Quiz on Gandhi and His Thought - APPSC G1 & G2

1. Where was Gandhi born?

(A) South Africa

(B) Delhi

(C) Porbandar

(D) Bombay

2. What was the name of Gandhi's father?

(A) Jawaharlal

(B) Karamchand

(C) Putlibai

(D) Mohandas

3. At what age was Gandhi married?

(A) Ten

(B) Thirteen

(C) Fifteen

(D) Eighteen

4. What was Gandhi's wife's name?

(A) Putlibai

(B) Karamchand

(C) Indira

(D) Kasturbai

5. What did Gandhi go to England to study after his father's death?

(A) Medicine

(B) Law

(C) Religion

(D) Philosophy

6. How old was Gandhi when he went to London?

(A) 19

(B) 25

(C) 17

(D) 21

7. What did Gandhi do after completing his studies in England?

(A) He remained there for ten years

(B) He returned home to India immediately

(C) He went directly to South Africa

(D) He went to America

8. Why did Gandhi go to South Africa?

(A) To work on a lawsuit

(B) To work as a missionary

(C) To work as a political activist

(D) To see his mother

9. The "Indian Franchise Bill" in Natal was intended to:

(A) Give Indian women the vote

(B) Give all Indians the vote

(C) Deprive Indian women of the right to vote

(D) Deprive all Indians of the right to vote

10. Who is the author of The Kingdom of God is Within You?

(A) Leo Tolstoy

(B) John Ruskin

(C) Gandhi

(D) Muhammed

11. From what text does the Sermon on the Mount derive?

(A) The Bhagavad-Gita

(B) The Christian New Testament

(C) The Koran

(D) The writings of Tolstoy

12. "Mahatma" means

(A) Prince

(B) Man of Justice

(C) Leader

(D) Great Soul

13. What was Raychandra's religion?

(A) Hinduism

(B) Jainism

(C) Islam

(D) Christianity

14. Why did Gandhi return to India in 1896?

(A) To bring his wife and children to South Africa

(B) To see his mother

(C) To meet with the Viceroy

(D) To settle permanently

15. The Boer War was fought between:

(A) The British and the Germans

(B) The Boers and the British

(C) The Boers and the black population of South Africa

(D) The Boers and the Germans

16. How did Gandhi contribute to the Boer War?

(A) He betrayed the British

(B) He refused to cooperate with the British

(C) He recruited soldiers for the British

(D) He organized a medical corps for the British

17. Why did Gandhi go to India in 1901?

(A) To bring his family back to South Africa

(B) To meet Raychandra

(C) To attend the Indian National Congress

(D) To found an ashram

18. In what year was Indian Opinion founded?

(A) 1890

(B) 1885

(C) 1904

(D) 1901

19. To what does the term Brahmacharya refer?

(A) Non-violent resistance

(B) The Hindu Scriptures

(C) The voluntary refusal of sexual relations by Hindu men

(D) The British rule over India

20. Who was Jan Smuts?

(A) The Prime Minister of the Transvaal

(B) The publisher of Indian Opinion

(C) The British Viceroy of India

(D) The only Boer in the Natalese Indian Congress

21. Where did Gandhi go in 1909?

(A) London

(B) America

(C) Pakistan

(D) To a prison in the Cape Colony

22. Satyagraha means, literally:

(A) "Non-cooperation"

(B) "Truth force"

(C) "Justice"

(D) "Peace"

