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Q. 5. Which mythological character impressed Gandhiji for life when he saw a play on his life?
(a) Harishchandra (b) Ashoka
(c) Vikramaditya (d) Krishna
Ans : (a) Harishchandra
Q. 6. Which Indian acquaintance was Gandhiji’s companion on his first overseas journey?
(a) Mavji Dave (b) Thatcherji Swami
(c) Raichand Bhai (d) Lawyer Sh. Trayambakrao Majumdar
Ans : (d) Lawyer Sh. Trayambakrao Majumdar
Q. 11. Who invited him to South Africa to fight a case and be there for year?
(a) Abdullah Seth (b) Karim Seth
(c) Taiyab Seth (d) Laxmidas
Ans : (a) Abdullah Seth
Q. 12. When did Gandhiji leave for South Africa for the first time?
(a) June, 1890 (b) May, 1892
(c) April, 1893 (d) August, 1894
Ans : (c) April, 1893
Q. 13. In which court of South Africa was Gandhiji asked to remove his turban by the DM and he
refused to do so and left the court?
(a) Durban (b) Pretoria
(c) Johannesburg (d) Maritzberg
Ans : (a) Durban
Q. 14. Why was Gandhiji thrown out of the train at Saint Maritzburg station?
(a) He misbehaved with his co-passengers
(b) His clothes were very dirty
(c) Because inspite of being a non-European he was travelling in the 1st class.
(d) He was travelling without ticket.
Ans : (c) Because inspite of being a non-European he was travelling in the 1st class.
Q. 15. Where did Gandhiji address his first speech in South Africa?
(a) Johannesburg (b) Maritzburg
(c) Pretoria (d) Natal
Ans : (c) Pretoria
Q. 16. Why did the Indians in South Africa request Ganghiji to stay back, even though Abdullah
Seth’s case had been decided?
(a) They had become fond of Gandhiji
(b) They wanted a lawyer for a new case
(c) To safeguard the interests of Indians in South Africa
(d) None of these.
Ans : (c) To safeguard the interests of Indians in South Africa
Q. 17. To organise the Indians born in Natal and ensure their welfare which institutions was
established by the Natal Indian Congress?
(a) Indian Youth Organisation (b) Indian Education Association
(c) Youth Congress (d) Indian Youth Education
Ans : (b) Indian Education Association
Q. 18. What inspired Gandhiji towards establishing Ashrams- an exercise in community living?
(a) Catholic community’s vegetarian society’s settlement in Durban
(b) By learning from the Hindu mythology about Rishi Ashrams
(c) To combine the Indians together
(d) To fight apartheid
Ans : (a) Catholic community’s vegetarian society’s settlement in Durban
Q. 19. Gandhiji returned to India in 1896. What was the name of the ship in which he sailed from
Natal to Calcutta?
(a) Coorland (b) Oceana
(c) Nailari (d) Pogola
Ans : (d) Pogola
Q. 20. Which language did Gandhiji learn on the ship, when he was going back to India to bring
back his wife and children?
(a) Bengali (b) Tamil
(c) Urdu (d) Both (b) and (c)
Ans : (d) Both (b) and (c)
Q. 21. Where did Gandhiji meet Lokmanya Tilak for the first time?
(a) Poona (b) Calcutta
(c) Bombay (d) Kashi
Ans : (a) Poona
Q. 23. With which great writer did Gandhiji have correspondence in South Africa?
(a) Romain Rolland (b) Tolstoy
(c) Ruskin (d) Maxim Gorky
Ans : (b) Tolstoy
Q. 24. How did Gandhiji help the British Govt. in the Boer War?
(a) By sending arms (b) By raising an ambulance corps
(c) By sending food (d) By recruitment
Ans : (b) By raising an ambulance corps
Q. 25. Where did Gandhiji decide to give up his elaborate way of dressing up?
(a) Ahmedabad (b) Bombay
(c) Varanasi (d) Delhi
Ans : (c) Varanasi
Q. 26. Where did Gandhiji launch his civil disobedience movement in South Africa?
(a) Durban (b) Johannesburg
(c) Natal (d) Phoenix
Ans : (b) Johannesburg
Q. 27. Who wanted Gandhiji to return to India after the Satyagraha Struggle in South Africa?
(a) Lokmanya Tilak (b) Lakshmidas Gandhi
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (d) Sir Ferozeshah Mehta
Ans : (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Q. 28. Which of the following methods of treatment did Gandhiji follow and believe in?
