Major Leaders and Events from the Gandhian Era until India’s Independence AFCAT Questions

AFCAT Modern History

Major Leaders and Events from the Gandhian Era until India’s Independence MCQ Questions


7.
The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917, Gandhi's first Satyagraha movement in India, was launched on behalf of farmers forced to cultivate which crop under exploitative conditions?
A.
Opium
B.
Cotton
C.
Indigo
D.
Jute
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ANSWER :
C. Indigo
8.
Gandhi began his first 'fast unto death' in March 1918 in connection with which event?
A.
The Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
B.
The Champaran Satyagraha
C.
The Ahmedabad Mill Workers' Strike
D.
The Kheda Satyagraha
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ANSWER :
C. The Ahmedabad Mill Workers' Strike
9.
The Kheda Satyagraha (1918) in Gujarat was launched primarily due to which combination of hardships faced by the peasantry?
A.
Forced indigo cultivation
B.
A ban on salt production
C.
Crop failure, plague, and high land revenue demands during a period of distress
D.
Forced military conscription
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ANSWER :
C. Crop failure, plague, and high land revenue demands during a period of distress
10.
Which young Gujarati leader, who would later become Gandhi's chosen successor as President of the Indian National Congress, came into close contact with Gandhi during the Kheda Satyagraha?
A.
Vallabhbhai Patel
B.
Rajendra Prasad
C.
Jawaharlal Nehru
D.
C. Rajagopalachari
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ANSWER :
A. Vallabhbhai Patel
11.
The crowd gathered at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919 was protesting primarily against the arrest of which two local leaders under the Rowlatt Act?
A.
Madan Mohan Malaviya and Motilal Nehru
B.
Ajit Singh and Sardar Kishan Singh
C.
Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
D.
Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal
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ANSWER :
C. Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
12.
The British military officer who ordered the troops to open fire on the unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh was:
A.
Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer
B.
General Rex Dyer's superior, Lord Hardinge
C.
Lord Chelmsford
D.
Michael O'Dwyer
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ANSWER :
A. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer