The Ultimate Gandhi Quiz

Study Notes

Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and political activist who used nonviolent resistance to lead the campaign for India's independence from British rule.
He was born in 1869 and died in 1948.
Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
He 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 achieving self-rule.
He adopted a simple lifestyle and undertook long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
Gandhi challenged the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
He was imprisoned many times in both South Africa and India.
Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by Muslim nationalism, which demanded a separate homeland for Muslims within British India.
Gandhi attempted to alleviate religious violence in the aftermath of India's independence, undertaking several hunger strikes to stop the violence.