This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Culture > Festivals > Quit India Day – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Quit India Day Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which leader was known for his role in spreading the Quit India Movement in rural areas? A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. B) S.Rajagopalachari. C) Vinoba Bhave. D) Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vinoba Bhave. 2. What do we observe as Quit India Day? A) Jan-31. B) Jan-26. C) Aug-9. D) Aug-15. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aug-9. 3. Which of the following political organisations launched Quit India Movement? A) Hindu Mahasabha. B) Communist Party of India. C) Muslim League. D) Indian National Congress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indian National Congress. 4. Nehru Ahmed Nagar Fort Jail wrote? A) Glimpses of World History. B) Letters from a Father to his Daughter. C) An Autobiography:Toward Freedom. D) The Discovery of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Discovery of India. 5. Who was the prominent leader of the Quit India Movement in the state of Gujarat? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Sardar Patel. C) Maulana Azad. D) Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sardar Patel. 6. Who is known as Quit India leader? A) Jaiprakash Narayan. B) Rajendra Prasad. C) Nehru. D) Chandra Bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jaiprakash Narayan. 7. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when the Quit India Movement started? A) Mountbatten. B) Robert Clive. C) Roosevelt. D) Churchill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Churchill. 8. The newspaper that first introduced the idea of Quit India A) The Statesmen. B) Bombay Samacher. C) Harijan Daily. D) Times of India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harijan Daily. 9. What was Gandhi's strategy for the Quit India Movement? A) Violent protests. B) Non-violent civil disobedience. C) Economic boycott. D) Armed struggle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non-violent civil disobedience. 10. Which of the following was not associated with the Quit India Movement? A) Rowlett Act. B) Failure of Cripps Mission. C) Popular discontent due to high inflation. D) Defeat of British in South-East Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rowlett Act. 11. The system of communal electorate in India was first introduced by the A) Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909. B) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms of 1919. C) Indian Council Act of 1892. D) Government of India Act of 1935. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909. 12. The slogan that was used during Quit India Movement ..... A) Inquilab Zindabad. B) Jai Jawan Jai Kisan. C) Do or die. D) Vande Mataram. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Do or die. 13. What was the main demand of the Quit India Movement? A) Better trade agreements. B) Social reforms. C) Economic independence. D) Immediate withdrawal of British rule. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immediate withdrawal of British rule. 14. Who is the Prime Minister of India? A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Narendra Modi. C) Rajiv Gandhi. D) Amit Shah. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narendra Modi. 15. Who termed the Quit India movement as "crazy tolerance" ? A) Sardar Patel. B) Ambedkar. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) Vincent Churchill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ambedkar. 16. Indian National Army was first conceived by: A) Mohan Singh. B) Bhagat Singh. C) Jawaharlal Nehru. D) Subhash Bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mohan Singh. 17. Who coined the word Quit India? A) Aruna Asaf Ali. B) Nehru. C) Jayaprakash Narayan. D) Yusuf Mehrali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yusuf Mehrali. 18. Heroine of the Quit India struggle A) Aruna Asaf Ali. B) Sarojini Naidu. C) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. D) Kamala Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aruna Asaf Ali. 19. The British action of jailing the Indian leaders who took part in the Quit India Movement is known by what name? A) Operation Zero Hour. B) Operation Red. C) Operation Silence. D) Operation Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operation Zero Hour. 20. Who among the following headed the Quit India Movement in Satara? A) Anna Hazare. B) Nana Patil. C) Kat Bhashyam. D) Nana Saheb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nana Patil. 21. Which of the following political organisations launched Quit India Movement?a) Muslim Leagueb) Hindu Mahasabhac) Indian National Congressd) Communist Party of India A) Hindu Mahasabha. B) Muslim League. C) Communist Party Of India. D) Indian National Congress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indian National Congress. 22. Who initiated Purna Swaraj? A) Moti Lal Nehru. B) Gus Ghorpade. C) Hasrat Mohani. D) Abul Kalam Azad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hasrat Mohani. 23. Who said The Simon Commission Report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish? A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Shivaswami Iyer. C) Mohammad Ali Jinnah. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shivaswami Iyer. 24. Which Event marked the end of the phase of Quit India Movement in June 1945? A) The Congress Workers Assembly. B) The Third Round Table Conference. C) The Lahore Session. D) The Shimla Conference. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Shimla Conference. 25. Which of the following sections of the population did not participate much in the Quit India movement? A) Government Officials. B) Princely states. C) Peasants. D) Minority population. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Princely states. 26. Which of the following freedom fighter was not part of Quit India Movement? A) Mak gandhi. B) Sukh Dev. C) Bhagat Singh. D) Ram Mohan Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bhagat Singh. 27. Prominent organizations that stayed away from the Quit India movement A) Muslim League, BJP, Communist Party. B) Janata Party, Hindu Mahasabha and Communist Party. C) Muslim League, Hindu Mahasabha, Communist Party. D) BJP, Hindu Mahasabha, Muslim League. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muslim League, Hindu Mahasabha, Communist Party. 28. What is the current name of Gowalia Tank Maidan Nath, where the Quit India Movement was passed? A) Quit India Bhavan. B) August Samaj Bhavan. C) August Bhavan. D) August Kranti Bhavan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) August Kranti Bhavan. 