Here are 200 multiple-choice questions based on the provided text from Chapter 14,

organized by page.

Page 1: The First World War and Nationalist Response

[Link] which year did the First World War begin?

A) 1912
B) 1914
C) 1916
D) 1919

Answer: B

[Link] of the following was NOT an ally of Britain during WWI?

A) France
B) USA
C) Germany
D) Japan

Answer: C

[Link] country was an enemy of Britain during the First World War?

A) Russia
B) Italy
C) Turkey
D) Japan

Answer: C

[Link] did the Moderates respond to British participation in the war?

A) They waged war against British rule.

B) They remained neutral.
C) They supported the empire as a matter of duty.
D) They organized the Ghadr adventure.

Answer: C

[Link] was Tilak released from prison during this period?

A) June 1914
B) April 1916
C) September 1916
 D) August 1917

Answer: A

[Link] did the Extremists support the British war efforts?

A) Out of fear of Germany.

B) In the belief that Britain would repay loyalty with self-government.
C) Because they were offered seats in the legislature.
D) To defeat the revolutionaries.

Answer: B

[Link] was the response of the revolutionaries to the war?

A) Supported the empire as a duty.

B) Remained passive.
C) Utilized the opportunity to wage war on British rule.
D) Joined the Home Rule League immediately.

Answer: C

[Link] was the “heaven-sent opportunity” revolutionaries saw during the war?

A) The rise of the Moderates.

B) The draining of India of British troops.
C) The Morley-Minto reforms.
D) The alliance with France.

Answer: B

[Link] what number did white soldiers in India go down during the war?

A) 5,000
B) 10,000
C) 15,000
D) 50,000

Answer: C

[Link] Home Rule Movement was inspired by a similar movement in which country?

A) USA
B) Russia
C) Ireland
D) Germany
Answer: C

[Link] among these was NOT a prominent leader of the Home Rule movement?

A) Balgangadhar Tilak
B) Annie Besant
C) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
D) Lord Morley

Answer: D

[Link] was the main objective of the All India Home Rule League?

A) Immediate complete independence.

B) Self-government within the British Commonwealth.
C) Overthrowing the government through violence.
D) Supporting the Morley-Minto reforms.

Answer: B

[Link] many Home Rule Leagues were eventually launched?

A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four

Answer: B

[Link] reform caused disillusionment among the Moderates?

A) Montagu-Chelmsford
B) Morley-Minto
C) Wavell Plan
D) Rowlatt Act

Answer: B

[Link] economic factor led to the Home Rule Movement?

A) Abolition of taxes.
B) Fall in prices.
C) High taxation and rise in prices.
D) Discovery of gold in Bengal.

Answer: C
[Link] myth of “white superiority” was exposed because:

A) The British lost the war.

B) Imperialist powers were using naked propaganda against each other.
C) Indians won the war for Britain.
D) Germany conquered England.

Answer: B

[Link] movement was described as a “romantic adventure” compared to the Home

Rule League?

A) Swadeshi
B) Ghadr
C) Quit India
D) Civil Disobedience

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule League worked:

A) Only once a year like the Congress.

B) Throughout the year.
C) Only during the war.
D) Only in Madras.

Answer: B

[Link] was the Irish theosophist who started a Home Rule League?

A) Madame Blavatsky
B) Annie Besant
C) Sister Nivedita
D) Margaret Noble

Answer: B

[Link]’s Home Rule League was set up in:

A) April 1914
B) April 1916
C) September 1916
D) December 1916

Answer: B
[Link] did Tilak hold his first Home Rule meeting?

A) Poona
B) Belgaum
C) Bombay
D) Madras

Answer: B

[Link] was the headquarters of Tilak’s League?

A) Bombay
B) Belgaum
C) Poona
D) Satara

Answer: C

[Link] area was EXCLUDED from Tilak’s League jurisdiction?

A) Karnataka
B) Central Provinces
C) Bombay city
D) Berar

Answer: C

[Link] many branches did Tilak’s League have?

A) Two
B) Six
C) Two hundred
D) Fifty-two

Answer: B

[Link] of the demands of Tilak’s League was:

A) Abolition of the monarchy.

B) Formation of linguistic states.
C) Immediate withdrawal from the war.
D) Use of English only in education.

Answer: B

Page 2: The Two Leagues and Their Programmes

[Link] Besant’s League was set up in:

A) April 1916
B) September 1916
C) December 1916
D) January 1917

Answer: B

[Link] was the headquarters of Annie Besant’s League?

A) Poona
B) Calcutta
C) Madras
D) Bombay

Answer: C

[Link] many branches did Annie Besant’s League have?

