CBSE Class 12 History Mahatma Gandhi And The Nationalist Movement MCQs Set B

Question. Where did Gandhi use Satyagraha for the first time?
(a) India
(b) South Africa
(c) South America
(d) England

Answer : B

Question. In 1931, Congress participated in the
(a) First Round Table Conference.
(b) Second Round Table Conference.
(c) Third Round Table Conference.
(d) Poona Pact.

Answer : B

Question. Peasant Satyagraha at Bardoli was hold in ___________
(a) 1928
(b) 1929
(c) 1930
(d) 1931

Answer : A

Question. Khilafat agitators demanded the restoration of powers of
(a) Mughal emperor.
(b) Ottoman ruler.
(c) British monarch.
(d) German kaiser.

Answer : B

Question. Congress Ministries resigned in _________
(a) Oct. 1937
(b) Sept. 1938
(c) Sept 1940
(d) Oct. 1939

Answer : D

Question. Why was charkha chosen as a national symbol?
(a) Symbol of anger and self-confidence.
(b) Symbol of nationalism and self-confidence.
(c) Symbol of self-reliance and patriotism.
(d) Symbol of self-reliance and self-confidence.

Answer : D

Question. Consider the following statements regarding the Indian freedom struggle:
(a) Gandhi Ji withdrew from the non-cooperation movement due to the chauri chaura incident.
(b) Gandhi Ji gave his first public speech at BHU.
(c) Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in 1921 A.D.
(d) Nehru was the congress President at the Lahore session.
Which of the given statements is false?

Answer : C

Question. Jinnah called for a ______ to press the League’s demand for Pakistan.
(a) Civil Disobedience Day
(b) Quit India Day
(c) Direct Action Day
(d) Rowlatt Day

Answer : C

Question. Assertion (A): Gandhiji called for a countrywide campaign against the “Rowlatt Act”. In towns across North and West India, life came to a standstill, as shops shut down and schools closed in response to the bandh call.
Reason (R): Indians who wished colonialism to end were asked to stop attending schools, colleges, and law courts, and not pay taxes. In sum, they were asked to adhere to a “renunciation of (all) voluntary association with the (British) Government”.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false and R is true.

Answer : B

Question. _______ was the moderate leader of Congress
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Bipin Chandra Pal
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer : D

Question. The journal Harijan was published by
(a) Sardar Vallabhai Patel.
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru.
(c) Mahatma Gandhi.
(d) Rajendra Prasad.

Answer : C

Question. Dandi March brought forward _________
(a) Non-Cooperation Movement
(b) Civil Disobedience Movement
(c) Quit India Movement
(d) Rowlatt Satyagraha

Answer : B

Question. The Non-Cooperation Movement was suspended due to the
(a) Chauri Chaura Incident.
(b) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
(c) Lahore Conspiracy.
(d) Kakori Conspiracy.

Answer : A

Question. Consider the following events:
(1) Formation of Swaraj Party
(2) Second round Table conference
(3) Arrival of Simon Commission
(4) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
Their correct chronological order is:
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 1, 3, 2, 4
(c) 1, 3, 4, 2
(d) 1, 4, 3, 2

Answer : C

Question. Direct Action Day hartal called by the ………….. on August 16, 1946 to get rid of ‘British slavery and contemplated future caste-Hindu domination’.
(a) Muslim League
(b) Congress
(c) CSP
(d) CPI

Answer : A

Question. What was the significance of Lahore Session of Congress?
(a) Gandhiji postponed Civil Disobedience movement.
(b) Declaration of poorna Swaraj
(c) Oppose Rowlatt Act.
(d) Support the Khilafat Movement.

Answer : B

Question. In 1916, the annual session of Indian National Congress was held at
(a) Lahore.
(b) Lucknow.
(c) Nagpur.
(d) Surat.

Answer : B

Question. Gandhiji took back Non Cooperation movement in __________
(a) January 1921
(b) February 1922
(c) February 1921
(d) January 1922

Answer : B

Question. Gandhi returned from South Africa to Inda in
(a) 1900.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1915.

Answer : D

Question. Assertion (A): The Salt March was highly successful.
Reason (R) :It was the Salt March which forced the British to realise that their Raj would not last forever and that they have to devolve same powers to the Indians.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false and R is true.

Answer : A

Question. ________ was the congress President at its Lahora Session.
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawahar Lai Nehru
(c) Sardar Patel
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose

Answer : B

Question. The Salt March ended when Mahatma Gandhi reached Dandi on
(a) April 6, 1930.
(b) January 26, 1930.
(c) August 13, 1931.
(d) September 30, 1931.

