This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > History > Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the Sanyasi leader of Awadh peasants? A) Baba Ramachandra. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) Alluri Sitarama Raju. D) Gandhiji. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baba Ramachandra. 2. During Rowlatt Act ..... was barred from entering Delhi. A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Muhammad Ali. C) Rabindranath Tagore. D) Alluri Raju. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahatma Gandhi. 3. 1:Industrial workers in Sholakpur attacked police posts because A) Abdul Ghaffar Khan was arrested. B) Mahatma Gandhi was arrested. C) Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi was arrested. 4. Which of the following Portuguese Governor in India who introduced the 'Policy of imperialism'? A) Francisco de Almeida. B) John Mildenhall. C) Gerald Angier. D) Alfonso de Albuquerque. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alfonso de Albuquerque. 5. What was the main objective of the Non-Cooperation Movement? A) To promote violent uprisings against the British. B) To seek immediate independence from British rule. C) To establish a monarchy in India. D) To resist British rule through non-violent means and promote self-reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To resist British rule through non-violent means and promote self-reliance. 6. Which group dominated congress after it's split in 1907? A) Nawabs. B) Nehru Group. C) Moderates. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moderates. 7. Why was the protests against Jallianwala Bagh incident called off? A) Gandhi entered into a pact with Irwin. B) Widespread anger and violence was not a true satyagrahi's behaviour. C) The British forced Gandhi to call it off. D) There was no unity among the Indians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Widespread anger and violence was not a true satyagrahi's behaviour. 8. Who among the following was the last East India company to be formed? A) French East India Company. B) Portuguese East India Company. C) British East India Company. D) Dutch East India Company. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) French East India Company. 9. When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India? A) 1914. B) 1917. C) 1916. D) 1915. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1915. 10. Who was the leader of the Depressed Classes Assosiations? A) Dr. B R Ambedkar. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Subhash Chandra Bose. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dr. B R Ambedkar. 11. WHO AMONG THE FOLLOWING WAS ASSOCIATED WITH SWARAJ PARTY A) GANDHIJI. B) CR DAS. C) BIPIN CHANDRA PAL. D) BHAGAT SINGH. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CR DAS. 12. Q1 By whom was the Swaraj Party formed? A) Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das. B) Subhas Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel. C) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad. D) Motilal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das. 13. MAHATMA GANDHI ARRIVED IN INDIA IN? A) JANUARY 1915. B) MARCH 1915. C) FEBRUARY 1915. D) APRIL 1915. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) JANUARY 1915. 14. Salt law passed in ..... gave the monopoly to British to manufacture salt A) 1882. B) 1859. C) 1885. D) 1923. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1882. 15. GANDHI-IRWIN PACT LED TO THE WITHDRAWAL OF A) CDM. B) NCM. C) QUIT INDIA MOVT. D) ROWLAT SATYAGRAHA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CDM. 16. During which year did the Influenza epidemic break out in Bombay? A) 1917. B) Calcutta;1917. C) Calcutta;1918. D) 1918. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1918. 17. What was the significance of the Salt March in the Civil Disobedience Movement? A) It had no significance in the movement. B) It was a symbolic act of defiance against the salt tax. C) It was a violent protest against the British. D) It was a religious ritual performed by Mahatma Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was a symbolic act of defiance against the salt tax. 18. In 1918, satyagraha was held at ..... A) Chmaparan. B) Kheda. C) Ahmedabad. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ahmedabad. 19. Consider the statements given below and choose the correct answer. Statement I:The Rowlatt Act was passed to suppress the nationalist movement. Statement II:The Act allowed the British to arrest individuals without trial. A) Both (I) and (II) are correct. B) Statement (I) is incorrect and (II) is correct. C) Both (I) and (II) are incorrect. D) Statement (I) is correct and (II) is incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both (I) and (II) are correct. 20. IICC and FICCI was led by A) Purushottamdas thakurdas & G.D Birla. B) Baba Ramchandra. C) Kumar sankirtan. D) Abanindra nath tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purushottamdas thakurdas & G.D Birla. 