Q70. After Vinoba Bhave, who was chosen as the second Individual Satyagrahi?
[UPSC CSE Prelims, 2009]
(A) Rajendra Prasad
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) C. Rajagopalachari
(D) Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
Explanation: Gandhi launched Individual Satyagraha in October 1940 as a limited protest against India being taken into the Second World War without consent. Vinoba Bhave was the first chosen participant, and Nehru followed.
Q69. Aruna Asaf Ali participated in underground activities during which movement?
[UPSC CSE Prelims, 2009]
(A) Civil Disobedience
(B) Non-Cooperation
(C) Quit India
(D) Swadeshi
Answer: (C) Quit India
Explanation: After the arrest of senior Congress leaders in August 1942, several activists organised resistance secretly. Aruna Asaf Ali was especially prominent, combining symbolic public defiance with underground work during the Quit India struggle.
Q68. With which movement is the slogan “Do or Die” associated?
[UPSC CSE Prelims, 2009]
(A) Swadeshi
(B) Non-Cooperation
(C) Civil Disobedience
(D) Quit India
Answer: (D) Quit India
Explanation: Mahatma Gandhi issued this appeal at Bombay on 8 August 1942, insisting that Indians must strive for immediate independence. The slogan captured the decisive character of the movement and inspired nationwide mobilisation.
Q67. Which of these were part of the Cripps proposals: 1. Full independence for India, 2. Establishment of a constitution-making body?
[UPSC CSE Prelims, 2009]
(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer: (B) 2 only
Explanation: Cripps promised Dominion status after the war rather than immediate complete independence. The proposals also envisaged an Indian body to frame a constitution. Congress objected to delayed power transfer and other provisions.
Q66. Which British Prime Minister dispatched the Cripps Mission to India?
[UPSC CSE Prelims, 2009]
(A) Ramsay MacDonald
(B) Stanley Baldwin
(C) Neville Chamberlain
(D) Winston Churchill
Answer: (D) Winston Churchill
Explanation: Winston Churchill headed Britain’s wartime government when Stafford Cripps was sent in March 1942. British authorities hoped to secure Indian political cooperation in the war, but the constitutional terms failed to produce agreement.
Q65. Put these events in historical order:
I. Cripps Mission,
II. Gandhi–Irwin Pact,
III. Simon Commission,
IV. Partition of India.
[UPPSC PCS Mains, 2009]
(A) I, II, III, IV
(B) II, I, IV, III
(C) II, III, I, IV
(D) III, II, I, IV
Answer: (D) III, II, I, IV
Explanation: The Simon Commission visited India in 1928, the Gandhi–Irwin Pact was signed in 1931, and the Cripps Mission arrived in 1942. Partition followed in 1947, making the fourth sequence correct.
Q64. Which two Congress leaders represented the party on the Partition Council headed by Mountbatten?
[UPPSC PCS Mains, 2009]
(A) Azad and Nehru
(B) Nehru and Patel
(C) Patel and Rajendra Prasad
(D) Azad and Rajendra Prasad
Answer: (B) Nehru and Patel
Explanation: Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel represented the Congress on the Partition Council. The body coordinated the administrative division of assets and services between the new dominions during the transfer of power.
Q63. On which date did the Constituent Assembly meet for the first time?
[UPPSC PCS Mains, 2009]
(A) 16 August 1947
(B) 26 January 1948
(C) 9 December 1946
(D) 26 November 1946
Answer: (C) 9 December 1946
Explanation: The Constituent Assembly held its inaugural meeting on 9 December 1946 in New Delhi. It was established under arrangements associated with the Cabinet Mission and later drafted the Constitution adopted in November 1949.
Q62. On what date was the Quit India resolution adopted?
[WBCS Prelims, 2009]
(A) 8 August 1942
(B) 9 September 1945
(C) 10 August 1951
(D) 14 February 1955
Answer: (A) 8 August 1942
Explanation: The All India Congress Committee ratified the Quit India resolution on 8 August 1942 at Gowalia Tank in Bombay. Government arrests began the next morning, leading to large-scale demonstrations and resistance.
Q61. Who seconded or supported the Quit India resolution moved at the 1942 Congress meeting?
[Uttar Pradesh Lower Subordinate Prelims, 2009]
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Rajendra Prasad
(C) Vallabhbhai Patel
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: (C) Vallabhbhai Patel
Explanation: At Bombay, Jawaharlal Nehru moved the Quit India resolution and Sardar Patel supported it. The adopted resolution demanded immediate British withdrawal and became the political foundation of the August uprising.