A) Six
B) Fifty
C) Two hundred
D) Five hundred

Answer: C

[Link] was the organizing secretary of Besant’s League?

A) Joseph Baptista
B) George Arundale
C) B.W. Wadia
D) C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyar

Answer: B

[Link] of these newspapers was used by Annie Besant for campaigning?

A) Kesari
B) New India
C) Maratha
D) Young India

Answer: B

[Link] was the second newspaper edited by Annie Besant?

 A) Comrade
B) Commonweal
C) Al-Hilal
D) The Hitavada

Answer: B

[Link] did Tilak and Besant set up separate leagues?

A) To compete for leadership.

B) To avoid friction between their respective supporters.
C) Because they had different goals.
D) Because the British ordered it.

Answer: B

[Link] region was newly attracted to the movement despite being “politically
backward”?

A) Bengal
B) Sindh
C) Punjab
D) United Provinces

Answer: B

[Link] international event of 1917 provided an advantage to the Home Rule campaign?

A) End of WWI
B) Russian Revolution
C) American entry into war
D) Irish Rebellion

Answer: B

[Link] among these leaders joined the Home Rule agitation later?

A) Motilal Nehru
B) Lord Curzon
C) Pherozshah Mehta
D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: A

[Link] led the Bombay division of the Home Rule League?

 A) Balgangadhar Tilak
B) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
C) B.W. Wadia
D) Jamnadas Dwarkadas

Answer: B

[Link] group generally did NOT join the Home Rule Movement?

A) Students
B) Non-brahmins from the South
C) Theosophists
D) Disillusioned Congressmen

Answer: B

[Link] did some Muslims and non-brahmins stay away from the movement?

A) They supported the British unconditionally.

B) They feared Home Rule meant rule by the Hindu majority/high castes.
C) They were against self-government.
D) They preferred the Ghadr movement.

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule League aimed to promote political education through:

A) Secret societies.
B) Reading rooms and libraries.
C) Armed mutiny.
D) Boycotting all schools.

Answer: B

[Link] launched her campaign for self-government after failing to achieve

rapprochement at which Congress session?

A) 1913
B) 1914
C) 1916
D) 1917

Answer: B

[Link] 1915 Congress session was significant because:

 A) It started the Home Rule League.
B) It decided to admit Extremists to the Congress.
C) It rejected the Lucknow Pact.
D) Gandhi became President.

Answer: B

[Link] were the “main workers” for Besant’s league along with George Arundale?

A) Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru

B) B.W. Wadia and C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyar
C) Tilak and Jinnah
D) Sapru and Jayakar

Answer: B

[Link] city did Annie Besant’s league cover that Tilak’s did not?

A) Poona
B) Bombay
C) Belgaum
D) Nagpur

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule League campaign used which of the following for propaganda?

A) Illustrated post-cards
B) Radio broadcasts
C) Television
D) Hunger strikes

Answer: A

[Link] was the primary method of Besant’s League organization compared to Tilak’s?

A) Highly centralized
B) Loosely organized
C) Militarily structured
D) Underground

Answer: B

[Link] prominent Moderate organization’s members joined the Home Rule agitation?

A) Muslim League
 B) Servants of India Society
C) Arya Samaj
D) Brahmo Samaj

Answer: B

[Link] was a member of Besant’s league and also a future leader of Pakistan?

A) Liaquat Ali Khan

B) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
C) Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
D) Muhammad Iqbal

Answer: B

[Link] of these leaders was NOT mentioned as joining Besant’s league?

A) Saifuddin Kitchlew
B) Lala Lajpat Rai
C) Sardar Patel
D) Bhulabhai Desai

Answer: C (Patel is not in the listed names)

[Link] demand for “Swarajya” was a key feature of whose league?

A) Annie Besant’s
B) Tilak’s
C) Gokhale’s
D) Jinnah’s

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule Movement was described as a transition towards which phase?

A) Revolutionary phase
B) Gandhian phase
C) Moderate phase
D) Colonial phase

Answer: B

Page 3: Government Repression and Decline

[Link] which province were students prohibited from attending political meetings?
 A) Punjab
B) Bengal
C) Madras
D) Bombay

Answer: C

[Link] happened to Tilak regarding his entry into certain provinces?

A) He was made Governor.

B) He was barred from entering Punjab and Delhi.
C) He was invited to speak at the Punjab university.
D) He was arrested in Delhi.

Answer: B

[Link] were Annie Besant and her associates arrested?

A) April 1916
B) June 1917
C) September 1917
D) August 1918

Answer: B

[Link] renounced his knighthood to protest Besant’s arrest?

