1.Which one of the following events helped Gandhi who had returned from South Africa in 1915, more directly to emerge as the undisputed leader of the Indian National Congress?
(a) Edwin Montague’s announcement on August 20 1917 in the House of Commons that the policy of the British government would be the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India.
(b) Anni Besant became almost overnight Pro- Raj supporter after Montague’s promise of responsible government in India.
(c) B.G.Tilak departed for England in September 1918 to fight a libel suit against Valentine Chirol
(d) The British Raj passed the Rowlatt Act on March 18 1919 to suppress the revolutionary movements against it.

2. In what way did the Non-cooperation movement change the character of the Congress?
(a) It brought the Congress closer to the revolutionaries.
(b) Its leadership passed from the hands of the old stalwarts to those of the young nationalists.
(c) It became the organiser and leader of the masses in their national struggle for freedom from foreign rule.
(d) From a passive pettioning organisation it became an active and revolutionary movement.

3.What was the main programme of Khudai Khidmatgar group (or Red Shirts) founded by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan., in support of the civil  disobedience movement.
(a) To build up paramilitary organisation.
(b) To offer resistance to the military operations of the government in the North western Province.
(c) To propagate the Congress Programme.
(d) To carry out revolutionary and terrorist activities.

4. The Swaraj Party decided to take part in the Reforms Scheme under the Government of India Act, 1919 because
(a) it wanted to gain political experience by forming government
(b) it wanted to expose the hollowness of the reforms provided in the Act
(c) it wanted to cooperate with the government.
(d) it wanted to curtail the influence of the ‘no changers’

5. The Congress ministries in the seven provinces of British India resigned in October 1939 because
(a) Linlithgow declared emergency in India at the outbreak of the second World War on September 3, 1939.
(b) Gandhiji did not want involvement of India with the violence of war.
(c) India as a British colony was automatically committed to belligerency by Linlithgow without bothering to consult the Provincial Congress Ministries or any Indian leader
(d) The Congress Working Committee which met immediately after the outbreak of the war failed to elicit a satisfactory reply from Linlithgow about the war aims of Britain and how these were going to affect India during and. after the war.

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