MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Name the philosopher who believed that freedom is the keynote of spiritual life?
a) Gopalakrishnan Gokhale
b ) Nehru
c) Ambedkar
d) Vivekananda
2. Who is the chief exponent of Two nation theory
a) Vivekananda
b ) Gokhale
c) Gandhiji
d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
3. The doctrine of Hindutva was expounded by
a) V.D.Savarkar
b) Tilak
c) Gandhiji
d) Nehru
4. The theory of ‘Cultural Nationalism’ was expounded by
a) Gokhale
b) Vivekananda
c) Savarkar
d) Nehru
5. V.D Savarkar was born in
a) 1885
b ) 1883
c) 1888
d) 1870
6. Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born in
a) Lahore
b) Bombay
c) Delhi
d) Karachi
7. In which year Mohammed Ali- Jinnah was elected to the Imperial Legislative Council from Bombay?
a) 1910
b) 1914
c) 1919
d) 1924
8. Tilak regarded that Swaraj was not only a right but a
a) Justice
b) Dharma
c) power
d) Status
9. Sree Narayana Guru was born in :
a) Sivagiri
b ) Aruvipuram
c) Chempazanthi
d) Kollam
10. SNDP Yogam was formed in the year
a) 1903
b) 1896
c) 1908
d) 1914
11. The doctrine of Ramarajya was expounded by
a) Tilak
b) Gokhale
c) Gandhiji
d) Nehru
12. Who is the Champion of secularism?
a) Jinnah
b) Nehru
c) Savarkar
d) Thilak
13. Who regarded the villages as the centre of Indian economic organization?
a) Gandhiji
b) Vivekananda
c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
d) Thilak
14. Gandhism is not merely a political creed it is
a) A programme of action
b ) A message
c) theory
d) Working class movement
15. Name the important work of V.D. Savarkar
a) Princess
b) Politics
c) Freedom struggle
d) Hindutva
16. Who is regarded as the pragmatic social reformer?
a) Nehru
b) Thilak
c) Sree Narayana Guru
d) Mahathma Gandhi
17. Who condemned Gandhism as a reactionary social philosophy?
a) Gopalakrishna Gokhale
b ) M.N.Roy
c) Nehru
d) Lohia
18. Independent India was founded by :
a) Gopalakrishna Gokhale
b) Thilak
c) M.N. Roy
d) Jayaprakas Narayanan
19. Doctrine of Total Revolution was expounded by
a) Jayaprakas Narayanan
b) M.N Roy
c) Gandhiji
d) Thilak
20. Radical Democratic party was organised by
a) Lohia
b) M.N.Roy
c) Jayaprakash Narayanan
d) Thilak
21. Who is the champion of the doctrine of ‘social revolution through human Revolution’?
a) M.N.Roy
b) Lohia
c) Jayaprakash Narayanan
d) Nehru
22. Jinnha’s Two –nation Theory was adopted on
a) 1935
b) 1940
c) 1925
d) 1947
23. The concept of four pillar state was advocated by
a) Lohia
b) M.N.Roy
c) Nehru
d) Ambedker
24. Who considered Jinnah as an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity?
a) Gandhiji
b) Thilak
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Vivekananda
25. Jinnah’s two nation theory was adopted as the
a) Lahore Resolution
b) Karachi Resolution
c) Dacca Declaration
d) Bombay resolution
26. Azad Muslim conference’ was formed in
a) 1939
b) 1940
c) 1941
d) 1947
27. Name the political leader who supported two nation theory
a) Gandhiji
b) Gokhale
c) Jinnah
d) Tilak
28. All Indian Muslim League was started in :
a) 1960
b) 1906
c) 1921
d) 1928
29. Glimpses of world History’ was written by
a) Nehru
b) Gandhiji
c) Thilak
d) Ambedkar
30. .Who is the author of Discovery of India?
a) Gandhiji
b) Vivekananda
c) Nehru
d) Gokhale
31. The fundamental principles of Pancha shila were laid down in the year;
a) 1961
b) 1955
c) 1954
d) 1950
32. B.R. Ambedker was born in
a) 1891 b) 1893 c) 1898 d) 1901
33. A public meeting was held on 13th April 1919 at …………….in a small park enclosed by buildings on all sides to protest against the Rawlatt Act.
a) Jallianwala Bagh
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Mumbai
d) Delhi
34. Brigadier-General ………………with his British troops entered the park at Jallianwala Bagh, closed the entrance of the park and commanded his army to fire on the gathered people without any warning.
a) Reginald Dyer
b) Sir Stafford Cripps
c) Sir Claude Auchinleck
d) General Sir Rob Lockhart.
35. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October…………..
a) 1869
b) 1859
c) 1889
d) 1900
36. Gandhiji came back to India from South Africa, in the year…
a)1914
b) 1915
c) 1916
d) 1917
37. . ………………….., who led the Congress party, introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the concerns in India and the struggle of the people.
a) Tej Bahadur Sapru
b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
38. A series of non-violence campaigns of Civil Disobedience Movement were launched by the Indian National Congress under the leadership of……………………….
a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
b) Sri Aurabindo
c) Motilal Nehru
d) Mahatma Gandhi
39. The Kheda Satyagraha and Champaran agitation in 1918 was one of ……………….first significant steps to achieve Indian independence.
a) Rabindranath Tagore’s
b) Gandhiji's
c) Motilal Nehru’s
d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s
40. Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, ………….gave the call for Quit India Movement.
a) 1942
b) 1920
c) 1930
d) 1940
41. ………………called on all Congressmen and Indians to maintain discipline via non violence and Do or Die in order to achieve ultimate freedom.
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Motilal Nehru
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
d) Sri Aurobindo
42. On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in…………….
a) UP
b) Delhi
c) Ahmedabad
d) Mumbai
43. In 1946, upon persuasion of…………………, Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly accepted the proposal of partition and independence offered by the British cabinet, in order to evade a civil war.
a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
b) Rajguru
c) Sukhdev
d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
44. During the First World War, …………….joined the central powers against Britain.
a) America
b) Britain
c) France
d) Turkey
45. A Khilafat Committee was formed under the leadership of Mahammad Ali, ……………….., Maulana Azad and Hasrat Mohini to organise a Country-wide agitation.
a) Shaukat Ali
b) Qutubuddin Ahmad
c) Shamsuddin Hussain
d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
46. The main object of Khilafat Movement was to force the…………..Government to change its attitude towards Turkey and to restore the Sultan.
a) British
b) Austrian
c) American
d) Serbian
47. October 17, …………….was observed as Khilafat Day, when the Hindus along with Muslims in fasting observed hartal on that day.
a) 1908
b)1909
c) 1916
d)1919
48. An All India Khilafat Conference was held at …………..on November 23, 1919 with Gandhi as its president.
a) Calcutta
b) Punjab
c) Gujarat
d) Delhi
49. Congress leaders, like Lokamanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi, viewed the ………………..as an opportunity to bring about Hindu-Muslim unity against British.
a) Khalifat Movement
b) Khudai Khidmatgars
c) Peasant movement
d) Womens’ movement
50. ………….visited Malabar in 1921, giving a further impetus to the Khalifat movement.
a) Gandhiji
b) Motilal Nehru
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
d) Sri Aurobindo
51. The speed with which the Khilafat agitation spread, especially in the …………..and Valluvanad taluks in Malabar, created alarm in official circles.
a) Eranad
b) Tellicherry
c) Kannur
d) Edapal
52. A tragic episode namely the Moppila Rebellion or the Malabar Rebellion occurred in……………….
a) 1911
b)1919
c) 1920
d) 1921
53. Police attempted to arrest the secretary of the Khilafat Committee of …………………in Eranad on a charge of having stolen a pistol.
a) Pokottur
b) Valluvanad
c) Mambaram
d) Payangadi
54. The police party in search of Khilafat rebels entered the famous……………….mosque at Tirurangadi.
a) Mambaram
b) Pokottur
c) Valluvanad
d) Manjeri
55. After the notice had expired the Non-Cooperation movement was launched formally on 1st August of……………….
a) 1915
b)1916
c) 1918
d) 1920
56. At the ……………….Session on September, 1920 the program of the Non-Cooperation movement was started.
a) Punjab
b) Calcutta
c) Delhi
d) Lahore
57. The programs of ……………….involved the surrender of titles and offices and resignation from the nominated posts in the government body.
a) Non-cooperation
b) Khudai Khidmatgars
c) Labour movement
d)Womens’ movement
58. . …………….. strictly advised the Non-Cooperators to observe truth and non-violence.
a) Tilak
b) Motilal Nehru
c) Gandhiji
d) Sri Aurobindo
59. The decision taken in Calcutta Session was supported in the………………Session of the Congress on December 1920.
a) Nagpur
b) Bengal
c) Andhra
d) Karnataka
60. . ……………… along with Ali Brothers went to a nationwide tour during which he addressed the Indians in hundreds of meetings.
a) CR Das
b) Motilal Nehru
c) Gandhi
d) J.M Sengupta
61. . The educational boycott was most successful in ……………..under the leadership of Chitta Ranjan Das and Subhas Chandra Bose.
a) Bihar
b) Bombay
c) Bengal
d) Madras.
62. In the second Round Table Conference, ………….was appointed as the representative of the Congress, which was convened from 1st September to 1st December in the year1931.
a) Gandhiji
b) B. R. Ambedkar
c) Annie Besant
d) Maulana Azad
63. .………………..announced "Communal Award" on August 4, 1932.
a) Ramsay Macdonald
b) Qutubuddin Ahmad
c) Shamsuddin Hussain
d) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
64. .……………said that ‘There is no god higher than truth’.
