Indian National Congress emergence of leaders and mass movements. - Question Bank

1. The 'United Provinces Kisan Sabha' was formed in 1918 by whom?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
B) Govind Ballabh Pant and Indra Narayan Dwivedi
C) Acharya Narendra Dev and Sampurnanand
D) Madan Mohan Malaviya and Purushottam Das Tandon
2. Who was the first Indian Governor-General of independent India?
A) Lord Mountbatten
B) C. Rajagopalachari
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
3. The INC formally accepted the partition of India in which year?
A) 1945
B) 1946
C) 1947
D) 1948
4. Who is credited with 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
5. The 'Sapru Committee' report in 1945 recommended:
A) Immediate independence
B) A Constituent Assembly and Dominion Status
C) Partition of India
D) A federal government
6. Who was the first woman to be arrested during the Salt Satyagraha?
A) Kamala Nehru
B) Annie Besant
C) Sarojini Naidu
D) Mridula Sarabhai
7. The 'Simla Conference' of 1945 was convened by Viceroy:
A) Lord Linlithgow
B) Lord Wavell
C) Lord Mountbatten
D) Sir Stafford Cripps
8. Who was the INC President during the historic 'Dandi March'?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Sarojini Naidu
9. The 'Khilafat Movement' was a mass movement led by Muslim leaders in India, primarily advocating for:
A) Independence from British rule
B) The restoration of the Caliphate in Turkey
C) The establishment of Pakistan
D) Religious freedom
10. Who founded the 'Servants of India Society' which aimed to train national missionaries for the service of India?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Mahadev Govind Ranade
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
11. The 'Individual Satyagraha' was launched by the INC in 1940. Who was the first and second Satyagrahi respectively?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel
B) Vinoba Bhave and Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Acharya Kripalani and Rajendra Prasad
12. The 'Poona Pact' was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and whom?
A) Lord Irwin
B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) M.A. Jinnah
D) C.R. Das
13. Which INC leader was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
D) Shaikh Abdullah
14. The first Round Table Conference was held in London in:
A) 1929
B) 1930
C) 1931
D) 1932
15. Who was the INC President when India gained independence in 1947?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
D) Acharya Kripalani
16. The 'Cripps Mission' visited India in:
A) 1940
B) 1941
C) 1942
D) 1943
17. Who was the INC President during the Lahore session where Purna Swaraj was declared?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Motilal Nehru
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
18. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in:
A) 1929
B) 1930
C) 1931
D) 1932
19. The Bardoli Satyagraha, a major peasant uprising, was led by:
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) K.M. Munshi
20. Who was the first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress?
A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
B) Badruddin Tyabji
C) Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
D) Syed Mahmood
21. The 'Divide and Rule' policy is often attributed to which British Viceroy?
A) Lord Curzon
B) Lord Dalhousie
C) Lord Lytton
D) Lord Dufferin
22. Who is known for their leadership in the peasant movements and was a prominent INC leader from Uttar Pradesh?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Acharya Narendra Dev
C) Sampurnanand
D) Govind Ballabh Pant
23. The 'August Offer' of 1940 was made by the British Viceroy:
A) Lord Linlithgow
B) Lord Wavell
C) Lord Mountbatten
D) Lord Willingdon
24. Who was the first elected President of India and a prominent INC leader?
A) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
C) Zakir Husain
D) V.V. Giri
25. The Swaraj Party aimed to:
A) Boycott legislative councils
B) Enter legislative councils and obstruct government functioning
C) Launch mass civil disobedience
D) Establish a socialist state
26. The Swaraj Party was formed by:
A) Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Subhas Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh
C) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru
D) Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
27. After his resignation from the INC presidency in 1939, Subhas Chandra Bose formed which political party?
A) Indian National Army
B) Swaraj Party
C) Forward Bloc
D) Communist Party of India
28. Subhas Chandra Bose was elected President of the INC in 1938 and 1939. In which session did he defeat Mahatma Gandhi's nominee?
A) Haripura
B) Tripuri
C) Lucknow
D) Faizpur
29. Who was the INC President during the Quit India Movement?
A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Rajendra Prasad
30. During the Quit India Movement, Mahatma Gandhi gave the call:
A) Swaraj is my birthright
B) Do or die
C) Inquilab Zindabad
D) Vande Mataram
31. The Quit India Movement was launched in the year:
A) 1939
B) 1941
C) 1942
D) 1945
32. Who was the first Prime Minister of India and a key leader of the INC?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
33. The demand for 'Purna Swaraj' (Complete Independence) was first formally adopted by the INC at its session held in:
A) Madras, 1927
B) Lahore, 1929
C) Karachi, 1931
D) Lucknow, 1936
34. Who led the famous Salt March from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) C. Rajagopalachari
35. The Civil Disobedience Movement was initiated with the:
A) Non-Cooperation Movement
B) Salt March (Dandi March)
C) Quit India Movement
D) Khilafat Movement
36. The Chauri Chaura incident, which led to the suspension of the Non-Cooperation Movement, occurred in:
A) 1920
B) 1921
C) 1922
D) 1923
37. Who was the President of the INC during the Non-Cooperation Movement?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) C.R. Das
C) Motilal Nehru
D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
38. The Non-Cooperation Movement was launched in response to:
A) The Rowlatt Act
B) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
C) Both A and B
D) The demand for Purna Swaraj
39. Mahatma Gandhi joined the Indian National Congress in which year?
A) 1905
B) 1915
C) 1920
D) 1930
40. Who is known as the 'Grand Old Man of India' and was a prominent INC leader and theorist?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) Mahadev Govind Ranade
D) Surendranath Banerjee
41. The Swadeshi Movement was largely a response to:
A) The Jallianwala Bagh massacre
B) The Partition of Bengal
C) The Simon Commission
D) The Government of India Act, 1935
42. Which movement marked a significant shift towards mass mobilization and boycotting British goods?
A) Non-Cooperation Movement
B) Civil Disobedience Movement
C) Swadeshi Movement
D) Quit India Movement
43. The Surat Split in 1907, dividing the INC into Moderates and Extremists, occurred during the presidency of:
A) Dadabhai Naoroji
B) Ras Bihari Ghosh
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
44. Who were the prominent leaders of the 'Extremist' faction within the INC?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Feroze Shah Mehta
B) Surendranath Banerjee, Dadabhai Naoroji
C) Lal Bal Pal (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal)
D) Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru
45. The 'Moderates' phase of the Indian National Congress is generally considered to be from:
A) 1885 to 1905
B) 1905 to 1919
C) 1919 to 1935
D) 1935 to 1947
46. The first Indian woman to preside over the INC session was:
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Annie Besant
C) Kamala Nehru
D) Kadambini Ganguly
47. Which of the following was NOT an early President of the INC?
A) Dadabhai Naoroji
B) George Yule
C) Philipot
D) Mahatma Gandhi
48. Who presided over the first session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay?
A) W.C. Bonnerjee
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) Surendranath Banerjee
D) Badruddin Tyabji
49. Who is widely regarded as the 'Father of the Indian National Congress'?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) A.O. Hume
D) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
50. When was the Indian National Congress (INC) founded?
A) 1885
B) 1905
C) 1857
D) 1947