21. In which place the first factory of East India Company was built? A) Bombay. B) Masulipatnam. C) Nagapatnam. D) Surat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surat. 22. The growth of modern nationalism in India is intimately connected to which of the following events:(I) Anti-Racial Movement (II) Religious Reform Movements (III) Anti-Imperial Movement (IV) Secessionist movements of Sikhs A) (I) and (III). B) (II) and (IV). C) Only (III). D) (I), (II), (III) and (IV). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Only (III). 23. A militant Guerrila movement spread in: A) Garo hills. B) Khasi hills. C) Gudem hills. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gudem hills. 24. When was the first world war broke out? A) 1913. B) 1918. C) 1915. D) 1914. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1914. 25. The city associated with the Jallianwala Bagh incident A) Amritsar. B) Gorakhpur. C) Champaran. D) Ahmedabad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amritsar. 26. Who gave a vague offer of Dominion Status for India? A) Viceroy Irwin. B) General Dyer. C) Viceroy Rippen. D) Sir John Simon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Viceroy Irwin. 27. Gandhi ji supprted cotton mill workers in this satyaghaha A) Keda. B) Ahembabad. C) Chauri chaura. D) Champaran. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ahembabad. 28. Who is the writer of "Hind Swaraj" ? A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Motilal Nehru. D) Rajendra Prasad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi. 29. Which act gave the British government enormous powers to repress political activities and arrest people without trial in 1919? A) Government of India Act. B) Rowlatt Act. C) Indian Councils Act. D) Defence of India Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rowlatt Act. 30. Alluri was captured and executed in which of the following years? A) 1927. B) 1927. C) 1924. D) 1928. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1924. 31. In which city Jallianwala Bagh incident took place? A) Agra. B) Lahore. C) Meerut. D) Punjab. E) Amritsar. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Amritsar. 32. The leader of the peasants in the Gudem Hills of Andhra was: A) Baba Ramchandra. B) Venkata Raju. C) Alluri Sitaram Raju. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alluri Sitaram Raju. 33. Who was the leader of Khilafat movement? A) Muhammed Ali. B) Shaukat Ali. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 34. From which year, the National Movement spread to new areas incorporating new social groups and developingnew modes of struggle? A) 1916. B) 1918. C) 1914. D) 1919. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1919. 35. Who was Alluri Sitaram Raju? A) He led the militant movement of tribal peasants in Andhra Pradesh. B) He led the peasant movement in Awadh. C) He led a satyagraha movement in Bardoli. D) He set up an organisation for the upliftment of the dalits. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He led the militant movement of tribal peasants in Andhra Pradesh. 36. Why did the people get together in the Jallianwala Bagh? A) To protest against the Montague Chelmsford reforms. B) To celebrate the festival of the Muslims. C) Started by the Muslim leaders against the British Government after the First World War. D) To protest against the Rowlett Act, while others had gathered for Hindu festival of Baisakhi, unaware of the political meeting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To protest against the Rowlett Act, while others had gathered for Hindu festival of Baisakhi, unaware of the political meeting. 37. The import of foreign cloths halved between which year A) 1921-1922. B) 1923-26. C) 1919-18. D) Non of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1921-1922. 38. A place where Jallianwala Bagh incident took place. A) Nagpur. B) Amritsar. C) Ahmedabad. D) Calcutta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amritsar. 39. Khilafat committee in India was formed in the year A) 1918. B) 1923. C) 1922. D) 1919. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1919. 40. Why did Gandhi ji organise Satyagraha in Kheda district of Gujarat? A) To protest against high revenue demand. B) To sport the plantation workers. C) To support the mill workers to fulfill their demand. D) To demands loans for the farmers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To protest against high revenue demand. 41. Why Gandhiji called off the Non-Cooperation Movement? A) Increasing pressure of the British government. B) Round Table conferences. C) Gandhiji's arrest. D) The Chauri Chaura Incident. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Chauri Chaura Incident. 42. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was willing to give up the demand for separate electorates, if ..... A) Hindus showed minority. B) Muslims were assured reserved seats in the Central Assembly and representation in proportion to population in the Muslim-dominated provinces (Bengal and Punjab). C) If the Hindu Mahasabha took a backseat. D) Muslims to be given majority electorates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muslims were assured reserved seats in the Central Assembly and representation in proportion to population in the Muslim-dominated provinces (Bengal and Punjab). 43. Khilafat committee was formed in ..... A) Madras. B) Culcutta. C) Bombay. D) Nagpur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bombay. 44. Which event in 1947 led to the partition of India into two separate nations, India and Pakistan? A) Indian Independence Act of 1947. B) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919. C) Quit India Movement in 1942. D) Partition of Bengal in 1905. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indian Independence Act of 1947. 45. When did Gandhiji travelled to Champaran in Bihar A) 1925. B) 1920. C) 1918. D) 1916. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1916. 46. Who led the Gudem rebellion? A) Birsa Munda. B) Gunda Dhur. C) Sidhu and Kannu. D) Alluri Sitarama Raju. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alluri Sitarama Raju. 47. IN whicjh session they convinced other leaders to start non coperation movement with support of khalafit and swaraj A) Nagpur in 1930. B) Calcatta in 1923. C) Lahore sesssion 1920. D) Calcatta sesssion in 1920. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcatta sesssion in 1920. 48. Which of these allows for jailing of protestors w/o trial for up to two years? A) Townsend Acts. B) La Brea Acts. C) McCarthy-Wainright Acts. D) Rowlatt Acts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rowlatt Acts. 49. How did the British and the French get involved? A) The British supported Nasir Jung, the new Nizam. B) The French supported Muzaffar Jung, the deposed Nizam. C) The British supported Chanda Sahib. D) The French supported the Nawab of Arcot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The British supported Nasir Jung, the new Nizam. 50. The English East India Company was established in the year? A) 1608. B) 1664. C) 1613. D) 1600. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1600. 51. . By whom was the Swaraj Party formed? A) Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das. B) B) Subhas Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel. C) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das. 52. Who wrote novel 'Anandmath'? A) Bankim Chandra chattopadhyay. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Rajendra Prasad. D) Jawaharlal Nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bankim Chandra chattopadhyay. 53. Identify the main objective of the Indian National Congress during the early 20th century. A) To promote communal harmony. B) To support British colonial policies. C) To seek self-governance for India. D) To establish a monarchy in India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To seek self-governance for India. 54. The spiritual head of the Islamic world was known as A) Khalifa. B) Sultan. C) Pagamber. D) Allah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khalifa. 55. What was the main problem with Simon commission? A) It was an all British Commission. B) It was formed in Britain. C) It was set up in response to the nationalist movement. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was an all British Commission. 56. The Arms Act Of ..... forbade Indians to possess weapons. A) 1876. B) 1877. C) 1878. D) 1879. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1878. 57. Who among the following two leaders led to the Khalifat movement? A) Shaukal Ali and Muhammed Ali. B) Gandhiji and Sardar Patel. C) Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Abdul Kalam Azad. D) Abdul Kalam Azad and jawaharlal nehru. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shaukal Ali and Muhammed Ali. 58. Who founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association? A) Gandhi. B) Lala Lajpat Rai. C) Dr. Satyapal and Saifuddin Kitchlew. D) Anasuya Sarabhai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anasuya Sarabhai. 59. Who one of the following took command when martial law was imposed in Amritsar in 1919? A) General Dyer. B) Sir John Simon. C) William Bentinck. D) Lord Dalhousie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) General Dyer. 60. Who was the British PM when Simon commission was sent to India A) Stanli Baldwin. B) Lord irwin. C) Sir John Simon. D) Non of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanli Baldwin. Next →Related QuizzesArt Humanities QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 2Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 3Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 4Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 5Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 6Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 7Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 8Class 12 History Chapter 2 Nationalism In India Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books