A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Sir S. Subramaniya Aiyar
C) Motilal Nehru
D) Tej Bahadur Sapru

Answer: B

[Link] was Annie Besant released from internment?

A) June 1917
B) September 1917
C) August 1918
D) December 1919

Answer: B

[Link] was the Secretary of State for India in 1917?

A) Morley
 B) Montagu
C) Chelmsford
D) Minto

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule agitation “petered out” by which year?

A) 1917
B) 1918
C) 1919
D) 1922

Answer: C

[Link] did Tilak go to England in September 1918?

A) To attend a Round Table Conference.

B) To fight a libel case against Valentine Chirol.
C) To meet the King.
D) To escape arrest.

Answer: B

[Link] book featured Tilak as responsible for agitational politics in India?

A) Hind Swaraj
B) Indian Unrest
C) The Discovery of India
D) Unhappy India

Answer: B

[Link] was the name of the organization after Gandhi took over the Home Rule League in
1920?

A) Harijan Sevak Sangh

B) Swarajya Sabha
C) Satyagraha Sabha
D) Indian National Congress

Answer: B

[Link] was one of the reasons for the agitation fading out?

A) Lack of funds.
 B) Communal riots in 1917-18.
C) Victory in the war.
D) Death of Tilak.

Answer: B

[Link] Moderates were pacified in 1917 by:

A) The Rowlatt Act.

B) Montagu’s statement and Besant’s release.
C) The Simon Commission.
D) The arrest of Tilak.

Answer: B

[Link] technique suggested by Extremists kept the Moderates away from activity after
1918?

A) Armed struggle
B) Passive resistance
C) Total boycott of British goods
D) Resignation from legislatures

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule movement created an organizational link between:

A) India and Ireland.

B) Town and country.
C) Moderates and Revolutionaries.
D) Hindus and Muslims only.

Answer: B

[Link] Montagu-Chelmsford reforms were announced in:

A) August 1917
B) July 1918
C) September 1919
D) January 1920

Answer: B

[Link] was a positive gain of the Home Rule movement?

A) Immediate independence.
 B) It prepared the masses for Gandhian politics.
C) Abolition of salt tax.
D) Removal of the Viceroy.

Answer: B

[Link] said “Shiva… cut his wife into fifty-two pieces…” in reference to Besant’s
internment?

A) Tilak
B) Montagu
C) Jinnah
D) Gandhi

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule Movement shifted emphasis from:

A) Villages to cities.
B) Educated elite to the masses.
C) Religious to secular issues.
D) Local to international politics.

Answer: B

[Link] a year of Gandhi joining, the Home Rule League:

A) Became a separate political party.

B) Joined the Indian National Congress.
C) Was banned by the British.
D) Dissolved completely.

Answer: B

[Link] was the movement left leaderless in late 1918?

A) Both leaders were in jail.

B) Besant was unable to lead and Tilak was in England.
C) Both had retired from politics.
D) They had joined the British government.

Answer: B

[Link] of these was NOT a factor in the decline of the Home Rule League?

A) Lack of effective organization

 B) Talk of passive resistance
C) The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
D) Communal riots

Answer: C

[Link] August 1917 declaration was influenced by:

A) The Russian Revolution.

B) The Home Rule agitation.
C) The Quit India movement.
D) The Non-Cooperation movement.

Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule League helped revive which institution as an effective instrument of
nationalism?

A) The Muslim League

B) The Congress
C) The Hindu Mahasabha
D) The Justice Party

Answer: B

[Link] movement was described as having a “wider appeal” because it reached:

A) Only high-caste Hindus.

B) Only the educated elite.
C) Politically backward regions.
D) Only the British parliament.

Answer: C

[Link] was the “romantic adventure” that the text contrasts with the Home Rule League?

A) Swadeshi Movement
B) Ghadr Movement
C) Santhal Rebellion
D) Sepoy Mutiny

Answer: B

Page 4: The Lucknow Session and Lucknow Pact

[Link] presided over the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916?

 A) Annie Besant
B) Ambika Charan Majumdar
C) Tilak
D) Dadabhai Naoroji

Answer: B

[Link] group was readmitted to the Congress at Lucknow in 1916?

A) The Revolutionaries
B) The Extremists
C) The Muslim League
D) The Liberals

Answer: B

[Link] death of which two Moderate leaders facilitated the reunion?

A) Gokhale and Pherozshah Mehta

B) Tilak and Besant
C) Gandhi and Nehru
D) Naoroji and Bannerjee

Answer: A

[Link] year was the partition of Bengal annulled?

A) 1905
B) 1911
C) 1916
D) 1919

Answer: B

[Link] were Muslims annoyed by the British in 1911?

A) Increase in salt tax.

