Modern India- Questions & Answers- 2

Modern India-
Questions & Answers- 2

16. Why Gandhiji called for the boycott of the Simon Commission?

(a) None of the members was Indian

(b) India was dragged into the Second World War

(c) The Commission refused to come to India

(d) None of these

Answer: (a)

17. Who gave the slogan ‘Jai Hind’?

(a) Tagore          (b) Gandhiji

(c) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose       (d) Nehru
Answer: (c)

18. Who presided over the all party conference in 1928?

(a)Motilal Nehru (b) MA Ansari

(c) Rajendraprasad (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (b)

19. Who was the Viceroy when the Naval Mutiny (1946) was held?

(a)Wavell (b) Mountbatten

(c) Irwin (d) Linlithgo

Answer: (a)

20. Who authored ‘India wins Freedom’?

(a) Rajendraprasad (b) Rajagopalachari

(c) Maulana Abul Kalam  Azad (d) Sardar Patel

Answer: (c)

21. Who was known as the ‘spiritual heir’ of Mahathma Gandhi?

(a) Vinoba Bhave (b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Abbas Tyabji (d) Jamnalal Bajaj

Answer: (a)

22. Name the revolutionary leader who turned into an ascetic in the later years of his life:

(a) BG Tilak (b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Bipin Chandra Pal (d) Aurobindo Ghosh

Answer: (d)

23. Whom Gandhiji called ‘the great sentinel’?

(a) Rajendraprasad        (b) Subhas Chandra Bose

(c) Rabindranath Tagore      (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: (c)

24. The Viceroy who introduced financial decentralisation?

(a)Dufferin (b) Lytton

(c) Mayo (d) Hardinge I

Answer: (c)

25. Who founded the ‘Servants of India society’?

(a) MG Ranade

(b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(c) GK Gokhale (d)  MK Gandhi

Answer: (c)

26. In which year Gopala Krishana Gokhale, the political guru of Gandhiji, passed away?

(a) 1913 (b) 1914 (c) 1915 (d) 1916

Answer: (c)

27. The first and last Indian to become the Governor General of independenr India:

(a)Mountbatten (b) Rajendraprasad

(c) Rajagopalachari(d) S Radhakrishnan

Answer: (c)

28. India Councils Act of 1861 was passed during the tenure of:

(a)Dufferin (b) Dalhousie

(c) Canning (d) Mayo

Answer: (c)

29. Name the nationalist leader who was born in Mecca:

(a)Maulana Abul Kalam  Azad      (b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah              (d) Muhammad Iqbal

Answer: (a)

30. Who led the activities of the Theosophical Society in India?

(a)Aurobindo (b) Gandhiji

(c) Annie Besant (d) Vinoba Bhave

Answer: (c)
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