WBCS MAIN PAPER III : MODERN INDIA - GANDHIAN PHRASE

1.Which was the nerve centre of the Quit India movement in Medinipur of Bengal? 

(A) Garbeta (B) Tamluk (C) Kanthi (D) Haldia

2.Who was the author of the book Hind Swaraj'? 

(A) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (B) Jawaharlal Nehru (C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (D) Gandhiji  

3.When Gandhiji gave his famous slogan 'Do or Die'? 

(A) On the eve of the non-co-operation movement

(B) On the eve of the Civil Disobedience movement

(C) On the eve of the Rowlatt Satyagraha

(D) On The eve of the Quit India movement

1.'Hind Swaraj' was written by

(A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Tilak (C) Pandit Nehru (D) Rabindranath Tagore 

2.Who did Mahatma Gandhi describe as his Political Guru?

 (A) Ananda Mohan Bose (B) Rajnarain Bose(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

3.The Non Cooperation Movement was launched in

(A) 1920 (B) 1923 (C) 1930 (D) 1931 

1.Who among the following was a votary of the no-changer' position in the INC in 1922?

(A) C R.Das (B) Motilal Nehru (C) Gandhi (D) M.M.Malviya

2.Which Of the following was not a paper edited by M.K. Gandhi?

(A) Indian Opinion (B) Young India (C) Harijan (D) None of the above

3.Which was the only state not to report a single fatality during the Quit India Movement?

(A) Punjab (B) Orissa (C) Bihar (D) Bengal

4.Who believed the decision boycott British educational institutions during Non-

Co-operation Movement to be Gandhi's tyranny over the minds of the people'?

(A) Jinnah (B) Tagore (C) M. M. Malviya (D) C. R.Das

.Gandhiji's 'The story of my experiments with truth' was originally written in Gujrati. Who translated it into English ?

(A) Maganlal Gandhi       (B) Mahadev Desai             (C) Pyarelalji   (D) Sushila Nayyar

2.Which among the following is not a literary work of Mahatma Gandhi ?

(A) 'Hind Swaraj'          (B) 'Indian Opinion'       (C) 'Yugantar'            (D) 'Young India'

3.The 'Young India' was edited by

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru  (B) Mahadev Desai       (C) Mahatma Gandhi             (D) Acharya Narendra Dev

1.The famous 'Purna Swaraj Declaration', which says: "We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused this fourfold disaster to our country", was prepared by

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru       (B) M. K.Gandhi     (C) Motilal Nehru         (D) All of the above

2.Opposition to the Gandhi-lrwin pact was mainly

(A) because of the execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Deb and Raj Guru.

(B) because the I.N.C. reneged the Purna Swarajya pledge.

(C) because of suspension of the Civil Disobedience Movement.

(D) because the Pact was a self delusion.

3.The main principle of M.K. Gandhi's famous Basic Eduction System or Wardha Scheme was :

(A) Learning through activity

(B) Learning through productivity

(C) Earning and learning

(D) Learning and spinning

1.In 1934, Mahatma Gandhi withdrew himself from all political activities and made a country-wide tour covering a distance of 12504 miles. This tour is known as

(A) Jan Jagaran Yatra       (B) Harijan Yatra              (C) Samaj Samta Yatra       (D) Swaraj Yatra

1.During which period Gandhiji remained aloof from direct politics and concentrated his energies on constructive programmes ?

(A) 1919 -1922            (B) 1922 - 1924       (C) 1924 - 1927   (D) 1928 - 1932

1.The first venture of Gandhi in all-India politics was the :

(A) Dandi March      (B) Champaran Movement       (C) Rowlat Satyagraha      (D) Non-Cooperation Movement

2.The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was :

(A) Jadonang             (B) Rani Gaidinliu        (C) Alluri Sitaram Raju             (D) Thakkar Bapa

3.Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of Sardar to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organizational skill in :

(A) The Kheda Satyagraha

(B) The Bardoli Satyagraha

(C) The Salt Satyagraha

(D) The Individual Satyagraha

4.Who said on Gandhiji's death "The tiger has gone out of our lives" ?

(A) J. L. Nehru            (B) Rajendra Prasad   (C) S. Radha Krishnan              (D) Bidhan Chandra Roy

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