(IGP) CSAT Paper - I : Indian History - MCQ 6

1. Mahatma Gandhi undertook fast unto death in September 1932 because
(a) he wanted to expedite the declaration of complete independence for India
(b) there was dissidence in the Congress.
(c) there was a communal riot
(d) he disapproved of the provision of separate electorates for the depressed classes in the British Prime Minister’s communal Award.

2.Which of the following statements is/are not true about the Civil Disobedience movement?
(1) Gandhiji launched the Civil Disobedience Movement on 12th March 1930 at Dandi.
(2) There was defiance of forest laws in Maharashtra, Karnataka and the Central Provinces.
(3) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan organised the Society of Khudai Khidmatgars.
(4) Women didn’t participate in this movement.
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 and 4
(c) 1 and 4
(d) 1 and 3

3.Which of the following were reasons for the Congressmen all over the country offering individual satyagraha in 1942 ?
(1) The Congress demand for a national government has been rejected.
(2) The freedom of speech against the war effort was denied.
(3) The British rulers were not prepared to admit that India was a belligerent not of her own free will.
(4) Gandhi offered satyagraha himself to cause greater embarrassment to the government.
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 3

4.Which of the following were the causes of the Quit India movement of 1942 ?
(1) Popular discontent, a product of rising/prices and wartime shortages was gradually mounting.
(2) Growing feelings of an imminent British collapse.
(3) Demoralisation of the people.
(4) The arrogant behavior of most of the foreign soldiers stationed in India.
(a) All of the above
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2, 3 & 4

5. Consider the following events:
1. Founding of the Swaraj Party
2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
3. The Congress-League Pact
4. The Chauri-Chaura episode
The correct chronological sequence of their occurrence is
(a) 2, 3, 1, 4
(b) 3, 2, 1, 4
(c) 3, 2, 4, 1
(d) 2, 3, 4, 1

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