MCQ on Indian National Congress Quiz 2

Question 1. In which of the following Sessions of the Indian National Congress Bal Gangadhar Tilak had expressed, ‘Swaraj is my birthright, I shall have it’? 

(A) Lucknow Session, 1916

(B) Surat Session, 1907

(C) Calcutta Session, 1906

(D) Banaras Session, 1905

Question 2. ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it’. This statement is concerned with_________.

(A) Subhash Chandra Bose

(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Lala Lajpat Rai

Question 3. Who said that the ‘Congress Movement was neither inspired by the people nor devised or planned by them’?

(A) Lala Lajpat Rai

(B) Lord Curzon

(C) Sir Syed Ahmad

(D) Lord Dufferin

Question 4. “The Congress is faltering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise”. This declaration was made by__________.

(A) Lord Minto

(B) Lord Dufferin

(C) Lord Curzon

(D) George Hamilton

Question 5. While delivering the presidential address, the Congress President who advocated the introduction of Roman script for the Hindi language was________.

(A) Subhash Chandra Bose

(B) Abul Kalam Azad

(C) Jawaharlal Nehru

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

Question 6. Who among the following suggested the winding up of the Indian National Congress after India attained independence?

(A) Jayaprakash Narain

(B) Mahatma Gandhi

(C) Acharya Kriplani

(D) C. Rajagopalachari

Question 7. One Governor-General took part in one of the Congress Sessions. Identify the Governor-General and place where the Session was held________.

(A) Lord Hardinge-Lucknow – 1916

(B) Lord Dufferin-Bombay – 1885

(C) Lord Wellington-Bombay – 1915

(D) Lord Irwin-Karachi – 1931

Question 8. Which of the following sessions of the Indian National Congress was presided over by C. Vijay Raghav Chariar?

(A)Lucknow Session (1916)

(B) Gaya Session (1922)

(C) Nagpur Session (1920)

(D) None of the above

Question 9. Who was the President of Gaya Session of the Indian National Congress held in 1922?

(A) Hakim Ajmal Khan

(B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(C) S.N. Banerjee

(D) Chittaranjan Das

Question 10. Mahatma Gandhi presided over only in one session of the Indian National Congress in 1924. Where was the session held?

(A) Kanpur

(B) Belgoan

(C) Amritsar

(D) Gaya

Question 11. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

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Question 12. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

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Question 13. Given below is a list of persons who became Presidents of Indian National Congress. Arrange them in chronological order.

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Jawaharlal Nehru
3. Vallabhbhai Patel
4. Smt. Sarojini Naidu

Select your answer using the code given below the list.

(A) 4, 3, 1 and 2

(B) 1, 4, 2 and 3

(C) 1, 3, 4 and 2

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Question 14. Who of the following were elected to collaborate with Mahatma Gandhi who was to author the new Constitution of the Congress as per resolution of Indian National Congress at Amritsar Session, 1919?

1. B.G. Tilak         
2. N.C. Kelkar
3. C.R. Das           
4. I.B. Sen

Select the correct answer from the code given below.

(A) 1 and 3

(B) 3 and 4

(C) 1 and 2

(D) 2 and 4

Question 15. Consider the following statements about the Indian National Congress.

1. Sarojini Naidu was the first woman to be the President of the Congress.
2. C.R. Das was in prison when he functioned as the President of the Congress.
3. The first Britisher to become the President of the Congress was Alan Octavian Hume.
4. Alfred Webb was the President of the Congress in 1894.

Which of these statements are correct? 

(A) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(B) 2, 3 and 4

(C) 2 and 4

(D) 1 and 3

Question 16. Consider the following statements.

1. The First Session of the Indian National Congress was held in Calcutta.
2. The Second Session of the Indian National Congress was held under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji.
3. Both Indian National Congress and Muslim League held their sessions at Lucknow in 1916 and concluded the Lucknow Pact.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(A)Only 3

(B) 2 and 3

(C) Only 2

(D) 1 and 2

Question 17. Consider the following statements.

1. The first woman President of the Indian National Congresswas Sarojini Naidu.
2. The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress was Badruddin Tyabji.

Which of the statement given above is/are correct?

(A) Neither 1 nor 2

(B) Both 1 and 2

(C) Only 2

(D) Only 1

Question 18. The last session of Indian National Congress attended by Bal Gangadhar Tilak was__________.

(A) Amritsar Session, 1919

(B) Calcutta Session, 1917

(C) Surat Session, 1907

(D) Calcutta Session, 1906

Question 19. On which occasion was ‘Jana-Gana Mana’ first sung?

(A) 1919 Session of INC

(B) 1911 Session of INC

(C) 1905 Session of INC

(D) 1896 Session of INC

Question 20. President of Indian National Congress at the time of Independence was_________.

(A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(B) J.B. Kriplani

(C) Jawaharlal Nehru

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

Question 21. Who among the following was the President of Indian National Congress continuously for six years? 

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji

(B) G.K. Gokhale

(C) Abul Kalam Azad

(D) Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 22. The Haripura Session of Indian National Congress, 1938 was presided over by__________.

(A) Subhash Chandra Bose

(B) Rajendra Prasad

(C)  J.B. Kriplani

(D) Abul Kalam Azad

Question 23. In which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of socialism as the key to the solution of India’s problems?

(A) Ramgarh

(B) Allahabad

(C) Lucknow

(D) Lahore

Question 24. The only session of the Indian National Congress presided over by Mahatma Gandhi was________.

(A) Karachi Session – 1930

(B) Belgaon Session – 1924

(C) Gaya Session – 1922

(D) Allahabad Session – 1921