14 extra multiple-choice questions for Advent of Gandhi and Mass Mobilisation (12th Standard History, Samacheer Kalvi), beyond the ones printed in the textbook — each with the correct option highlighted and a clear, worked explanation. Free to read in English and Tamil.
Q1
In Champaran, European planters compelled the indigo cultivators to grow indigo on what share of their fields?
- A. 1/4th
- B. 3/20thCorrect
- C. 1/10th
- D. 3/10th
Explanation. The planters bound the Champaran peasants to grow indigo compulsorily on 3/20th of their fields and to sell it at rates fixed by the planters, a system that reduced them to penury.
Q2
During the Ahmedabad mill dispute of 1918, Gandhi advised the textile workers to strike for what increase in wages?
- A. 25 percent
- B. 35 percentCorrect
- C. 50 percent
- D. 15 percent
Explanation. When the mill owners refused the demands of the low-paid workers, Gandhi advised a strike for a 35 percent wage increase and went on fast; the owners finally conceded.
Q3
Consider the following statements about the Kheda struggle (1918).
1. Under the famine code, cultivators were entitled to total remission if the crop yield was under 25 percent of the average.
2. The peasants approached the Servants of India Society, of which Gandhi was a member.
3. Gandhi continued the struggle even after the government agreed to collect revenue only from those who could pay.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A. 1 only
- B. 1 and 2 onlyCorrect
- C. 2 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Explanation. Statements 1 and 2 are in the lesson. Statement 3 is wrong: when the government ordered revenue to be collected only from ryots who could afford it, Gandhi withdrew the struggle.
Q4
The Servants of India Society, founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1905, had its headquarters at
- A. Chennai
- B. Allahabad
- C. PuneCorrect
- D. Nagpur
Explanation. The society, the first secular body devoted to the underprivileged, rural and tribal people, had its headquarters in Pune; Chennai, Mumbai, Allahabad and Nagpur held its notable branches.
Q5
Consider the following statements about the Indian Councils Act of 1919.
1. The Central Legislative Assembly was to have 41 nominated members out of a total of 144.
2. The Council of States was to have 60 members, of whom 26 were nominated.
3. Law and order and finance were 'transferred' subjects under elected Indian ministers.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- A. 1 and 2 onlyCorrect
- B. 2 and 3 only
- C. 1 and 3 only
- D. 1, 2 and 3
Explanation. The figures 41 of 144 and 26 of 60 are correct. Under Dyarchy, law and order and finance were 'reserved' subjects under the Governor; health, education and local self-government were transferred.
Q6
The moderate leaders who left the Congress to work the 1919 reforms formed the Indian Liberal Federation under the leadership of
- A. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- B. Surendranath BanerjeeCorrect
- C. Motilal Nehru
- D. Chittaranjan Das
Explanation. A group of moderate or liberal leaders led by Surendranath Banerjee wanted to try out the reforms, opposed the majority view and left the Congress to form the Indian Liberal Federation.
Q7
Assertion (A): In South India the Brahmin monopoly was challenged by educated and trading members of the non-Brahmin castes.
Reason (R): Brahmins formed only 3.2% of the population but held 72% of all graduates.
- A. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of ACorrect
- B. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- C. A is true but R is false
- D. A is false but R is true
Explanation. The lesson calls the Brahmin monopoly in the south formidable because with 3.2% of the population they had 72% of graduates; this is why non-Brahmin elites challenged it, as in the Non-Brahmin Manifesto of 1916.
Q8
To avenge the Jallianwala Bagh killings, Udham Singh assassinated whom at Caxton Hall, London, on 30 March 1940?
- A. Reginald Dyer
- B. Michael O'DwyerCorrect
- C. Lord Chelmsford
- D. Edwin Montagu
Explanation. Udham Singh, a Sikh youth raised at the Khalsa Orphanage, had witnessed the massacre. He shot Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lt. Governor of Punjab, and was hanged at Pentonville jail.
Q9
Besides endorsing the non-cooperation resolutions, the Nagpur Congress session of 1920 resolved to
- A. boycott the Simon Commission
- B. set up linguistic Provincial Congress CommitteesCorrect
- C. declare Purna Swaraj as the goal
- D. launch the Swarajya party
Explanation. The Nagpur session recognised and set up linguistic Provincial Congress Committees and asked workers to enrol villagers at a nominal fee of four annas, turning the Congress into a mass organisation.
Q10
Find the odd one out with respect to the 'No-changers'.
- A. C. Rajagopalachari
- B. Vallabhbhai Patel
- C. Rajendra Prasad
- D. Motilal NehruCorrect
Explanation. Rajagopalachari, Vallabhbhai Patel and Rajendra Prasad led the No-changers who opposed council entry. Motilal Nehru, with C.R. Das, led the pro-changers who launched the Swarajya party.
Q11
In the elections to the Central Assembly, the Swarajya party won how many of the 101 seats open for election?
- A. 42Correct
- B. 26
- C. 41
- D. 60
Explanation. The Swarajya party did reasonably well by winning 42 of the 101 elected seats. With other members it stalled many anti-people laws and exposed the inadequacy of the Act of 1919.
Q12
Match the following.
(A) Rampa revolt - 1. Ali brothers
(B) Khilafat movement - 2. Mustafa Kamal Pasha
(C) Abolition of the Caliphate - 3. Dr. Ambedkar
(D) Mook Nayak - 4. Alluri Sitarama Raju
- A. 4, 1, 2, 3Correct
- B. 1, 4, 3, 2
- C. 4, 2, 1, 3
- D. 2, 1, 4, 3
Explanation. Alluri Sitarama Raju led the tribal revolt in Rampa; the Ali brothers led the Khilafat movement; Mustafa Kamal Pasha abolished the Caliphate in Turkey; Mook Nayak was Ambedkar's journal.
Q13
Arrange the following in chronological order.
1. Communal Award announced
2. Gandhi-Irwin pact signed
3. Independent Labour Party launched by Ambedkar
4. Civil disobedience officially suspended
- A. 2, 4, 1, 3
- B. 1, 2, 4, 3
- C. 2, 1, 4, 3Correct
- D. 2, 1, 3, 4
Explanation. The Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed on 5 March 1931, the Communal Award came in August 1932, civil disobedience was officially suspended in May 1933 and the Independent Labour Party was formed in 1937.
Q14
The Vedaranyam salt march led by Rajaji in 1930 started from
- A. Thanjavur
- B. Kumbakonam
- C. TiruchirappalliCorrect
- D. Madras
Explanation. Rajaji's salt march began at Tiruchirappalli on 13 April 1930 and, passing Kumbakonam, Semmangudi and Thiruthuraipoondi, reached Vedaranyam, 150 miles away in Thanjavur district, on 28 April.
