Indian National Movement | Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919)

Indian National Movement | Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919)

Nov 21, 2024 - 11:37 Updated: Nov 21, 2024 - 11:52
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1. When was the Rowlatt Act passed?

1909
1919
1930
1942

2. The Rowlatt Act aimed at

Compulsory economic support to war efforts
Imprisonment without trial and summary procedures for trial
Suppression of the Khilafat Movement
Imposition of restrictions on freedom of the press

3. During the Indian Freedom Struggle, why did Rowlatt Act arouse popular Indignation?

It curtailed the freedom of religion
It suppressed the traditional Indian education
It authorized the Government to imprison people without trial
It curbed the trade union activities

4. The Rowlatt Act was passed to

Bring about Agrarian Reforms
Curtail the National and Revolutionary Activities
Have a favourable 'Balance of Trade'
Put Second World War criminals on trial

5. Who was the Viceroy of India when the Rowlatt Act was passed?

Lord Irwin
Lord Reading
Lord Chelmsford
Lord Wavell

6. Indian National Congress opposed the Rowlatt Act because it aimed

To limit the individual liberty
To ban on Indian National Congress
To enlarge the communal delegations
To imprison national leaders charging the traitors to the nation

7. The first venture of Gandhi in all India politics was the

Non-Co-operation Movement
Rowlatt Satyagraha
Champaran Movement
Dandi March

8. Who suggested launching of no tax campaign as a protest against Rowlatt Act?

Abul Kalam Azad
Gandhiji
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Swami Shraddhananda

9. The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crime Act (1919) was popularly known as the

Rowlatt Act
Pitt's India Act
Indian Arms Act
Ilbert Bill

10. Which important even immediately preceded Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

Non-Co-operation Movement
Enactment of Rowlatt Act
Communal Award
Arrival of Simon Commission

11. The massacre of the crowd at Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar took place on

5 May, 1918
1 April, 1919
13 April, 1919
29 July, 1919

12. The year 1919 in Indian history is related to

for the transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi
for the tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Partition of Bengal
Khilafat Movement

13. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in the city

Meerut
Agra
Amritsar
Lahore

14. During the Indian freedom struggle, a large unarmed crowd gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar on 13 April, 1919 to protest against the arrest of

Swami Shraddhananda and Mazharul Haq
Madan Mohan Malviya and Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Mahatma Gandhi and Abul Kalam Azad
Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlu and Dr. Satyapal

15. Why did people gather to demonstrate at Jallianwala Bagh?

To protest against the arrest of Gandhi and Lajpat Rai
To protest against the arrest of Kitchlu and Satyapal
To offer prayers on the Baisakhi Day
To protest against the arbitrarily of inhuman acts of the Punjab Government

16. The name of the famous person of India who returned the Knighthood conferred on him by the British Government as a token of protest against the atrocities in Punjab in 1919 was

Tej Bahadur Sapru
Ashutosh Mukherjee
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Syed Ahmed Khan

17. Rabindra Nath Tagore gave up his 'Knighthood' in protest to which one of the following?

Rowlatt Act
Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh
Simon Commission
Cripps Mission

18. Who among the following had resigned from the Viceroy's Executive Council protesting Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?

Rabindra Nath Tagore
Madan Mohan Malviya
Sir Shankar Nair
All three above

19. The Hunter Committee was appointed after the

Black-hole incident
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Uprising of 1857
Partition of Bengal

20. General Dyer O'Dwyer name is associated with which of the following event?

Black Hole of Calcutta
Battle of Rani Durgavati
Battle of 1857
Jallianwala Bagh

21. Who from the following killed O' Dwyer responsible for Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?

Prithvi Singh Azad
Sardar Kishan Singh
Udham Singh
Sohan Singh Josh

22. Udham Singh killed in London

Lord Hardinge
General Dyer
Sir Michael O'Dwyer
Lord Willingdon

23. Sir Michael O'Dwyer was shot dead on 13th March, 1940 in London by

Madan Lal Dhingra
M.P.T. Acharya
V.D. Savarkar
Udham Singh

24. The task of drafting Congress Inquiry Committee report on Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was entrusted to

Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Gandhi
C.R. Das
Fazlul Haq

25. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919?

Lord Chelmsford
Lord Minto
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Canning

26. Who was the Prime Minister of England when the Montague- Chelmsford Act was passed in 1919?

Lloyd George
George Hamilton
Sir Samuel Hoare
Lord Salisbury

27. Which one of the following events, was characterized by Montague as 'Preventive Murder'?

Killing of INA activities
Massacre of Jallianwala Bagh
Shooting of the Mahatma
Shooting of Curzon-Wythe

28. Which one of the following aroused a wave of popular indignation that led to the massacre by the British a Jallianwala Bagh?

The Arms Act
The Public Safety Act
The Rowlatt Act
The Vernacular Press Act