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🧠 Home Rule League Movement – UPSC Quiz
Q1. The Home Rule Movement in India was started in the year:
a) 1905
b) 1914
c) 1916
d) 1919
👉 Answer: c) 1916
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Q2. Who among the following started the Home Rule League in Madras?
a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Annie Besant
c) Aurobindo Ghosh
d) Lala Lajpat Rai
👉 Answer: b) Annie Besan
Q3. Who founded the Home Rule League in Pune and Bombay?
a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
d) Bipan Chandra Pal
👉 Answer: c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Q4. The main objective of the Home Rule Movement was:
a) Complete independence
b) Swaraj within the British Empire
c) Social reforms
d) Abolishing landlordism
👉 Answer: b) Swaraj within the British Empire
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Q5. Which of the following newspapers was associated with Annie Besant’s Home Rule activities?
a) Young India
b) The Hindu
c) Commonweal
d) Kesari
👉 Answer: c) Commonweal
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Q6. The slogan “Freedom is my birthright and I shall have it” is associated with:
a) Lala Lajpat Rai
b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c) Subhash Chandra Bose
d) Bhagat Singh
👉 Answer: b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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Q7. The Home Rule Movement declined mainly because of:
a) Arrest of leaders
b) Lack of mass support
c) Montagu Declaration (1917)
d) Non-cooperation Movement
👉 Answer: c) Montagu Declaration (1917)
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Q8. Annie Besant was associated with which Theosophical organization that supported the Home Rule League?
a) Arya Samaj
b) Brahmo Samaj
c) Theosophical Society
d) Indian National Congress
👉 Answer: c) Theosophical Society
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Q9. Tilak's Home Rule League mainly operated in:
a) North India
b) South India
c) Maharashtra and Karnataka
d) Central Provinces
👉 Answer: c) Maharashtra and Karnataka
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Q10. Which event gave momentum to the Home Rule Movement?
a) Partition of Bengal
b) First World War
c) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
d) Simon Commission
👉 Answer: b) First World War
