This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 10 > History > Nationalism In India > Class 10 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 10 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Kheda, peasants wanted tax exemption for one year due to: A) Crop not for sale. B) Crop surplus. C) Cholera epidemic. D) Crop failure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crop failure. 2. :In which of the following Indian National Congress sessions was the demand of' Purna Swaraj' formalised in December 1929? A) Lahore Session. B) Calcutta Session. C) Madras Session. D) Nagpur Session. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lahore Session. 3. Why did Gandhi and his followers march to the sea to make salt? A) The British companies had run out of salt. B) To protest the water tax. C) They were on vacation. D) To protest the British tax on salt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To protest the British tax on salt. 4. Assertion-The nationalists urged the readers to take pride in India's greatest achievement's Reasoning-Another means of creating a feeling of nationalism was through reinterpretation of history A) A is correct but R is false. B) A is false but R is correct. C) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A. D) Both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A. 5. Who established the swaraj party within the congress party A) Chittaranjan Das, Matilal Nehru. B) Jawarlal Nehru, Gandhiji & Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. C) None of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chittaranjan Das, Matilal Nehru. 6. In his famous book ..... Mahatma Gandhi talked about non cooperation. A) Hind Swaraj. B) My Experiments with Truth. C) Satya Ke Saath Mere Prayog. D) The Mahatma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hind Swaraj. 7. Baba Ramachandra and Jawaharlal Nehru headed Oudh Kisan Sabha. True or false? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. Baba Ramchandra, a sanyasi, was the leader of which of the following movements? A) Khilafat Movement. B) Militant Guerrilla Movement of Andhra Pradesh. C) Peasants' Movement of Awadh. D) Plantation Workers' Movement in Assam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peasants' Movement of Awadh. 9. What did the idea of Satyagraha emphasise? A) The power of truth and the need to search for truth, and physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor. B) Need to search for truth, and use physical force. C) Fight with arguments and violence. D) Agitation and violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The power of truth and the need to search for truth, and physical force was not necessary to fight the oppressor. 10. Assertion(A):Mass processions Were a common feature of the Indian national movement.Reason(R):People protested for the benefit of their respective social groups. 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 but R is true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A is true but R is false. 11. The Dandi March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, began on 12 March ..... and was an important part of the Indian independence movement A) 1937. B) 1929. C) 1935. D) 1930. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1930. 12. Truth Prayer Social Was Founded B.P. A) Jyotiba Phule. B) Husband Dayanand Saraswati. C) Swami Vivekananda. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jyotiba Phule. 13. Why was the Simon Commission sent to India? A) To look into the Indian constitutional matter and suggest reform. B) To choose members of Indian Council. C) To settle disputes between the government and the congress leaders. D) To set up a government organisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To look into the Indian constitutional matter and suggest reform. 14. In which of the following places did Mahatma Gandhi organize Satyagraha for the first time in India? A) Giving. B) Sabarmati. C) Champaran. D) Ahmedabad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Champaran. 15. Khilafat Committee was formed in ..... in March 1919. A) Bombay. B) Delhi. C) Madras. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bombay. 16. Abdul Ghaffar Khan a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in april 1931 A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. The resolution of Poorna Swaraj was adopted at which session of the Congress? A) Lucknow. B) Karachi. C) Haripur. D) Lahore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lahore. 18. Consider the following statements on parties:A. Political parties do not enjoy much trust among the people. B. Parties are often rocked by scandals involving top party leaders. C. Parties are not necessary to run governments. Which of the statements given above are correct? A) A, B and C. B) A and B. C) B and C. D) A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A and B. 19. The swadeshi movement in deltaic Andhra was known as A) Andhra Swadeshi Movement. B) Vandemataram Movement. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vandemataram Movement. 20. What is Nationalism? A) Feeling of leadership. B) Feeling of unity within the nation. C) Feeling of traitship within the nation. D) Non of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feeling of unity within the nation. 21. Who painted Bharat Mata image? A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Natesa with. D) Abanindranath Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abanindranath Tagore. 22. The Round Table Conference which was boycotted by the Congress A) Pear. B) 1 stem. C) An offer. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1 stem. 23. Which British officer open-fired at the Jallianwala Bagh congregation? A) Sir John Simon. B) Mountbatten. C) General Dyer. D) Montgomery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) General Dyer. 24. Justice Party-a non-Brahmin movement was transformed into ..... a Political Party. A) National Conference. B) Shiv Sena. C) Assam Gana Parishad. D) Dravid Progress Corporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dravid Progress Corporation. 25. When was inland emigration act was passed by british A) 1859. B) 1856. C) 1899. D) 1709. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1859. 26. A militant Guerrilla Movement spread in:- A) Khasi Hills. B) Gudem Hills. C) Garo Hills. D) Satpura Hills. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gudem Hills. 27. Folklore can be described as:- A) National literature. B) The most trustworthy manifestation. C) Both national literature and the most trustworthy manifestation. D) Demonstration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both national literature and the most trustworthy manifestation. 28. In which year FICCI was set up? A) 1921. B) 1927. C) 1931. D) 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1927. 29. Which of the following statements about political parties is true?A. Political parties are essential for a functioning democracy.B. Political parties always represent the interests of the people.C. Political parties can influence government policies.Which of the statements given above are correct? A) A and C. B) A, B and C. C) A and B. D) B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A and C. 30. This act gave the Government power to arrest political prisoners without trial for for two years. A) Government of India Act of 1919. B) Vernacular Press Act. C) Rowlatt Act. D) Arms Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rowlatt Act. 31. Who published "The folklore of Southern India", a collection of Tamil Folk tales? A) Tiruppur Kumar. B) W.O.Chidambaram child. C) Nuts:Shastri. D) Subramanya Bharti. