Questions Related to Mahatma Gandhi - (Chapter-02)
151. Which tool did Gandhiji promote to achieve economically, and ultimately complete independence from the British Empire?
(a) Spinning Wheel (b) Sewing Machine
(c) Plough (d) Weaving stool
Answer: (a)
152. Where was Kasturba's parental home?
(a) Rajkot (b) Porbander
(c) Sabarmati (d) Karachi
Answer: (b)
153. Who gave Saigaon village as a gift to Gandhiji?
(a) Kalelkar (b) Jamnalal Bajaj
(c) Mahadev Desai (d) None of these
Answer: (b)
154. Who had prepared the rules and regulations of the Congress Party before Gandhiji joined the party?
(a) Gokhale (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Dadabhai Navroji (d) Feroz Shah Mehta
Answer: (a)
155. Who was called Psychological son of Mahathma Gandhi?
(a) Vinoba Bhave (b) Jamnalal Bajaj
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Muhammad Ali
Answer: (b)
156. Whose English translation of the Bhagavad Gita influenced Gandhiji?
(a) Tolstoy (b) John Ruskin
(c) Edwin Arnold (d) None of these
Answer: (c)
157. Birla Mandir, where Gandhiji was assassinated, is in:
(a) Kolkata (b) Ahmedabad
(c) Pune (d) New Delhi
Answer: (d)
158. During which agitation Gandhiji gave the slogan Do or die?
(a) Salt satyagraha (b) Champaran Satyagraha
(c) Quit India movement (d) Kheda satyagraha
Answer: (c)
159. For how many days Gandhiji was imprisoned in South Africa?
(a) 219 (b) 249
(c) 256 (d) 233
Answer: (b)
160. Gandhiji conducted Champaran Satyagraha for:
(a) Cotton farmers (b) Indigo farmers
(c) Groundnut farmers (d) Jute farmers
Answer: (b)
161. Gandhiji got primary education in:
(a) Mumbai (b) Rajkot
(c) Karachi (d) Gandhinagar
Answer: (b)
162. Gandhiji s father passed away in:
(a) 1885 (b) 1886 (c) 1887 (d) 1888
Answer: (a)
163. Gandhijji was undergone for imprisonment for ...... days.
(a) 2338 (b) 1338
(c) 3338 (d) 3120
Answer: (a)
164. In 1915 who advised Gandhi to keep his ears open and his mouth shut for a year, and see India?
(a) Feroz Shah Mehta(b) G.K.Gokhale
(c) M.G.Ranade (d) G.G.Agarkar
Answer: (b)
165. In which journal, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi was published for the first time?
(a) Young India (b) Harijan
(c) Navjeevan (d) Satyagrahi
Answer: (c)
166. In which language Gandhiji wrote Hind Swaraj?
(a) English (b) Hindi
(c) Gujarati (d) Marathi
Answer: (c)
167. In which Round Table Conference Gandhiji attended?
(a) First (b) Second
(c) First (d) None of these
Answer: (b)
168. In which year Gandhiji married Kasturba?
(a) 1883 (b) 1885
(c) 1887 (d) 1890
Answer: (a)
169. In which year Gandhiji presided over the Wardha Educational Conference?
(a) 1935 (b) 1936
(c) 1937 (d) 1938
Answer: (c)
170. In which year Gandhiji was arrested for the first time in India?
(a) 1917 (b) 1918
(c) 1919 (d) 1920
Answer: (a)
171. In which year Indian National Congress approved the Basic Education System propounded by Gandhiji?
(a) 1935 (b) 1936
(c) 1937 (d) 1938
Answer: (d)
172. In which year was the Champaran Satyagraha?
(a) 1917 (b) 1918
(c) 1919 (d) 1920
Answer: (a)
173. The candidate whom Gandhiji supported when the election was conducted to the post of president of Indian National Congress in 1939?
(a) Nehru (b) Rajendraprasad
(c) JB Kripalani (d) Pattabhi Seetharamaiah
Answer: (d)
174. The date in which Gandhiji started the Dandi March:
(a) 1930 April 12 (b) 1930 March 12
(c) 1930 May 12 (d) 1930 April 6
Answer: (b)
175. The first person to have appeared in the stamp of independent India:
(a) Nehru (b) Sardar Patel
(c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) jendra prasad
Answer: (c)
176. The institution in England where Gandhiji studied law :
(a) Inner Temple (b) Inner Court
(c) Lincoln's Inn (d) None of these
Answer: (a)
177. Whom Gandhiji called the great sentinel?
(a) Rajendra Prasad (b) Subhas Chandra Bose
(c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: (c)
