Civil Services Examination - Freedom struggle and its leaders Question Bank with Options

1. The 'Nehru Report' was published in response to:

A) The Simon Commission

B) The Government of India Act, 1919

C) The Indian Councils Act, 1909

D) The Cripps Mission

2. Who authored the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Mahatma Gandhi

C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

3. The 'Peshawar Conspiracy Case' involved:

A) Ghadar Party revolutionaries

B) Communist leaders

C) Indian National Army soldiers

D) Khilafat agitators

4. Who was the leader of the 'Vellore Mutiny' in 1806?

A) Mangal Pandey

B) Tipu Sultan's sons

C) Hyder Ali

D) Rani Lakshmibai

5. The 'Bardoli Satyagraha' was primarily a movement against:

A) Land revenue assessment

B) Forced labor

C) Salt tax

D) Communal policies

6. Who was the first Indian to be appointed as a member of the British Parliament?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Dadabhai Naoroji

C) Jawaharlal Nehru

D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

7. The 'Chowkidar' tax was protested against during the:

A) Non-Cooperation Movement

B) Civil Disobedience Movement

C) Quit India Movement

D) Swadeshi Movement

8. The 'Swaraj Party' was formed by:

A) Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das

C) Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh

D) Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

9. Who was the first editor of the 'Harijan' newspaper?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Jawaharlal Nehru

C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

D) Mahadev Desai

10. The 'Chapekar brothers' are associated with the assassination of:

A) W.C. Rand

B) Lord William Bentinck

C) Lord Ripon

D) Lord Curzon

11. Who was the first and only Viceroy to be assassinated in India?

A) Lord Curzon

B) Lord Dalhousie

C) Lord Mayo

D) Lord Lytton

12. The 'Jallianwala Bagh Massacre' occurred on:

A) April 13, 1919

B) August 9, 1942

C) March 12, 1930

D) January 26, 1930

13. Who was the prominent leader of the 'Hindustan Socialist Republican Association' (HSRA)?

A) Sukhdev Thapar

B) Bhagat Singh

C) Chandra Shekhar Azad

D) Ram Prasad Bismil

14. The 'Purna Swaraj' declaration called for complete independence from British rule and was adopted in:

A) 1928

B) 1929

C) 1930

D) 1931

15. Who is referred to as the 'Saint of the Gutters'?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Mother Teresa

C) Sarojini Naidu

D) Annie Besant

16. The 'Moplah Rebellion' took place in:

A) Bengal

B) Punjab

C) Malabar

D) Assam

17. Who was the founder of the 'Azad Hind Fauj' (Indian National Army)?

A) Lala Har Dayal

B) Subhas Chandra Bose

C) Bhagat Singh

D) Rash Behari Bose

18. The 'Simon Commission' was boycotted by Indians because:

A) It proposed the partition of India

B) It did not include any Indian members

C) It recommended the dissolution of the Congress

D) It imposed heavy taxes on Indians

19. Who was the first President of India?

A) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

C) Jawaharlal Nehru

D) Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

20. The 'Quit India Movement' was launched with the slogan:

A) Swaraj is my birthright

B) Do or Die

C) Inquilab Zindabad

D) Jai Jawan Jai Kisan

21. Who founded the 'Satya Shodhak Samaj' to fight against caste discrimination?

A) Jyotirao Phule

B) B.R. Ambedkar

C) E.V. Ramasamy

D) Narayan Guru

22. The 'Cabinet Mission Plan' was proposed in:

A) 1944

B) 1945

C) 1946

D) 1947

23. Who was the leader of the 'Rampa Rebellion' in Andhra Pradesh?

A) Alluri Sitarama Raju

B) Komaram Bheem

C) Tantia Tope

D) Rani Lakshmibai

24. The 'Divide and Rule' policy was effectively employed by the British during:

A) The Swadeshi Movement

B) The Non-Cooperation Movement

C) The Partition of India

D) The Sepoy Mutiny

25. Who is known as the 'Iron Man of India'?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

C) Mahatma Gandhi

D) Subhas Chandra Bose

26. The 'Khilafat Movement' was primarily aimed at:

A) Securing political rights for Muslims in India

B) Protesting against the British policies towards the Ottoman Empire

C) Demanding separate electorates for Muslims

D) Promoting Hindu-Muslim unity

27. Who was the founder of the 'Indian Association'?

A) Surendranath Banerjee

B) Ananda Mohan Bose

C) Dadabhai Naoroji

D) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

28. The 'Cripps Mission' visited India in:

A) 1940

B) 1941

C) 1942

D) 1943

29. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of independent India?

