Practice Quit India, INA, Cabinet Mission, Mountbatten Plan and Independence – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 3

Consider the following statements about the Congress and the British during 1939-1942:

1. When the Second World War began, the Congress offered support on condition that India would be promised independence after the war.

2. The Cripps talks broke down when the Congress demanded that an Indian be made Defence Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council.

3. Sir Stafford Cripps was sent to India by British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Quit India Movement:

1. More than 90,000 people had been arrested by the end of 1943.

2. The British crushed the rebellion within six months of its launch.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Match List-I with List-II:

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Arrange the following events in chronological order:

1. Formation of the Interim Government

2. Attlee's announcement that the British would leave India by June 1948

3. Direct Action Day observed by the Muslim League

4. First meeting of the Constituent Assembly

Select the correct chronological order.

Consider the following statements about the Cabinet Mission:

1. It was a three-member mission of the British Cabinet that reached India in March 1946.

2. It proposed a weak Centre dealing only with foreign affairs, defence and communications.

3. Under its grouping plan, Section A consisted of the Muslim-majority provinces of the north-west.

Which of the statements given above is/are NOT correct?

Match List-I with List-II:

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Consider the following statements about Subhas Chandra Bose and the INA:

1. In January 1941, Bose secretly left his home in Calcutta and reached Singapore via Germany.

2. In 1944, the INA tried to enter India through Imphal and Kohima, but the campaign failed.

3. Although Bose disagreed with Gandhiji's ideal of ahimsa, he respected him as the Father of the Nation.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements about the Congress during the early years of the Second World War:

1. The Congress ministries resigned in October 1939 after the British refused to promise independence after the war.

2. The Congress organised individual satyagrahas in 1940-41 after the failure of the Cripps Mission.

3. Subhas Chandra Bose disagreed with Gandhiji's ideal of ahimsa but respected him as the Father of the Nation.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Arrange the following events in chronological order:

1. Parallel government (prati sarkar) set up in Satara

2. Muslim League resolution for autonomy of Muslim-majority areas

3. Launch of the Quit India Movement

4. Sir Stafford Cripps sent to India by Churchill

Select the correct chronological order.

Match List-I with List-II:

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