Q140. The Quit India Movement was launched following which event?
[UPSSSC PET, 16 October 2022, Shift 2]
(A) Cabinet Mission Plan
(B) Wavell Plan
(C) Simon Commission Report
(D) Failure of the Cripps Mission
Answer: (D) Failure of the Cripps Mission
Explanation: Cripps offered delayed constitutional concessions during the Second World War, without satisfying demands for immediate Indian control. The breakdown of these negotiations contributed to the Congress decision to launch the Quit India Movement in August 1942.
Q139. Which event is known as the Calcutta Killings?
[RRB Group D CBT, 6 October 2022, Shift 1]
(A) Quit India Movement
(B) Direct Action Day
(C) Salt Satyagraha
(D) Bengal Satyagraha
Answer: (B) Direct Action Day
Explanation: The Great Calcutta Killings followed Direct Action Day on 16 August 1946, called by the All-India Muslim League. Severe communal violence broke out in the city, deepening divisions that subsequently influenced the negotiations and violence surrounding Partition.
Q138. Who is remembered for hoisting the Indian National Flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, during Quit India in 1942?
[RRB Group D CBT, 19 September 2022, Shift 2]
(A) Velu Nachiyar
(B) Rani Gaidinliu
(C) Aruna Asaf Ali
(D) Durgavati Devi
Answer: (C) Aruna Asaf Ali
Explanation: Aruna Asaf Ali raised the national flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan on 9 August 1942 as Quit India leaders faced detention. She subsequently became a significant underground organizer. The flag-hoisting came to symbolize defiance of the colonial crackdown.
Q137. Match the events with years: 1. Simon Commission; 2. Cripps Mission; 3. Jallianwala Bagh; 4. Chauri Chaura. (a) 1919, (b) 1928, (c) 1942, (d) 1922.
[RRB Group D CBT, 26 August 2022, Shift 2]
(A) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d
(B) 1-d, 2-c, 3-a, 4-b
(C) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d
(D) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d
Answer: (C) 1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-d
Explanation: The Simon Commission arrived in 1928, the Cripps Mission came in 1942, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred in 1919, and the Chauri Chaura incident occurred in 1922. Ordering these dates helps distinguish stages of the national movement.
Q136. Which non-Congress political leader was associated with leadership during Quit India?
[Odisha Police SI Paper II, 2 July 2022]
(A) B. R. Ambedkar
(B) Jayaprakash Narayan
(C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Kasturba Gandhi
Answer: (B) Jayaprakash Narayan
Explanation: Jayaprakash Narayan, associated with Congress Socialist activity, helped sustain resistance after the arrest of major nationalist leaders. He escaped from Hazaribagh prison during the movement and became a notable figure in underground anti-colonial networks.
Q135. In which year was the Quit India Movement launched?
[APSSB Forester, 26 June 2022]
(A) 1940
(B) 1942
(C) 1922
(D) None of the above
Answer: (B) 1942
Explanation: The movement was initiated by the All India Congress Committee on 8 August 1942 at Bombay. Its call for British withdrawal came in the midst of World War II and was followed by arrests, public protest and underground organization.
Q134. Which freedom fighter from Assam was hanged in connection with the Quit India Movement?
[SSC CGL 2021 Tier I, held 21 April 2022, Shift 3]
(A) Kushal Konwar
(B) K. M. Munshi
(C) Potti Sreeramulu
(D) Senapati Bapat
Answer: (A) Kushal Konwar
Explanation: Kushal Konwar was executed in June 1943 after being accused in a railway sabotage case in Assam during the Quit India period. He is remembered as a Gandhian activist who maintained his innocence and advocated nonviolence.
Q133. Which statement about the Cabinet Mission is NOT correct?
[DSSSB Junior Secretariat Assistant, 9 April 2022, Shift 2]
(A) It rejected the Pakistan demand
(B) It arrived in March 1946
(C) It had four British Cabinet members
(D) It proposed a Constituent Assembly
Answer: (C) It had four British Cabinet members
Explanation: The Cabinet Mission had three British Cabinet ministers, not four: Pethick-Lawrence, Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander. It proposed a constitution-making body and attempted to preserve a united India through a limited Union and provincial groupings.
Q132. Which statement about the Mountbatten Plan is false?
[MP Police Constable, 3 February 2022, Shift 2]
(A) The two new dominions would decide all boundary disputes entirely on their own
(B) The dominions could determine their Commonwealth relationships
(C) India would be divided into India and Pakistan
(D) The plan was announced on 3 June 1947
Answer: (A) The two new dominions would decide all boundary disputes entirely on their own
Explanation: The plan provided for boundary commissions to determine the division of the Punjab and Bengal provinces, rather than leaving all delimitation entirely to the successor dominions. It also accepted two new dominions and independence through legislation.
Q131. By what other name was the Quit India Movement known?
[MP Police Constable, 25 January 2022, Shift 2]
(A) Satyagraha
(B) August Movement
(C) Khilafat Movement
(D) Kheda Movement
Answer: (B) August Movement
Explanation: The Quit India Movement was also referred to as the August Movement because of its launch in August 1942. Its immediate political demand was an end to British colonial rule, represented in Gandhi’s Do or Die call.
