Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
At the Simla Conference, the League insisted that Muslim members of the Executive Council should be nominated by:
A. Congress alone
B. The Muslim League
C. British provincial governors only
D. The princely states
Correct Answer: B
The League claimed to be the sole representative of Indian Muslims and demanded the right to nominate all Muslim members.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Simla Conference of 1945 was convened by:
A. Lord Wavell
B. Lord Mountbatten
C. Lord Minto
D. Lord Curzon
Correct Answer: A
Viceroy Lord Wavell called Indian leaders to Simla to discuss reconstituting the Executive Council.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
A major reason the Gandhi–Jinnah talks failed was disagreement over:
A. The principle, timing and method of creating Pakistan
B. The location of Simla
C. Membership of the Simon Commission
D. The 1909 reforms
Correct Answer: A
Jinnah sought prior recognition of Muslims as a nation and the Pakistan principle, while Gandhi's approach differed on procedure and sovereignty.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Gandhi–Jinnah talks were closely associated with the proposals of:
A. C. Rajagopalachari
B. Lord Curzon
C. Sir John Simon
D. Clement Attlee
Correct Answer: A
The C.R. Formula attempted to provide a basis for agreement on self-determination in Muslim-majority areas.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Gandhi–Jinnah talks were held in:
A. 1937
B. 1940
C. 1944
D. 1946
Correct Answer: C
Gandhi and Jinnah met in Bombay in September 1944 to discuss a possible settlement.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
During the Second World War, the League's relative political strength increased partly because:
A. Congress leadership was imprisoned after Quit India
B. Separate electorates were abolished
C. The League dissolved itself
D. Jinnah left politics permanently
Correct Answer: A
The suppression of Congress after 1942 gave the League more organizational space to expand and present its program.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The slogan and movement 'Quit India' was launched in 1942 by the:
A. Indian National Congress
B. Muslim League
C. Unionist Party
D. British Cabinet
Correct Answer: A
Congress launched the Quit India Movement; the League did not join and continued pressing its separate political demand.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Muslim League rejected the Cripps proposals mainly because they:
A. Clearly granted Pakistan immediately
B. Did not explicitly concede the League's Pakistan demand
C. Ended provincial choice
D. Abolished all future constitution-making
Correct Answer: B
Although provinces could opt out of a future union, the plan did not clearly accept Pakistan or provide the League's desired procedure.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Cripps Mission came to India in:
A. 1939
B. 1940
C. 1942
D. 1945
Correct Answer: C
Sir Stafford Cripps brought British constitutional proposals in March 1942 during the Second World War.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
At which Muslim League session was the Lahore Resolution incorporated as the League's supreme objective?
A. Madras session, 1941
B. Karachi session, 1907
C. Lucknow session, 1916
D. Allahabad session, 1930
Correct Answer: A
At the Madras session in April 1941, the League amended its constitution to make the Lahore Resolution its supreme objective.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Lahore Resolution later became widely known as the:
A. Pakistan Resolution
B. Delhi Resolution
C. Objectives Resolution
D. Independence Resolution of Congress
Correct Answer: A
Its demand became the formal foundation of the Pakistan Movement and it came to be called the Pakistan Resolution.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
Which political concept was strongly emphasized in Jinnah's 1940 presidential address?
A. Muslims and Hindus were two nations
B. India had no communities
C. Only class conflict mattered
D. Provincial identities should disappear
Correct Answer: A
Jinnah argued that Muslims possessed a distinct civilization, culture, history and social order and therefore constituted a nation.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Lahore Resolution declared the federal scheme in the Government of India Act 1935 to be:
A. Fully acceptable
B. Unsuitable and unworkable
C. Already implemented
D. A model for a unitary state
Correct Answer: B
The League rejected the 1935 federal scheme as unsuitable to India's communal and constitutional conditions.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
Under the Lahore Resolution, the constituent units of the proposed Muslim-majority regions were to be:
A. Autonomous and sovereign
B. Controlled entirely by the centre
C. Abolished
D. Governed permanently by Britain
Correct Answer: A
The resolution explicitly required constituent units to be autonomous and sovereign.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The geographical zones specifically mentioned in the Lahore Resolution were:
A. North-Western and Eastern zones
B. Southern and Central zones
C. Western and Deccan zones
D. Northern and Himalayan zones
Correct Answer: A
The resolution focused on Muslim-majority regions in the north-west and east of British India.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The original Lahore Resolution referred to:
A. One centralized Indian state
B. Independent states in Muslim-majority zones
C. Restoration of the Ottoman Empire
D. A unitary British dominion
Correct Answer: B
It called for geographically contiguous Muslim-majority areas in north-western and eastern India to be grouped into independent states.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The word 'Pakistan' in the text of the Lahore Resolution was:
A. Used repeatedly
B. Used once
C. Not used
D. Used only in the title
Correct Answer: C
The resolution did not use the word Pakistan; it described the constitutional principle of independent states in Muslim-majority zones.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
The Lahore Resolution was adopted on:
A. 23 March 1940
B. 22 December 1939
C. 16 August 1946
D. 3 June 1947
Correct Answer: A
It was adopted during the Lahore session and is nationally commemorated on 23 March.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
Who is commonly identified as the principal seconder of the Lahore Resolution?
A. Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
B. Aga Khan III
C. Sir Muhammad Shafi
D. Maulana Azad
Correct Answer: A
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman of the United Provinces seconded the resolution, with other provincial leaders also supporting it.
Pakistan Affairs (P.A)
1906 - Muslim Political Awakening - Muslim League
Who moved the Lahore Resolution?
A. A.K. Fazlul Huq
B. Chaudhry Rahmat Ali
C. Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan
D. Nawab Salimullah
Correct Answer: A
A.K. Fazlul Huq, Premier of Bengal, formally moved the resolution.