MCQ on Khilafat Movement

Question 1. Who was elected as President of the All India Khilafat Conference in 1919?

(A) Motilal Nehru

(B) Maulana Shaukat Ali

(C) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

Question 2. Why did Mahatma Gandhi support the Khilafat Movement?

(A) The Khalifa was a friend of Gandhiji

(B) The Khalifa supported Indian struggle for freedom

(C) Gandhiji wanted to win the support of the Indian Muslims against the British

(D) The Khalifa had given shelter to Indian revolutionaries

Question 3. Khilafat Movement was supported by ________.

(A) Gandhiji

(B) Curzon

(C) Sir Syed

(D) Hume

Question 4. Who among the following were prominent leaders of the ‘Khilafat Movement’?

(A) Rafi Ahmed Kidwai and Shaukat Ali

(B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

(C) Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Shaukat Ali

(D) Maulana Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali

Question 5. Who viewed the Khilafat Movement as an opportunity for integrating Hindus and Muslims which will not appear again within coming hundred years?

(A) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

(B) Mahatma Gandhi

(C) Abul Kalam Azad

(D) Ali Brothers

Question 6. Who one of the following had renounced the title of Haziq-ulMulk during Khilafat agitation?

(A) Hakim Ajmal Khan

(B) Shaukat Ali

(C) Mohammad Ali

(D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Question 7. Who warned Gandhiji not to encourage fanaticism of Muslim religious leaders and their followers?

(A) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

(B) Hasan Khan

(C) Ajmal Khan

(D) Agha Khan

Question 8. Who among the following had denounced the participation of Mahatma Gandhi in the Khilafat Movement?

(A) M.A. Jinnah

(B) Abul Kalam Azad

(C) Shaukat Ali

(D) Mohammad Ali

Question 9. Which one of the following was the result of Khilafat Movement?

(A) Hindus were suppressed

(B) Hindu-Muslim riots increased

(C) Language problem became acute

(D) Hindu-Muslim differences were narrowed down

Question 10. The person who on 4 April, 1919 delivered a speech on HinduMuslim unity from the pulpit of Jama Masjid in Delhi was_________.

(A) Swami Shraddhananda

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) Mahamana Malviya

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

Question 11. Which of the following Indian leaders did not support the Khilafat Movement? 

(A) Swami Shraddhananda

(B) Mohammad Ali

(C) Madan Mohan Malviya

(D) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 12. In which city was the conference of Khilafat Committee in 1920 held that requested Gandhiji to assume the leadership of Non-Co-operation Movement? 

(A) Karachi

(B) Allahabad

(C) Lahore

(D) Lucknow

Question 13. “In this instance, we could not play off the Mohammedans against the Hindus”. To which one of the following events did this remark of Aitchison relate?

(A) August Movement of 1942

(B) Khilafat and Non-Co-operation Movement (1919-22)

(C) Champaran Satyagraha (1917)

(D) Revolt of 1857

Question 14. Moplah Rebellion in 1921 was an offshoot of _______.

(A) Non-Co-operation Movement

(B) Swadeshi Movement

(C) Mutiny of 1857

(D) Khilafat Movement

Question 15. Who of the following had started the Khilafat Movement?

1. Shaukat Ali
2. Mohammad Ali
3. Shariatullah
4. Abul Kalam Azad

Choose the answer from the code given below.

(A) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(B) 1, 2 and 3

(C) 1, 3 and 4

(D) 1 and 2

Question 16. Which of the following were the main objectives of the Khilafat Movement?

1. To rouse anti-British feelings among the Muslim of India.
2. To reform the Muslim society.
3. To demand separate electorates and preserve the Khilafat.
4. To save the Ottoman empire and preserve the Khilafat.

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. 

(A) 1 and 4

(B) 3 and 4

(C) 2 and 3

(D) 1 and 2

Question 17. Congress supported the Khilafat Movement mainly for:

1. Reinstatement of Caliph
2. Removal of Caliph
3. Getting the sympathy of the Muslims
4. Marginalising Jinnah in the Congress

(A) 1 and 4

(B) 3 and 4

(C) 2 and 4

(D) 1 and 3