Test Your Knowledge of Mahatma Gandhi's Life and Legacy
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¿Qué hizo Gandhi para liderar la exitosa campaña por la independencia de India del gobierno británico?

  • No hizo nada
  • Utilizó la resistencia violenta
  • Hizo un acuerdo con los británicos
  • Utilizó la resistencia no violenta (correct)
  • ¿Dónde nació Gandhi?

  • En Sudáfrica
  • En Gujarat, India (correct)
  • En Nueva Delhi, India
  • En Londres, Inglaterra
  • ¿Qué hizo Gandhi cuando vivió en Sudáfrica durante 21 años?

  • Luchó por los derechos civiles utilizando la resistencia no violenta (correct)
  • Ayudó a los británicos a mantener el control sobre Sudáfrica
  • No hizo nada
  • Luchó por los derechos civiles utilizando la resistencia violenta
  • ¿Qué desafió Gandhi en 1930 con la Marcha de la Sal de Dandi?

    <p>La imposición británica de un impuesto sobre la sal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    ¿Qué visión tenía Gandhi para una India independiente?

    <p>Una India basada en el pluralismo religioso</p> Signup and view all the answers

    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 inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
    • He was born in Gujarat, India in 1869 and trained in law in London.
    • Gandhi lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
    • Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
    • Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, and ending untouchability.
    • He challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
    • Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged by Muslim nationalism in the early 1940s.
    • Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence and the last of these, begun in Delhi on 12 January 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.

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    How much do you know about the life and legacy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi? Test your knowledge with our quiz! From his early years in India to his leadership in the Indian National Congress and his use of nonviolent resistance to secure India's independence, this quiz covers the key moments and achievements of Gandhi's life. Discover how his philosophy of peaceful protest and religious pluralism continues to inspire movements for civil rights and freedom around the world today.

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