Gandhi Quiz 7

Gandhi Quiz 7

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1. This taluka in Gujarat suffered from floods and famine in 1925. A Satyagraha movement was started under Sardar Vallabhai Patel in January 1926 after the land revenue in the taluka was increased by 30 percent.

Bardoli
Kheda
Vedaranyam
Moirang

2. Located in Germany, this place is well known in India's freedom struggle for unfurling of the National Flag by Madame Bhikaji Cama during the meeting of the International Socialist Congress on August 22, 1907.

Heidelberg
Berlin
Gutenberg
Stuttgart

3. He was the recipient of the 1969 Gandhi Peace Prize and is known as "Gandhi of Sri Lanka"?

Sunila Abeysekera
A T Ariyaratne
William de Silva
P Devakumaran

4. It is from this ground in Mumbai, which was known as the Gowalia Tank Maidan, that Mahatma Gandhi issued the call for the British to Quit India on 8 August 1942. What is it now called?

Gateway of India
August Kranti Maidan
Mani Bhavan
Bombay Harbour

5. In 1930, C Rajagopalachari led a Salt Satyagraha in response to the Dandi March which began at Trichinopoly and ended at this place.

Tuticorin
Puduchery
Kumbakonam
Vedaranyam

6. The town in Kerala is famous for the satyagraha led by T.K. Madhavan in the year 1924 against untouchability among the Hindus.

Trivandrum
Kodungallur
Vaikom
Guruvayoor

7. This jail, built by the British in 1871, housed many freedom fighters especially between 1930–42, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1924, Veer Savarkar was also kept in jail.

Cellular Jail
Yerwada Jail
Alipore Jail
Lahore Central Jail

8. Who is the author of the book 'The Secret Diary of Kasturba'?

Neelima Dalmia Adhar
Anita Desai
Jhumpa Lahiri
Shashi Deshpande

9. Who is known as Kerala Gandhi?

K Kelappan
I K Kumaran
Pattom Thanupilla
Mohammed Abdur Rahiman

10. Who translated Gandhi's autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", to English from its Gujarati original?

Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahadev Desai
Acharya Kripalani
Annie Besant

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