Q180. Matangini Hazra and Lakshman Naik sacrificed their lives in connection with which movement?
[UPSC CDS-II General Knowledge, 14 September 2025]
(A) Bardoli Satyagraha
(B) Non-Cooperation Movement
(C) Civil Disobedience Movement
(D) Quit India Movement
Answer: (D) Quit India Movement
Explanation: Matangini Hazra died during a procession at Tamluk in Bengal in September 1942. Lakshman Naik mobilized tribal communities in Odisha and was executed in March 1943. Both are remembered for their association with Quit India resistance.
Q179. Where did Aruna Asaf Ali hoist the national flag during the Quit India Movement?
[RRB NTPC UG CBT-I, 8 September 2025, Shift 1]
(A) Shivaji Park, Bombay
(B) Gandhi Maidan, Patna
(C) Pragati Maidan, Delhi
(D) Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay
Answer: (D) Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay
Explanation: Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay, now called August Kranti Maidan, hosted the All India Congress Committee’s August 1942 meeting. Aruna Asaf Ali’s flag-hoisting the following day represented continued defiance after the authorities arrested senior Congress leaders.
Q178. Who announced the British Government’s acceptance of the Partition of India?
[UPSSSC PET, 6 September 2025, Shift 1]
(A) Lord Mountbatten
(B) Lord Linlithgow
(C) C. Rajagopalachari
(D) Lord Hardinge
(E) None of the above
Answer: (A) Lord Mountbatten
Explanation: Lord Mountbatten presented the 3 June Plan in 1947, confirming British acceptance of Partition and accelerated transfer of power. The scheme was accepted by key political leadership and implemented through the Indian Independence Act of July 1947.
Q177. Arrange these events chronologically:
1. Cripps Mission;
2. Mountbatten Plan;
3. Royal Indian Navy Mutiny.
[AFCAT 02/2025, 23 August 2025, Shift 2]
(A) 1–2–3
(B) 1–3–2
(C) 3–1–2
(D) 2–3–1
Answer: (B) 1–3–2
Explanation: The Cripps Mission visited India in 1942, the naval ratings’ mutiny began in February 1946, and the Mountbatten Plan was announced in June 1947. Their correct order charts the final years before British withdrawal.
Q176. In which year was the Quit India Movement launched?
[DSSSB ASO, 20 August 2025, Shift 3]
(A) 1935
(B) 1945
(C) 1940
(D) 1942
Answer: (D) 1942
Explanation: The Quit India resolution passed in Bombay on 8 August 1942. It followed the breakdown of Cripps negotiations and demanded an end to British rule during wartime. Gandhi’s Do or Die appeal became associated with the movement.
Q175. The Cabinet Mission Plan aimed to do what?
[DSSSB ASO, 20 August 2025, Shift 1]
(A) Abolish zamindari immediately
(B) Partition India immediately
(C) Propose a framework for India’s independence
(D) Deliver full independence overnight
Answer: (C) Propose a framework for India’s independence
Explanation: The 1946 Cabinet Mission sought agreement on the political and constitutional framework for transfer of power. Its plan favored Indian unity, limited central subjects and provincial groupings, while providing for the formation of a Constituent Assembly.
Q174. Which British Prime Minister announced that British rule would end in India?
[RRB NTPC UG CBT-I, 13 August 2025, Shift 1]
(A) Stafford Cripps
(B) Pethick-Lawrence
(C) Clement Attlee
(D) Winston Churchill
Answer: (C) Clement Attlee
Explanation: Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in February 1947 that Britain intended to transfer power no later than June 1948. Events accelerated under Lord Mountbatten, and independence was actually achieved in August 1947 after Partition.
Q173. When was the Quit India Movement started?
[Indian Army Agniveer GD, 3 July 2025, Shift 2 (memory-based)]
(A) 1930
(B) 1942
(C) 1947
(D) 1919
Answer: (B) 1942
Explanation: The movement began with the Quit India resolution and Gandhi’s Bombay speech on 8 August 1942. It was a nationwide demand for the British to leave India, arising in the context of war and failed constitutional negotiations.
Q172. Why did Mahatma Gandhi visit Noakhali in 1946?
[RRB NTPC Graduate CBT-I, 13 June 2025, Shift 3]
(A) To assist only famine victims
(B) To organize the Quit India Movement
(C) To launch a wartime tax protest
(D) To promote communal harmony following violence
Answer: (D) To promote communal harmony following violence
Explanation: Gandhi traveled to Noakhali after widespread communal attacks in 1946. He moved among affected villages, urging reconciliation and peace. His intervention came during the escalating tensions that preceded the 1947 Partition of India.
Q171. Where was the first parallel government of the Quit India period established?
[RRB NTPC Graduate CBT-I, 9 June 2025, Shift 2]
(A) Ballia
(B) Talcher
(C) Satara
(D) Benaras
Answer: (A) Ballia
Explanation: A parallel administration briefly emerged in Ballia, in present-day Uttar Pradesh, during August 1942 under Chittu Pandey. Other notable examples appeared in Tamluk and Satara. Ballia must not be confused with Satara’s later Prati Sarkar in Maharashtra.
