Practice MCQs — Revolutionary Movements (with Answers)

1. Who is regarded as the "Father of the Armed Revolutionary Movement in India"? Answer: Vasudev Balwant Phadke.

2. Who assassinated Plague Commissioner Rand in Poona (1897)? Answer: The Chapekar Brothers.

3. Who founded the Anushilan Samiti? Answer: Pramathanath Mitra (1902).

4. What was the Alipore Bomb Case connected with? Answer: A failed assassination attempt on judge Kingsford by Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki.

5. Who was successfully defended by C.R. Das in the Alipore Bomb Case? Answer: Aurobindo Ghosh.

6. Where and by whom was the Ghadar Party founded? Answer: San Francisco, USA, by Lala Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna (1913).

7. What was the Komagata Maru incident? Answer: A ship of Indian migrants denied entry to Canada, later fired upon at Budge Budge (1914).

8. What was the Kakori Conspiracy? Answer: A 1925 train robbery near Kakori by HRA revolutionaries to fund the movement.

9. Who founded the Hindustan Republican Association (later HSRA)? Answer: Ram Prasad Bismil, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, and Chandrashekhar Azad (1924).

10. Whom did Bhagat Singh and associates assassinate in 1928 in Lahore? Answer: J.P. Saunders (in retaliation for Lala Lajpat Rai's death).

11. What did Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt do in April 1929? Answer: Threw a bomb and leaflets in the Central Legislative Assembly, then courted arrest.

12. On what date were Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev executed? Answer: 23 March 1931 — observed as Shaheed Diwas.

13. How did Chandrashekhar Azad die? Answer: In a shootout at Alfred Park, Allahabad (1931); shot himself to avoid capture.

14. Who founded India House in London? Answer: Shyamji Krishna Varma (1905).

15. Who assassinated Curzon Wyllie in London (1909)? Answer: Madan Lal Dhingra.

16. Who led the Chittagong Armoury Raid (1930)? Answer: Surya Sen ("Masterda").

17. Who attacked the Pahartali European Club and died by cyanide? Answer: Pritilata Waddedar.

18. Who attempted to assassinate the Governor of Bengal at a Calcutta University convocation (1932)? Answer: Bina Das.

19. What did M.N. Roy go on to found internationally? Answer: The Communist Party of Mexico, later associated with the founding of the Communist Party of India.

20. What phrase did Bhagat Singh shout during the Assembly bombing? Answer: "Inquilab Zindabad" (Long Live the Revolution).

(End of Revolutionary Movements notes. Cross-reference with the Freedom Movement and Historical Timelines files.)