Cengage Expert Team (CET) Solutions for Chapter: National Movement: Towards Freedom and Partition (1939-1947), Exercise 1: Practice Questions

With which of the following movements Aruna Asaf Ali associated?

With reference to the Constituent Assembly of India consider the following statements:
1. The constituent assembly was formed on the basis of the Cabinet Mission Plan.
2. The selection of representatives of various Indian states were flexible and decided by consultation.
3. The members of the constituent assembly from British provinces were directly elected by the people of undivided India.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct?

With reference to Wavell plan, consider the following statements:
1. The Governor-General Executive the council was to function as an interim government within the framework of 1935 Act.
2. The plan was accepted by the Muslim a league but rejected by Congress.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct?
 

Consider the following political factions at the time of freedom struggle of India in the 20th-century :
$1$. Congress Socialist Party
$2$. Muslim League
$3$. Hindu Mahasabha
Which of the above-given factions supported the Quit India Movement?

 
Which of the following was/were part of the Cripps proposal?
1. India to have dominion status after the war with the right to secede membership of international bodies.
2. Constituent assembly to be set up with members from both British Indian provinces and princely states.
3. Any province not willing to join Indian Union could have a separate Constitution for itself.
Select the correct answer using the codes are given below:
 

Consider the following:
The formula proposed by C. Raja Gopal Achari contained the following provisions:
1. Appointment of a commission after the war to decide the boundaries of north-east and north-west regions having a Muslim majority.
2. The holding of a referendum in the northeast and north-west regions having Muslim majority to ascertain whether the people wanted to remain with India or form a state of their own.
3. In case people in northeast and north-west regions want to have a separate state, they should be allowed to do so.
4. India and the newly created state shall share defence, communications, and external affairs.
Select the correct answer using the codes are given below:

With reference to the Wavell Plan, consider the following statements:
1. As per the plan, the Commander-in-chief of the armed forces would be Indian.
2. The department of external affairs would be in the hands of the British.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct?
 

 
On the eve of the launch of the Quit India Movement, Mahatma Gandhi
1. asked the government servants to resign.
2. asked the soldiers to leave their posts.
3. asked the Princes of the Princely
States to accept the sovereignty of their own people.
Which of the statements given above is/ are correct?