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UPSC CDS Freedom Struggle — practice questions — page 4

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The Indian National Congress was founded when 72 delegates met in December 1885 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Which retired British official helped bring Indians together to form the Congress?Read the answer and worked solution →The Arms Act disallowing Indians from possessing arms was passed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1883 bill allowing Indian judges to try Europeans, withdrawn after white protest, was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which early Congress leader wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Radical leader declared that freedom is my birthright and I shall have it?Read the answer and worked solution →Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Viceroy:Read the answer and worked solution →In deltaic Andhra the Swadeshi movement was known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Separate electorates for Muslims were conceded by the government in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress split between Moderates and Radicals in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress and the Muslim League signed the Lucknow Pact in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi established the Natal Congress in South Africa to fight racial discrimination in:Read the answer and worked solution →Who renounced his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru assassinated police officer Saunders on:Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were executed on:Read the answer and worked solution →Who persuaded Gandhi to allow women to join the Salt Satyagraha?Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1937 elections the Congress formed governments in how many of the 11 provinces?Read the answer and worked solution →By the end of 1943, how many people had been arrested in the Quit India movement?Read the answer and worked solution →Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Calcutta home to raise the Azad Hind Fauj in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League's Direct Action Day, which set off riots in Calcutta, was:Read the answer and worked solution →The first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, in 1957, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the early Congress leadersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the RadicalsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the national movement datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the movement wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Moderate or RadicalRead the answer and worked solution →Sort by decadeRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →National movement bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The Indian National Congress was founded when 72 delegates met in December 1885 at:

  1. Bombay
  2. Calcutta
  3. Madras
  4. Lahore
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Correct answer: A. Bombay

1. The Ilbert Bill row had deepened the need for an all-India body. 2. The first session met at Bombay. 3. Early leaders came largely from Bombay and Calcutta. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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Which retired British official helped bring Indians together to form the Congress?

  1. Lord Ripon
  2. Allan Hume
  3. Lord Curzon
  4. John Simon
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Correct answer: B. Allan Hume

1. Dadabhai Naoroji guided the younger nationalists. 2. A O Hume played a part in uniting Indians. 3. Curzon later partitioned Bengal. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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The Arms Act disallowing Indians from possessing arms was passed in:

  1. 1878
  2. 1883
  3. 1885
  4. 1905
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Correct answer: A. 1878

1. The Vernacular Press Act came the same year. 2. The Arms Act was passed in 1878. 3. Both deepened dissatisfaction with British rule. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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