Gandhi's Quiz

Objective: answer 7 questions correctly. JavaScript required!


1. Gandhi launched his 20-year-long battle for improved treatment of Indians living in South Africa with what event?

A fight against a bill to disenfranchise Indians
A lawsuit against a railway company after being ejected from a first-class train compartment
A fight against a bill to restrict Indian immigration to South Africa
A campaign against a tax on indentured Indian laborers who elected to stay in South Africa

2.What book sparked Gandhi's belief in passive resistance?

The Bible
John Ruskin's "Unto This Last"
The Bhagavad-gita
Leo Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God Is Within You"

3. What event led to the creation of Gandhi's guiding principle of "satyagraha"?

An attempt by the British to register Indians living in South Africa's Transvaal
A tax put on Indian indentured laborers in South Africa who did not return to India
The formation of the All-India Muslim League
The British announcement that India should be groomed for self-governance

4. What event set off Gandhi's April 1919 campaign of civil disobedience in the Punjab?

The imprisonment without trial of Indians suspected of sedition
A government attempt to register Indians living in South Africa's Transvaal
The killing of 400 Indians in the Punjab by British troops
The perceived anti-Muslim prejudice of Britain's peace agreement with Turkey

5. How many Indians were arrested by the British during Gandhi's March 1930 protest against the salt tax?

W870
5,000
11,500
60,000

6.Why did Gandhi resign from leadership of the Congress Party in 1934?

He was imprisoned by the British on charges of sedition
He decided to embark on a month-long fasting campaign
He was forced out by a pro-socialist faction
He believed that the party saw nonviolence as a tactic, not a creed

7. Gandhi blamed which of the following as the primary impediment to India's commanding greater respect on the world stage?

The doctrine of untouchability
The Hindu caste system
The doctrine of reincarnation
The lack of adequate education

8. How large was the migration between India and Pakistan as a result of India's 1947 partition into a Muslim and Hindu state?

490,000 people
3.2 million people
7 million people
17 million people

9. In the last months of his life, Gandhi fasted to end bloody clashes between Muslims and Hindus in what two cities?

Calcutta and Delhi
Bombay and Delhi
Madras and Hyderabad
Allahabad and Amritsar

10. True or False: As part of his campaign for independence from Great Britain, Gandhi supported Germany and Japan during World War II.

True
False