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50 New GK MCQs on Indian Freedom Struggle (Set-2) with Answers — For All Competitive Exams
Category: General Knowledge (GK)
Topic: Indian Freedom Struggle — Set 2
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📘 Introduction
Continuing our Indian Freedom Struggle MCQ series, here is Set-2 from PDFnotebooks — containing 50 fresh and important objective questions that will help you master modern Indian history.
Each question comes with four options and the correct answer right after, so you can revise quickly and effectively for your next competitive exam.
🧠 50 Indian Freedom Struggle GK Questions (Set-2) with Answers
1. The Indian National Congress was formed during the viceroyalty of —
A) Lord Ripon
B) Lord Dufferin
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Lytton
✅ Answer: B) Lord Dufferin
2. The Lucknow Pact (1916) was an agreement between —
A) Congress and the British Government
B) Congress and Muslim League
C) Tilak and Gandhi
D) Nehru and Jinnah
✅ Answer: B) Congress and Muslim League
3. The slogan “Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached” is associated with —
A) Swami Vivekananda
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Mahatma Gandhi
✅ Answer: A) Swami Vivekananda
4. The Home Rule Movement in India started in —
A) 1914
B) 1915
C) 1916
D) 1917
✅ Answer: C) 1916
5. The “Drain Theory” was first proposed in —
A) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
B) Gita Rahasya
C) Hind Swaraj
D) Economic History of India
✅ Answer: A) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
6. The Ilbert Bill controversy took place during the tenure of —
A) Lord Lytton
B) Lord Ripon
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Minto
✅ Answer: B) Lord Ripon
7. Who among the following founded the Indian Association in 1876?
A) W.C. Bonnerjee
B) Surendranath Banerjee
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
✅ Answer: B) Surendranath Banerjee
8. Who among the following was called the “Political Guru” of Mahatma Gandhi?
A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Dadabhai Naoroji
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
✅ Answer: A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
9. The Khilafat Movement was launched to protest against —
A) The British rule in India
B) Disrespect to the Caliph of Turkey
C) Partition of Bengal
D) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
✅ Answer: B) Disrespect to the Caliph of Turkey
10. The Congress Split into Moderates and Extremists at —
A) Bombay
B) Surat
C) Calcutta
D) Lahore
✅ Answer: B) Surat
11. “Azad Hind Fauj” was reorganized by —
A) Rash Behari Bose
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Lala Hardayal
D) Aurobindo Ghosh
✅ Answer: B) Subhas Chandra Bose
12. Who led the Indigo Revolt in Bengal?
A) Dinabandhu Mitra
B) Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas
C) Surendranath Banerjee
D) Motilal Nehru
✅ Answer: B) Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas
13. Who wrote the song “Sare Jahan Se Achha”?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
C) Allama Iqbal
D) Subramania Bharati
✅ Answer: C) Allama Iqbal
14. Who presided over the 1920 Nagpur Session of Congress?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) C.R. Das