29. Who had given the slogan of "Do or Die" during the Quit India Movement? A) Jawarharlal Nehru. B) Sardar Patel. C) B.R Ambedkar. D) Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mahatma Gandhi. 30. When did India become a free country? A) August 15 1947. B) August 26 1947. C) Jnauary 26 1947. D) January 26 1950. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) August 15 1947. 31. In which city did Gandhiji give the famous' Quit India Speech' on August 8 at the Gowalia Tank? A) Bombay. B) Pune. C) Calcutta. D) Ahmedabad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bombay. 32. Where is Gowalia Tank Ground located? A) Mumbai. B) Calcutta. C) Pune. D) Delhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mumbai. 33. Who made the Quit India speech? A) KB Menon. B) Gandhi. C) Nehru. D) Abul Kalam Azad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gandhi. 34. As an event, Quit India Movement is near to which of the following international events?a) Russian Revolutionb) World War lc) World War lld) American Revolution (Also Re A) American Revolution. B) World War I. C) Russian Revolution. D) World War II. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) World War II. 35. Give me your blood and I will give you freedom ..... whose words are these A) Bhagat Singh. B) Sardar Patel. C) Gaffer Khan. D) Subhash Chandra Bose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subhash Chandra Bose. 36. The publication that came out secretly from Kozhikode during the Quit India movement? A) Jai India. B) Independent India. C) Mukta Bharat. D) Independent India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent India. 37. Who led the Quit India movement in Kerala? A) KB Menon. B) K Kelappapan. C) Ayyankali. D) Sankaran Namboothiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) KB Menon. 38. The quit India movement took place right in the middle of which Global conflict A) World war I. B) French Revolution. C) World war II. D) Korean war. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World war II. 39. Who introduced Quit India Premeyam? A) Aruna Asaf Ali. B) Ambedkar. C) Gandhi. D) Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nehru. 40. The organization that raised the slogan 'Divide & quit'? A) Muslim League. B) Janata Party. C) Hindu Mahasabha. D) Communist Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muslim League. 41. Which of the following movements immediately followed the partition of Bengal? A) Non-cooperation Movement. B) Ghadar Movement. C) Civil Disobedience Movement. D) Swadeshi Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Swadeshi Movement. 42. August Kranti in Indian History is also known as: A) Swadeshi Movement. B) Delhi Chalo. C) Revolt of 1857. D) Quit India Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quit India Movement. 43. The Quit India Resolution was passed on August 8, 1942 in: A) Bombay. B) Calcutta. C) Chennai. D) Madras. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bombay. 44. Who is the only Keralite to become the President of Indian National Congress? A) Chettur Sankaran Nair. B) Accamma Cherian. C) Mohammed Abdur Rahiman. D) Swadeshi Ramkrishna Pillai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chettur Sankaran Nair. 45. The first Quit India Day was on A) August 9, 1943. B) August 8, 1942. C) August 9, 1940. D) August 9, 1942. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) August 9, 1942. 46. Who wrote Quit India Premeyam? A) Gandhi. B) Nehru. C) Patel. D) Ambedkar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gandhi. 47. Who hoisted the National Flag on 9th August 1942 in the absence of prominent leaders? A) Yousuf Meherally. B) Aruna Asaf Ali. C) Bhagat Singh. D) Gandhiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aruna Asaf Ali. 48. The jail where Nehru and Azad were imprisoned in connection with the Quit India movement? A) Ahmed Nagar Fort. B) Aga Khan Palace. C) Moti Mahal. D) Sikandar Jail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ahmed Nagar Fort. 49. Mumbai was taken by the English East India company from A) The Dutch. B) Charles 2. C) Charles 1. D) The Portuguese. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles 2. 50. Who described Aruna Asaf Ali as Quit India heroine? A) Nehru. B) JB Kripalini. C) Gandhi. D) Udham Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gandhi. 51. Who among the following Europeans were the last to come to pre-independence India as traders? A) French. B) Portuguese. C) English. D) Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) French. 52. Which Prime Ministers sent Cripps Mission to India? A) Winston Churchill. B) Neville Chamberlain. C) James Ramsay MacDonald. D) Stanley Baldwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Winston Churchill. 53. According to the official count, how many people were killed in the firing related to the Quit India movement? A) 1103. B) 940. C) 942. D) 896. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 940. 54. Which incident provoked Gandhiji to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement? A) Jaalianwala A tragedy. B) The Rowlatt Act. C) Partition of Bengal. D) Chauri Chaura. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chauri Chaura. 55. In which year was English recommended as the medium of instruction for higher education in India by Lord Macaulay? A) 1821. B) 1833. C) 1835. D) 1858. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1835. 56. In which city was the Quit Resolution passed? A) Delhi. B) Bombay. C) Madras. D) Kolkata. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bombay. 57. Who was elected as the president of the Indian Independence League (formed in March 1942) in June 1942? A) Rashbehari Bose. B) Aurowindo Gosh. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rashbehari Bose. 58. Who was the viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement? A) Lord Willingdon. B) Lord Wavell. C) Lord Linlithgow. D) Lord Mountbatten. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Linlithgow. 59. To which king belongs the Lion capitol at Sarnath? A) Chandragupta. B) Kanishka. C) Ashoka. D) Harsha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ashoka. 60. Who was the president of Indian National Congress during the Quit India movement? A) Subhash Chandra Bose. B) Rajendra Prasad. C) Abul Kalam Azad. D) J. B Kripalini. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abul Kalam Azad. Next →Related QuizzesIndian Culture QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesQuit India Day Quiz 2Air Force Day QuizAmbedkar Jayanti QuizApril Fools Day QuizArmy Day QuizBaisakhi QuizBakrid QuizBasant Panchami Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books