A) Lord Mountbatten

B) C. Rajagopalachari

C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

30. The 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857 is also known as:

A) The First War of Indian Independence

B) The Sepoy War

C) The Great Rebellion

D) The Indian Mutiny

31. Who wrote the book 'Anandmath', which contains the national song 'Vande Mataram'?

A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

B) Rabindranath Tagore

C) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

32. The 'August Offer' was made by the British in:

A) 1939

B) 1940

C) 1941

D) 1942

33. Who was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi?

A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

C) Mahadev Govind Ranade

D) Swami Vivekananda

34. The Rowlatt Act of 1919:

A) Provided for the separation of the judiciary and the executive

B) Empowered the government to imprison anyone without trial

C) Granted more representation to Indians in legislative councils

D) Abolished the salt tax

35. Who founded the 'Abhinav Bharat' society?

A) Bhagat Singh

B) Chandra Shekhar Azad

C) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

D) Sukhdev Thapar

36. The 'Poorna Swaraj' resolution was adopted by the Indian National Congress at its session held in:

A) Calcutta

B) Lahore

C) Madras

D) Karachi

37. Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha in 1928?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

C) Jawaharlal Nehru

D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

38. The 'Drain of Wealth' theory, which explained the economic exploitation of India by the British, was propounded by:

A) Mahadev Govind Ranade

B) Dadabhai Naoroji

C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

D) R.C. Dutt

39. Who was the first Indian woman to preside over the Indian National Congress session?

A) Sarojini Naidu

B) Annie Besant

C) Kamala Nehru

D) Vijayalakshmi Pandit

40. The Chauri Chaura incident, which led to the suspension of the Non-Cooperation Movement, occurred in:

A) 1920

B) 1921

C) 1922

D) 1923

41. Who was the founder of the 'Forward Bloc'?

A) Bhagat Singh

B) Subhas Chandra Bose

C) Jawaharlal Nehru

D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

42. The Ghadar Party, formed in 1913, aimed to:

A) Promote industrial development in India

B) Establish a secular state in India

C) Overthrow British rule in India through armed revolt

D) Advocate for social reforms in India

43. Who is credited with popularizing the slogan 'Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it'?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

C) Lala Lajpat Rai

D) Bipin Chandra Pal

44. The famous Dandi March, a significant event in the Civil Disobedience Movement, began on:

A) March 12, 1930

B) April 6, 1930

C) January 26, 1930

D) August 9, 1942

45. Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress?

A) Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

B) Dadabhai Naoroji

C) Surendranath Banerjee

D) Allan Octavian Hume

46. The 'Garhmukteshwar Massacre' occurred during which movement?

A) Non-Cooperation Movement

B) Quit India Movement

C) Civil Disobedience Movement

D) Swadeshi Movement

47. Who founded the Servants of India Society in 1905?

A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

B) Mahadev Govind Ranade

C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

D) Lala Lajpat Rai

48. The Swadeshi Movement was launched in protest against:

A) The Partition of Bengal

B) The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

C) The Rowlatt Act

D) The Simon Commission

49. Who among the following was known as the 'Grand Old Man of India'?

A) Mahatma Gandhi

B) Jawaharlal Nehru

C) Dadabhai Naoroji

D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

50. The first organized uprising against the British East India Company is widely considered to be:

A) The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857

B) The Sanyasi Rebellion

C) The Vellore Mutiny of 1806

D) The Kol Rebellion

Freedom struggle and its leaders - Question Bank