Special quiz for High school students on Mahatma Gandhi

1. Life Philosophy
Works
Sarvodaya A Tribute

3. Who is referred to as “the heart
of Gandhiji’s intellectual
operation which helped him to
refine his philosophy “ in the
book written by Ian Desai called
Gandhi’s invisible hands
Q1

4. Identify the lady.
One on the left is the
actual person and one
on the right is from the
film Gandhi
Q2

5. Whose paintings focus on the Bindu which he
believed to be the point of source of energy
Who is the painter who painted this..He devoted it
to Gandhiji
Q3

6. In the book Hind Swaraj
What did he refer to as
Institutions of Sin
Q4

7. Identify this Hindustani musician whose song
was sung by sung by Gandhi and his
followers as they walked during the 241
mile Salt March to Dandi
Q5

8. Q 6

9. When on August 15, 1947 the transfer of power
took place, the Congress President issued a
message to the nation and saluted Mahatma
Gandhi as 'the maker of freedom achieved in a
unique way.' He said 'never before was so great
an event consummated with such little bloodshed
and violence.' Who was the Congress President?
Q7

10. Name the leader who last met Gandhiji
for about an hour and left him just few
minutes before he was shot dead on
January 30, 1948 while on his way to
the prayer meeting.
Q8

11. Where was the newspaper
Harijan published from?
Q 9

12. After the attainment of political independence in 1947,
Gandhiji felt that the Congress, as a propaganda vehicle
and a parliamentary machine, had outlived its
usefulness. So to keep the Congress away from
unhealthy competition with political parties and
communal bodies, Gandhiji towards the end of January
1948 sketched a draft constitution for the Congress to
transform itself into _______.
Q10

13. Mohandas Gandhi wrote this book in his native language,
Gujarati, while traveling from London to South Africa on board
SS Kildonan Castlebetween November 13 and November 22,
1909. In the book Gandhi gives a diagnosis for the problems of
humanity in modern times, the causes, and his remedy.It was
then translated in English and French
Q11

14. Who described Gandhi's march to Dandi in
the following words? "Like the historic
march of Ramchandra to Lanka, the march
of Gandhi will be memorable".
Q12

15. Identify the following person who was a close aide of Gandhi
who left the Congress disillusioned by the abandonment of
Gandhian principles to form the Kisan Majdoor Praja Party.
His wife became the first female CM of Uttar Pradesh
Q
13

16. What is described as two lungs by Gandhiji?
Q
14

17. Connect Schindler's List (1993), Twelfth
Night (1996), Sexy Beast (2000), House
of Sand and Fog (2003), Lucky Number
Slevin (2006), Shutter Island (2010),
Q
15

18. I will give X Y Z even as unto thee. Is it not lawful
for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye
evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first,
and the first last: for many be called, but few
chosen.
— Matthew 20 (King James Version)-
The title marked XYZ is a quotation from the
Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard:This book
had a deep impact on Mahatma Gandhi
Q
16

19. Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against
the authority of a state or monarch.”
What is the term used to describe the above.
Gandhiji was arrested in Ahmedbad in 1922 for the
same
Q
17

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21. Q
1 9

22. Q
20
He is an Indian Gandhian environmentalist and social
activist, who founded Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh
(DGSS) in Gopeshwar in 1964, which later became a
mother-organization to the Chipko Movement, in
which he was one of the pioneers, and for which he
was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Community Leadership in 1982, followed by the
Padma Bhushan in 2005.
Today he is known for his work on subaltern social
ecology, and considered one of India's first modern
environmentalist.. In 2013, he was the recipient of the
Gandhi Peace Prize

24. Q22

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