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Contest Name : Discover Gandhi Quiz Contest 2020
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Quiz Dates : 2nd October,2020 to 1st November, 2020
Quiz Level : Secondary Level (Classes 6, 7 & 8)
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NCERT Discover Gandhi Quiz Contest

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Secondary Level Quiz Questions

1. Yohei Sasakawa won the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2018 for his contribution in
(a) Providing education for rural and tribal children
(b) Providing mid-day meals to children
(c) Eradication of leprosy
(d) Emancipation of manual scavengers

2. Which one of the following Ashram was NOT set up by Gandhiji?
(a) Phoenix Ashram
(b) Tolstoy Farm
(c) Sevagram
(d) Gandhi Ashram

3. In which of the following meetings did Gandhiji point out that in not including women in their movement they were walking on one lea?
(a) Gujarat Political Conference,1917
(b) All India States Peoples Conference, 1927
(c) Central Khilafat Committee Meeting, 1920
(d) The Calcutta Congress,1906

4. After reading a manual on obstetrics, Gandhiji assisted in the delivery of which of his sons in Durban in 1897?
(a) Hiralal
(b) Manilal
(c) Devdas
(d) Ramdas

5. Where did Gandhiji first begin his dietetic experiments towards vegetarianism ?
(a) South Africa
(b) India
(c) England
(d) None of the above

6. Who amongst the following in England enlightened Gandhiji as to why it was the moral duty of vegetarians not to live upon fellow-animals?
(a) Dr. Oldfield
(b) Mr. Henry Salt
(c) Sir Edwin Arnold
(d) Dr. Allinson

7. Which of the following treatments did Gandhiji recommend for constipation in his work Nature Cure?
(a) Cold mud pack
(b) Ice water
(c) Wet sheet pack
(d) None of the above

8. The chief component of Gandhiji’s ideology was Satyagraha. He believed that Satyagraha is-
(a) a method of protest similar to ‘passive resistance’.
(b) a weapon of the week and does not exclude the use of physical force.
(c) a weapon of the strongest and excludes the use of violence in any form.
(d) None of the above

9. Mudhalvar Mahatma is in which language ?
(a) Telgu
(b) Kannad
(c) Tamil
(d) Marathi

10. After his release from jail in 1924, which of the following became a central concern for Gandhiji?
(a) Issue of Untouchability
(b) Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre
(c) The Rowlatt Act
(d) System of Separate Electorates

11. At the intervention of Lord Elgin, the then Viceroy of India, the tax was reduced to
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) 4

12. Why did Gandhiji undertake ‘fast unto death’ in the Yerawada prison in 1932?
(a) To protest against the Chauri Chaura incident
(b) To protest against the British Government’s Communal award of granting separate electorates to minorities and depressed classes
(c) To protest against manual scavenging
(d) None of the above

13. During the Kheda Satyagraha many leaders took part with Gandhiji. They were—
(a) Vallabhbhai Patel
(b) Shankarlal Banker
(c)Mahadev Desai
(d) All the above.

14. Which of the following pledges/resolution was not drafted by Gandhiji himself?
(a) Anti-Rowlatt Act
(b) Poorna Swarajya Pledge
(c) Quit India Resoluton
(d) Non-Cooperation Resolution

15. In which languages the journal was published?
(a) English and Gujarati
(b) Gujarati and Hindi
(c) Hindi and English
(d) French and Gujarati

16. Indians decided to protest against the provision of which Act :
(a) Black Act
(b) White Act
(c) White and Black Act
(d) Red Act

17. The Poona Pact was an agreement between which of the following?
(a) Gandhiji and E.V.RamaswamiNaicker
(b) Gandhiji and Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Gandhiji and C.Rajagopalachari
(d) Gandhiji and B.R.Ambedkar

18.Which Bill abolished the poll-tax on indentured workers?
(a) Indians’ Relief Bill
(b) Relief Bill
(c) Satyagraha Bill
(d) Asian Bill

19. Who stepped down at Gandhi’s request for the Congress presidency in the 1946 election?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(c) Maulana Azad
(d) C. Rajagopalachari

20. The doctrine of Ramarajya was expounded by
(a) Tilak
(b) Gokhale
(c) Gandhiji
(d) Nehru

21. In which of the following sessions of the Indian National Congress, did Gandhiji participate for the first time?
(a) Calcutta Session, 1901
(b) Banaras Session
(c) Surat Session, 1907
(d) Lucknow Session, 1916

22. According to Gandhiji the outbreak of which disease in the Transvaal area of South Africa earned Indians the reputation of beina unsanitary and unhvaienic ?
(a) Small Pox
(b) Malaria
(c) Chicken Pox
(d) Plague

23. On which date Gandhiji, with Kasturba and Kaltenbach, sailed for England?
(a) 1914
(b) 1915
(c) 1916
(d) 1917

24. In which of the following movements did Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of hunger strike as a weapon?
(a) Peasant Movement in Champaran
(b) Peasant Movement in Kheda
(c) Mill Workers’ Strike in Ahmedabad
(d) Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act

25. The book ‘Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure’ provided the groundwork for Gandhiji’s ‘Hind Swaraj’. Who is the author of the book?
(a) Edwin Arnold
(b) Sheikh Mehtab
(c) Edward Carpenter
(d) Henry Salt

26. Who presented to Gandhiji the book – Unto This Last?
(a) H.S.L. Polak
(b) Mansukh Lal Naazar
(c) Abudulla Seth
(d) Rustomji

27. Which of the following books enlightened Gandhiji about the benefits of earth treatment?
(a) Return to Nature by Adolf Just
(b) The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams
(c) Plea for Vegetarianism by Henry Salt
(d) The New Science of Healing by Louis Kuhne

28. Which among the following according to Gandhiji controlled the spread of leprosy?
(a) Sugar
(b) Cow Milk
(c) Meat
(d) Vegetables

29. Which amongst the following practices of Putlibai did Gandhi incorporate as a part of his strategy for political struggle?
(a) Vegetarianism
(b) Self-Suffering
(c) Non-Violence
(d) Charity

30. Gandhiji believed that the primary cause of disease was due to :
(a) Increase in population
(b) Man’s estrangement with nature
(c) Orthodox medicinal practices
(d) Iliteracy

31. Where was Gandhiji detained following his arrest for his ‘Quit India’ Movement?
(a) Yeravada jail
(b) Ahmadabad jail
(c) Agha Khan Palace jail
(d) Calcutta jail

32. What according to Gandhiji meant ‘intense activity’ or active mass resistance by large masses of people against unjust rule ?
(a) Dharma
(b) Satyagraha
(c) Ahimsa
(d) Brahmacharya

33. Gandhiji established three schools in Champaran at which places?
(a) Baharwa
(b) Bhitiharva
(c) Madhuban
(d) All the three

34. The Gandhian scheme of education is known as the scheme of education.
(a) Wardha Scheme
(b) Buniyadi Taleem
(c) Nai Taleem
(d) National Education

35. Who said “Gandhiji loved Jawahar Lal Nehru more than anyone else”?
(a) Subhas Chandra Bose
(b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(c) Rajendra Prasad
(d) Motilal Nehru

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