C) Lala Lajpat Rai
D) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
✅ Answer: B) C.R. Das
15. The objective of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was —
A) To demand Dominion Status
B) To represent Indian views to the British
C) To demand Swaraj
D) To establish the INC
✅ Answer: B) To represent Indian views to the British
16. The First Round Table Conference was held in —
A) 1928
B) 1930
C) 1931
D) 1932
✅ Answer: B) 1930
17. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in —
A) 1928
B) 1930
C) 1931
D) 1935
✅ Answer: C) 1931
18. The Second Round Table Conference was attended by —
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Sardar Patel
D) Subhas Bose
✅ Answer: A) Mahatma Gandhi
19. The “Bombay Plan” (1944) was related to —
A) Partition of India
B) Industrial Development of India
C) Independence negotiations
D) Land Reforms
✅ Answer: B) Industrial Development of India
20. The Civil Disobedience Movement was started in —
A) 1928
B) 1930
C) 1932
D) 1934
✅ Answer: B) 1930
21. The Indian Reforms Act of 1919 is also known as —
A) Rowlatt Act
B) Morley-Minto Reforms
C) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
D) Simon Act
✅ Answer: C) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
22. The “Doctrine of Lapse” was introduced by —
A) Lord Dalhousie
B) Lord Curzon
C) Lord Ripon
D) Lord Lytton
✅ Answer: A) Lord Dalhousie
23. Who led the revolt of 1857 in Delhi?
A) Nana Saheb
B) Bahadur Shah II
C) Tantia Tope
D) Rani Laxmi Bai
✅ Answer: B) Bahadur Shah II
24. Mangal Pandey was hanged in —
A) 1856
B) 1857
C) 1858
D) 1859
✅ Answer: B) 1857
25. The revolt of 1857 started from —
A) Meerut
B) Delhi
C) Kanpur
D) Jhansi
✅ Answer: A) Meerut
26. Who led the revolt in Kanpur during 1857?
A) Rani Laxmi Bai
B) Tantia Tope
C) Nana Saheb
D) Kunwar Singh
✅ Answer: C) Nana Saheb
27. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was described as the “First War of Independence” by —
A) R.C. Majumdar
B) V.D. Savarkar
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Sardar Patel
✅ Answer: B) V.D. Savarkar
28. Who was the Governor-General during the Revolt of 1857?
A) Lord Canning
B) Lord Dalhousie
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Ripon
✅ Answer: A) Lord Canning
29. Who established the “Free India Society”?
A) Shyamji Krishna Varma
B) Bhagat Singh
C) Lala Hardayal
D) Rash Behari Bose
✅ Answer: A) Shyamji Krishna Varma
30. The Indian Independence League was formed in —
A) Japan
B) Burma
C) Singapore
D) Malaysia
✅ Answer: C) Singapore
31. Who founded the Ghadar Party?
A) Lala Hardayal
B) Bhagat Singh
C) Rash Behari Bose
D) Sukhdev
✅ Answer: A) Lala Hardayal
32. The Champaran Satyagraha was launched in —
A) 1915
B) 1917
C) 1919
D) 1920
✅ Answer: B) 1917
33. Who led the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Motilal Nehru
D) C.R. Das
✅ Answer: B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
34. The term “Satyagraha” was first used during the —
A) Champaran Movement
B) Kheda Movement
C) South African Struggle
D) Dandi March
✅ Answer: C) South African Struggle
35. The Simon Commission faced the slogan —
A) Quit India
B) Simon Go Back
C) Vande Mataram
D) Jai Hind
✅ Answer: B) Simon Go Back
36. The “Doctrine of Passive Resistance” was preached by —
A) Aurobindo Ghosh
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
✅ Answer: A) Aurobindo Ghosh
37. The first peasant movement in India was —
A) Champaran Movement
B) Indigo Revolt
C) Tebhaga Movement
D) Moplah Rebellion
✅ Answer: B) Indigo Revolt
38. The British Parliament passed the Regulating Act in —
A) 1773
B) 1784
C) 1813
D) 1858
✅ Answer: A) 1773
39. The Indian Councils Act of 1892 introduced —
A) Dyarchy
B) Local Self-Government
C) Indirect Elections
D) Separate Electorates
✅ Answer: C) Indirect Elections
40. The Vernacular Press Act was repealed by —
A) Lord Ripon
B) Lord Curzon
C) Lord Lytton
D) Lord Canning
✅ Answer: A) Lord Ripon
41. Who was the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan?
A) K.M. Munshi
B) Sardar Patel
C) Rajendra Prasad
D) Nehru
✅ Answer: A) K.M. Munshi
42. The Alipore Bomb Case is associated with —
A) Aurobindo Ghosh
B) Bhagat Singh
C) Subhas Chandra Bose
D) Rash Behari Bose
✅ Answer: A) Aurobindo Ghosh
43. Who wrote Anand Math?
A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Bipin Chandra Pal
D) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
✅ Answer: A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
44. Who established the Indian National Army headquarters in Singapore?
A) Rash Behari Bose
B) Subhas Chandra Bose
C) Lala Hardayal
D) Jawaharlal Nehru
✅ Answer: B) Subhas Chandra Bose
45. The INA Trials (1945-46) led to —
A) Partition of India
B) Mass Uprisings in India
C) Salt Satyagraha
D) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
✅ Answer: B) Mass Uprisings in India
46. The First Indian Council of 1858 was created after —
A) Revolt of 1857
B) Partition of Bengal
C) Morley-Minto Reforms
D) Government of India Act 1919
✅ Answer: A) Revolt of 1857
47. The Moplah Rebellion took place in —
A) Bengal
B) Kerala
C) Punjab
D) Bihar
✅ Answer: B) Kerala
48. The slogan “Rebellion is a creed” was associated with —
A) Bhagat Singh
B) Chandrashekhar Azad
C) Surya Sen
D) Subhas Bose
✅ Answer: A) Bhagat Singh
49. The Indian Independence League was led initially by —
A) Rash Behari Bose
B) Subhas Bose
C) Nehru
D) Savarkar
✅ Answer: A) Rash Behari Bose
50. Who coined the term “Quit India”?
A) Yusuf Meherally
B) Gandhi
C) Nehru
D) Patel
✅ Answer: A) Yusuf Meherally
📝 Conclusion
This was Set-2 of 50 GK Questions on the Indian Freedom Struggle, carefully curated for PDFnotebooks readers.
Revise these questions regularly to improve your history and current affairs section for any competitive exam.
