Introduction to Gandhi

1. Introduction to Gandhi
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2. Vocabulary: Check for meanings
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born study law
job religion family
begin fight rights (noun)
find married return
clothes simple how long
independence thousand year
light truth

3. 1. Where was Gandhi born?
a. South Africa
b. England
c. India

4. England
South Africa

5. Look at the first sentence in the
Introduction:
•Gandhi was an ordinary
boy from an ordinary Hindu
family in India.

7. 1. Where was Gandhi born?
a. South Africa
b. England
c. India

8. 2. Where did Gandhi study law?
a. South Africa
b. England
c. India

9. Look at the third sentence in the
Introduction:
•He studied law at a college
in England.

11. 2. Where did Gandhi study law?
a. South Africa
b. England
c. India

12. 3. Where did Gandhi get his first
job?
a. South Africa
b. England
c. India

13. Look at the first sentence in the
second paragraph:
•His first job took him to
South Africa.

15. 3. Where did Gandhi get his first
job?
a. South Africa
b. England
c. India

16. 4. What was the religion of
Gandhi’s family?
a. Muslim
b. Hindu
c. Christian

17. Muslims: Picture from http://muslimgirl.net/2619/muslims-a-matter-of-perception

18. Hindus: Picture from http://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation1.htm

19. Christians: Picture from http://peacebk.blogspot.com/2012/09/christians-indebted-to-muhammad.html

20. Look at the the first sentence in the
Introduction:
•Gandhi was an ordinary
boy from an ordinary
Hindu family in India.

22. 4. What was the religion of
Gandhi’s family?
a. Muslim
b. Hindu
c. Christian

23. 5. Where did Gandhi start to
fight for the rights of Indians?
a. England
b. India
c. South Africa

24. Look at the second paragraph:
• First sentence: His first job took
him to South Africa.
(This paragraph is about Gandhi
in South Africa.)
• Last sentence: He started to
fight for the rights of Indians.

26. 5. Where did Gandhi start to
fight for the rights of Indians?
a. England
b. India
c. South Africa

27. 6. Why did Gandhi go to
England?
a. to find a job
b. to study law
c. to get married

28. Look at the third sentence in the first
paragraph:
•He studied law at a college
in England.

30. 6. Why did Gandhi go to
England?
a. to find a job
b. to study law
c. to get married

31. 7. When did Gandhi return to
India?
a. 1915
b. 24
c. 46

32. Look at the second sentence in the
third paragraph:
•He came back to India in
1915 in simple, white
Indian clothes.

34. 7. When did Gandhi return to
India?
a. 1915
b. 24
c. 46

35. 8. How old was Gandhi when he
returned to India?
a. 1915
b. 46
c. 24

36. Look at the first sentence in Chapter 1:
•Mohandes Karamchand
Gandhi was born in 1869 in
Porbandar, in the west of
India.

38. Look at the second sentence in the
third paragraph of the Introduction:
He came back to India in
1915 in simple, white Indian
clothes.

40. 1915 – 1869 = 46

41. 8. How old was Gandhi when he
returned to India?
a. 1915
b. 46
c. 24

42. 9. What kind of clothes did Gandhi
wear when he went to England?
a. South African clothes
b. European clothes
c. Indian clothes

43. Look at the first sentence in the third
paragraph:
•When Gandhi left India in
1893, he wore European
clothes.

45. 9. What kind of clothes did Gandhi
wear when he went to England?
a. South African clothes
b. European clothes
c. Indian clothes

46. 10. Why did Gandhi wear simple,
white Indian clothes when he
returned to India?
a. Because he wanted to show his people a simple,
holy way of life.
b. Because he was a world leader.
c. Because he was poor and could not buy expensive
clothes.

47. Look at the last sentence in the fourth
paragraph:
•He showed them a simple,
holy way of life.
We can guess that the simple white clothes
are connected to Gandhi’s simple, holy way
of life.

49. 10. Why did Gandhi wear simple,
white Indian clothes when he
returned to India?
a. Because he wanted to show his people a simple,
holy way of life.
b. Because he was a world leader.
c. Because he was poor and could not buy expensive
clothes.

50. 11. How long did Gandhi fight for
India's independence from Great
Britain?
a. 22 years
b. more than 30 years
c. a thousand years

51. Look at the first and second sentences
in the fourth paragraph:
•In India, Gandhi started to
fight for independence
from Britain. It took more
than thirty years.

53. 11. How long did Gandhi fight for
India's independence from Great
Britain?
a. 22 years
b. more than 30 years
c. a thousand years

54. 12. Nehru said, "in a thousand years,
people will see that light … It is the
light of truth."
What did Nehru mean by "the light
of truth"?
a. The independence of India from Great
Britain
b. The British Empire
c. Gandhi's ideas about nonviolent protest

55. “Truth” is a kind of idea.
It is not a political event like the
independence of India from
Britain.
It is not a place like British Empire.

56. 12. Nehru said, "in a thousand years,
people will see that light … It is the
light of truth."
What did Nehru mean by "the light
of truth"?
a. The independence of India from Great
Britain
b. The British Empire
c. Gandhi's ideas about nonviolent protest