Answer : A

Question. Which of the following statement(s) is/are incorrect regarding the Indian freedom struggle:
(a) Gandhiji withdrew from the non-cooperation movement due to the chauri chaura incident.
(b) Gandhiji gave his first public speech at BHU.
(c) Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in 1921.
(d) Nehru was the Congress president at the Lahore session.

Answer : C

Question. Consider the following events:
1. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
2. Khilafat Movement
3. Formation of Swaraj Party
4. Arrival of Simon Commission
The correct chronological order of these events is:
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 4, 3, 2, 1
(c) 2, 3, 4, 1
(d) 3, 4, 2, 1

Answer : A

Question. In 1915, Gopal Krishan Gokhale advised Gandhi to:
(a) write autobiography
(b) tour India
(c) do social work
(d) assume leadership of Congress

Answer : B

Question. Assertion (A): Gandhiji was released from jail in January 1931 and the month had several long meetings with the Viceroy and that was called the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
Reason (R): According to the pact, Civil Disobedience was called off. The Prisoners were not released. Salt manufacture was allowed along the coast.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false and R is true.

Answer : C

Question. Indicate which of the following options is not correct:
(a) Muslim League demanded Pakistan in 1946.
(b) Gandhi ji started Quit India Mission in 1942.
(c) Cripps Mission failed to achieve its objective.
(d) Cabinet Mission arrived in India in 1946.

Answer : A

Question. After the failure of the Cripps Mission, Mahatma Gandhi decided to launch which movement?
(a) Civil Disobedience Movement
(b) Quit India Movement
(c) Non Cooperation Movement
(d) None of the above

Answer : B

Question. Consider the following events:
1. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
2. Withdrawl of Non-Cooperation Movement
3. Beginning of Khilafat Movement
4. Formation of Swaraj Party
Their correct Chronological order is:
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4
(b) 1, 3, 4, 2
(c) 1, 3, 2, 4
(d) 3, 2, 4, 1

Answer : C

Question. Mahatma Gandhi left India for South Africa in
(a) 1893.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1905.

Answer : A

Question. Indicate which of the following options is not correct:
(a) Muslim League demanded Pakistan in 1946.
(b) Gandhiji started Quit India Mission in 1942.
(c) Cripps Mission failed to achieve its objective.
(d) Cabinet Mission arrived in India in 1946.

Answer : A

Question. The Father of Our Nation is
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru.
(c) Mahatma Gandhi.
(d) Bhagat Singh.

Answer : C

CASE-BASED MCQs :

Question. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions by choosing the correct option:

Why the Salt Satyagraha?
Why was salt the symbol of protest? This is what Mahatma Gandhi wrote:
The volume of information being gained daily shows how wickedly the salt tax has been designed. In order to prevent the use of salt that has not paid the tax which is at times even fourteen times its value, the Government destroys the salt it cannot sell profitably. Thus it taxes the nation’s vital necessity; it prevents the public from manufacturing it and destroys what nature manufactures without effort. No adjective is strong enough for characterising this wicked dog-in-the-manger policy. From various sources I hear tales of such wanton destruction of the nation’s property in all parts of India. Maunds if not tons of salt are said to be destroyed on the Konkan coast. The same tale comes from Dandi. Wherever there is likelihood of natural salt being taken away by the people living in the neighbourhood of such areas for their personal use, salt officers are posted for the sole purpose of carrying on destruction. Thus valuable national property is destroyed at national expense and salt taken out of the mouths of the people. The salt monopoly is thus a fourfold curse. It deprives the people of a valuable easy village industry, involves wanton destruction of property that nature produces in abundance, the destruction itself means more national expenditure, and fourthly, to crown this folly, an unheard-of tax of more than 1,000 per cent is exacted from a starving people. This tax has remained so long because of the apathy of the general public. Now that it is sufficiently roused, the tax has to go. How soon it will be abolished depends upon the strength the people.

Question. When did this famous event started?
(a) March 12, 1919
(b) March 12, 1930
(c) April 6, 1930
(d) April 6, 1947

Answer : B

Question. What is the other name by which this event is known?
(a) Simon Go Back
(b) Quit India Movement
(c) Khilafat Movement
(d) Dandi March

Answer : D

Question. How much tax was levied on salt?
(a) 50%
(b) 100%
(c) 500%
(d) 1000%

Answer : D

Question. What did the British government do to the salt it could not sale profitably?
(a) Donate it
(b) Distribute it
(c) Destroy it
(d) None of these

Answer : C