How well do you know Mahatma Gandhi's life and leadership?

Study Notes

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Gandhi was born in 1869 and died in 1948.
He lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
In 1915, he returned to India and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress.
Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
He adopted the short dhoti as a mark of identification with India's rural poor and lived in a self-sufficient residential community.
Gandhi led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and in calling for the British to quit India in 1942.
Britain granted independence to India in 1947, but the country was partitioned into two dominions.
Gandhi attempted to alleviate distress caused by religious violence and undertook several hunger strikes to stop it.

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Test your knowledge on the life and legacy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Indian lawyer and nationalist leader who led the campaign for India's independence from British rule. This quiz covers his early life, his activism in South Africa, his leadership of the Indian National Congress, and his campaigns for social justice and self-rule in India. See how much you know about Gandhi's nonviolent resistance, his clothing choices, his salt march, his hunger strikes, and his efforts to alleviate religious violence.