(a) English (b) Surgery
(c) Naturopathy (d) Spiritual healing
Ans : (c) Naturopathy
Q. 29. Who were selected to lead the Champaran Satyagraha in the event of Gandhiji’s arrest?
(a) Brij Kishore Prasad (b) Mazhar-ul-haque
(c) Both (a) and (b) (d) Dhirendra
Ans : (c) Both (a) and (b)
Q. 30. When Gandhiji realized that his fellow country-man did not have enough clothes to wear,
what clothes did he decide to wear all his life?
(a) Khadi Kurta and Dhoti (b) Cotton Kurta-Payjama
(c) Handspun Cotton Dhoti and Shawl (d) Cotton Dhoti
Ans : (c) Handspun Cotton Dhoti and Shawl
Q. 31. One of the famous associates of Gandhiji during the Kheda Satyagraha was:
(a) Sardar Patel (b) Shankarlal Banker
(c) Lokmanya Tilak (d) Annie Besant
Ans : (a) Sardar Patel
Q. 32. When did Gandhiji launch his Satyagraha movement against the Rowlatt Act?
(a) 6th Feb, 1919 (b) 6th March, 1919
(c) 6th April, 1919 (d) 7th April, 1919
Ans : (c) 6th April, 1919
Q. 33. Which Congress Session marked the entry of Mahatma Gandhi into active politics?
(a) Lahore (b) Calcutta
(c) Amritsar (d) Lucknow
Ans : (c) Amritsar
Q. 34. Where did Gandhiji find the Charkha for the first time?
(a) Bilaspur (b) Bijapur Village in Gaekwad
(c) Kheda, Gujarat (d) Bihar
Ans : (b) Bijapur Village in Gaekwad
Q. 35. During the Non-Cooperation Movement what did Gandhiji want people to boycott?
(a) Foreign cloth (b) Govt. Education
(c) Government jobs and titles (d) All the above three
Ans : (d) All the above three
Q. 37. Who succeeded Gandhiji as Congress President after the end of his tenure in 1925?
(a) Pt. Jawarlal Nehru (b) Maulana Mohammea Ali
(c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Chittaranjan Das
Ans : (c) Sarojini Naidu
Q. 38. Why did Gandhiji move away from active politics after a few years of Non-Cooperation
Movement?
(a) For law
(b) For teaching
(c) Serving the nation through constructive programme
(d) All three (a) (b) and (c)
Ans : (c) Serving the nation through constructive programme
Q. 39. From where did Gandhiji begin the historic Dandi March?
(a) Navsari (b) Dandi
(c) Sabarmati Ashram (d) Borsad
Ans : (c) Sabarmati Ashram
Q. 40. When was Gandhiji arrested for defying the Salt Law?
(a) 10th April 1930 (b) 20th April 1930
(c) 28th April 1930 (d) 4th May 1930
Ans : (d) 4th May 1930
Q. 41. To whom did Gandhiji write from the Yervada Jail to stop atrocities on backward classes and
not create separate electorate and threatened to undertake a fast unto death?
