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50 New GK MCQs on Indian Freedom Struggle (Set-1) with Answers — For All Competitive Exams
Category: General Knowledge (GK)
Topic: Indian Freedom Struggle — Set 1
Useful for: UPSC, SSC, Railway, Banking, Defence, and all Competitive Exams
📘 Introduction
If you’re preparing for competitive exams, having a strong grip on the Indian Freedom Struggle is crucial.
This period of history shaped the destiny of modern India — and questions from it frequently appear in SSC, UPSC, Banking, Defence, and Railway exams.
To help you prepare better, PDFnotebooks brings you 50 handpicked Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with answers on the Indian National Movement.
You can also download this quiz in PDF format for offline revision.
🇮🇳 50 GK MCQs on Indian Freedom Struggle with Answers
1. Who was the founder of the Indian National Congress (INC)?
A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) A.O. Hume
D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
✅ Answer: C) A.O. Hume
2. The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in which year?
A) 1883
B) 1885
C) 1890
D) 1905
✅ Answer: B) 1885
3. Who was the President of the first session of the Indian National Congress?
A) W.C. Bonnerjee
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) Badruddin Tyabji
D) Surendranath Banerjee
✅ Answer: A) W.C. Bonnerjee
4. In which year did the partition of Bengal take place?
A) 1905
B) 1906
C) 1907
D) 1911
✅ Answer: A) 1905
5. Who gave the slogan “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it”?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
✅ Answer: B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
6. Who was known as the “Grand Old Man of India”?
A) Dadabhai Naoroji
B) Motilal Nehru
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Mahatma Gandhi
✅ Answer: A) Dadabhai Naoroji
7. The Simon Commission was appointed in which year?
A) 1927
B) 1928
C) 1930
D) 1935
✅ Answer: A) 1927
8. “Do or Die” was the slogan of which movement?
A) Non-Cooperation Movement
B) Civil Disobedience Movement
C) Quit India Movement
D) Swadeshi Movement
✅ Answer: C) Quit India Movement
9. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in which year?
