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Unit Quiz

How did India achieve independence in 1947?

This quiz will help you to assess your learning of key concepts and knowledge in this unit.

Due to the overlap in knowledge and themes, the following Unit Quiz assesses knowledge from the following enquiries: 1) How did India achieve independence in 1947? 2) Who decolonised in the Twentieth Century? 3) What kind of stories can be told about the sixties? The Unit Quizzes for these enquiries are all the same quiz

Q1.What was the aim of Congress and Gandhi?

for the British to give Indians some freedomfor India to achieve independence from the Britishfor India to fight the British and kill themfor India to become independent through violence

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Q2.What was the organisation that Gandhi led?

CongressConcludeConcordCondition

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Q3.Which country supported Indian independence after WW2?

USASouth AfricaAustraliaCanada

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Q4.What was the name given to the separation of India into two countries?

permissionpartitionpartialisationparliament

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Q5.What two countries was India split into in 1947?

India and SindIndia and PuneIndia and PakistanIndia and Panama

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Q6.What was 'Home Rule'?

Providing laws for orderly homes.Providing an MP in parliament for Ireland.Providing a parliament in Dublin for Ireland.Providing a leader in London for Ireland.

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Q7.What was the Easter Rising?

An armed rebellion by Irish nationalists against British rule in Ireland.An armed rebellion by Irish unionists for British rule in Ireland.

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Q8.What was Ghana called before independence?

The West CoastThe Ghana CoastThe Gold CoastThe Silver Coast

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Q9.Kwame Nkrumah became the leader of which party?

Congress People's PartyColonial People's PartyConvention People's Party

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Q10.What sporting event did England win in 1966?

The Football World CupThe AshesThe Rugby World CupThe European Championships

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Q11.What generation of people became teenagers and young adults in the Sixties?

Generation XMillennialsBaby BoomersThe Silent Generation

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Q12.Which band inspired a worldwide following that became known as a 'mania'?

The KinksThe WhoThe Rolling StonesThe Beatles

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Q13.Which group was known for motorcycling and wearing leather jackets?

ModsBeatlemaniacsRockersBaby Boomers

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Q14.What country had a large influenced on British art, music and culture during the Sixties?

FranceCanadaSpainAmerica

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Q15.What is an interpretation?

An opinion about the past that isn't based on evidenceA piece of evidence from the time, like a photographA view about the past which has been translated into another languageA view about the past that is based on evidence and made after the events

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Q16.What did the 1965 and 1968 Race Relations Acts do?

Limited migration from Caribbean countriesMade it illegal to discriminate against someone because of their raceGave non-white people the right to voteGave housing to people coming from Caribbean countries

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Q17.Who famously delivered the anti-immigration 'rivers of blood' speech?

Harold MacmillanMary QuantEnoch PowellDavid Hockney

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