178. Whom Gandhiji met on his way back to India after the Round Table Conference?
(a) Adollf Hitler (b) Mussolini
(c) Stalin (d) Lenin
Answer: (b)
179. In which railway station of South Africa, Gandhiji was thrown out of a train?
(a) Durban (b) Pretoria
(c) Petermaritzberg (d) Johannesburg
Answer: ()
180. Anasakthiyogam is the interpretation written by Gandhiji on:
(a) Ramayana (b) Mahabharata
(c) Bible (d) Bhagavat Gita
Answer: (d)
181. From where Gandhiji passed matriculation?
(a) Rajkot (b) Bhavnagar
(c) Ahmedabad (d) Porbandar
Answer: (c)
182. Gandhiji conducted Dandi March as the part of the civil disobedience movement in:
(a) 1929 (b) 1930
(c) 1931 (d) 1932
Answer: (b)
183. Gandhiji was assassinated in:
(a) Sabarmati (b) Pune
(c) Kolkata (d) New Delhi
Answer: (d)
184. Gandhiji was imprisoned for the first time in:
(a) Mumbai (b) Durban
(c) Johannesburg (d) London
Answer: (c)
185. Gandhiji called for Quit India movement in:
(a) 1940 (b) 1941
(c) 1942 (d) 1943
Answer: (c)
186. In which year Gandhiji established Sevagram Ashram at Wardha?
(a) 1934 (b) 1935
(c) 1936 (d) 1937
Answer: (c)
187. In which year Gandhiji started Indian Opinion?
(a) 1901 (b) 1902
(c) 1903 (d) 1904
Answer: (d)
188. Godse, the assassin of Gandhiji, was the editor of:
(a) Hindu Dharma (b) Rashtra Darpan
(c) Hindu Rajya (d) Hindu Rashtra
Answer: (d)
189. In connection with which agitation Gandhiji gave the title Sardar to Vallabha Bhai Patel?
(a) Kheda (b) Champaran
(c) Bardoli (d) Guruvayur
Answer: (c)
190. In India, the death anniversary of Gandhiji is observed as:
(a) Sadbhavana day (b) Rededication day
(c) Martyr s day (d) National integration day
Answer: (c)
191. In which jail Gandhiji was imprisoned when he was arrested for salt satyagraha?
(a) Pune (b) New Delhi
(c) Kolkata (d) Chennai
Answer: (a)
192. In which year Gandhiji established Natal Indian Congress?
(a) 1893 (b) 1894
(c) 1895 (d) 1896
Answer: (b)
193. In which year Gopala Krishana Gokhale, the political guru of Gandhiji, passed away?
(a) 1913 (b) 1914
(c) 1915 (d) 1916
Answer: (c)
194. In which year was Kheda satyagraha of Gandhiji?
(a) 1918 (b) 1919
(c) 1920 (d) 1921
Answer: (a)
195. The judge of Ahmedabad court who punished Gandhiji in connection with non-cooperation movement:
(a) R S Broomfield (b) Macaulay
(c) Stevenson (d) William Jones
Answer: (a)
196. The jurist who gave a verdict in the Gandhi assassination Case:
(a) YV Chandrachud(b) Atmacharan Aggarwal
(c) HJ Kania (d) M Hidayattulla
Answer: (b)
197. The ship in which Gandhiji sailed to England to attend the Round Table Conference:
(a) SS Rajputana (b) SS Anchon
(c) Pogola (d) Oceania
Answer: (a)
198. The wife of Gandhiji:
(a) Kasturba (b) Manu Bhai
(c) Kamala Bhai (d) None of these
Answer: (a)
199. Under which title Gandhiji translated the book Unto This Last of John Ruskin?
(a) Satyagraha (b) Sarvodaya
(c) Ramarajya (d) None of these
Answer: (b)
200. In which year Gandhiji established Sabarmati Ashram?
(a) 1915 (b) 1916
(c) 1917 (d) 1918
Answer: (c)
201. In which year Gandhiji went to England to study law?
(a) 1888 (b) 1890
(c) 1891 (d) 1892
Answer: (a)
202. What was the post held by Gandhiji in Natal Indian Congress?
(a) President (b) Honorary Secretary
(c) Treasurer (d) Chairman
Answer: (b)
203. Who authored Gandhiji's favourite prayer Vaishnava Janato ?
(a) Tagore (b) Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
(c) Narasimha Mehta (d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Answer: (c)
204. Who said India lives in her villages :
(a) Gandhiji (b) Belwant Rai Mehta
(c) Vinoba Bhave (d) Sardar Patel
Answer: (a)
205. The first Satyagraha conducted in Kerala in which Gandhiji intervened:
(a) Paliyam Satyagraha (b) Vaikom Satyagraha
(c) Guruvayur Satyagraha (d) Palium Satyagraha
Answer: (b)
206. The Indian Opinion published by Gandhiji related to the organisation:
(a) ANC (b) INC
(c) Natal Indian Congress (d) None of these
Answer: (c)
207. The United Nations observes the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi as:
(a) International non-violence day
(b) International peace day
(c) International apartheid day
(d) None of these
Answer: (a)