(a) Viceroy (b) British Prime Minister
(c) Secretary of State (d) Home Secretary
Ans : (c) Secretary of State
Q. 44. Who was the real founder of Indian National Congress according to Gandhi?
(a) M.G. Ranade (b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) BalGangadhar Tilak (d) Ram Mohan Roy
Ans : (b) Dadabhai Naoroji
Q. 46. What was the original name of Gandhiji’s disciple Mira Ben?
(a) Margaret Bourke White (b) Marjorie Sykes
(c) Pearl. S. Buck (d) Madeline Slade
Ans : (d) Madeline Slade
Q. 49. Gandhi paid this tribute on the demise of which national leader: “My situation is even more
pathetic than that of a widow. Because of her dedication she can adopt her late husband’s
qualities. But I can do nothing like this. His death is an irreparable loss to me.”
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai (b) Motilal Nehru
(c) Ajmal Khan (d) Chittaranjan Das
Ans : (b) Motilal Nehru
Q. 50. Where did Gandhiji take the vow to serve ‘Daridra Narayan’ and said, “Serving the poor is
serving the nation.”
(a) Bombay (b) Shanti Niketan
(c) South Africa (d) Poona
Ans : (c) South Africa
Q. 51. What title did Gandhiji give to his Gujarati translation of ‘Unto this last’?
(a) Navjeevan (b) Harijan
(c) Sarvodaya (d) Sandesh
Ans : (c) Sarvodaya
Q. 54. A firm believer in the principle of Satyagraha, Gandhiji was strongly opposed to sitting on
‘Dharna’because
(a) It is a crude way of using coercion
(b) It is cowardly
(c) It is worse than violence
(d) For all the three reasons
Ans : (a) It is a crude way of using coercion
Q. 56. Which of the following did Gandhiji consider as the noblest activity of man?
(a) Working for communal harmony
(b) Performing national service
(c) Reading spiritual books for some time every day
(d) Doing the labour those poor must do
Ans : (d) Doing the labour those poor must do
Q. 60. Which natural disaster was referred to by Gandhiji as divine retribution against
untouchability?
(a) Bihar Earthquake (b) Famine
(c) Plague (d) Flood
Ans : (a) Bihar Earthquake
Q. 61. What was Gandhiji’s first priority for the progress of the nation?
(a) Village upliftment (b) Towns upliftment
(c) Education (d) State upliftment
Ans : (a) Village upliftment
Q. 62. Whom did Gandhiji declare his successor and tell ‘Although I want to live for 125 years, but
you are comparatively younger. That is why I named you my successor.”
(a) Sardar Patel
(b) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
Ans : (a) Sardar Patel
Q. 63. “I have ventured to place before India the ancient law of self-sacrifice”, said Gandhiji. What
was he referring to?
(a) Satyagraha (b) Ahimsa
(c) People movement (d) Tapasya
Ans : (d) Tapasya
Q. 66. Who according to Gandhiji, are best suited to impart sex education to children?
(a) Parents of Children
(b) Specialist teachers of the science of sex-control
(c) Religious preachers
(d) Teachers who teach biological sciences
Ans : (a) Parents of Children
Q. 67. Gandhiji was against widowhood imposed by religion or custom. What reason did he give
for it?
(a) It is an unbearable yoke
(b) It degrades religion
(c) It defiles the home by secret vice
(d) All the three
Ans : (b) It degrades religion
Q. 68. Which one of the following did Gandhiji regard as an essential pre-requisite for a good
public worker?
(a) Character (b) Hard work
(c) Opinion leadership (d) General acceptability
Ans : (a) Character
Q. 71. Which education system was advocated by Gandhiji for the country?
(a) English Education (b) Basic Education
(c) Religions Education (d) Musical Education
Ans : (b) Basic Education
Q. 74. Who referred to Gandhiji on his last birthday as the only ray of light amidst the surrounding
darkness?
(a) Mahadev Desai (b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Acharya Kriplani (d) Vallabh Bhai Patel
Ans : (c) Acharya Kriplani
Q. 76. Who said “Generations to come will scarce believe that such as one as this ever in flesh and
blood walked upon this earth?
(a) Albert Einstein (b) Winston Churchill
(c) Pandit Nehru (d) Sardar Patel
Ans : (a) Albert Einstein
Q. 77. Which Viceroy felt that Mahatma Gandhi’s religious and moral values were highly
remarkable?
