists attacked colonial control over the Indian economy, and supported the Civil Disobedience Movement

b)

to make more profits for the Indian businessmen

c)

to work according to foreign policy

d)

profit only for the merchant, low wages for workers

20.

Did the British government agree with Ambedkar’s demand for separate electorates for dalits?

a)

No

b)

Yes

c)

not immediately

d)

laid many conditions

21.

What was the significance of the spinning wheel in the Flag created by Gandhi?

a)

representing Swaraj

b)

represented the Gandhian ideal of self-help

c)

reference to swadeshi

d)

to boycott the foriegn goods

22.

Which was the other way of creating the feeling of Nationalism in the people?

a)

through reinterpretation of history

b)

by writing more books

c)

by creating more works of art

d)

by creating more folklore

23.

What image had the Britishers created of the Indians?

a)

a bunch of extremists

b)

backward and primitive, incapable of governing themselves

c)

uneducated and helpless

d)

struggling freedom fighters

24.

What did the Indians do in response to this image?

a)

they retaliated back

b)

they wrote about the glorious developments in ancient times when art and architecture, science and mathematics, religion and culture, law and philosophy, crafts and trade had flourished

c)

they admitted to it

d)

they wrote against the Britishers

25.

When did the Quit India movement take place?

a)

1940

b)

1941

c)

1943

d)

1942

26.

What was the resolution of the Quit India Movement?

a)

resolution demanding the immediate transfer of power to Indians and quit India.

b)

demanding freedom for India

c)

demanding voting rights

d)

demanding equal electorates

27.

On 8 August 1942 in Bombay, the All India Congress Committee endorsed the resolution which called for a ……………...mass struggle on the widest possible scale.

a)

violent

b)

non-violent

c)

active

d)

passive

28.

It was on this occasion ( ref q47) that Gandhiji delivered the famous………….. speech.

a)

‘Do or Die’

b)

‘live and let live’

c)

‘call to the masses’

d)

Boo to the British'

29.

What sort of actions were taken by the people during the Quit India movement?

a)

people were passive and did not do much

b)

extreme non violent actions were taken

c)

hartals, and demonstrations and processions were accompanied by national songs and slogans.

d)

everything was dependent on political leaders

30.

How long did it take the British to suppress the movement?

a)

three months

b)

six months

c)

almost a year

d)

more than a year