This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Modern > Movement – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Movement Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which one of the following observations is not true about the Quit India Movement of 1942? A) It was led by Mahatma Gandhi. B) It was a non-violent movement. C) It was a spontaneous movement. D) It did not attract the labour class in general. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It did not attract the labour class in general. 2. Why did the Europeans in India start a vigorous movement for the repeal of the Ilbert Bill? A) For excluding Indians form Viceroy's council. B) They wanted to be exempted from the jurisdiction of Indian Judges and magistrates. C) For monopolizing the higher judicial posts for Europeans. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They wanted to be exempted from the jurisdiction of Indian Judges and magistrates. 3. Titu mir's movement considered one of the Muslim reform movement mainly aimed at eradicating which of the following systems? A) Easy divorce. B) Polygamy. C) Working against Indian national movement. D) Against Hindu landlords and British indigo planters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Against Hindu landlords and British indigo planters. 4. Which of the following are the reasons for which Wahabi / Walliullah movement was started? A) Propagating Quran as the only source. B) Reviving Muslim principles in response to western influences. C) Encouraging to give up puradh system. D) Spreading education among Muslim women. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reviving Muslim principles in response to western influences. 5. The earliest movement which took up the cause of lower caste against Brahmana domination was A) Satya Shodak Society. B) Vokkaliga Sangha. C) Mahajan Sangam. D) Nair Service Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satya Shodak Society. 6. The main cause behind the rise of the Faraizi Movement was that A) The Hindu domination was to be eradicated. B) The Christian missionaries attacked the Islamic religion. C) The Muslim tenants were oppressed by the East India Company. D) The Hindu money-lenders oppressed the Muslim community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Muslim tenants were oppressed by the East India Company. 7. The Swadeshi movement was started because A) The British massacred innocent people at Jallianwala Bagh. B) The British government did not grant responsible government in India. C) Lord Curzon divided Bengal. D) Of de-industrialisation in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Curzon divided Bengal. 8. The only Indian prince who actively participated in the Revolutionary Movement within and outside India was A) Raja Kumar Singh. B) Raja Hari Singh. C) Raja Mahendra Pratap. D) Raja Aridaman Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Raja Mahendra Pratap. 9. Which one among the following was the primary reason behind the failure of the Young Bengal Movement in Bengal? A) It was too radical. B) Its economic programme was not popular. C) It did not have good leaders. D) It did not appeal to educated people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was too radical. 10. The Kuka Movement started in the mid-nineteenth century is - A) Western Punjab. B) Maharashtra. C) Bengal. D) Madhya Bharat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Western Punjab. 11. How did the Non-cooperation Movement affect the Congress? A) It became the leader of the masses in the nationalist struggle to win freedom from British rule. B) Once again the control shifted from moderates to extremists. C) From constitutional agitation it changed its method to passive resistance. D) It became a more business like body with a Working Committee and Constitution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It became the leader of the masses in the nationalist struggle to win freedom from British rule. 12. Swadeshi Movement started after A) Dandi March. B) Civil Disobedience Movement. C) Non-co-operation Movement. D) Partition of Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Partition of Bengal. 13. Bijauliya Movement was related to A) Assam. B) Rajasthan. C) Kerala. D) Orissa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rajasthan. 14. The movement started with.....and..... A) The Saiva Nayanars. B) The Vaisnava Alvars. C) Nirguna Saints. D) Both A & B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A & B. 15. Which one among the following statements about Civil Disobedience Movement is correct? A) Under Gandhi-Irwin agreement Congress agreed to give up Civil Disobedience Movement. B) There was no violence during the movement. C) The British Government was quite soft towards the movement from the beginning. D) It started with Gandhiji's march to Champaran. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Under Gandhi-Irwin agreement Congress agreed to give up Civil Disobedience Movement. 16. Jiatrang Movement started in A) Manipur. B) Mijoram. C) Nagaland. D) Tripura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Manipur. 17. Which association sprang us in Bengal during the Swadeshi Movement? A) Jugantar Samiti. B) Krantikari Samiti. C) Swadeshi Samiti. D) Anushilan Samiti. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jugantar Samiti. 18. Which of the following aspect of Bhakti Movement was common with Sufism? A) Monotheism or belief in one God. B) Equality and brotherhood of man. C) Rejection of rituals and class Division. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 19. The leader of the Young Bengal Movement was A) Chandrashekhar Deb. B) Dwarkanath Tagore. C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. D) Henry Vivian Derozio. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry Vivian Derozio. 20. With which one of the following did the Civil Disobedience Movement in India commerce? A) The unfurling of the National flag by Nehru. B) Mahatma Gandhi's going on fast. C) No Tax campaign by Sardar Patel. D) The Dandi March. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Dandi March. 21. Temple entry movement started mainly in Kerala aimed at which of the following A) Allowing untouchables to Hindu temples and roads. B) Keeping the monopoly of temples to Brahmin class. C) Allowing women to enter temple. D) Sanskrit lessons to be imparted only to Brahmin family members and others to be devoid of it in order to preserve its purity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allowing untouchables to Hindu temples and roads. 22. Which one of the following books is associated with rise of National Movement in India? A) Satyagrah Prakash. B) Gitanjali. C) Anand Math. D) Gita Rahasya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anand Math. 23. Who started the Ahmadia Movement in 1889? A) Nazir Ahmad. B) Altaf Hussain. C) Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. D) Shibli Mohani. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. 24. When was the non-cooperation movement started by M.K Gandhi? A) After Rowlatt Act. B) Chauri-Chaura incident. C) Jalliawalabagh Massacre. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jalliawalabagh Massacre. 25. Aravippuram movement which is considered as a precursor to all south Indian socio-religious reform movement started in which of the following places? A) Karnataka. B) Tamil Nadu. C) Kerala. D) Andra Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kerala. 26. The leader of the movement for Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan was: A) Sheik Mujib. B) Ayub Khan. C) Ali Pasha. D) Benazir Bhutto. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sheik Mujib. 27. Which of the following was the achieved milestone of the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921? A) The Hindus and the Muslims came closer in political pursuit. B) It avenged the Punjab atrocities. C) Indian obtains some political rights. D) It stopped the injustice done to the Khilafat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indian obtains some political rights. 28. The demand for the Tebhaga Peasant Movement in Bengal was for A) The reduction of the share of the landlords from one-half of the crop to one-third. B) The grant of ownership of land to peasants as they were the actual cultivators of the land. C) The uprooting of Zamindari system and the end of serfdom. D) Writing off all peasant debts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reduction of the share of the landlords from one-half of the crop to one-third. 29. In which month Quit India Movement of 1942 started? A) July. B) December. C) January. D) August. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) August. 30. The title given by the British Government to Mahatma Gandhi which he surrendered during the non-cooperation movement was? A) Rt. Honorable. B) Kaiser-e-Hind. C) Hind Keasri. D) Rai Bahadur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kaiser-e-Hind. 31. Who was the founder of the Bhakti Movement in Maharashtra in 13th Century? A) Gnanadeva. B) Tukaram. C) Namadev. D) Ekanatha. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gnanadeva. 32. The Indian Muslims, in general, were not attracted to the Extremist movement because of : A) Extremists policy of harping on Hindu aspect. B) Anti-Muslim attitude of Extremist leaders. C) Influence of Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan. D) Indifference shown to Muslim aspirations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extremists policy of harping on Hindu aspect. 33. Faraizi Movement which aimed at removing social reforms in Muslims started in which of the following regions? A) Kerala. B) Delhi. C) East Bengal. D) Madhya Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) East Bengal. 34. The Anti-Partition movement was initiated on A) 7 Aug. 1907. B) 7 Aug. 1904. C) 7 Aug. 1906. D) 7 Aug. 1905. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7 Aug. 1905. 35. The Non-co-operation Movement remained relatively weak in A) Andhrapradesh. B) Maharashtra. C) Punjab. D) Gujrat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maharashtra. 36. Which of the following concept the Bhakti movement of Hinduism saw two ways of imaging the nature of the divine (Brahman)? A) Jainism. B) Nirguna and Saguna. C) Shaivism. D) Sikkhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nirguna and Saguna. 37. Indian National Movement was influenced by-in the early twentieth century A) The Russian Revolution, 1917. B) Boer War, 1899. C) The outbreak of the First World War, 1914. D) The Russian-Japanese War, 1904-5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Russian-Japanese War, 1904-5. 38. Henry Vivian Derozio started young Bengal movement with the inspiration of which revolutionary ideas? A) Marxian theory. B) Industrial revolution. C) American Revolution. D) French revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French revolution. 39. The novelty which Kabir added to the Bhakti movement was A) Emphasis on Bhakti to Rama. B) Tradition of family saints. C) Neglect of Sanskrit language. D) Efforts to bring about unity among the Hindus and the Muslims. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Efforts to bring about unity among the Hindus and the Muslims. 40. Which operation was started by the British Government to arrest the leaders of Quit India Movement? A) Operation Blue Star. B) Operation Zero Hour. C) Operation Reander Paste. D) Operation Thunderbolt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Operation Thunderbolt. 41. Which young woman leader was symbol of defiance and resistance during Quit India Movement? A) Sarojini Naidu. B) Sucheta Kriplani. C) Aruna Asaf Ali. D) Kalpana Dutt Joshi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aruna Asaf Ali. 42. Wahabi movement aimed to organize Muslims around two-fold ideas, which of the following forms the ideas among them? I. Harmony among 4 schools of Muslim which was divided at that time II. Recognition of the role of individual conscience in religion as conflicting interpretations was derived from Quran and other practices Options are A) Only I. B) Only II. C) Both I and II. D) None of the above stated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both I and II. 43. Non Cooperation Movement started in: A) 1870. B) 1942. C) 1920. D) 1921. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1920. 44. The key leaders of Khilafat Movement were A) Muhammad Iqbal and Salimullah Khan. B) Syed Ahmad Khan and Agha khan. C) Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Sikandar Hayat Khan. D) Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali. 45. What was NOT a result of the Orientalist movement in India? A) The discovery of much of India's "forgotten" past. B) The Hindu Renaissance. C) British rejection of Indian culture. D) The creation of a literate middle class in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) British rejection of Indian culture. 46. When was the Non-Cooperation Movement got momentum under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress? A) 1920-1922. B) 1922-1924. C) 1987-1989. D) 1990-1992. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1920-1922. 47. Why was the Khilafat Movement started? A) To protest against the injustice done to Egypt. B) To protest against the injustice done to Persia. C) To protest against the injustice done to Arabia. D) To protest against the injustice done to Turkey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To protest against the injustice done to Turkey. 48. Gandhiji led the Indian Nationalist Movement from the front and his leadership was motivated by a wider philosophy, he nurtured throughout the course of the movement. Which one among the following was a continuous movement based on this philosophy and not a specific movement? A) Civil Disobedience Movement. B) Swadeshi Movement. C) Quit India Movement. D) Non-Cooperation Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swadeshi Movement. 49. Among the following Presidents of India, who was also the Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement for some period? A) Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. B) Varahagiri Venkatagiri. C) Giani Zail Singh. D) Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giani Zail Singh. 50. The quit India movement was started in the year A) 1943. B) 1945. C) 1942. D) 1939. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1942. 51. Select the correct statement related to the Bhakti Movement in Medieval History in India. A) To the theistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism and later revolutionised in Buddhism. B) To the theistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism and later revolutionised in Jainism. C) To the theistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism and later revolutionised in Sikhism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To the theistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism and later revolutionised in Sikhism. 52. Zeliongrong Movement was organized in A) Tripura. B) Nagaland. C) Mizorm. D) Manipur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mizorm. 53. Which of the following causes Bhakti Movement in India? A) Caste Division. B) Untouchability. C) Ritualism. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 54. Which one of the following leaders was not a part of Non cooperation movement? A) M. A. Ansari. B) Abul Kalam Azad. C) Hakim Ajmal Khan. D) M. A. Zinnah. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) M. A. Zinnah. 55. With reference to the Swadeshi Movement during the Indian Freedom Struggle, which of the following statement is not correct? A) The theme song of Swadeshi Movement in Bengal was Ravindranath's "Amar Sonar Bangla" . B) Syed Haider Raza led the Swadeshi Movement in India. C) The Ganapati and Shivaji festival became a medium of the movement. D) The Surat split in 1907 weakened the Swadeshi Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Ganapati and Shivaji festival became a medium of the movement. 56. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association Movement ended with the death of A) Bhagat Singh. B) Chandra Shekhar Azad. C) Ramprasad Bismil. D) Surya Sen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chandra Shekhar Azad. 57. The boycott of foreign cloth during the Non-cooperation Movement A) Was not agreeable to the masses. B) Caused a striking fall in the value of imports of foreign cloth in 1921-22. C) Had little impact on the economy. D) Made the government relax controls on exports of Indian goods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caused a striking fall in the value of imports of foreign cloth in 1921-22. 58. Which Bhakti Saints writings influenced Hinduism's Bhakti movement and his verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Adi Granth? A) Ramananda. B) Kabir. C) Mirabai. D) Tukaram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kabir. 59. What prompted the British Government to arrest Gandhi and get him convicted after the suspension of the Non-cooperation movement? A) It wanted to save Gandhi from public disgrace for suspending the movement. B) It wanted to ensure that there was no resurgence of the movement. C) It wanted to create terror in the hearts of other nationalists. D) It took advantage of the division among the nationalist forces caused by the suspension of the Noncooperation Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It took advantage of the division among the nationalist forces caused by the suspension of the Noncooperation Movement. 60. "Din-i-Ilahi' was a movement of Akbar's folly, not of his wisdom." Who made this statement? A) R.P. Tripathi. B) S.R. Sharma. C) A.L. Srivastava. D) V.A. Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) V.A. Smith. Next →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesMovement Quiz 2Freedom QuizIndian National Congress QuizModern India QuizModern Indian History QuizMuslim League QuizRenaissance Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books