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Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
- England
- South Africa (correct)
- India
- Pakistan
What did Gandhi adopt as a mark of identification with India's rural poor?
What did Gandhi adopt as a mark of identification with India's rural poor?
- A turban
- Western clothing
- A suit and tie
- The short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn (correct)
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's hunger strike in Delhi in January 1948?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's hunger strike in Delhi in January 1948?
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule
- To demand a separate homeland for Muslims within British India
- To stop the religious violence in India
- To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)