208. What was the age of Gandhiji when he conducted the historic Dandi march?
(a) 61 (b) 71
(c) 75 (d) 56
Answer: (a)
209. What was the purpose behind the establishment of the Natal Indian Congress by Gandhiji?
(a) to promote vegetarian food
(b) To get permanent employment to the Indians
(c) For the increase in pay
(d) To fight against racial discrimination
Answer: (d)
210. Which was known as the political laboratory of Mahathma Gandhi?
(a) Britain (b) India
(c) South Africa (d) Sri Lanka
Answer: (c)
211. Gandhiji wrote Hind Swaraj in:
1909
212. Name the leader who last met Gandhiji for about an hour and left him just a few minutes before he was shot dead on January 30, 1948 while on his way to the prayer meeting
Sardar Patel
213. The year of Ahmedabad Mill strike in which Gandhiji observed hunger strike for the first time?
1918
214. Where the All India Khilafat Conference was held under the presidentship of Gandhiji? Delhi
215. Who was deputed by Gandhiji to lead the anti-tax campaign in Bardoli?
Vallabh Bhai Patel
216. Who Gandhiji declare as his political heir?
Jawaharlal Nehru
217. Gandhiji was assassinated at the age of:
79
218. Gandhiji was imprisoned for ...... days in India.
2089
219. Who was Gokuldas Makanji to Gandhiji?
Father in law
220. Who was known as the ‘spiritual heir’ of Mahathma Gandhi?
Vinoba Bhave
221. Who was selected as the second Satyagrahi when Gandhiji launched individual Satyagraha in 1940?
Jawaharlal Nehru
222. Who Gandhiji called Rajarshi?
Purushotham Das Tandon
223. Why Gandhiji called for the boycott of the Simon Commission?
None of the members was Indians
224. In which year Gandhiji went to South Africa for the first time?
1893
226. In which year Gandhiji decided to return to India from South Africa?
1914
227. In which year Gandhiji started Phoenix settlement near Durban?
1904
228. In which year Gandhiji visited Sri Narayana Guru?
1925
229. In which year Mahadev Desai, the private secretary of Gandhiji passed away?
1944
230. Porbander, the birthplace of Gandhiji is famous as the birthplace of the which epic character?
Kuchela
231. The capital of which Indian state is named after Gandhiji?
Gujarat
232. The date in which Gandhiji violated salt law in Dandi beach:
1930 April 6
233. The father of Gandhiji:
Karam Chand Gandhi
234. Gandhi ended his fast in Yervada prison which he started after the Communal Award of Ramsay Mc Donald:
Pune Pact
235. Gandhiji got Barrister at Law from:
England
236. Gandhiji was assassinated on 30thJanuary 1948
237. In 1924 Gandhiji became the president of Indian National Congress. The session was held at:
Belgaum
238. In which state the Sevagram Ashram of Mahathma Gandhi is situated?
Maharashtra
239. The grandfather of Gandhiji:
Uttamchand Gandhi
240. The leader who was born on the birth anniversary of Gandhiji i.e. October 2:
Lal Bahadur Shastri
241. The saint who influenced very much the life of Gandhiji:
Rai Chand Bhai
242. Which agitation was ended as a result of Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
Civil Disobedience movement
243. Who helped Gandhiji to organise the meeting of Indians in Pretoria?
Tyab Haji Khan
244. In which language Gandhiji started the publication of ‘Navjeevan’?
Gujarati
245. In which year Gandhiji founded Tolstoy Farm in Johannesberg?
1910
246. In which year the first son of Gandhiji was born?
1888
247. The incident which compelled Gandhiji to repeal non-cooperation movement?
Chauri-Chaura incident
248. The political guru of Gandhiji:
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
249. Who was the first editor of Indian Opinion?
Mansukhlal Nazer
250. Who was the secretary of Mahathma Gandhi after the demise of Mahadev Desai:
Pyarelal
251. “The light has gone out, Darkness everywhere” who made this statement when Gandhiji was assassinated?