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
c) Hakim Ajmal Khan
d) Abbas Tyabji
65. .………………… adopted the methods of Satyagraha in his fight against the racial discrimination of the American authorities in 1950.
a) Martin Luther King
b) Motilal Nehru
c) B. R. Ambedkar
d) Mahatma Gandhi
66. Whose autobiography was titled 'My Experiments with Truth?'
a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Motilal Nehru
c) C. Rajagopalachari
d) Rajendra Prasad
67. The Lahore Congress of 1929 was monumental in the political career of …………..as well as the history of India's freedom struggle.
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) B.R.Ambedkar
c) K. Damodaran
d) Mahatma Gandhi
68. . …………….. was born on 23rd Jan, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa, India.
a) Subhas Chandra Bose
b) B.R.Ambedkar
c) Krishna Pillai
d) N.C.Sekhar
69. ………………became the president of the Haripura Indian National Congress against the wishes of Gandhiji in 1938.
a) Subhas Chandra Bose
b) Qutubuddin Ahmad
c) Shamsuddin Hussain
d) Maulana Shaukat Ali
70. 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) CPI
d) CSP
71. . Direct Action Day hartal called by the Muslim League on 16th August……………to get rid of 'British slavery and contemplated future caste Hindu domination'.
a) 1926
b) 1935
c) 1938
d) 1946
72. The central teaching of Gandhi’s thought is :
a. truth
b. love
c. religion
d. spirituality
73. Gandhi understood the facts of non-violence from the teachings of:
a. Buddhism and Jainism
b. Advaita
c. Christianity
d. Islam
74. -------------------ranked the first among the influences which moulded Gandhi.
a. Upanishads
b. Quran
c Bible
d. Gita.
75. --------------------- is considered as the most important teaching of Gandhi.
a. Love of humanity
b. Love of God
c. Truth is God
d. God is love
76. Truth to Gandhi is not an epistemological presupposition but an :
a. psychological notion
b. ontological implication
c. epistemological notion
d. none of these
77. According to Gandhi nothing is exist in reality expect:
a. love
b. goodness
c. beauty
d. truth
78. The essential nature of God is described by Gandhi by the phrase:
a. Sarveswaran
b. Svarupan
c. Satchidananda
d. Iswara
79. ----------------- Upanishad made a deep influence upon Gandhi
a. Mandukhya
b. Chandokhya
c. Isavasym
d. Brahadaranya
80. To Gandhi ------------------ is the aim of life.
a. self-realization
b. freedom
c. liberation
d. independence
81. Tolstoy’s “----------------------“ made much impression upon Gandhi.
a. Unto This Last
b. Enlightens
c. The Kingdom of God within You
d. None of these
82. The Guajarati translation of the ‘Unto this Last’ is called:
a. Harijan
b. Sarvodya
c. Navajeevan
d. Swadesi
83. Who wrote the essay “Civil Disobedience”?
a. Thoreau
b. Gandhi
c. Ruskin
d. Tolstoy
84. Daridranarayana means:
a. Poor God
b. God is poor
c. Poor as God
d. none of these
85. According to Gandhi ‘service of the poor is the :
a. service of society
b. service of humanity
c. service of God
d. service of the society
86. Harijan means:
a. God of people
b. God’s people
c. People’s God
d. God and people
87. Gandhi said, “For me there can be no politics without------------“
a. Service
b. religion
c. will
d. none of these
88. Gandhi believed in the sovereignty of the people based on pure ----------------
a. rational authority
b. political wisdom.
c. moral authority
d. knowledge
89. By the term Panchyat Raj, Gandhi means:
a. Federation of decentralised rural communities
b. Federation of rural communities
c. Federation of decentralised communities
d. none of these
90. Quit India Movement is also known as ……………..
a. August movement
b) May Movement
c) July Revolution d
) None of the above.
91. INA was formed in…………….
a. 1942
b. 1940
c. 1941
d. 1943
92. ……………. Was associated with INA
a. C.R.Das
b. Abul kalam Azad
c. S.C. Bose
d. J. L. Nehru
93. Ambedkar adopted………………….
a. Hinduism
b. Islam
c. Buddhism
d. Christianity.
94. Gitanjali is the work of …………….
a. Tagore
b. Nehru
c. SC Bose
d. None
95. Discovery of India is book by……………
a. J L Nehru
b. Ambedkar
c. Gandhi
d. None
96. Motilal Nehru is associated with………………
a. Swaraj party
b. HSRA
c. INA
d. None
97. ……………… was the first Malayalee who elected as the president of the Indian National Congress
a. Subhash Chandra Bose
b. Nehru
c. Sir C Sankaran Nair
d. None
98. JayaPrakash Narayan is associated with………………
a. Socialism
b Communism
d Naxalism
d None.
