Get ready for Class 10 Nationalism in India Quiz Set 2, designed for students who want to go beyond the basics. This advanced quiz includes conceptual, analytical, and previous-year-style MCQs from History Chapter 2 – Nationalism in India. Revise important topics like the Non-Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement, and the role of Mahatma Gandhi in uniting the nation. Ideal for board exam preparation, this quiz helps you strengthen your grasp of key terms, timelines, and major events in India’s struggle for independence.
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Q1. Due to the violent incident at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur in February 1922, Mahatma Gandhi decided to withdraw which movement?
Rowlatt Satyagraha
Civil Disobedience Movement
Quit India Movement
Non-Cooperation Movement
Q2. Which leaders formed the Swaraj Party within the Congress to argue for a return to council politics after the withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement?
Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose
C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru
Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali
Vallabhbhai Patel and Mahatma Gandhi
Q3. When did agricultural prices begin to fall, severely impacting peasants, marking the effect of the worldwide economic depression?
From 1921
From 1926
After 1930
Before 1919
Q4. The Statutory Commission, constituted under Sir John Simon, was formed by the new Tory government in Britain to look into the functioning of the constitutional system in India. What was the main issue that angered Indians regarding this commission?
It demanded Purna Swaraj
It was led by Lord Irwin
It did not have a single Indian member
It proposed the abolition of the salt tax
Q5. When the Simon Commission arrived in India in 1928, it was greeted with which slogan?
Vande Mataram
Quit India
Inquilab Zindabad
Go back Simon
Q6. In which month and year did Viceroy Lord Irwin announce a vague offer of ‘dominion status’ for India and a Round Table Conference?
October 1929
December 1929
March 1930
January 1930
Q7. Which Congress session, held in December 1929, formalized the demand of ‘Purna Swaraj’ or full independence for India?
Calcutta
Madras
Nagpur
Lahore
Q8. The Congress declared that 26 January of which year would be celebrated as the Independence Day?
1929
1930
1931
1947
Q9. Mahatma Gandhi sent a letter to Viceroy Irwin stating eleven demands on which date?
6 April 1930
31 January 1930
5 March 1931
26 January 1930
Q10. The Salt March was over how many miles, starting from Gandhiji’s ashram in Sabarmati to Dandi?
150 miles
240 miles
300 miles
100 miles
Q11. How many trusted volunteers accompanied Mahatma Gandhi at the start of the Salt March?
58
78
100
50
Q12. When did Mahatma Gandhi ceremonially violate the salt law by manufacturing salt at Dandi, marking the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement?
11 March 1930
6 April 1930
31 January 1930
5 March 1931
Q13. Which leader was a devout disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and was arrested in April 1930, leading to angry crowds demonstrating in the streets of Peshawar?
Motilal Nehru
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Shaukat Ali
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Q14. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on which date?
6 April 1930
13 April 1919
5 March 1931
December 1931
Q15. Which communities of rich peasants actively supported the Civil Disobedience Movement, seeing the fight for Swaraj as a struggle against high revenues?
Patidars of Gujarat and Jats of Uttar Pradesh
Brahmans and Sanatanis
Poor peasantry and tenants
Dalits and Harijans
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