(a) Lord Irwin (b) Lord Willington
(c) Lord Reading (d) None of these
Ans : (c) Lord Reading
Q. 79. Who was the first Indian Leader who while praising Gandhiji, predicted that in future he
would become a very famous leader of the Indian people?
(a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Ans : (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Q. 80. Which of Gandhiji’s contemporary said the following about him, “It is only by following
Gandhiji that we can give our country the highest position in the world?”
(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (b) Sardar Patel
(c) C. Rajgopalachari (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans : (b) Sardar Patel
Q. 81. “I had only two Gods. God and Bapu. Now they have become one.” Who paid this tribute to
Gandhiji?
(a) Sucheta Kriplani (b) Prabhudas Gandhi
(c) Indira Gandhi (d) Mira Ben
Ans : (d) Mira Ben
Q. 82. Who said the following to Gandhiji in a message from Rangoon that, “O, Father of the
Nation, we need your blessings in this holy struggle for India’s Independence?”
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(c) Subhash Chandra Bose (d) Sardar Vallabha Bhai Patel
Ans : (c) Subhash Chandra Bose
Q. 83. “The whole world was rich when he ws alive and his death has made it poorer.” Who said
this about Gandhiji?
(a) Lord Mountbatten (b) Lord Wavell
(c) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans : (a) Lord Mountbatten
Q. 84. Which poet made the point in his poem that Bapu was not against science but did not want
man to become a slave to it?
(a) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (b) Sumitra Nandan Pant
(c) Sohanlal Dwivedi (d) Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Ans : (a) Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Q. 85. When Gandhiji was arrested during the Civil-Disobedience Movement and tried in court,
who expressed the wish that if the Government releases Gandhiji, he would be the happiest?
(a) Gen. Smuts (b) Judge Broomfields
(c) British Viceroy (d) Motilal Nehru
Ans : (b) Judge Broomfields
Q. 86. Which Political rival of Gandhiji wanted misinformation spread about Gandhiji to be
stopped?
(a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah (b) Field Marshal Smuts
(c) Winston Churchill (d) None of these
Ans : (b) Field Marshal Smuts
Q. 89. Which of the following works on Gandhiji did the All India Congress Committee bring out in
1935?
(a) Satyagraha in Gandhi’s own words
(b) Satyagraha – its Technique and History
(c) Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas
(d) War Without Violence
Ans : (a) Satyagraha in Gandhi’s own words
Q. 90. Which of the following books on Gandhiji has been written by Jawaharlal Nehru?
(a) Bapu Meri Nazar Mein
(b) Freedom from Fear
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Aaj Ke Sawaal Gandhi Ke Jawab
Ans : (c) Both (a) and (b)
Q. 91. Contructive Programme, a booklet of 25 pages was written by Gandhiji in the train while
travelling from Sevagram to:
(a) Bardoli (b) Delhi
(c) Bhopal (d) Nagpur
Ans : (a) Bardoli
Q. 95. The Harijan Sevak Sangh founded by Gandhiji, was first known as the
(a) Society for Abolition of Untouchability
(b) Anti-Untouchability Leage
(c) Servants of Untouchable Society
(d) None of the above
Ans : (b) Anti-Untouchability Leage
Q. 96. At which Gandhi Museum is the bloodstained dhoti, which Gandhiji was wearing when he
was shot dead, preserved?
(a) Madurai Museum (b) Delhi Museum
(c) Patna Museum (d) Bombay Museum
Ans : (b) Delhi Museum
Q. 97. Who made a popular documentary fild “Mahatma” based on Gandhiji’s life?
(a) Richard Attenborough (b) V. Shantaram
(c) Satyajit Ray (d) Vithalbhai Zaveri
Ans : (d) Vithalbhai Zaveri
Q. 100. Gandhiji referred to Yervada prison by another name. What was it?
(a) Hotel (b) Palace
(c) School (d) Temple
Ans : (d) Temple