1. Mahatma Gandhi delivered his first public speech in India at
Question Asked : UPPCS (Mains) 2015
(A) Bombay
(B) Lucknow
(C) Champaran
(D) Varanasi
2. In which of the following movements did Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of hunger strike as a weapon?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Pre) 2010
(A) Non-Cooperation Movement
(B) Rowlatt Satyagraha
(C) Ahmedabad Strike
(D) Bardoli Satyagraha
3. Gandhiji started his first Satyagraha against
Question Asked : Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2002, UP Lower Sub. (Pre) 1998
(A) British attack on Turkey
(B) Government of India Act, 193 5
(C) Payment of low wages to workers
(D) Rowlatt Act.
4. Who among the following used to say “Wrong means never take us to right ends”?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Mains) 2015
(A) Sardar Patel
(B) M.K. Gandhi
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
5. Who addressed Gandhiji as ‘one-man boundary force’?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Re. Exam) (Pre) 2015
(A) Churchill
(B) Attlee
(C) Mountbatten
(D) Simon
6. On the death of Mahatma Gandhi who said, ‘the light has gone out of our lives’
Question Asked : MPPCS (Pre) 1995
(A) Lord Mountbatten
(B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
(C) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
7. At the time of India’s Independence, Mahatma Gandhi was
Question Asked : IAS (Pre) 1993
(A) A member of Congress Working Committee
(B) Not a member of the Congress
(C) The President of the Congress
(D) The General Secretary of the Congress
8. Which one of the following Jails was named as ‘Mandir’ by Gandhiji?
Question Asked : UP Lower Sub. (Mains) 2015
(A) Naini
(B) Yarvada
(C) Cellular (port Blair)
(D) Aghakhan Palace
9. Mahatma Gandhi’s close English compatriot during the freedom movement was
Question Asked : 46th BPSC (Pre) 2004
(A) Thomas Moore
(B) A. O. Hume
(C) Charles Andrews
(D) William Wavell
10. Who among the following capitalists served as an AICC treasurer for many years and went to jail in 1930?
Question Asked : 47th BPSC (Pre) 2005
(A) G.D. Birla
(B) Jamnalal Bajaj
(C) J.R.D. Tata
(D) Balchand Hirachand
