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Gandhi Jayanti

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on _________.

a)

October 2, 1896

b)

October 2, 1869

c)

October 2, 1868

d)

October 2, 1871

2.

Which of the following, according to Gandhiji, is an essential principle of Satyagraha?

a)

Infinite capacity for suffering

b)

Non violence

c)

Truth

d)

All of the above

3.

Which one of the following books is the work of Gandhiji?

a)

Light of India

b)

Hind Swaraj

c)

My Experiments with Truth

d)

Both B & C

4.

Who was the political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi ji?

a)

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

b)

Dayanand Saraswati

c)

Ravindra Nath Tagore

d)

None of the above

5.

What was the name of mother of Mahatma Gandhi?

a)

Leelawati

b)

Putlibai

c)

Sharda Bai

d)

Kusuma Devi

6.

At what age was Gandhi married?

a)

10

b)

15

c)

13

d)

18

7.

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

a)

Medicine

b)

Law

c)

Religion

d)

Philosophy

8.

Why did Gandhi return to India in 1896?

a)

To see his mother

b)

To bring his wife and children to South Africa

c)

To meet with the Viceroy

d)

To settle permanently

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

What personal tragedy did Gandhi suffer in 1943?

a)

Nehru was assassinated

b)

Nehru was assassinated

c)

His wife Kasturbai died

d)

His mother died

13.

Who assassinated Gandhi?

a)

A disgruntled British soldier

b)

A Muslim nationalist

c)

Muhammed Ali Jinnah

d)

A Hindu nationalist

14.

Who called Gandhiji as ‘Mahatma’?

a)

Rabindranath Tagore

b)

Jawaharlal Nehru

c)

Indira Gandhi

15.

Gandhiji believed that

a)

End justifies means

b)

Means justify end

c)

Neither end justifies means nor means justify end

d)

End and means both should be justified

16.

October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi is internationally observed as -

a)

Non-violence Day

b)

Vegetarians Day

c)

Martyrs' Day

d)

Communal Harmony Day

17.

Gandhiji organized ‘Dandi March’ in 1930 against :

a)

Atrocities on Harijans

b)

Repression of the Congress

c)

Imposition of tax on salt

d)

The Communal Award

18.

To how many years of imprisonment was Mahatma Gandhi sentenced for the first time in India?

a)

3

b)

6

c)

2

d)

7