B) Annulment of the partition of Bengal.
C) Arrest of the Ali brothers.
D) Suppression of Al-Hilal.

Answer: B

[Link] refusal to set up a university at which location alienated Muslims?

A) Delhi
 B) Aligarh
C) Dacca
D) Lucknow

Answer: B

[Link] wars involving Turkey angered Indian Muslims?

A) Napoleonic Wars
B) Balkan Wars (1912-13)
C) Boer Wars
D) Crimean War

Answer: B

[Link] “Young Party” of the Muslim League was:

A) Pro-British.
B) Anti-imperialist.
C) Moderate.
D) Secular.

Answer: B

[Link] newspaper was edited by Maulana Azad?

A) Comrade
B) Al-Hilal
C) New India
D) Kesari

Answer: B

[Link] newspaper was edited by Mohammad Ali?

A) Commonweal
B) Comrade
C) Young India
D) Harijan

Answer: B

[Link] the Lucknow Pact, the Congress accepted the League’s demand for:

A) Complete independence.
B) Separate electorates.
 C) A separate country.
D) The abolition of the Caliphate.

Answer: B

[Link] goal of the Muslim League in 1912 became:

A) Loyalty to the Crown.

B) Self-government suited to India.
C) Immediate withdrawal from India.
D) Merger with the Congress.

Answer: B

[Link] Lucknow Pact represented a coming together of:

A) India and Britain.

B) Congress and Muslim League.
C) Moderates and British officials.
D) Peasants and Workers.

Answer: B

[Link] said “United they stand, but divided they fall” about the Lucknow reunion?

A) Tilak
B) A.C. Majumdar
C) Annie Besant
D) Jinnah

Answer: B

[Link] allayed Moderate suspicions by declaring he wanted:

A) Overthrow of the government.

B) Reform of administration.
C) To become the Prime Minister.
D) To stop all reforms.

Answer: B

[Link] was the “Aligarh school” outlook that younger Muslims were outgrowing?

A) Radical politics.
B) Limited political outlook.
C) Violent revolution.
 D) Internationalism.

Answer: B

[Link] Caliph (Khalifa) claimed leadership of all:

A) Indians.
B) Muslims.
C) Asians.
D) Nationalists.

Answer: B

[Link] Muslim leader faced internment during the war?

A) Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan

B) Maulana Azad
C) Liaquat Ali
D) Muhammad Iqbal

Answer: B

[Link] reunion of 1916 ended how many years of separation?

A) Five
B) Ten
C) Two
D) Twenty

Answer: B

[Link] younger militant nationalists in the League were turning:

A) Toward the British.

B) Increasingly anti-imperialist.
C) Toward the Moderates.
D) Away from politics.

Answer: B

[Link] Lucknow Pact was considered a significant event in:

A) The history of the British Empire.

B) The nationalistic struggle for freedom.
C) The history of the World War.
D) The Morley-Minto reforms.
Answer: B

[Link] “old controversies” that had become meaningless by 1916 referred to the split at:

A) Benares.
B) Surat.
C) Calcutta.
D) Madras.

Answer: B (Surat Split is implied in the history of the separation).

[Link] Moderate leader led the opposition to Extremists before 1915?

A) Dadabhai Naoroji
B) Pherozshah Mehta
C) Motilal Nehru
D) Annie Besant

Answer: B

[Link] Muslim League agreed to present what kind of demands with the Congress?

A) Financial
B) Joint constitutional demands
C) Military
D) Religious

Answer: B

[Link] reunion gave what to the national movement?

* A) A sense of despair.

* B) A sense of urgency.

* C) A new king.

* D) A constitutional deadlock.

* Answer: B

Page 5: Joint Demands and Montagu’s Statement

[Link] the Lucknow Pact, Muslims were granted:

* A) All the seats in the legislature.

* B) A fixed proportion of seats in legislatures.

* C) No seats at all.

* D) Control over the army.

* Answer: B

[Link] joint demand was that the government should declare self-government:

* A) In 50 years.

* B) At an early date.

* C) After the next war.

* D) Immediately.

* Answer: B

[Link] was demanded regarding the salaries of the Secretary of State for India?

* A) They should be doubled.

* B) They should be paid by the British treasury.

* C) They should be paid from Indian taxes.

* D) They should be abolished.

* Answer: B

[Link] proportion of the Viceroy’s Executive Council was demanded to be Indian?

* A) One-third

* B) Half

* C) All

* D) None

* Answer: B

[Link] Lucknow Pact demands were an expanded version of which reforms?