Jawaharlal Nehru
252. Gandhiji was born on:
2nd October 1869
253. In Chauri Chaura incident the mob attacked:
Police Station
254. In which year Kasturba Gandhi passed away?
1944
255. The British king whom Gandhiji visited when he reached London for the Round Table Conference:
George V
256. The educational system propounded by Mahathma Gandhi:
Nayee Thalim
257. In which year Gandhiji conducted his last Satyagraha?
1948
258. In which year Gandhiji formed Indian Ambulance Corps during the Boer War?
1899
259. The first son of Gandhiji:
Harilal
260. The headquarters of Navjeevan trust established by Gandhiji in 1929:
Ahmedabad
261. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the political rival of Mahathma Gandhi, passed away in:
1948
262. The disciple of Gandhiji who startedBhoodan Movement?
Vinoba Bhave
263. The first countrywide agitation launched by Gandhiji in India:
Non-Cooperation movement
264. The ideal state envisaged by Gandhiji:
Ram Rajya
265. The real name of Mira Behn, the disciple of Gandhiji:
Madeleine Slade
266. The samadhi of Gandhiji:
Raj Ghat
267. The year of Chauri-Chaura incident which compelled Gandhiji to repeal Non-cooperation movement:
1922
268. In which language, the autobiography of Gandhiji was published for the first time?
Gujarati
269. The epic character influenced Gandhiji very much in his childhood:
Harischandra
270. The leader who passed away the previous day of Gandhiji launched Non-cooperation movement:
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
271. Who called Gandhiji as ‘half-naked fakir’?
Winston Churchill
272. In which year Gandhiji read Bhagavat Gita for the first time?
1889
273. In which year the assassins of Gandhiji was executed?
1949
274. What was called by Gandhiji as his spiritual reference book?
Bhagavat Gita
275. Who authored ‘I follow the Mahathma’?
K.M.Munshi
276. The venue of the first Congress session in which Gandhiji participated?
Kolkata
277. Who compared Gandhi’s Dandi March to the historic journey of Sri Rama to Lanka? Motilal Nehru
278. Who made an attempt on the life of Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa when he made an agreement with General Smuts?
Mir Alam Khan
279. In 1914 Gandhiji ended his stay in South Africa and went to:
London
280. In which jail the assassins of Gandhiji were executed?
Ambala
281. What was called ‘post-dated cheque’ by Gandhiji?
Crip’s Mission
282. What was the promise given to his mother by Gandhiji before his going toEngland for studying?
Not to touch liquor and meet
283. Who advised Gandhiji to make a visit to the whole country before entering into Indian politics?
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
284. Who presided over the 1901 session of INC in which Gandhiji attended for the first time?
DE Wacha
285. Who wrote “Life of Mahatma Gandhi”?
Louis Fischer
286. Why Gandhi opted very little cloth for dressing?
To show his solidarity
287. Whom Gandhiji called ‘the prince of patriots’?
Subhash Chandra Bose
288. After the attainment of political independence in 1947, Gandhiji felt that the Congress, as a propaganda vehicle and a parliamentary machine, had outlived its usefulness. So to keep the Congress away from the unhealthy competition with political parties and communal bodies, Gandhiji towards the end of January 1948 sketched a draft constitution for the Congress to transform itself into ......
Lok Sevak Sangh
289. Who was executed along with Nathuram Godse in Gandhi Assassination Case? Narayan Apte
290. Who was known as ‘Delhi Gandhi’?
C.Krishnan Nair
291. Who was known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
292. “For that light represented something more than the immediate past, it represented the living, the eternal truths, reminding us of the right path, drawing us from error, taking this ancient country to freedom.” Who said these words when Gandhiji passed away? Jawaharlal Nehru
293. ‘After me, he will speak my language’ Gandhiji made this statement on 15th January 1941 before AICC, intending:
Jawaharlal Nehru
294. Due to which disease Gandhiji was compelled to leave England to India in1914? Pleurisy
295. In which language Gandhiji started the weekly ‘Young India’?
English
296. In which year the first issue of Young India was published under the editorial ship of Gandhiji?
1919
297. In which year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Gandhiji was nominated for the last time?
1948
298. Kheda, where Gandhiji conducted Satyagraha, is in the state of :
Gujarat
299. The childhood name of Gandhiji:
Manu or Moniya
300. The correct spelling of which word was unknown to Gandhiji when a school inspector conducted a dictation test in his childhood?
Kettle
301. The number policemen killed by the mob in Chauri Chaura incident:
22
302. The session of INC which approved the non-cooperation movement of Gandhiji was held at:
Kolkata
303. Who called Gandhiji as ‘Father of Nation’ for the first time?
Subhash Chandra Bose
304. Which food was advised to Gandhiji by his childhood friend Mehtab in order to get power?
Meat
305. Who authored ‘In search of Gandhi”?
Richard Attenborough
306. What was the age of Gandhiji when he reached India from South Africa in 1915?
45
307. Who said, “ Satyagraha is the tool of strong people”?
Mahatma Gandhi
308. Who was known as ‘Bihar Gandhi’?
Rajendraprasad
309. Who coined the term ‘Satyagraha’?
Gandhiji
310. At what age Gandhiji decide to adopt brahmacharya?
37
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