Q30. Who issued the freedom-struggle slogan “Do or Die”?
[SSC CPO Examination, 2005]
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Sardar Patel
(C) Subhas Chandra Bose
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (D) Mahatma Gandhi
Explanation: Mahatma Gandhi gave the instruction at the Congress meeting in Bombay in 1942. It was central to Quit India, emphasising that Indians should persist until their country achieved freedom.
Q29. Which parties did not support the Quit India Movement: Hindu Mahasabha, CPI and Punjab Unionist Party?
[Uttar Pradesh Lower Subordinate Prelims, 2004]
(A) Hindu Mahasabha only
(B) Communist Party of India only
(C) Unionist Party only
(D) All three parties
Answer: (D) All three parties
Explanation: The Hindu Mahasabha, Communist Party and Unionist Party did not back the Congress-led uprising as organisations. Their stances reflected differing wartime strategies and political interests, even though individual supporters sometimes acted independently.
Q28. Select the correct order:
1. Civil Disobedience,
2. Individual Satyagraha,
3. Quit India,
4. Cripps Mission.
[UPPSC PCS Prelims, 2004]
(A) 1, 2, 4, 3
(B) 1, 2, 3, 4
(C) 2, 1, 3, 4
(D) 2, 3, 1, 4
Answer: (A) 1, 2, 4, 3
Explanation: Civil Disobedience began in 1930. Individual Satyagraha followed in 1940, Cripps arrived in March 1942, and Quit India commenced in August 1942. This places the Cripps negotiations just before the mass uprising.
Q27. In which city did the Royal Indian Navy Revolt begin in 1946?
[WBCS Prelims, 2004]
(A) Calcutta
(B) Madras
(C) Bombay
(D) Calicut
Answer: (C) Bombay
Explanation: The ratings’ strike originated in Bombay in February 1946, initially at HMIS Talwar. The agitation grew in scope, drawing public demonstrations and revealing dissatisfaction within a key British-controlled armed service.
Q26. Who held the post of Sarvadhinayak in the Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar?
[WBCS Prelims, 2004]
(A) Ajoy Mukherjee
(B) Satish Chandra Samanta
(C) Sushil Chandra Dhara
(D) Narendra Deva
Answer: (B) Satish Chandra Samanta
Explanation: Satish Chandra Samanta led the Tamralipta parallel government established in the Tamluk region of Bengal during Quit India. The organisation administered local affairs and symbolised temporary resistance to colonial governance.
Q25. Which movement followed the breakdown of the Cripps negotiations?
[WBCS Prelims, 2004]
(A) Khilafat Movement
(B) Non-Cooperation Movement
(C) Civil Disobedience Movement
(D) Quit India Movement
Answer: (D) Quit India Movement
Explanation: Cripps’s inability to secure a constitutional agreement in 1942 aggravated Congress frustration with British wartime policy. A few months later, the Congress adopted the Quit India resolution demanding immediate independence.
Q24. Who was the final Governor-General of independent India?
[46th BPSC Prelims, 2004]
(A) C. Rajagopalachari
(B) Rajendra Prasad
(C) Lord Mountbatten
(D) Lord Canning
Answer: (A) C. Rajagopalachari
Explanation: Rajagopalachari followed Mountbatten and held the office until the Indian Constitution took effect. He should not be confused with Lord Mountbatten, the first Governor-General after the formal transfer of power.
Q23. India’s Constituent Assembly was set up under which constitutional arrangement?
[UPPSC Special Mains, 2004]
(A) Indian Independence Act
(B) Government of India Act 1935
(C) Queen’s Proclamation
(D) Cabinet Mission Plan
Answer: (D) Cabinet Mission Plan
Explanation: The 1946 Cabinet Mission Plan laid down the scheme for assembling representatives to draft an Indian constitution. The first sitting took place later that year, before British sovereignty formally ended.
Q22. What was a central feature of the Cripps Mission proposals of 1942?
[UPSC CSE Prelims, 2003]
(A) Compulsory accession of all princely states
(B) An Indian Union with postwar Dominion status
(C) Immediate full sovereignty only after wartime mobilisation
(D) No option for provinces to frame separate constitutions
Answer: (B) An Indian Union with postwar Dominion status
Explanation: Cripps proposed a new Indian constitutional order with Dominion status after the war. Provinces unwilling to join the projected Union could choose another course; the offer failed amid disagreements on sovereignty and interim authority.
Q21. Who headed the Indian Interim Government formed in 1946?
[UPSC CSE Prelims, 2003]
(A) Rajendra Prasad
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Vallabhbhai Patel
(D) C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: (B) Jawaharlal Nehru
Explanation: Jawaharlal Nehru was Vice-President of the Viceroy’s Executive Council and effective head of the Interim Government from September 1946. The cabinet operated during the final transition toward independence.
