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TASK 2 * MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI * OVERVIEW .....................................

Test yourself ... in 29 questions!

... Are these statements "True" or "False"? Click on WIKIPEDIA GANDHI to find the answers.

...Justify your answers when the answer is false.

1. Gandhi was Hindu.
True     False

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2. He married his wife at the age of 15.
True      False
 
3. His wife Kastrurba Makharj was 13.
True     False
 
4. Gandhi went to Boston to become a barrister.
True      False
 
5. Then he worked for an Indian firm in South America.
True      False
 
6. Indian people were subjected to a lot of discriminations in South Africa.
True     False
 
7. He was thrown off a train because he didn't have a ticket.
True      False
 
8. Having been thrown off the train, he decided to leave South Africa.
True      False
 
9. He adopted a special way of protesting based on non-violence.
True     False
 
10. He was even ready to endure different punishments for his decision to fight for his people.
True     False
11. Gandhi decided to return to India at the beginning of WWI.
True    False
 
12. After the war, he retired.
True      False
 
13. After the war, he became involved with the Indian National Congress and the movement for independence.
True      False
 
14. He never used civil disobedience, non-cooperation and fasting as means of protesting.
True      False
 
15. He never went to prison.
True      False
 
16. He asked the Indian people to boycott British goods.
True     False
 

17. He advocated the practise of weaving clothes with a spinning wheel
True     False
18. The British establishment accepted this practice.
True      False
 
19. He became the leader of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
True      False
 
20. He organised a march to collect and sell salt.
True      False
 
21. Jawaharlal Nehru became Gandhi's successor in Congress.
True     False
 
22. The Hindu and Muslim communities fought against each other.
True     False
 
23. Gandhi advocated the partition of India.
True      False
24. India was divided into an Islamic Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India in 1947.
True     False
 
25. Gandhi celebrated the partition of India.
True      False
 
26. Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi in 1948 by a Muslim.
True      False
 
27. Gandhi was called “Mahatma” ("great soul”).
True     False
28. Gandhi received The Nobel Peace Prize posthumously (i.e. after his death).
True      False
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29. The famous Indian political leader Indira Gandhi was his daughter.
True      False

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