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Mahatma Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser-I-Hind and returned all the war medals which were awarded to him by the British for his war services(during the First World War) ______________.

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  1. In protest against the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy

  2. During the Non-Cooperation Movement

  3. In support of the Khilafat demand when the Central Khilafat Committee organised a general all-India hartal on August $1$, $1920$

  4. During the Champaran Satyagraha

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Correct Option: C

On September $20$, $1932$ Mahatma Gandhi began a fast unto death in Yeravada Jail against _____________.

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  1. British repression of the satyagrahis

  2. Violation of the Gandhi-Irwin pact

  3. Communal Award of Ramsay McDonald

  4. All the above

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Correct Option: D

Mahatma Gandhi spent a year of complete silence in $1926$ to _____________.

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  1. Consolidate Khadi programme

  2. work for harijan welfare

  3. cl do penance for Chauri-Chaura violence

  4. Write his autobiography

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Gandhiji popularised the word “Harijan”‘ meaning “the people of God”. He spent a year for their welfare in 1926. he preached that all human beings are equal and hence the Harijans too have a right for social life along with other caste groups. He went and stayed with them in their colonies, shared meals and performed all the tasks of cleaning along with them.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Frontier Gandhi, organised the Red Shirt Movement in the North-West Frontier Province(NWFP) for ______.

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  1. Countering the communal propaganda of the Muslim League

  2. Establishing separate Pakhtoonistan

  3. Social and religious reforms

  4. All the above

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Khudai Khidmatgars (“Servants of God”) was a movement led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. It was non violently mobilized to oppose the British in India’s Northwest Frontier Province. The main goal of the Khudai Khidmatgar was to win Indian independence and reform the social, religious, political, and economic life of the Pashtuns.

Kasturba Gandhi died in detention(in $1944$) at ________.

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  1. Yeravada Jail

  2. Ahmedabad Prison

  3. Aga Khan Palace

  4. Ahmedabad Fort

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Kasturba Gandhi was an Indian political activist married to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Following the 'Quit India' movement, Kasturba joined her husband in detention at the Aga Khan's Palace in Poona. It is there that she died in 1944.

Whom did Mahatma Gandhi recognise as his political Guru?

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  1. Pheroze Shah Mehta

  2. BG Tilak

  3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

  4. Dadabhai Naoroji

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Gopal Krishna Gokhale was the political guru of Mahatma Gandhi.  Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society. On his suggestion, Gandhi had embarked on a tour of the country to observe and understand the life and miseries of ordinary Indians after his return from South Africa.

Where did Mahatma Gandhi first apply his technique of Satyagraha?

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  1. Dandi

  2. Noakhali

  3. England

  4. South Africa

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Gandhi first propagated the philosophy of Satyagraha  and propelled the country towards a no class discrimination society. The campaigners went on peaceful marches and presented themselves for arrest in protest against unjust laws. This form of action later became one of the great political tools of the 20th century.

Champaran, the site of Gandhi's first experiment of Satyagraha is located in the state of ___________.

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  1. Bihar

  2. Kerala

  3. Gujarat

  4. Punjab

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In April 1917, the Champaran Satyagraha in Motihari, Bihar laid the foundation for Gandhi in India. It was the first peasant movement to have garnered nationwide attention. It was a struggle of the cultivators who were forced by Europeans to grow indigo, a blue dye.

Which of the following is not one of the reasons why Mahatma Gandhi is known as the Father of Nation?

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  1. He was universally adored, admired and respected by all castes, communities and classes

  2. Starting with opposition to the Rowlatt Acts, till the Quit India Movement he was the supreme leader and the main spirit behind the national movement

  3. His social political, economic and religious ideologies were based on Indian values with a very strong moral and ethical content

  4. He was the founder President of the Indian National Congress

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Correct Option: D

The name of the periodical published by Gandhi during his stay in South Africa was ________.

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  1. Navjivan

  2. India Gazette

  3. Afrikaner

  4. Indian Opinion

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Indian Opinion was a newspaper established by Mahatma Gandhi. He decided in 1903 to launch the newspaper in response to the growing need in South Africa to voice effectively the feelings of Indians against racial intolerance of the white regime.