* A) Regulating Act

* B) Morley-Minto

* C) Montagu-Chelmsford

* D) Pitts India Act

* Answer: B

[Link] acceptance of separate electorates by the Congress was a landmark in the

evolution of:

* A) The One-Nation theory.

* B) The Two-Nation theory.

* C) The Theory of Relativity.

* D) The Theory of Drain.

* Answer: B

[Link] was a major criticism of the leaders during the Lucknow Pact?

* A) They asked for too much money.

* B) They failed to involve the masses from the two communities.

* C) They did not include Tilak.

* D) They did not support the war.

* Answer: B

[Link] was the August Declaration made?

* A) August 15, 1947

* B) August 20, 1917

* C) August 8, 1942

* D) August 1, 1920

* Answer: B

[Link] was the key term used in Montagu’s statement to describe the goal of British
policy?

* A) Total Independence

* B) Responsible government

* C) Purna Swaraj

* D) Martial Law

* Answer: B
[Link] had stated in 1909 that the reforms were NOT intended to give:

* A) Jobs to Indians.

* B) Self-government to India.

* C) Education to Indians.

* D) Religious freedom.

* Answer: B

[Link] was the demand for Home Rule no longer considered “seditious” after 1917?

* A) Because the British left India.

* B) Because self-government became official government policy.

* C) Because the war ended.

* D) Because Tilak was arrested.

* Answer: B

[Link] concept of ‘responsible government’ implied that rulers were answerable to:

* A) The King only.

* B) Elected representatives.

* C) The Viceroy only.

* D) The League of Nations.

* Answer: B

[Link] was the new administrative concept evolved to make the executive somewhat
responsible?

* A) Monarchy

* B) Dyarchy

* C) Anarchy

* D) Democracy

* Answer: B

[Link] was a major Indian objection to Montagu’s statement?

* A) It gave too much power to Indians.

* B) No specific time frame was given.

* C) It abolished the Congress.

* D) It ignored the Muslim League.

* Answer: B

[Link] was to decide the “nature and timing” of advance towards responsible
government?

* A) The Indian people

* B) The British government alone

* C) The League of Nations

* D) The United States

* Answer: B

[Link] Lucknow Pact implied that Congress and the League came together as:

* A) One single party.

* B) Separate political entities.

* C) Enemies.

* D) Religious groups only.

* Answer: B

[Link] accepted separate electorates to:

* A) Please the British.

* B) Allay minority fears of majority domination.

* C) Split the Muslim League.

* D) Win the First World War.

* Answer: B

[Link] legislature under the Lucknow Pact could NOT:

* A) Discuss the budget.

* B) Remove the elected half of the executive.

* C) Pass laws.

* D) Hold meetings.

* Answer: B

[Link] was “most likely” due to the executive-legislature relations proposed in the
Lucknow Pact?

* A) A peaceful transition.

* B) A constitutional deadlock.

* C) Total agreement.

* D) Immediate independence.

* Answer: B

[Link] made his statement in which legislative body?

* A) Indian Legislative Council

* B) British House of Commons

* C) US Congress

* D) Rajya Sabha

* Answer: B

Page 6: Summary and Recap

[Link] Home Rule movement was pioneered by:

* A) Gandhi and Nehru.

* B) Tilak and Annie Besant.

* C) Gokhale and Mehta.

* D) Jinnah and Azad.

* Answer: B

[Link]’s League was started in:

* A) September 1916.
* B) April 1916.

* C) August 1917.

* D) January 1914.

* Answer: B

[Link]’s League was started in:

* A) April 1916.

* B) September 1916.

* C) December 1916.

* D) May 1917.

* Answer: B

124.A factor favoring the movement was:

* A) Satisfaction with the British.

* B) Disillusionment with Morley-Minto reforms.

* C) Economic prosperity during the war.

* D) Suppression of the Russian Revolution.

* Answer: B

[Link] aim of the movement was to convey the concept of Home Rule as:

* A) Armed rebellion.

* B) Self-government.

* C) Religious rule.

* D) British rule.

* Answer: B

[Link] area was part of Tilak’s League?

* A) Madras

* B) Central Provinces

* C) Bengal
* D) United Provinces

* Answer: B

[Link] many branches did Tilak’s League have?

* A) 200

* B) 6

* C) 52

* D) 15

* Answer: B

[Link] many branches did Besant’s League have?

* A) 6

* B) 200

* C) 100

* D) 500

* Answer: B

[Link] of the following was a method used by the Leagues?

* A) Organizing secret assassinations.

* B) Public meetings and pamphlets.

* C) Bombing government offices.

* D) Boycotting all elections.

* Answer: B

130.A positive gain of the movement was the establishment of a link between:

* A) India and Germany.

* B) Town and country.

* C) Moderates and British.

