Gandhi Quiz

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Today is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Here is a quiz to test your knowledge of Gandhi. 

Q.1. At which place was Gandhiji born?

(A) Ahmedabad

(B) Delhi

(C) Porbandar

(D) Bombay

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

(A) Karsandas Gandhi

(B) Uttamchand Gandhi 

(C) Karamchand Gandhi

(D) Laxmidas GandhiQ.3. What was Gandhi's wife's name?

(A) Putlibai

(B) Kasturbai

(C) Indira

(D) None of these 

Q.4. At what age was Gandhi married?

(A) Ten

(B) Thirteen

(C) Fifteen

(D) Eighteen

Q.5. After his father's death Mahatma Gandhi went to England to pursue a career in ______?

(A) Medicine

(B) Engineering

(C) Law

(D) Philosophy

Q. 6. How old was Gandhi when he went to England?

(A) 19

(B) 25

(C) 17

(D) 21

Q. 7. Which institution did Gandhi attend for his legal studies in London?

(A) Inner Temple

(B) King's College

(C) Lincoln's Inn

(D) Gray's Inn

Q. 8. What did Gandhi do after completing his studies in England?

(A) He returned home to India immediately

(B) He remained there for ten years

(C) He went directly to South Africa

(D) He went to USA

Q. 9. In what year was the Satyagraha ashram founded?

(A) 1918

(B) 1915

(C) 1900

(D) 1924

Q. 10. In what year was Indian Opinion founded?

(A) 1890

(B) 1885

(C) 1903

(D) 1901

Q.11. Gandhi said: “The soul of India lives in _.” 

(a) Cities

(B)   Villages

(b) Metro Cities 

(c) Jungles

Q.12. Who was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi?

(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(c) Dadabhai Naoroji

(d) Pherozeshah Mehta

Q.13. Which one of the following Muslim leaders was not a part of the Non-cooperation movement started by Gandhiji?

(a) M.A.Jinnah

(b) M.A.Ansari

(c) Hakim Ajmal Khan

(d) Abul Kalam Azad

Q.14. The Non-Cooperation Movement was at its peak during the Viceroyalty of ___________.

(a) Lord Chelmsford

(b) Irwin

(c) Reading

(d) Hardinge 

Q.15. In which city was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated on 30 January, 1948?

(a) Delhi

(b) Bombay

(c) Kolkata

(d) Allahabad

Q.16. How many volunteers had accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on the famed Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha starting on March 12, 1930?

(a) 76

(b) 77

(c) 78

(d) 79

Q.17. Name the city where Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi in 1919 to protest against the Rowlatt Act.  

(a) Bombay

(b) Lahore

(c) Calcutta

(d) Ahmedabad

Q.18. Who among the following was a source of inspiration to Gandhi?

(a) Tolstoy

(b) Lenin

(c) Karl Marx

(d) None of the above

Q.19. Gandhiji had launched Champaran Satyagrah in 1917 for

(a) Uplift of Depressed Class of India

(b) Unifying Hindu Society

(c) Protesting against the injustice meted out to Indigo farmers 

(d) All of the above

Q. 20. On 4th February in 1922, a police station in the small town of Chauri Chaura was set on fire that killed 22 policemen, leading to Gandhi suspending his Non-Cooperation Movement. Chauri Chaura is in which present day Indian state?

(A) Bihar

(B) Uttar Pradesh

(C) Madhya Pradesh

(D) Gujarat

Q. 21. Where was Gandhiji when India achieved independence on 15th August 1947?

(A) Bombay

(B) Delhi

(C) Calcutta

(D) Dacca

Q. 22. Which UK Prime Minister among the following had described Mahatma Gandhi as a 'seditious Middle Temple Lawyer' now 'posing as a half-naked fakir'?

(A) Neville Chamberlain

(B) Clement Attlee

(C) Stanley Baldwin

(D) Winston Churchill 

Answer: 

Q.1. - C

Gandhiji was born in Porbandar in Gujarat on October 2 in 1869

Q.2. - C

Gandhi's father was named Karamchand Gandhi. He served as the Diwan (chief minister) of Porbandar and Rajkot. He was also known as Kaba Gandhi. 

Q.3. - B

Q.4. - B

In May 1883, 14-year-old Kasturba was married to 13-year-old Mohandas in a marriage arranged by their parents. 

Q.5. - C

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had sailed for England on 4th September, 1888 to study law and become a barrister.

Q.6. - A

Mahatma Gandhi was around 19-years-old when he left Bombay on September 4, 1888, in the steamer Clyde and disembarked in Britain seven weeks later after ‘celebrating’ his 19th birthday at sea. 

Q. 7. - A

Mahatma Gandhi studied law in London and was a student at The Inner Temple, which he was admitted to in 1888. 

Q. 8. - A

After passing his examinations, Gandhiji was called to the Bar on 10th June, 1891 and was enrolled in the High Court of England the next day. A day after this, he sailed home to India.

Q. 9.- B 

Mahatma Gandhi founded the Satyagraha Ashram (Kochrab Ashram) in 1915 in Kochrab, a village near Ahmedabad, a year after his return from South Africa.

Q. 10. - C

Gandhi's first newspaper The Indian Opinion was started in 1903 as a mouthpiece of the Natal Indian Congress.

Q.11.- B

Gandhi said, “The soul of India lives in its villages.”

Q.12.- A

Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a mentor to Mahatma Gandhi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Gokhale had described Jinnah as "an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity". Once Jinnah had expressed the desire to become "the Muslim Gokhale".

Q.13. - A

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a vocal proponent of the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-22) started by Gandhiji  and was actively involved in the  Non-cooperation Movement. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (M.A.Ansari) was at the core of the political activities during the Non-Cooperation Movement (1921). 

Hakim Ajmal Khan was elected to the All India Khilafat Committee spearheading the Khilafat Movement that took place in concert non-cooperation movement

Jinnah was opposed to non-cooperation movement. 

Q.14. - C

Lord Reading was the Viceroy of India during which the Non-cooperation Movement had reached its pinnacle and was abruptly withdrawn by Mahatma Gandhi in 1922.

Q.15.- A

Q.16. - C

78 volunteers had accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on the famed 24-day Dandi March which lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930. This march on foot covered 240 miles (390 km). It is also called Salt Satyagraha.  

Q.17. - A

Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Sabha in 1919 at Bombay to protest against the Rowlatt Act. 

Q.18. - A

The Kingdom of God is Within You written by Leo Tolstoy greatly influenced Gandhi. 

Q.19. - C

Q. 20. - B

The Chauri Chaura Incident took place on 4 February 1922 at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) in British India.

Q. 21. - C

On India's Independence Day, August 15, 1947, Mahatma Gandhi was in Kolkata (then Calcutta) on a peace mission amidst escalating communal violence following the partition. 

Q.22. - D 

"It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir… striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace," Churchill said of Gandhi in 1931.

On another occasion he said of Gandhi, "We should be rid of a bad man and an enemy of the Empire if he died."