Modern India- Questions & Answers 3

51. Whom Sarojini Naidu once called the ‘Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity’?

(a)Gandhiji (b) Nehru
(c) Jinnah (d) Ambedkar

Answer: (c)

52. Who was the Viceroy when communal reservation was introduced for Muslims?

(a)Minto II (b) Hardinge II

(c)Chelmsford (d) Reading
Answer: (a)

53. Who started the Khilafat movement in India?

(a) Gandhiji (b) Ali brothers
(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah (d) Syed Ahmed Khan
Answer: (b)

54. Who founded Forward Bloc?

(a)Motilal Nehru (b) Bhagat Singh
(c) Gandhiji (d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: (d)

55. The incident which compelled Gandhiji to repeal non-cooperation movement?

(a) Wagon tragedy (b) Jallianwallabagh Massacre
(c) Chauri-Chaura incident (d) Champaran satyagraha
Answer: (c)

56. Who was called the Queen of the Quit India Movement?

(a)Annie Besant (b) Vijayalekshmi Pandit
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Aruna Asaf Ali
Answer: (d)

57. Who said ‘Give me blood, I shall give you freedom’?

(a)Subhas Chandra Bose (b) Gandhiji
(c) Nehru (d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (a)

58. Who was the president of INC when India got independence?

(a)Rajendraprasad (b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) JB Kripalani
Answer: (d)

59. The Viceroy who introduced Budget system in India:

(a)Canning (b) Dufferin
(c) Mayo (d) Curzon
Answer: (a)

60. Who put forwarded the ‘Fourteen Point Formula’?

(a)Muhammad Ali Jinnah (b) Nehru
(c) Gandhiji (d) Rajagopalachari

Answer: (a)

61. Gandhijji was undergone for imprisonment for ...... days in his life.

(a) 2338 (b) 1338
(c) 3338 (d) 3120
Answer: (a)

62. Who started the journal ‘New India’?

(a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Annie Besant

63. Who was the Viceroy when Minto-Morley reforms were introduced?

(a)Hardinge II (b) Minto
(c) Morley (d) Chelmsford
Answer: (b)

64. Who coined the term Pakistan for the first time?

(a)Jinnah (b)Liaqat Ali
(c) Rehmat Ali (d) Shoukat Ali
Answer: (c)

65. In which year Indian National Congress approved the Basic Education System propounded by Gandhiji?

(a) 1935 (b) 1936
(c) 1937 (d) 1938

Answer: (d)

66. Who authored ‘Arctic Home in the Vedas’?
(a) Lalpath Rai (b) Raja Ram Mohun Roy
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Dayanand Saraswathy
Answer: (c)

67. During which agitation Gandhiji gave the slogan’ Do or die’?

(a) Salt satyagraha (b) Champaran Satyagraha
(c) Quit India movement (d) Kheda satyagraha
Answer: (c)

68. The only Viceroy who was assassinated while he was in power:

(a)Dufferin (b) Curzon
(c) Mayo (d) Ripon
Answer: (c)

69. The first Indian woman to become the president of Indian National Congress:

(a) Indira Gandhi (b) Vijayalekshmi Pandit
(c) Annie Besant (d) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: (d)

70. Who mooted the idea of separate province for Muslims for the first time?

(a)Jinnah (b) Liaqat Ali
(c) Rehmat Ali (d) Muhammad Iqbal
Answer: (d)

71. Who headed Cabinet Mission?

(a) Stafford Crips (b) AV Alexander
(c) Cyril Radcliff (d) Pethic Lawrence
Answer: (d)

72. Who is regarded as the father of the ‘Two Nation Theory’?

(a)Muhammad Iqbal (b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(c) Nehru (d) Rajagopalachari
Answer: (b)

73. Who was the last Governor General of British India?

(a)Rajagopalachari (b) Lord Wavell
(c) Lord Mountbatten (d) Lord Linlithgo
Answer: (c)

74. The date in which Gandhiji violated salt law in Dandi beach:

(a) 1930 March 12 (b) 1930 April 6
(c) 1930 May 5 (d) 1930 April 16
Answer: (b)

75. In which state the Sevagram Ashram of Mahathma Gandhi is situated?

(a) Karnataka (b) Maharashtra
(c) Gujarat (d) U.P.

Answer: (b)
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