MCQs on Gandhi and His Early Movements Quiz 2

Question 1. Which one of the following Satyagrahas was not lead by Mahatma Gandhi?

(A) Kheda

(B) Bardoli

(C) Civil Disobedience

(D) Quit India Movement

Question 2. Which of the following statement is/are correct regarding Gandhi?

(A) Fought hard to improve the status of casteless untouchables

(B) Began the Civil Disobedience Movement

(C) Launched the Non-Cooperation Movement

(D) All of the above

Question 3. Who was the first person to call Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Father of Nation’?

(A) Subhash Chandra Bose

(B) C. Rajagopalachari

(C)  Vallabhbhai Patel

(D) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 4. The prefix ‘Mahatma’ was added with the name of Gandhi ________.

(A) At the beginning of the Khilafat Movement

(B) In the Amritsar Session of the Indian National Congress, 1919

(C) During the Satyagraha against Rowlatt Act

(D) During Champaran Satyagraha

Question 5. Who of the following called Gandhiji ‘Mahatma’ for the first time?

(A) Subhash Chandra Bose

(B) Rabindra Nath Tagore

(C) Madan Mohan Malviya

(D) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 6. Who was the secretary of Mahatma Gandhi during Noakhali?

(A) Ballabhbhai Patel

(B) Pyare Lal

(C) Mahadeo Desai

(D) Nirmal Kumar Bose

Question 7. In which of the following Satyagraha movements, did Gandhiji not participate directly?

(A) Non-Co-operation Movement

(B) Vaikom Satyagraha

(C) Rajkot Satyagraha

(D) Rajkot Satyagraha

Question 8. When did Mahatma Gandhi come to Chhattisgarh first?

(A) 9 September, 1942

(B) 1 July, 1937

(C) 20 December, 1920

(D) 2 October, 1906

Question 9. Who among the following Gandhian followers was a teacher by profession? 

(A) Rajendra Prasad

(B) J.B. Kriplani

(C) Braj Kishore Prasad

(D) A.N. Sinha

Question 10.Who among the following capitalists served as an AICC treasurer for many years and went to jail in 1930? 

(A) Balchand Hirachand

(B) J.R.D. Tata

(C) Jamnalal Bajaj

(D) G.D. Birla

Question 11. “Indian cotton merchant, banker; Congress man and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi”. The description fits with _______.

(A) V.S. Shrinivas Shastri

(B) Jamnalal Bajaj

(C) M.R. Jayakar

(D) G.D. Birla

Question 12. Mahatma Gandhi’s close English compatriot during the freedom movement was _________.

(A) William Wavell

(B) Charles Andrews

(C) A.O. Hume

(D) Thomas Moore

Question 13. Which one of the following Jails was named as ‘Mandir’ by Gandhiji?

(A) Aghakhan Palace

(B) Cellular (Port Blair)

(C) Yarvada

(D) Naini

Question 14. At the time of India’s Independence, Mahatma Gandhi was ________.

(A) The General Secretary of the Congress

(B) The President of the Congress

(C) Not a member of the Congress

(D) A member of Congress Working Committee

Question 15. On the death of Mahatma Gandhi who said, ‘the light has gone out of our lives’?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru

(B) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

(C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(D) Lord Mountbatten

Question 16. According to M.K. Gandhi socioeconomic improvement of untouchables can be brought about ________.

(A) By establishing cottage industry for them

(B) By earmarking funds for their socio-economic development

(C) By providing grant-in-aid

(D) By their temple entry

Question 17. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Gandhian economy?

(A) He did not favour mechanisation in U.S.A.

(B) He was not in favour of mechanisation in India

(C)  Centralisation lead to exploitation and inequality, hence centralisation is opponent of formation of non-violent society

(D) He laid emphasis on the economy based on non-violence

Question 18. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched regarding propounding the principle of Trusteeship of Mahatma Gandhi?

(A) Ahmedabad – 1906

(B) Delhi – 1905

(C) London – 1904

(D) South Africa – 1903

Question 19. For whom among the following was Ahmedabad Satyagraha launched?

(A) Press Freedom

(B) Jewellery artisans

(C) Cotton Mill Workers

(D) Farmers

Question 20. Which of the following struggles of Mahatma Gandhi was related to industrial workers?

(A) Champaran Satyagraha

(B) Kheda Satyagraha

(C) Ahmedabad Satyagraha

(D) None of the above

Question 21. Who participated in ‘Satyagraha’ started by Gandhiji at Ahmedabad in 1917-18?

(A) Labourers

(B) Public

(C) Industrial workers

(D) Cultivators class

Question 22. From where did Gandhiji launch his mission of freeing bonded labour?

(A) Gorakhpur

(B) Bombay

(C) Calcutta

(D) Champaran

Question 23. Mahatma Gandhi delivered his first public speech in India at_________.

(A) Varanasi

(B) Champaran

(C) Lucknow

(D) Bombay

Question 24. In which of the following movements did Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of hunger strike as a weapon? 

(A) Bardoli Satyagraha

(B) Ahmedabad Srike

(C) Rowlatt Satyagraha

(D) Non-Co-operation Movement

Question 25. Gandhiji started his first Satyagraha against______.

(A) Rowlatt Act

(B) Payment of low wages to workers

(C) Government of India Act, 1935

(D) British attack on Turkey

Question 26. Who among the following was the strong supporter of the principle that ‘Which is morally wrong, can never be politically right’?

(A) C. Rajagopalachari

(B) M.K. Gandhi

(C) Sardar Patel

(D) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 27. Who among the following used to say ‘Wrong means never take us to right ends’?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) M.K. Gandhi

(D) Sardar Patel

Question 28. Who had advised Gandhiji to be as an observer and student in the country for one year before entering in Indian Politics?

(A) Rabindra Nath Tagore

(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D) Annie Besant

Question 29. Who one of the following had commanded Mahatma Gandhi to spend the first year in India ‘with his ears open but his mouth shut’?

(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(B) Feroz Shah Mehta

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji

Question 30. Who addressed Gandhiji as ‘oneman boundary force’?

(A) Simon

(B) Mountbatten

(C) Attlee

(D) Churchill