A) 1916
B) 1919
C) 1921
D) 1930
✅ Answer: B) 1919
10. Who was the Viceroy of India during the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?
A) Lord Irwin
B) Lord Chelmsford
C) Lord Reading
D) Lord Curzon
✅ Answer: B) Lord Chelmsford
11. Who founded the Forward Bloc?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) C. Rajagopalachari
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Bhagat Singh
✅ Answer: C) Subhas Chandra Bose
12. Which movement is also known as the “August Revolution”?
A) Civil Disobedience
B) Non-Cooperation
C) Quit India Movement
D) Khilafat Movement
✅ Answer: C) Quit India Movement
13. Who wrote the book Hind Swaraj?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Rabindranath Tagore
✅ Answer: A) Mahatma Gandhi
14. Which Indian revolutionary is associated with the Kakori Conspiracy Case?
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Ram Prasad Bismil
C) Chandrashekhar Azad
D) Rajguru
✅ Answer: B) Ram Prasad Bismil
15. The Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn because of which incident?
A) Chauri Chaura Incident
B) Jallianwala Bagh
C) Kakori Conspiracy
D) Simon Commission Protest
✅ Answer: A) Chauri Chaura Incident
16. When was the Quit India Movement launched?
A) 1940
B) 1941
C) 1942
D) 1945
✅ Answer: C) 1942
17. Who founded the Arya Samaj?
A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B) Swami Vivekananda
C) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
D) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
✅ Answer: C) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
18. The Indian National Army (INA) was formed in which year?
A) 1941
B) 1942
C) 1943
D) 1945
✅ Answer: B) 1942
19. Who coined the slogan “Jai Hind”?
A) Subhas Chandra Bose
B) Bhagat Singh
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Patel
✅ Answer: A) Subhas Chandra Bose
20. “Vande Mataram” was written by —
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
C) Sarojini Naidu
D) Mahatma Gandhi
✅ Answer: B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
21. Which newspaper was founded by Bal Gangadhar Tilak?
A) The Hindu
B) Kesari
C) Amrita Bazar Patrika
D) The Tribune
✅ Answer: B) Kesari
22. The Cripps Mission came to India in which year?
A) 1939
B) 1940
C) 1942
D) 1945
✅ Answer: C) 1942
23. The Indian National Army trials took place at —
A) Red Fort
B) Alipore Jail
C) Lahore Fort
D) Cellular Jail
✅ Answer: A) Red Fort
24. Who was the last Governor-General of independent India?
A) Lord Mountbatten
B) C. Rajagopalachari
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) Nehru
✅ Answer: B) C. Rajagopalachari
25. Who gave the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”?
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Chandrashekhar Azad
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Mahatma Gandhi
✅ Answer: A) Bhagat Singh
26. Who established the Ramakrishna Mission?
A) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
B) Swami Vivekananda
C) Swami Dayananda
D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
✅ Answer: B) Swami Vivekananda
27. Who presided over the Lahore Session of the Congress (1929) when “Purna Swaraj” was declared?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Sardar Patel
✅ Answer: A) Jawaharlal Nehru
28. “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna” was written by —
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Ram Prasad Bismil
C) Bismil Azimabadi
D) Subhas Bose
✅ Answer: C) Bismil Azimabadi
29. Who was known as the “Iron Man of India”?
A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Lala Lajpat Rai
C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Motilal Nehru
✅ Answer: C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
30. The Dandi March began from which place?
A) Sabarmati Ashram
B) Porbandar
C) Ahmedabad
D) Surat
✅ Answer: A) Sabarmati Ashram
31. The All India Muslim League was founded in —
A) 1905
B) 1906
C) 1907
D) 1910
✅ Answer: B) 1906
32. The capital of British India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi in —
A) 1910
B) 1911
C) 1912
D) 1915
✅ Answer: B) 1911
33. Who was the founder of the Indian Home Rule League?
A) Annie Besant
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Both A & B
D) Gokhale
✅ Answer: C) Both A & B
34. The first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress was —
A) Annie Besant
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
D) Sucheta Kripalani
✅ Answer: A) Annie Besant
35. The Rowlatt Act was passed in —
A) 1917
B) 1918
C) 1919
D) 1920
✅ Answer: C) 1919
36. Who was known as the “Nightingale of India”?
A) Annie Besant
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Rani Laxmi Bai
D) Kasturba Gandhi
✅ Answer: B) Sarojini Naidu
37. Who was the founder of the Prarthana Samaj?
A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B) Keshab Chandra Sen
C) M.G. Ranade
D) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
✅ Answer: C) M.G. Ranade
38. The slogan “Delhi Chalo” was given by —
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Bhagat Singh
D) Sardar Patel
✅ Answer: B) Subhas Chandra Bose
39. Who introduced the Vernacular Press Act?
A) Lord Lytton
B) Lord Curzon
C) Lord Ripon
D) Lord Wellesley
✅ Answer: A) Lord Lytton
40. Which act divided Bengal?
A) Morley-Minto Reforms
B) Partition Act of 1905
C) Indian Councils Act
D) Charter Act
✅ Answer: B) Partition Act of 1905
41. Who founded the Servants of India Society?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) M.G. Ranade
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Tilak
✅ Answer: A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
42. Who was the first Indian to become President of the INC?
A) W.C. Bonnerjee
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) S.N. Banerjee
D) Pherozeshah Mehta
✅ Answer: A) W.C. Bonnerjee
43. The Poona Pact (1932) was signed between —
A) Gandhi and Ambedkar
B) Gandhi and Jinnah
C) Nehru and Patel
D) Ambedkar and Jinnah
✅ Answer: A) Gandhi and Ambedkar
44. “Poorna Swaraj” means —
A) Partial Independence
B) Complete Independence
C) Self-Government
D) Dominion Status
✅ Answer: B) Complete Independence
45. Who was the founder of the Aligarh Movement?
A) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C) Iqbal
D) M.A. Jinnah
✅ Answer: A) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
46. Who started the newspaper Young India?
A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Motilal Nehru
✅ Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi
47. The Indian Independence Act was passed in —
A) 1945
B) 1946
C) 1947
D) 1948
✅ Answer: C) 1947
48. Who wrote the book India Wins Freedom?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Patel
✅ Answer: B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
49. Who coined the term “Drain of Wealth”?
A) R.C. Dutt
B) Dadabhai Naoroji
C) M.G. Ranade
D) Gokhale
✅ Answer: B) Dadabhai Naoroji
50. When did India finally gain independence?
A) 15th August 1947
B) 26th January 1950
C) 2nd October 1947
D) 30th January 1948
✅ Answer: A) 15th August 1947
📝 Conclusion
These 50 MCQs on Indian Freedom Struggle will help strengthen your knowledge and improve your competitive exam performance.
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