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nuts:Shastri. 32. Vernacular Act was passed by ..... in 1878. A) Lord Lytton. B) Lord Linlithgow. C) Lord Dufferin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lord Lytton. 33. M.R.Jayakar was the member of the ..... A) Swaraj Party. B) Hindu Mahasabha. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hindu Mahasabha. 34. In 1916 The Congress and the Muslim signed a pact where they decided to work together for a representative government in the country. This pact was called the A) Calcutta Pact. B) Lucknow Pact. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lucknow Pact. 35. What was the Inland Emigration Act of 1859 about? A) Wages of the plantation workers in Assam. B) Training provided to plantation workers so improve production. C) Restriction on plantation workers to leave the plantations. D) Transfer of the plantation workers to different plantations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restriction on plantation workers to leave the plantations. 36. Under the presidency of Jawahahar Lai Nehru, the Lahore Congress Session of 1929 formalised the demand of A) Boycott of Simon Commission. B) 'Puma Swaraj' or complete independence. C) Separate electorate for the 'dalits'. D) Abolition of Salt Tax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'Puma Swaraj' or complete independence. 37. Forced recruitment was happened in A) Villages. B) Town. C) Cities. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Villages. 38. THE COUNCIL ELECTIONS WHERE BOYCOTTED IN MADRAS? A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 39. Arrange the following in chronological order-1. Rowlatt act2. Kheda satyagrah3. Champaran movement4. Ahmedabad mill strike A) 3, 4, 2, 1. B) 1, 4, 3, 2. C) 4, 1, 2, 3. D) 3, 2, 4, 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3, 2, 4, 1. 40. Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in: A) 1916. B) 1914. C) 1905. D) 1915. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1915. 41. A form of demonstration used in the Non-cooperation Movement in which people block the entrance to a shop, factory or office is A) Boycott. B) Both. C) Picketing. D) Bandh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Picketing. 42. The main problem with the Simon Commission was that:- A) It was formed in Britain. B) It was an All British Commission. C) It was set up in response to the nationalist movement. D) It supported the Muslim League. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was an All British Commission. 43. Gandhiji supported cotton mill workers in A) Whom. B) Champaran. C) Ahembabad. D) What you have been set. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ahembabad. 44. Which one of the following is the most visible institution in a democracy? A) Public Interest Group. B) Pressure Group. C) Political Party. D) Sectional Interest Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Political Party. 45. WHAT WAS THE MOVEMENT IN GUDEM HILLS? A) A GUERRIALLA. B) A MILLANT GUERRIALA. C) Goodem Movement. D) Movement slings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A MILLANT GUERRIALA. 46. What did the Idea of Satyagraha emphasis on? A) It was the idea of passive resitance. B) Appeal to conscience of the oppressor. C) Use of the physical force to fight the oppressor. D) Traditional way of mass agitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appeal to conscience of the oppressor. 47. The Non-cooperation Movement began on which one of the following dates? A) November 1921. B) December 1921. C) January 1921. D) May 1921. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) January 1921. 48. From which country Gandhiji returned to India? A) South Africa. B) London. C) England. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) South Africa. 49. In which session of Congress was the demand of Purna Swaraj formalised? A) Lahore session. B) Kolkata session. C) Mumbai session. D) Lucknow session. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lahore session. 50. The Simon Commission was boycotted in India because: A) Congress felt that people deserved Swaraj. B) There was no Indian member in the Commission. C) It supported the Muslim League. D) There were differences among the members. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There was no Indian member in the Commission. 51. Why did Mahatma Gandhi use the salt tax to bring everyone together in a united campaign? A) It's a necessity for all. B) It's cheap. C) It's hard to produce and export. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It's a necessity for all. 52. During the First World War, the Indian Industrialists suffered huge loss. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 53. When did Jallianwala Bagh Massacre take place? A) 13 April 1920. B) 13 April 1916. C) 13 April 1918. D) 13 April 1919. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13 April 1919. 54. Match the following:1) Hindus would hoist their flags a) symbol of defiance 2) unifying people b) in tartar, china3) carrying the flag during marches c) in art and architecture 4) glorious development d) icons and symbols A) 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a. B) 1-c, 2-a, 3-d, 4-b. C) 1-a, 2-d.3-b, 4-c. D) 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1-b, 2-d, 3-a, 4-c. 55. Assertion(A):In 1917, Gandhiji organised a Satyagraha to support the peasants of the Kheda disctrict of Gujarat.Reason(R):The peasants were affected by crop failure. They could not pay revenue thus demanded revenue collection to be relaxed. 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 correct explanation of A. C) A is correct but R is wrong. D) A is wrong but R is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A. 56. Gandhiji in 1919 decided to launch anationwide satyagraha against the proposed ..... A) Rowlatt Act. B) Britishers. C) Landlords. D) Jallianwalla Bagh Incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rowlatt Act. 57. The Civil Disobedience Movement carried forward the unfinished work of the Non-Cooperation Movement. In the North-West Frontier Province, the movement was led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as A) Frontier Gandhi. B) Ghaffar Movement. C) Excavation. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontier Gandhi. 58. The infamous Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre took place when there was an annual ..... fair. A) Holi. B) Crutch. C) Te. D) Lohri. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crutch. 59. IN WHICH YEAR NON COOPERATION WAS ADOPTED? A) 1921, December. B) 1921. C) 1920. D) 1919. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1920. 60. What did we see in the years after 1919? A) We saw nationalist movements spreading to new areas. B) Non-cooperation movements. C) Unification of India. D) Civil disobedience movements. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We saw nationalist movements spreading to new areas. 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