Question

Mention the main aim of the Quit India Movement.

Answer 1

Concept:

• A source based question of one mark is answered from the passage itself, in a single clear sentence.
• The aim of a movement is the demand it was launched to press, so the words demanding and calling for in the source point straight to it.

Step 1: Locate the demand in the source.
The passage states that Gandhiji launched a movement calling for the complete withdrawal of the British from India.

Step 2: Confirm it from the resolution.
The Congress Working Committee met at Wardha on 14 July 1942 and passed the Quit India resolution demanding the immediate transfer of power to Indians and asking the British to quit India.

Step 3: State the aim in one sentence.
The two lines say the same thing, so the aim can be written as the immediate end of British rule and the handing over of power to Indians.

Final Answer: The main aim of the Quit India Movement was to secure the complete and immediate withdrawal of the British from India and the transfer of power to Indians.

Answer 2

Concept:

• The question asks for a place, so the answer is a single name taken directly from the source.
• The passage links the speech to a particular meeting, and naming that meeting gives the place.

Step 1: Find the sentence about the speech.
The source says that on 8 August 1942 in Bombay the All India Congress Committee endorsed the resolution, and that it was on this occasion that Gandhiji delivered the famous Do or Die speech.

Step 2: Separate this meeting from the earlier one.
An earlier meeting is also mentioned in the passage, the Congress Working Committee at Wardha on 14 July 1942. The speech was not made there.
The words on this occasion tie the speech to the Bombay session.

Step 3: State the place.
The speech was delivered at the session of the All India Congress Committee held in Bombay on 8 August 1942.

Final Answer: Gandhiji delivered the Do or Die speech at Bombay, at the meeting of the All India Congress Committee on 8 August 1942.

Answer 3

Concept:

• A form of protest is the actual method people used to show their opposition, such as a strike, a march or a refusal to work.
• The source lists several such methods, and the answer should pick them out and explain each briefly.

Step 1: Hartals were observed.
People shut shops, businesses and workplaces as a mark of protest. A hartal made the opposition visible across a town in a single day and needed no weapons.

Step 2: Demonstrations and processions were taken out.
Crowds gathered in public and marched through streets. These processions were accompanied by national songs and slogans, which spread the message of the movement to people who had not read about it.

Step 3: Ordinary people joined in large numbers.
The movement brought thousands of ordinary people into its fold, namely students, workers and peasants. Their participation turned it into a truly mass movement rather than a protest of leaders alone.

Step 4: Normal administration was brought to a halt.
Because people voluntarily threw themselves into the thick of the movement, the state machinery was almost brought to a standstill in large parts of the country.
The British had to use much force, and even then it took them more than a year to suppress the movement.

Final Answer: Protest took the form of hartals, public demonstrations and processions with national songs and slogans, and mass participation by students, workers and peasants, which together brought the administration to a standstill in many parts of the country.