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Persons and Places in Gandhi's Life - 3

This quiz tests knowledge about key persons, places, and events in Mahatma Gandhi's life, including his time in South Africa, associates, and the Indian independence movement.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

General Smuts deputed ____________ to interview Gandhiji in prison for settlement.

  1. Albert Cartwright
  2. William Hosken
  3. Jordan
  4. Yusuf Mian
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Identify the associate of Gandhiji who was fondly addressed him as ‘Mamaji’.

  1. Kaka Kalelkar
  2. Jamnalal Bajaj
  3. Pyare Lal
  4. G. Ramachandran
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

At which place was Gandhiji arrested for the first time by the British Government for sedition?

  1. Agra
  2. Ahmadabad
  3. Delhi
  4. Amritsar
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

On his last departure from South Africa, Gandhiji was accompanied by

  1. Maganlal Gandhi
  2. H. Kallenbach
  3. Kasturbai
  4. Both (2) & (3)
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The charge of the leadership of the “army” of marching Satyagrahis after Gandhi’s arrest in South Africa was assumed by

  1. P. K. Naidu
  2. H. S. L. Polak
  3. H. Kallenbach
  4. Albert Christopher
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The man who wanted Gandhiji to convert to Christianity in South Africa was

  1. A. W. Baker
  2. William Godfrey
  3. Spencer Walton
  4. H. S. L. Polak
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In 1920 at A. I. C. C. Session in Nagpur, who addressed Mahatma Gandhi as Mr. Gandhi and was shouted down by the audience?

  1. M. A. Jinnah
  2. S. C. Bose
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru
  4. J. B. Kripalani
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who made the following statement?
“I would have been false to the country if I had not stood by the Swaraj Party in the hour of its need.”

  1. S. C. Bose
  2. Rajagopalachari
  3. S. Bhagat Singh
  4. M. K. Gandhi
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who presided over the Disorders Inquiry Committee at Ahmedabad on 9, January 1920?

  1. Lord Hunter
  2. Lord Irwin
  3. Lord Curzon
  4. Sir Chimanlal
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following did not accompany Gandhiji to attend the Second Round Table Conference in London?

  1. Sarojini Naidu
  2. Mira Behn
  3. Mahadev Desai
  4. Sardar Patel
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Whose name was originally proposed to contest the election of President of Indian National Congress against Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939?

  1. Maulana Azad
  2. Pattabhi Sitarammayya
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru
  4. Sardar Patel
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which foreign land did Gandhi fight for the rights of his countrymen?

  1. Italy
  2. Russia
  3. South Africa
  4. England
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following said “If ever there was a planner without elaborate blueprints, Gandhi was one"?

  1. Buddhadeva Bhattacharya
  2. N. K. Bose
  3. J. B. Kripalani
  4. Raghvan N. Iyer
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of 'War Without Violence'?

  1. Pyare Lal
  2. Mahadev Desai
  3. K. L. Shridharni
  4. K. S. Bharathi
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Gandhi sailed for home from Natal to Calcutta in 1896 in

  1. Nailan
  2. S. S. Pongola
  3. Ocean
  4. S. S. Coorland
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who was described by Gandhiji as ‘Prince of Patriots’?

  1. S. C. Bose
  2. Vallabhbhai Patel
  3. Sri Aurobindo
  4. Vinoba Bhave
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The first biographer of M. K. Gandhi was

  1. B. R. Nanda
  2. Romain Rolland
  3. Louis Fischer
  4. J. J. Doke
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

“The saint has left our shores, I sincerely hope forever” was the statement of

  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Lord Mountbatten
  3. Lord Irvin
  4. General Smuts
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