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1. The leader who passed away the previous day of Gandhiji launched Non-cooperation movement:
[a] Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
[b] Gopala Krishna Gokhale 
[c] Pheroz Shah Mehta 
[d] C.R.Das

2. Kheda where Gandhiji conducted Satyagraha is in the state of :
[a] Maharashta 
[b] Gujarat 
[c] Rajastan 
[d] Bihar

3. The number policemen killed by the mob in Chauri Chaura incident:
[a] 12 
[b] 22 
[c] 32 
[d] 42

4. In which year the first issue of Young India was published under the editorial ship of Gandhiji?
[a] 1919 
[b] 1920 
[c] 1921 
[d] 1922

5. Due to which disease Gandhiji was compelled to leave England to India in 1914? 
[a] Tuberculosis 
[b] Piles 
[c] Scurvy 
[d] Pleurisy

6. In which language Gandhiji started the weekly ‘Young India’?
[a] English 
[b] Marathi 
[c] Hindi 
[d] Gujarati

7. What was the age of Gandhiji when he reached India from South Africa in 1915?
[a] 45 
[b] 55 
[c] 50 
[d] 61

8. The session of INC which approved the non-cooperation movement of Gandhiji was held at:
[a] Nagpur 
[b] Kolkata 
[c] Lucknow 
[d] Belgaum

9. Who said “ Satyagraha is the tool of strong people”?
[a] Vinoba Bhave 
[b] Jawaharlal Nehru 
[c] Vinoba Bhave 
[d] Mahathma Gandhi

10. The ideal state envisaged by Gandiji:
[a] Ram Rajya 
[b] Grama Swaraj 
[c] Hind Swaraj 
[d] Dharma Rajya

11. The year of Chauri-Chaura incident which compelled Gandhiji to repeal Non cooperation movement:
[a] 1921 
[b] 1922 
[c] 1923 
[d] 1924 

12. The first countrywide agitation launched by Gandhiji in India:
[a] Champaran Satyagraha 
[b] Kheda Satyagraha
[c] Non Cooperation movement 
[d] Civil Disobedience Movement

13. In Chauri Chaura incident the mob attacked:
[a] Court 
[b] Prison 
[c] Police Station
[d] Collectorate

14. Who advised Gandhiji to make a visit to the whole country before entering into Indian politics?
[a] Dadabhai Navroji 
[b] Pheroz Shah Mehta 
[c] Gopala Krishna Gokhale 
[d] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

15. Why Gandhi opted very little cloth for dressing?
[a] To show his solidarity to poor people 
[b] Due to humid weather
[c] As per the direction of Congress party 
[d] None of these

16. Whom Gandhiji called ‘the prince of patriots’?
[a] Tagore 
[b] C.Rajagopalachari 
[c] Subhas Chandra Bose 
[d] Jawaharlal Nehru 

17. In which language, the autobiography of Gandhiji was published for the first time?
[a] English 
[b] Hindi 
[c] Gujarati 
[d] Marathi

18. Who compared Gandhi’s Dandi March to the historic journey of Sri Rama to Lanka?
[a] Motilal Nehru 
[b] Tagore 
[c] Jawaharlal Nehru 
[d] Subhas Chandra Bose

19. Who called Gandhiji as ‘half naked fakir’?
[a] Lord Mountbatten 
[b] Winston Churchill 
[c] Clement Atlee 
[d] Lord Wavell

20. Which food was advised to Gandhiji by his childhood friend Mehtab in order to get power?
[a] Egg 
[b] Milk 
[c] Meat 
[d] Fish

21. Who coined the term ‘Satyagraha’?
[a] Tagore 
[b] Gandhiji 
[c] Gokhale 
[d] BG Tilak

22. In which year Gandhiji was elected as the president of All India Home Rule League?
[a] 1918 
[b] 1919 
[c] 1920 
[d] 1921

23. In which year All India rural industries organisation was brought into existence under the patronage of Gandhiji?
[a] 1934 
[b] 1935 
[c] 1936 
[d] 1937

