Class 10 History – Ch 2: Nationalism in India
50 MCQs (Most Expected for Board Exams)
MCQs – 50 Questions
1. When did the Non-Cooperation Movement start?
a) 1922
b) 1919
c) 1920
d) 19
2. Who was the leader of the Khilafat Movement?
a) Gandhi
b) Ali Brothers
c) Jawaharlal Nehru
d) Subhas Chandra Bose
3. Which event forced Gandhiji to launch the Non-Cooperation Movement?
a) Rowlatt Act
b) Jallianwala Bagh massacre
c) Salt Act
d) Poona Pact
4. The Rowlatt Act was passed in:
a) 1918
b) 1916
c) 1919
d) 1920
5. Who designed the Swaraj flag?
a) Gandhi
b) Nehru
c) Pingali Venkayya
d) Patel
6. The Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn due to:
a) Jallianwala massacre
b) Chauri Chaura incident
c) Civil Disobedience
d) Simon Commission
7. Simon Commission came to India in:
a) 1920
b) 1927
c) 1930
d) 1932
8. What was the main demand of the Non-Cooperation Movement?
a) Complete independence
b) Dominion status
c) Abolish salt tax
d) End communal tensions
9. Who wrote Hind Swaraj?
a) Nehru
b) Gandhi
c) Tilak
d) Bose
10. The Civil Disobedience Movement began with:
a) Boycott of foreign cloth
b) Dandi March
c) Quit India slogan
d) Swadeshi movement
11. Salt March took place in:
a) 1930
b) 1920
c) 1927
d) 1932
12. Salt March covered nearly:
a) 100 km
b) 240 km
c) 500 km
d) 80 km
13. Who participated actively in Civil Disobedience?
a) Women
b) Students
c) Peasants
d) All of the above
14. Who formed the Indian Industrial and Commercial Congress?
a) Industrialists
b) Farmers
c) Workers
d) Zamindars
15. The idea of Satyagraha was first tested in:
a) India
b) South Africa
c) Sri Lanka
d) Burma
16. Khilafat Movement was related to:
a) Turkey
b) America
c) Japan
d) France
17. "Swaraj in one year" was promised by:
a) Gandhi
b) Nehru
c) Bose
d) Jinnah
18. Jallianwala Bagh massacre happened in:
a) Amritsar
b) Delhi
c) Lucknow
d) Calcutta
19. Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended due to:
a) Chauri Chaura
b) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
c) Quit India Movement
d) Salt Law
20. Who led the peasant movement in Bardoli?
a) Patel
b) Gandhi
c) Nehru
d) Bose
21. Poona Pact was signed in:
a) 1930
b) 1932
c) 1935
d) 1940
22. Poona Pact was an agreement between Gandhi and:
a) Ambedkar
b) Nehru
c) Azad
d) Patel
23. Quit India Movement began in:
a) 1940
b) 1942
c) 1930
d) 1919
24. “Do or Die’’ was said by:
a) Bhagat Singh
b) Gandhi
c) Bose
d) Nehru
25. The first Round Table Conference happened in:
a) 1929
b) 1930
c) 1931
d) 1932
26. Industrial workers mostly supported:
a) Swaraj
b) Boss rule
c) British rule
d) Jinnah
27. Plantation workers wanted:
a) Higher wages
b) Freedom to move
c) No taxes
d) Quit India
28. For tribal people, the main problem was:
a) Forest laws
b) Taxes
c) British education
d) Wars
29. Which movement saw the participation of business classes?
a) Non-Cooperation
b) Civil Disobedience
c) Khilafat
d) Quit India
30. Gandhi believed that British rule survived because of:
a) Violence
b) Support of Indians
c) Military power
d) Resources
31. The Chauri Chaura incident happened in:
a) 1922
b) 1920
c) 1930
d) 1919
32. The Lahore Congress (1929) demanded:
a) Swaraj
b) Dominion status
c) Poorna Swaraj
d) No tax
33. Poorna Swaraj Day was celebrated on:
a) 26 January 1930
b) 26 January 1947
c) 15 August 1942
d) 26 June 1940
34. "Inquilab Zindabad" slogan was given by:
a) Gandhi
b) Bhagat Singh
c) Nehru
d) Bose
35. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in:
a) 1929
b) 1931
c) 1935
d) 1932
36. Which group did not actively support Civil Disobedience?
a) Dalits
b) Women
c) Industrialists
d) Farmers
37. Ambedkar demanded:
a) Separate electorate
b) Swaraj
c) Forest rights
d) No taxes
38. The ‘simon go back’ slogan was raised because:
a) Indians were not included
b) Tax increase
c) No Swaraj
d) British soldiers misbehaved
39. Awadh peasants were led by:
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Gandhi
c) Patel
d) Bose
40. Who founded the Swaraj Party?
a) Nehru and Patel
b) C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru
c) Bose and Gandhi
d) Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai
41. The Rowlett Act allowed:
a) No tax
b) No court
c) Detention without trial
d) Free movement
42. Gandhi wanted khadi to promote:
a) British industry
b) Self-reliance
c) Luxury
d) War
43. Salt law mainly affected:
a) Workers
b) Rich
c) Poor
d) Women
44. The Dandi March started from:
a) Sabarmati Ashram
b) Varanasi
c) Bombay
d) Delhi
45. Who led the Dalit movement for temple entry?
a) Ambedkar
b) Gandhi
c) Nehru
d) Patel
46. Many Muslims did not join Civil Disobedience because:
a) Slow movement
b) Fear of Congress dominance
c) British promise
d) Taxes
47. Marketing of Swadeshi goods increased due to:
a) Women participation
b) Youth participation
c) Volunteers
d) All of the above
48. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was done by:
a) O’Dwyer
b) General Dyer
c) Lord Curzon
d) Irwin
49. Who was the Viceroy during the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
a) Irwin
b) Wavell
c) Curzon
d) Mountbatten
50. Which movement saw the slogan “Swaraj is my birthright”?
a) Swadeshi
b) Non-Cooperation
c) Civil Disobedience
d) Tilak’s movement
Answer Key (50 MCQs)
1-c
2-b
3-b
4-c
5-c
6-b
7-b
8-b
9-b
10-b
11-a
12-b
13-d
14-a
15-b
16-a
17-a
18-a
19-b
20-a
21-b
22-a
23-b
24-b
25-b
26-a
27-b
28-a
29-b
30-b
31-a
32-c
33-a
34-b
35-b
36-a
37-a
38-a
39-a
40-b
41-c
42-b
43-c
44-a
45-a
46-b
47-d
48-b
49-a
50-d