Freedom Struggle Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Indian protesters objected that a visiting constitutional commission could not credibly decide India’s future because it contained no Indian members. Which commission was it?
The Hunter Commission
The Simon Commission
The Cripps Mission
The Cabinet Mission
2. Why did Mahatma Gandhi suspend the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922?
The British accepted the demand for dominion status
Congress decided to support the Simon Commission
Protesters killed police personnel at Chauri Chaura
The Khilafat leaders withdrew before the campaign began
3. Which organization most clearly represented Subhas Chandra Bose’s strategy of using an armed force during the Second World War to challenge British rule?
The Khudai Khidmatgar
The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
The Congress Socialist Party
The Indian National Army
4. A historian describes peasants in Bihar being compelled to cultivate indigo under an oppressive system. Which campaign is being discussed?
The Champaran Satyagraha
The Kheda Satyagraha
The Bardoli Satyagraha
The Vaikom Satyagraha
5. Which power granted under the Rowlatt Act caused widespread opposition in 1919?
Detaining people without trial
Dividing provinces along religious lines
Restricting Indians from buying salt
Ending elected representation in municipalities
6. A speech urges Indians to act with the words “Do or Die” while demanding an immediate end to British rule during the Second World War. Which movement followed?
The Home Rule Movement
The Civil Disobedience Movement
The Non-Cooperation Movement
The Quit India Movement
7. A provincial ministry formed after the 1937 elections could administer transferred provincial subjects with greater authority than before. Which law created this framework of provincial autonomy?
The Government of India Act 1919
The Indian Councils Act 1909
The Government of India Act 1935
The Indian Independence Act 1947
8. In which year was the Indian National Congress founded?
1875
1885
1905
1919
9. A document declares complete independence as the national goal and calls for 26 January 1930 to be observed as Independence Day. At which Congress session was this policy adopted?
The Surat Session of 1907
The Lucknow Session of 1916
The Lahore Session of 1929
The Karachi Session of 1931
10. Which 1947 proposal formally set out the partition of British India and an accelerated transfer of power to two new dominions?
The Mountbatten Plan
The Cripps Proposal
The Cabinet Mission Plan
The August Offer
11. Which development directly sparked the Swadeshi movement of 1905?
The passage of the Rowlatt Act
The partition of Bengal
The arrival of the Simon Commission
The introduction of separate electorates
12. Which sequence places these events in the correct chronological order?
Quit India Movement → Dandi March → Simon Commission → Cabinet Mission
Simon Commission → Quit India Movement → Dandi March → Cabinet Mission
Dandi March → Simon Commission → Cabinet Mission → Quit India Movement
Simon Commission → Dandi March → Quit India Movement → Cabinet Mission
13. Which settlement replaced separate electorates for the Depressed Classes with reserved seats elected through joint electorates?
The Delhi Pact
The Gandhi–Irwin Pact
The Lucknow Pact
The Poona Pact
14. Which organization was established by Indian expatriates, especially in North America, to promote armed revolt against British rule?
The Servants of India Society
The Swaraj Party
The Ghadar Party
The All India Home Rule League
15. In 1905, students burn imported cloth and encourage households to purchase locally produced goods. Which strategy are they applying?
Swadeshi and boycott
Individual satyagraha
Constitutional petitioning
Council entry
16. A protest march ends at the coast, where participants symbolically violate a colonial monopoly. Which law was the protest challenging?
Restrictions on vernacular newspapers
The British salt laws
Laws restricting public assemblies
Rules governing indigo cultivation