23. In 1913, Gandhi protested a South African law that:

(A) Made Muslim marriages legal

(B) Abolished the Caliphate

(C) Forced all Indians to register with the government

(D) Made all non-Christian marriages illegal

24. In what year did Gandhi leave South Africa for the last time?

(A) 1912

(B) 1918

(C) 1914

(D) 1916

25. When did World War I begin?

(A) August 1914

(B) September 1915

(C) May 1914

(D) July 1913

26. How did Gandhi respond to World War I?

(A) He went to jail in protest against the war

(B) He led massive satyagraha campaigns

(C) He recruited Indians for the British Army

(D) He kept himself out of public life

27. In what year was the Satyagraha ashram founded?

(A) 1918

(B) 1915

(C) 1900

(D) 1924

28. What was the effect of the Rowlatt Act?

(A) It gave India home rule

(B) It sharply curtailed Indian civil liberties

(C) It created the Raj

(D) It created Pakistan

29. What is a hartal?

(A) A day of violence

(B) A communal farm

(C) A religious ritual

(D) A day of fasting and prayer

30. In protest of what injustice did Gandhi organize a hartal on April 6, 1919?

(A) The Amritsar Massacre

(B) The Rowlatt Act

(C) Muslim-Hindu violence

(D) World War I

31. What event occurred on April 13, 1919?

(A) The Amritsar Massacre

(B) The Great Salt March

(C) The implementation of the Rowlatt Act

(D) Gandhi's first arrest

32. Gandhi first organized mass "non-cooperation" with the British in what year?

(A) 1912

(B) 1920

(C) 1925

(D) 1930

33. Who was Viceroy in March of 1922, when Gandhi was arrested?

(A) Lord Reading

(B) Lord Irwin

(C) Lord Mountbatten

(D) Jan Smuts

34. What were the effects of "non-cooperation" while Gandhi was in jail?

(A) It toppled British rule

(B) It led to the Viceroy's resignation

(C) It led to civil war

(D) It had no effect; it gradually fell apart

35. What did Gandhi do from 1924-28?

(A) He stayed away from politics

(B) He led the Great Salt March

(C) He drafted the Declaration of Independence

(D) He lived to London

36. In what year was the Declaration of Independence for India published?

(A) 1928

(B) 1930

(C) 1947

(D) 1929

37. What was the Salt March intended to protest?

(A) The Salt Act

(B) The Rowlatt Act

(C) The Government of India Act

(D) The Salt Laws

38. After the Salt March and the subsequent wave of protests, what did the British agree to do?

(A) Permit Indian home rule

(B) Hold a Round Table Conference in London

(C) Repeal the Salt Laws

(D) Allow India's immediate independence

39. When Gandhi arrived in London, how did the British receive him?

(A) Warmly

(B) Coolly

(C) With mass protests

(D) An attempt was made on his life

40. When he returned to India after the Round Table Conference, what happened in Gandhi's life?

(A) He was named President of the independent India

(B) He was arrested again

(C) He went into seclusion in his ashram

(D) He became a regular visitor at the Viceroy's palace

41. What events characterized the years 1934 to 1938 for Gandhi?

(A) India was wracked by civil war

(B) Gandhi led Indians in constant non-cooperation

(C) Gandhi withdrew from public life

(D) World War II took place

42. What important Act passed Parliament in 1935?

(A) The Dominion of India Act

(B) The Rowlatt Act

(C) The Government of India Act

(D) The Simon Act

43. Of what religion was Muhammed Ali Jinnah?

(A) He was a Sikh

(B) He was a Hindu

(C) He was a Muslim

(D) He was a Jain

44. What did the Muslim League demand by the late 1930s?

(A) Partition of India and the creation of an independent Pakistan

(B) Voting rights for Muslims

(C) Equal Muslim representation in the Congress

(D) The arrest of Gandhi

45. What was "Basic Education"?

(A) Gandhi's program for rural education

(B) Jinnah's program for religious education

(C) Britain's public school system

(D) Part of the Government of India Act

46. When did World War II begin?

(A) 1933

(B) 1939

(C) 1941

(D) 1914

47. During the war, what were the Congress's actions?

(A) It supported the war effort

(B) None; the Congress was dissolved

(C) It aided the Germans

(D) It offered its support to the British in exchange for immediate independence

48. What personal tragedy did Gandhi suffer in 1943?

(A) Nehru was assassinated

(B) His youngest son died

(C) His wife Kasturbai died

(D) His mother died

49. In what year did India achieve its independence?

(A) 1947

(B) 1950

(C) 1942

(D) 1935

50. Who assassinated Gandhi?

(A) A disgruntled British soldier

(B) A Muslim nationalist

(C) Muhammed Ali Jinnah

(D) A Hindu nationalist