* D) Rich and Poor only.

* Answer: B
[Link] 1916 Lucknow session is famous for:

* A) The Quit India resolution.

* B) The readmission of Extremists to Congress.

* C) The Simon Commission boycott.

* D) Gandhi’s first speech.

* Answer: B

[Link] Lucknow Pact involved joint demands by:

* A) Moderates and Extremists only.

* B) Muslim League and Congress.

* C) British and Indians.

* D) Hindus and Sikhs.

* Answer: B

[Link] the Lucknow Pact, Congress accepted the League’s position on:

* A) Complete independence.

* B) Separate electorates.

* C) Formation of Pakistan.

* D) The Urdu language.

* Answer: B

[Link] importance of Montagu’s Statement was that attainment of self-government

became:

* A) A dream.

* B) Government policy.

* C) Illegal.

* D) Forgotten.

* Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule movement permanently deflected the national movement from the
course mapped by:
* A) The Revolutionaries.

* B) The Moderates.

* C) The British.

* D) The Communists.

* Answer: B

[Link] group of Indians felt the war was a “heaven-sent opportunity”?

* A) Moderates

* B) Revolutionaries

* C) Landlords

* D) British Officers

* Answer: B

[Link]’s League was restricted to how many regions?

* A) One

* B) Four (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Central Provinces, Berar)

* C) All of India

* D) Only Poona

* Answer: B

[Link] All India Home Rule League was modeled on the Home Rule League of:

* A) Canada

* B) Ireland

* C) Australia

* D) South Africa

* Answer: B

[Link] Baptista was associated with which leader?

* A) Annie Besant

* B) Tilak
* C) Gokhale

* D) Gandhi

* Answer: B

[Link] was the Vice-President of the All India Home Rule League?

* A) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

* B) Sir S. Subramania Iyer

* C) George Arundale

* D) B.W. Wadia

* Answer: B

[Link]’s newspaper ‘New India’ was previously known as:

* (Not in text, but testing recall of Besant’s tools)

* A) Kesari

* B) The Madras Standard (Note: The text just says New India)

* C) Commonweal

* D) The Hindu

* Answer: B (Historical fact, though the text focuses on the names New India and
Commonweal).

[Link] phrase “Home Rule” in the Indian context meant:

* A) Complete separation from Britain.

* B) Self-government within the Empire.

* C) Rule by the British from home.

* D) Rule by the local kings.

* Answer: B

[Link] was released from which prison in 1914?

* (Not in text, but context of the era)

* A) Yerwada
* B) Mandalay

* C) Cellular Jail

* D) Tihar

* Answer: B

[Link] term ‘Swarajya’ in Tilak’s League included the demand for:

* A) A new flag.

* B) Education in the vernacular.

* C) A separate army.

* D) Abolition of the Indian Civil Service.

* Answer: B

[Link] leader was an Irish theosophist?

* A) George Arundale

* B) Annie Besant

* C) B.W. Wadia

* D) Valentine Chirol

* Answer: B

[Link] did the Russian Revolution of 1917 affect the movement?

* A) It led to its immediate end.

* B) It provided an added advantage and inspiration.

* C) It caused the British to leave India in 1917.

* D) It led to the arrest of Gandhi.

* Answer: B

[Link] led the agitation after Besant’s arrest?

* A) Gandhi

* B) Tilak

* C) Jinnah
* D) Nehru

* Answer: B

[Link]’s statement is also known as:

* A) The Magna Carta of India.

* B) The August Declaration.

* C) The July Announcement.

* D) The Freedom Statement.

* Answer: B

[Link] was the ‘mistaken belief’ of the Extremists during the war?

* A) That Germany would win.

* B) That Britain would grant self-government out of gratitude.

* C) That the US would intervene.

* D) That the war would last only one month.

* Answer: B

[Link] was Valentine Chirol?

* A) A British Governor.

* B) An author who criticized Tilak.

* C) A supporter of Home Rule.

* D) A revolutionary leader.

* Answer: B

[Link] of the following was NOT a reason for the shift in the Muslim League’s attitude?

* A) Britain’s refusal to help Turkey.

* B) Annulment of partition of Bengal.

* C) British support for the Aligarh University affiliation.

* D) Internment of Muslim leaders.

* Answer: C (The British refused the affiliation).

[Link] among these was a ‘Young Party’ Muslim leader?

* A) Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan

* B) Maulana Azad

* C) Aga Khan

* D) Lord Minto

* Answer: B

[Link] did Tilak advocate for during the protest against Besant’s arrest?

* A) Armed rebellion.

* B) Passive resistance.

* C) Surrender.

* D) Going to England.

