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Mahatma Gandhi and The Nationalist Movement MCQ Questions Class 12 History
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MCQ Questions Class 12 Mahatma Gandhi and The Nationalist Movement
Question. Which incident(s) prompted Gandhiji to call off the non-corporation movements?
(A) Chauri Chaura
(B) Jallianwala Bagh massacre
(C) a labor dispute in Ahmedabad
(D) Peasants agitation at Champaran
Answer
A
Question. Mahatma Gandhi was not present at the festivities in the capital on 15 August 1947. Identify the correct option for not participating in the Independence Day celebration.
(A) The freedom he had struggled so long for had come at an unacceptable price, with a nation divided and Hindus and Muslims at each other’s throats
(B) He went around hospitals and refugee camps, giving consolation to distressed people.
(C) He had never accepted the “two-nation theory”: forced against its will to accept Partition.
(D) All of the above.
Answer
D
Question. With whom was Mahatma Gandhi compared to his demise?
(A) Abraham Lincoln
(B) Martin Luther King
(C) George Washington
(D) Karl Marx
Answer
A
ASSERTION AND REASON BASED MCQs :
Question. Assertion (A) : In 1940, the Muslim League passed a resolution committing itself to the creation of a separate nation called “Pakistan”.
Reason (R) : The political polarisation was complete and Jinnah called for a “Direct Action Day” to press for the League’s demand for Pakistan.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false and R is true.
Answer
B
Question. Assertion (A): Lord Mountbatten announced that India would be freed but divided.
Reason (R): The political landscape became complicated, it was a three way struggle between the Congress, the Muslim League and the British.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false and R is true.
Answer
B
Question. Assertion (A): Gandhiji was as much a social reformer as he was a politician.
Reason (R): He believed that in order to be worthy of freedom, Indians have to get rid of social evils such as child marriage and untouchability.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
(C) A is true but R is false.
(D) A is false and R is true.
Answer
A
CASE-BASED MCQs :
Question. Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions by choosing the correct option:
What I object to, is the craze for machinery as such. The craze is for what they call laboursaving machinery. Men go on “saving labour”, till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die of starvation. I want to save time and labour, not for a fraction of mankind, but for all; I want the concentration of wealth, not in the hands of few, but in the hands of all.
Question. Whose words are these?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(D) Maulana Abdul Kalam
Answer
A
Question. In which context have these words been said?
(A) Popularising the Dandi March
(B) Popularising use of white clothes
(C) Popularising use of charkha
(D) Popularising use of Indian Railways to spread nationalism
Answer
C
Question. What was his aim as referred to in this passage?
(A) Making poor self-reliant
(B) Providing poor with supplementary income
(C) Using machinery for the service of poorest
(D) All of these
Answer
D
Question. This shows that the speaker was in favour of
(A) socialism
(B) capitalism
(C) communism
(D) All of these
Answer
A
