CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The principal Congress objection to the state representatives in the constitution-making body was that they were:
A. All Muslim League members
B. Nominated by rulers rather than elected by the people
C. All British soldiers
D. Excluded from the body
Correct Answer: B
Congress objected that subjects of the princely states could not elect their own representatives.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The British Government promised to accept and implement the constitution:
A. Subject to non-accession and treaty conditions
B. Only if Congress won every province
C. Only if no minorities participated
D. Without any stated conditions
Correct Answer: A
The declaration made implementation conditional on provincial choice and a transfer-of-power treaty.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The proposed constitution-making process is historically important because it accepted the principle of:
A. British officials permanently writing India's constitution
B. A constitution without Indian participation
C. Military rule after the war
D. Indians framing their own constitution
Correct Answer: D
The declaration committed Britain to accepting a constitution framed by an Indian body, subject to stated conditions.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Were all members of the constitution-making body to be directly elected by the public?
A. Yes, by universal adult franchise
B. Yes, by separate provincial referendums
C. No
D. Yes, by municipal councils only
Correct Answer: C
British Indian members were indirectly elected by provincial legislators, while state representatives were appointed.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The constitution-making body would be approximately what fraction of the provincial electoral college?
A. One-half
B. One-tenth
C. One-third
D. Two-thirds
Correct Answer: B
The declaration proposed a body about one-tenth the size of the electoral college.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The election to the constitution-making body was to use:
A. Proportional representation
B. First-past-the-post only
C. Hereditary nomination
D. Direct universal voting
Correct Answer: A
The official declaration specified proportional representation.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Who would form the electoral college for the constitution-making body?
A. Only provincial governors
B. Only princely rulers
C. Only members of the British Parliament
D. Members of the lower houses of provincial legislatures
Correct Answer: D
The entire membership of the provincial lower houses would act as a single electoral college.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Before the constitution-making body's election, the proposals required:
A. A referendum in Britain
B. A royal conference of governors
C. Provincial elections
D. The dissolution of all provinces
Correct Answer: C
Provincial elections were to provide the legislatures that would serve as the electoral college.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
When was the constitution-making body to be established?
A. Before Cripps arrived
B. Immediately after the end of hostilities
C. After the 1946 Cabinet Mission only
D. After fifty years
Correct Answer: B
The process was to begin upon the cessation of the war.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Who would frame the new constitution under the Cripps proposals?
A. A constitution-making body
B. The British Cabinet alone
C. The Viceroy alone
D. The Federal Court alone
Correct Answer: A
An elected constitution-making body was to prepare the future constitution.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Which statement best describes the proposed Union?
A. It forced every province to join
B. It excluded the princely states
C. It provided only provincial reforms
D. It aimed at unity but allowed provinces to remain outside
Correct Answer: D
The declaration's central objective was an Indian Union, but it contained a non-accession clause.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The Cripps offer went beyond earlier proposals by explicitly promising:
A. Permanent rule under the 1919 Act
B. No Indian role in constitution-making
C. Full self-government through a new constitution
D. A return to Company rule
Correct Answer: C
It laid out a procedure for an Indian constitution-making body and Dominion status.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Gandhi's cheque metaphor criticised the proposal as:
A. An immediate transfer of sovereignty
B. A future promise from a weakening imperial power
C. A fully independent constitution
D. A permanent Muslim federation
Correct Answer: B
The metaphor conveyed distrust of a delayed British promise.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Which criticism arose because Dominion status was promised only after the war?
A. The offer postponed freedom to an uncertain future
B. It transferred defence immediately
C. It abolished the Viceroy
D. It created Pakistan immediately
Correct Answer: A
Congress leaders distrusted a promise whose implementation depended on the end of hostilities.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Dominion status under the Cripps proposals was to become effective:
A. Immediately on Cripps's arrival
B. Before the Second World War began
C. Only after 1960
D. After the end of hostilities and constitution-making
Correct Answer: D
The main constitutional transfer was postponed until after the war.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
Under the proposals, the future Indian Union could decide its relationship with:
A. The Ottoman Empire
B. The League of Nations only
C. The British Commonwealth
D. The Mughal Empire
Correct Answer: C
The proposed treaty would not restrict the Union's future decision regarding the Commonwealth.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The proposed Indian Union would initially share a common allegiance to the:
A. Congress president
B. British Crown
C. Muslim League president
D. United Nations Secretary-General
Correct Answer: B
Dominion status involved association with Britain and other Dominions through the Crown.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The proposed Dominion was to be equal to other Dominions in:
A. Domestic and external affairs
B. Local taxation only
C. Religious affairs only
D. Municipal administration only
Correct Answer: A
The declaration stated that the Indian Union would not be subordinate in domestic or external affairs.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The proposed Indian Union would have the constitutional status of a:
A. Crown colony
B. Protectorate
C. Municipality
D. Dominion
Correct Answer: D
The new Union was to be a Dominion equal in status to the existing Dominions.
CSS - PMS - CCE - PCS - Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1942 - Constitutional Proposals - Cripps Mission
The Cripps proposals aimed to create a new:
A. Punjab Federation only
B. British military colony
C. Indian Union
D. League of Princely States only
Correct Answer: C
The Draft Declaration proposed a new Indian Union after the war.