24. In which year Gandhiji visited Kerala for the first time?
[a] 1919 
[b] 1920 
[c] 1921 
[d] 1922

25. In which year Gandhiji established Ahmedabad Texile Union?
[a] 1915 
[b] 1916 
[c] 1917 
[d] 1918

26. Gandhiji was sentenced for six years imprisonment in 1922 for sedition on behalf of the articles published in:
[a] Harijan 
[b] Navjeevan 
[c] Young India 
[d] Satyagrahi

27. In which year Gandhiji established Satyagraha ashram at Kochrab near Ahmedabad?
[a] 1914 
[b] 1915 
[c] 1916 
[d] 1917

28. After the demise of which leader, Gandhiji was emerged as the eminent leader of the Indian National Congress?
[a] GK Gokhale 
[b] Bal Gangadhar Tilak 
[c] Lala Lajpath Rai 
[d] Feroz Shah Mehta

29. The first Satyagraha conducted by Gandhiji in India:
[a] Kheda 
[b] Ahmedabad 
[c] Champaran 
[d] Nagpur

30. Who led the Salt Satyagraha when Gandhiji was arrested?
[a] Jawaharlal Nehru 
[b] Sardar Patel 
[c] Abbas Tyabji 
[d] Vinoba Bhave

31. Gandhiji addressed Tagore as:
[a] Guruji 
[b] Gurudev 
[c] Mahamanya 
[d] Lok Manya

32. In which year Gandhiji announced his decision to resign from Congress? 
[a] 1933 
[b] 1934 
[c] 1935 
[d] 1936

33. Gandhiji led Khilafat movement along with:
[a] Bose brothers 
[b] Ali brothers 
[c] Patel brothers 
[d] Ghosh brothers

34. The venue of Satyagraha by Gandhiji to protest against Jallianwallabagh massacre:
[a] Pune 
[b] Mumbai 
[c] Ahmedabad 
[d] New Delhi

35. In which medicinal system Gandhiji believed?
[a] Naturopathy 
[b] Unani 
[c] Homoeopathy 
[d] Allopathy

36. The place that was selected by Gandhiji to break salt law:
[a] New Delhi 
[b] Dandi 
[c] Vedaranyam 
[d] Sabarmati

37. From whom Gandhiji got the idea ‘Civil Disobedience’?
[a] Tolstoy 
[b] John Ruskin 
[c] Henry David Thoreau 
[d] Gokhale

38. In which Jail Gandhiji started the writing of his autobiography?
[a] Ambala 
[b] Thihar 
[c] Pune 
[d] Yervada

39. In 1922 Gandhiji was sentenced for —— years imprisonment. 
[a] 14 
[b] 6 
[c] 3 
[d] 4

40. Belgaum where the INC session in which Gandhiji presided was held is in the state of:
[a] Gujarat 
[b] Rajastan 
[c] Maharashtra 
[d] Karnataka

41. Which song was sung by Gandhiji and his followers during the Dandi March?
[a] Raghupati Raghava rajaram 
[b] Vaishnava Janato [
c] Vande Mataram 
[d] Sare Jaham Se Achcha

42. In which year Gandhiji landed India after ending his stay in South Africa?
[a] 1915 
[b] 1916 
[c] 1917 
[d] 1918

43. In which year Gandhiji founded All India Harijan Samaj aiming at the abolition of untouchability?
[a] 1931 
[b] 1932 
[c] 1933 
[d] 1934

44. Who formulated Sevagram project ?
[a] Vinoba Bhave 
[b] Mahathma Gandhi 
[c] Mahadev Desai 
[d] Tagore

45. The Congress at which Gandhiji and Nehru met for the first time was that of 1916. It was held at:
[a] Faizpur 
[b] Kolkata 
[c] Lucknow 
[d] Belgaum

46. In which year Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed?
[a] 1929 
[b] 1930 
[c] 1931 
[d] 1932

47. The number of volunteers who followed Mahathma Gandhi in Dandi march:
[a] 78 
[b] 88 
[c] 98 
[d] 68

48. The venue of Round Tabel Conference:
[a] Kolkata 
[b] London 
[c] New Delhi 
[d] Glasgow

49. The year of the Round Table Conference in which Gandhiji attended: 
[a] 1930
[b] 1925 
[c] 1932 
[d] 1933

50. In which year Gandhiji visited Kerala in association with the Vaikom Satyagraha?
[a] 1924 
[b] 1925
[c] 1926 
[d] 1927

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