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Quiz on Indian Freedom Struggle - Phase - Ii 21 DELHI POSTAL REGD. NO. DL-SW-1/4101/2015-17U(C)-108/2015-17 Licensed to Post without prepayment RNI 28728/76 N.D.P.S.O. New Delhi 11/12.8.2017 Date of Publishing : 7.8.2017 (` 12.00) Air Surcharge 20p for Srinagar, Leh, Kalimpong, Imphal, Dimapur, Agartala, Duliajan, Karimganj, Chabua, Diphu, Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Haillakandi, Mariani, Jorhat, Shillong, Digboi, Silchar, Port Blair 48 www.employmentnews.gov.in Employment News 12 - 18 August 2017 SPECIAL QUIZ CONTEST To commemorate 75 years of Quit India Movement and 70 years of Independence, decison of the General Manager, Employment News shall be final and binding on all Employment News is conducting a special quiz contest. The quiz contest spans a total of participants. Participants can also submit their answers either online through websites 70 questions to be conducted in three phases - First phase was published in issue dated www.publicationsdivision.nic.in or www.employmentnews.gov.in or by sending the 5.8.2017 (20 questions), Second phase (25 questions) are given below and Third phase will answers by Post. Please send your answers with your name and detailed address to the appear on 19.8.2017 (25 questions). under mentioned address (Mark - QUIZ CONTEST PHASE II - on the Envelope) : PRIZES : LAST DATE of receipt of answers is 31-08-2017 (till 5 pm.) Top 70 participants will get a gift hamper of books brought out by Publications Division Editor as well as journals of a value of approximately Rs.500/-. In the event of a tie due to same marks scored, the 70 winners will be chosen by a draw of lots. 2017 participants will get Employment News, Publications Division, a free copy of Employment News issue dated 16.9.2017, 23.9.2017 and Room No.762, Soochana Bhavan, 30.9.2017(selection on the basis of merit in terms of number of right answers). The CGO Complex, New Delhi - 110003 QUIZ ON INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE - PHASE - II 21. At which of the following places did Mahatma c) Quit India Movement c) Wardha Gandhi launch a Satyagraha to help the oppressed d) Indigo Movement d) Surat indigo farmers? 30. The people of India were agitated against the 38. Dandi March under the leadership of Mahatma a) Kheda arrival of Simon Commission because Gandhi started on b) Bardoli a) Indians never wanted the review of the working of a) April 12, 1931 c) Champaran the Act of 1919 b) March 12, 1930 d) Dandi b) Simon Commission recommended the abolition of c) May 10, 1930 22. Who among the below, gave the economic diarchy in the Provinces d) October 15, 1935 critiques of British imperialism: c) There was no Indian member in the commission 39. Who of the following carried out the Salt a) R C Dutt d) The Commission suggested partition of the Satyagraha at Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu b) Dinshaw Wacha country a) Dr. Radhakrishnan c) Dadabhai Naoroji 31. The Ghadar Party was a b) C Rajagopalachari d) All of the above a) Revolutionary association of Indians with c) P Sitarammaiah 23. 'Maker of Modern India ' is referred to Headquarters at San Francisco d) Maulana Azad a) Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar b) Nationalist organisation operating from Singapore 40. Who formed the band of non-violent b) Raja Rammohan Roy c) Militant organisation formed for revolution in Bengal revolutionaries, the Khudai Khidmatgars c) Swami Vivekananda d) Breakaway group of extremists of Indian National a) Abul Kalam Azad d) Dadabhai Naoroji Congress b) M.A. Jinnah 24 .The most important event that characterised the 32. General Dwyer who was responsible for c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by Swadeshi Movement was d) Sikandar Hayat Khan a) Udham Singh a) Emergence of communal politics 21. The violent incident at Chauri Chaura in Uttar b) Hajrat Mohani b) Mass mobilization Pradesh occurred during which of the following c) V. V. S. Iyer c) Boycott of foreign goods movements? d) Sohan Singh d) Partition of Bengal a) Civil disobedience 33.Who was the first Indian to raise the national Flag 25. In which session did Dadabhai Naoroji declare b) Non-cooperation on August 21, 1907 Swaraj or Self- government to be the goal of c) Quit India a) Mahatma Gandhi Congress? d) Poorna Swaraj b) Madam Bhikaiji Cama a) Calcutta Session 1907 42. Who was Birsa Munda c) Sardar Patel a) Wealthy zamindar b) Lahore Session 1929 d) Jawahar Lal Nehru b) Indian tribal freedom fighter and a folk hero c) Karachi Session 1931 34. A women's division of the Indian National Army d) Lucknow Session 1936 was named after : c) Indian sepoy in British army 26.Home Rule League Movement was led by a) Chand Bibi d) Associate of Mahatma Gandhi a) Lokmanya Tilak & Annie Besant b) Rani of Jhansi 43. Who of the following had vowed never to be b) Sarojini Naidu c) Ahilya Bai caught alive by the British and hence shot himself c) Aruna Asaf Ali d) Hazrat Mahal dead at the end of an encounter with the police d) Vinoba Bhave 35. Who wrote The Poverty and the Un British rule in a) Ram Prasad Bismil 27.When did Chauri Chaura incident take place India b) Ashfaqulla Khan a) February 5, 1922 a) R.C.Dutt c) Surya Sen b) February 15, 1922 b) Bipan Chandra Pal d) Chandershekar Azad c) February 25, 1922 c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 44. Who among the following is considered the d) February 5, 1923 d) Dadabhai Naoroji author of the poem Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare 28.Bhagat Singh was sentenced to death in which 36. Who among the following was the youngest of the dil mein hai case revolutionaries to be hanged by the British a) Bhagat Singh a) Kakori case a) Madan Lal Dhingra b) Sachindranath Sanyal b) Chauri Chaura case b) Surya Sen c) Ram Prasad Bismil c) Assembly Bomb case c) Khudiram Bose d) Chandrashekhar Azad d) Lahore Conspiracy case d) Udham Singh 45 .Freedom fighter Rani Gaidinliu was from 29. The first mass movement started by Mahatma 37. From which place did Mahatma Gandhi a) Nagpur Gandhi was commence his historic march to Dandi? b) Nagaland a) Non Cooperation Movement a) Sabarmati c) Manipur b) Salt Movement b) Sewagram d) Assam ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... ANSWER KEY SHEET FOR QUIZ ON INDIAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE - PHASE - II 3 Tick mark ( ) the answers of your choice. Q35. A B C D Q21. A B C D Q36. A B C D Q22. A B C D Q37. A B C D Q23. A B C D Q38. A B C D Q24. A B C D Q39. A B C D Q25. A B C D Q40. A B C D Q26. A B C D Q41. A B C D Q27. A B C D Q42. A B C D Q28. A B C D Q43. A B C D Q29. A B C D Q44. A B C D Q30. A B C D Q45. A B C D Q31. A B C D Name : ...................................................................................................................... Q32. 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