* Answer: B

[Link] term ‘Dyarchy’ refers to:

* A) Rule by two kings.

* B) A dual form of government.

* C) Rule by the military and police.

* D) Rule by two political parties.

* Answer: B

[Link] did the government attempt to “placate” the nationalists after the Home Rule
movement?

* A) By granting independence.

* B) By declaring the intention to grant self-government in the future.

* C) By releasing all prisoners immediately.

* D) By lowering all taxes.

* Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule movement was “short-lived” and lasted roughly from:
* A) 1910-1912

* B) 1916-1919

* C) 1914-1915

* D) 1920-1930

* Answer: B

[Link] leader became the President of the Home Rule League in 1920?

* A) Annie Besant

* B) Mahatma Gandhi

* C) Jawaharlal Nehru

* D) Tilak

* Answer: B

[Link] 1916 Lucknow session was presided over by:

* A) A Moderate.

* B) An Extremist.

* C) A Revolutionary.

* D) A British Official.

* Answer: A

[Link] did Annie Besant hesitate after the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms were
announced?

* A) She wanted more money.

* B) She was in two minds about the use of the league.

* C) She wanted to return to Ireland.

* D) She became a Moderate.

* Answer: B

[Link] ‘League’ campaign aimed to reach:

* A) Only the British Parliament.

* B) The common man.

* C) Only the Kings of India.

* D) Only the soldiers.

* Answer: B

[Link] province was NOT part of Tilak’s League jurisdiction?

* A) Karnataka

* B) Central Provinces

* C) United Provinces (This was Besant’s area)

* D) Berar

* Answer: C

[Link] “myth of white superiority” was broken by the exposure of:

* A) Scientific facts.

* B) Naked propaganda by imperialist powers against each other.

* C) Indian military victories.

* D) The Russian Revolution.

* Answer: B

[Link] was the status of the executive under the Lucknow Pact?

* A) Fully responsible to the legislature.

* B) Not responsible to the legislature as a whole.

* C) Abolished.

* D) Controlled by the Muslim League only.

* Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule movement prepared the masses for which style of politics?

* A) Moderate

* B) Gandhian

* C) Revolutionary
* D) Communal

* Answer: B

[Link] leader was NOT mentioned as a later joiner of the Home Rule movement?

* A) Motilal Nehru

* B) Bhulabhai Desai

* C) Subhas Chandra Bose (Bose is not mentioned in the text)

* D) Chittaranjan Das

* Answer: C

[Link] was the ‘heaven-sent opportunity’ specifically for revolutionaries?

* A) The birth of Gandhi.

* B) The draining of troops from India.

* C) The rise of the Muslim League.

* D) The invention of the telegraph.

* Answer: B

[Link]’s League had how many branches?

* A) Six

* B) Sixty

* C) Six hundred

* D) Sixteen

* Answer: A

[Link] was the organizing secretary for Annie Besant’s league?

* A) Tilak

* B) George Arundale

* C) Jinnah

* D) Gokhale

* Answer: B
[Link] of the following was a demand of the Lucknow Pact?

* A) Complete independence in 1916.

* B) Expansion of representative assemblies.

* C) Immediate withdrawal from WWI.

* D) Direct rule by the Queen.

* Answer: B

[Link] “Two-Nation Theory” evolution was linked to Congress’s acceptance of:

* A) The Hindi language.

* B) Separate electorates.

* C) The British flag.

* D) The partition of Bengal.

* Answer: B

[Link] year did communal riots occur, contributing to the decline of the Home Rule
movement?

* A) 1914-15

* B) 1917-18

* C) 1920-21

* D) 1905-06

* Answer: B

[Link] happened to the salaries of the Secretary of State for India according to the
Lucknow Pact?

* A) They were to be paid by the British treasury.

* B) They were to be paid by the Indian peasants.

* C) They were to be stopped.

* D) They were to be paid in gold.

* Answer: A

[Link] many pieces did Shiva cut his wife into, according to Montagu’s analogy?
* A) Ten

* B) Fifty-two

* C) Twenty-one

* D) One hundred

* Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule movement was the Indian response to WWI in a way that was:

* A) More romantic than the Ghadr.

* B) Less charged but more effective than the Ghadr.

* C) More violent than the Ghadr.

* D) Totally ignored by the British.

* Answer: B

[Link] Indian supporters of British war efforts were criticized because they failed to see
that:

* A) Britain would lose.

* B) Imperialist powers were fighting for their own colonies and markets.

* C) Japan would attack India.

* D) Germany was a better ally.

* Answer: B

[Link] was Edwin Samuel Montagu?

* A) Viceroy of India.

* B) Secretary of State for India.

