Mahatma Gandhi's Life Quiz

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¿En qué año nació Mahatma Gandhi?

  • 1869 (correct)
  • 1893
  • 1915
  • 1921

¿Qué hizo Gandhi para identificarse con los pobres de la India?

  • Comenzó a comer comida simple
  • Se mudó a una comunidad autosuficiente
  • Usó el dhoti como marca de identificación (correct)
  • Emprendió largos ayunos

¿Qué sucedió en 1947?

  • El Imperio Británico otorgó la independencia a India
  • India logró el swaraj
  • El Imperio Británico fue dividido en dos dominios (correct)
  • Gandhi comenzó a usar la resistencia no violenta

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Study Notes

  • Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
  • He was educated in England and became a lawyer in 1891.
  • Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
  • He began to use nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights in 1915.
  • Gandhi became the leader of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
  • He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving swaraj or self-rule.
  • Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with Indias rural poor.
  • He began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
  • In 1947, Britain granted independence to India and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
  • Gandhi visited the affected areas after independence to try to stop religious violence.
  • Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes in the months following independence to pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
  • Gandhi died on January 30, 1948.

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