MCQs on Civil Disobedience Movement with Answers

MCQ on Civil Disobedience Movement with Answers

Question 1. Dandi March was undertaken in_______.

(A) 1930

(B) 1929

(C) 1931

(D) 1932

View Answer
(A) 1930

Question 2. When did the ‘Dandi March’ begin?

(A) 6th April, 1930

(B) 12th March, 1930

(C) 26th January, 1930

(D) 31st December, 1929

View Answer
(C) 26th January, 1930

Question 3. At which Congress Session was the working committee authorized to launch a programme of Civil Disobedience?

(A) Tripura

(B) Lucknow

(C) Lahore

(D) Bombay

View Answer
(C) Lahore

Question 4. Which one of the following began with the Dandi March?

(A) Quit India Movement

(B) Civil Disobedience Movement

(C) Non-Co-operation Movement

(D) Home Rule Movement

View Answer
(B) Civil Disobedience Movement

Question 5. Gandhiji started Dandi March from ________.

(A) Dandi

(B) Bardoli

(C) Sabarmati

(D) Champaran

View Answer
(C) Sabarmati

Question 6. Which one of the following provinces had the highest number Satyagrahis in Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March? 

(A) Bengal

(B) Maharashtra

(C) Gujarat

(D) Bihar

View Answer
(C) Gujarat

Question 7. In which of the following movements women’s participation is considered to be the maximum?

(A) Quit India Movement

(B) Bardoli March

(C) Salt Satyagraha

(D) Non-Co-operation Movement

View Answer
(C) Salt Satyagraha

Question 8. Who among the following participated in the Salt Satyagraha of Gandhi?

(A) Sarojini Naidu

(B) Kamladevi Chattopadhyaya

(C) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

(D) All of the above

View Answer
(C) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

Question 9. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from_______.

(A)  Wardha

(B) Sabarmati

(C) Dandi

(D) Sevagram

View Answer
(C) Dandi

Question 10. The Civil Disobedience Movement started with______.

(A) Declaration of Purna Swaraj by the Congress

(B)  Dandi March

(C) Partition of Bengal

(D) Declaration of Home Rule

View Answer
(B)  Dandi March

Question 11. Dandi March was started to________.

(A) Oppose the Rowlatt Act

(B) Support the Rowlatt Act

(C) Break the salt law

(D) Support the salt law

View Answer
(C) Break the salt law

Question 12. The historic ‘Dandi March’ is associated with________.

(A) Abolition of untouchability

(B) Hindu-Muslim Unity

(C) Violation of ‘Salt Law’

(D) Boycott of elections

View Answer
(C) Violation of ‘Salt Law’

Question 13.

  • Assertion (A): The salt agitation was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930.
  • Reason (R): Mahatma Gandhi’s object was to make salt available free to the poor.

In the context of the above statements which of the following is correct? 

(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true

(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(C) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

View Answer
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false

Question 14. Prabhavati Devi was the freedom fighter of which field?

(A) Shahabad

(B) Bhagalpur

(C) Patna

(D) Champaran

View Answer
(C) Patna

Question 15. After the failure of Civil Disobedience movement, Gandhiji gave importance to_______.

(A) Constructive programmes

(B) Negotiation with British

(C) Limited use of violence

(D) None of the above

View Answer
(A) Constructive programmes

Question 16. Agitation against Chaukidari Tax in Begusarai was a part of________.

(A) Khilafat Movement

(B) Quit India Movement

(C) Civil Disobedience Movement

(D) Non-Co-operation Movement

View Answer
(C) Civil Disobedience Movement

Question 17. Jiatrang Movement started in ___________.

(A) Mizoram

(B) Manipur

(C) Tripura

(D) Nagaland

View Answer
(B) Manipur 

Question 18. Whose name is associated with the ‘Peshawar Incident’ of 1930?

(A) Premsingh Negi

(B) Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali

(C) Major Dhansingh Thapa

(D) General B.C. Joshi

View Answer
(B) Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali

Question 19. The leader of ‘Lal Kurti’ Movement was_________.