* C) King of England.

* D) Leader of the Labor Party.

* Answer: B

[Link] was the nature of the Home Rule Movement compared to previous Congress
activity?

* A) More deliberative.
* B) More aggressive and active.

* C) More religious.

* D) More pro-British.

* Answer: B

[Link]’s League was “loosely organized” compared to:

* A) The Muslim League.

* B) Tilak’s League.

* C) The British Army.

* D) The Ghadr party.

* Answer: B

[Link] leader renounced his knighthood?

* A) Motilal Nehru

* B) Sir S. Subramaniya Aiyar

* C) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

* D) Tej Bahadur Sapru

* Answer: B

[Link] was the long-term goal of British rule in India according to Montagu’s 1917
statement?

* A) Permanent colonization.

* B) Gradual development of self-governing institutions.

* C) Total withdrawal by 1920.

* D) Annexation of more princely states.

* Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule agitation was later joined by which future Prime Minister?

* A) Lal Bahadur Shastri

* B) Jawaharlal Nehru
* C) Indira Gandhi

* D) Morarji Desai

* Answer: B

[Link] “vernacular” in Tilak’s demand referred to:

* A) Education in English.

* B) Education in local languages.

* C) Education in Latin.

* D) No education at all.

* Answer: B

[Link]’s Home Rule League headquarters was in:

* A) Bombay

* B) Poona

* C) Nagpur

* D) Belgaum

* Answer: B

[Link] movement was described as “aggressive politics”?

* A) Moderate movement

* B) Home Rule Movement

* C) Brahmo Samaj

* D) Theosophical Society

* Answer: B

[Link] was the Congress not working “throughout the year” before the Home Rule
League?

* A) It was banned.

* B) It only had annual sessions.

* C) It had no members.
* D) It was a secret society.

* Answer: B

[Link] 1917 Russian Revolution provided what to the Home Rule campaign?

* A) Financial aid.

* B) An added advantage.

* C) Weapons.

* D) Soldiers.

* Answer: B

[Link] Lucknow Pact demands were an expanded version of which previous reforms?

* A) 1892 Reforms

* B) 1909 Morley-Minto Reforms

* C) 1861 Reforms

* D) 1773 Regulating Act

* Answer: B

[Link] many associates were arrested with Annie Besant in June 1917?

* A) None

* B) Two (B.P. Wadia and George Arundale)

* C) Five

* D) Ten

* Answer: B

[Link] did Montagu say happened to the Government of India when it interned Mrs.
Besant?

* A) It became stronger.

* B) It was like Shiva discovering he had 52 wives.

* C) It won the war.

* D) It became more popular.

* Answer: B

[Link] was barred from entering which two places?

* A) Bengal and Madras

* B) Punjab and Delhi

* C) Bombay and Poona

* D) United Provinces and Bihar

* Answer: B

[Link] was the reaction to the arrest of Annie Besant?

* A) Silence.

* B) Nationwide protest.

* C) Celebration by the Moderates.

* D) A military coup.

* Answer: B

[Link] “responsible government” term implied answerability to:

* A) The British Queen.

* B) Elected representatives.

* C) The Viceroy.

* D) The Governor.

* Answer: B

[Link] group of Muslims was particularly infuriated by the suppression of ‘Comrade’?

* A) Old Party

* B) Younger Muslims/Young Party

* C) The British loyalists

* D) The Moderates

* Answer: B

[Link] term of the legislative council under the Lucknow Pact was to be:
* A) Two years.

* B) Fixed.

* C) Indefinite.

* D) One year.

* Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule movement created an organizational link between:

* A) India and the USA.

* B) Town and country.

* C) North and South India only.

* D) The Army and the Police.

* Answer: B

[Link] was the organizing secretary of Besant’s league?

* A) C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyar

* B) George Arundale

* C) B.W. Wadia

* D) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

* Answer: B

[Link] leader’s release was a factor leading to the movement?

* A) Gandhi

* B) Tilak

* C) Nehru

* D) Azad

* Answer: B

[Link] Home Rule Movement was a transition between which two phases?

* A) Vedic and Modern.

* B) Deliberative/Inactive and Gandhian.

* C) British and Independent.

* D) Rural and Urban.

* Answer: B

[Link] leader did NOT join the Home Rule agitation?

* A) Motilal Nehru

* B) Chittaranjan Das

* C) Pherozshah Mehta (He was a Moderate opponent who died)

* D) Lala Lajpat Rai

* Answer: C

[Link] All India Home Rule League finally joined which organization in 1921?

* A) Muslim League

* B) Indian National Congress

* C) Hindu Mahasabha

* D) The British Parliament

* Answer: B