1. Who was the first person to call Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Father of Nation’?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Pre) 2008, (GIC) 2010, Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Mains) 2007, IAS (Pre) 1993
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Vallabhbhai Patel
(C) C. Raj Gopalachari
(D) Subhash Chandra Bose
2. Which of the following statement is/are correct regarding Gandhi?
Question Asked : UP Lower Sub. (Mains) 2013
(A) Fought hard to improve the status of casteless untouchables
(B) Launched the Non-Cooperation Movement
(C) Began the Civil Disobedience Movement
(D) All the above
3. Which one of the following Satyagrahas was not lead by Mahatma Gandhi?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Pre) 2005
(A) Quit India Movement
(B) Civil Disobedience
(C) Bardoli
(D) Kheda
4. Which of the following Movement is not related with Gandhiji?
Question Asked : UP Lower Sub. (Pre) 1998
(A) Swadeshi Movement
(B) Khilafat Movement
(C) Individual Satyagraha
(D) Quit India Movement
5. Whose work have influenced Gandhian concept?
Question Asked : UP Lower Sub. (Mains) 2013
(A) Ruskin
(B) Thoreau
(C) Tolstoy
(D) All the above
6. Gandhi’s boycott of British made products was effective because British considered India, a major
Question Asked : UP Lower Sub. (Mains) 2013
(A) Shipping centre
(B) Industrial centre
(C) Market for manufactured goods
(D) Source of mineral resources
7. Who among of the following had told: “destruction is the best method of dealing with the foreign clothes”?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Pre) 2010
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Chitranjan Das
(D) Sub has Chandra Bose
8. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is best known for which of the following?
Question Asked : UP Lower Sub. (Mains) 2013
(A) Use of passive resistance to achieve Indian independence.
(B) Desire to establish an Islamic nation.
(C) Opposition to Hindus holding political office.
(D) Encouragement of violence to end British rule.
9. During India’s struggle for independence which was the first to start’ Satyagraha’?
Question Asked : Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2005
(A) Sardar Patel
(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(C) Vinoba Bhave
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
10. Who amongst the following coined the word ‘Satyagraha’?
Question Asked : UPPCS (Mains) 2015
(A) Harilal Gandhi
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Ramdas Gandhi
(D) Manilal Gandhi