(A) Iqbal

(B) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

(C) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

(D) Maulana Azad

View Answer
(C) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

Question 20. The soldiers of Garhwal Regiment refused to fire on the revolutionaries in_______.

(A) Quit India Movement

(B) Civil Disobedience Movement

(C) Non-Co-operation Movement

(D) Khilafat Movement

View Answer
(B) Civil Disobedience Movement

Question 21.  ‘Red Shirt’ organization was founded to ________.

(A) Make India a communist country after the independence

(B) Throw out the Britishers

(C) Fix the construction of Pakistan

(D) Make independent Pakhtunistan

View Answer
(B) Throw out the Britishers

Question 22. During the Indian freedom struggle, the Khudai Khidmatgars, also known as Red Shirts called for_______.

(A) The Pathan regional nationalist unity and a struggle against colonialism

(B) The adoption of communist revolutionist ideology for political and social reform

(C) The adoption of terrorist tactics and methods for terrorizing and finally ousting the colonial rulers

(D) The Union of Pakhtun tribal areas in North-West with the Afghanistan

View Answer
(A) The Pathan regional nationalist unity and a struggle against colonialism

Question 23. Who of the following organized a march on the Tanjore coast to break the Salt law in April in 1930?

(A) Annie Besant

(B) K. Kamaraj

(C) C. Rajagopalachari

(D) V.O. Chidambaram Pillai

View Answer
(C) C. Rajagopalachari

Question 24. Gandhiji stayed the foreign journalist in his Sabarmati Ashram during Dandi March. He was_________.

(A) Louie Fischer

(B) Kirby Page

(C) Webb Miller

(D) Richard Greg

View Answer
(C) Webb Miller

Question 25. Acharya Vinoba Bhave was arrested for the first time for taking part in_______.

(A) Non-Co-operation Movement

(B) Civil Disobedience Movement

(C) Champaran Satyagraha

(D) Bardoli Movement

View Answer
(B) Civil Disobedience Movement

Question 26. Where was Mahatma Gandhi when a raid was made by Congress volunteers on Dharsana Salt Depot? 

(A) In Ahmadnagar Fort Jail

(B) Agha Khan Palace, Poona

(C) In Sabarmati Jail

(D) In Yervada Jail

View Answer
(D) In Yervada Jail

Question 27. After, the arrest of Gandhiji during Salt Satyagraha, who took his place as the leader of the movement?

(A) Sardar Patel

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru

(C) Abul Kalam Azad

(D) Abbas Tyabji

View Answer
(D) Abbas Tyabji

Question 28. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March?

(A) The march was started on 15 March, 1930

(B) The entire march from Sabarmati was covered in 24 days

(C) It started from Sabarmati Ashram and ended at Dandi

(D) It was an altogether a pedestrian march

View Answer
(A) The march was started on 15 March, 1930

Question 29. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March?

(A) It was altogether a pedestrian march

(B) Mahatma Gandhi prepared salt at the seashore

(C) The march terminated at Dandi, a village beside the sea

(D) It was started from Sabarmati Ashram

View Answer
(B) Mahatma Gandhi prepared salt at the seashore

Question 30. The statement “I want world sympathy in this battle of Right against Might”, is associated with______.

(A) Quit India Movement

(B) Individual Satyagraha

(C) Gandhi’s Dandi March

(D) Non-Co-operation Movement

View Answer
(C) Gandhi’s Dandi March

Question 31. The date 6 April, 1930 is known in Indian History for________.

(A) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

(B) Gandhi-Irwin Pact

(C) First Round Table Conference in London

(D) Dandi March of M. Gandhi

View Answer
(D) Dandi March of M. Gandhi

Question 32. Which event occurred first?

(A) Gandhi-Irwin Pact

(B) Arrival of Simon Commission

(C) Quit India Movement

(D) Dandi March

View Answer
(B) Arrival of Simon Commission