Here we have provided you compilation of most important questions on Mahatma Gandhi asked in various competitive exams of India. Mahatma Gandhi was an important personality who influenced the course of freedom struggle of India against British colonial rule. Throughout his life he had fought against various social evils and atrocious policies of Britishers in India.
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Important Question on Mahatma Gandhi :- GK Quiz
Q.1) Where was Mahatma Gandhi born ?
A.) Porbandar
B.) Rajkot
C.) Ahmedabad
D.) Delhi
Q.2) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on
A.) October 5, 1896
B.) October 3, 1840
C.) October 2,1869
D.) October 10, 1880
Q.3) What was the age of Gandhi ji at the time of his marriage ?
A.) 12 years
B.) 13 years
C.) 16 years
D.) 20 years
Q.4) About how old was Gandhi ji when he reached London to become a barrister ?
A.) 20 years
B.) 19 years
C.) 21 years
B.) 16 years
Q.5) Who was the political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi ?
A.) Swami Vivekananda
B.) Rabindra Nath Tagore
C.) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
D.) C. Rajagopalachari
Q.6) Which of the following newspapers was not published by Mahatma Gandhi ?
A.) Navjeevan
B.) Harijan
C.) Vande Mataram
D.) Young India
Q.7) From which station in South Africa Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of the train ?
A.) Natal
B.) Johannesburg
C.) Pietermaritzburg
D.) Durban
Q.8) Who gave the title of ‘Mahatma’ to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ?
A.) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B.) Motilal Nehru
C.) Jawaharlal Nehru
D.) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Q.9) During the Non-Cooperation Movement, which award did Gandhi ji return ?
A.) Knighthood
B.) Rai Bahadur
C.) Kaiser-e-Hind
D.) Hind Kesari
Q.10) When was the Gandhi-Irwin Pact signed ?
A.) March 1, 1932
B.) March 5, 1931
C.) March 10, 1935
D.) March 7, 1937
Q.11) When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India from South Africa ?
A.) 1918
B.) 1910
C.) 1915
D.) 1905
Q.12) At which of the following place Gandhiji started his first Satyagraha movement in India after returning from South Africa ?
A.) Ahmedabad
B.) Bardoli
C.) Champaran
D.) Kheda
Q.13) Who first reffered Gandhi ji as ‘Rashtrapita’ (Father of the Nation) ?
A.) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
B.) Subhash Chandra Bose
C.) Jawahar Lal Nehru
D.) Madan Mohan Malvia
Q.14) October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi is internationally observed as
A.) Non-violence Day
B.) Vegetarians Day
C.) Martyrs’ Day
D.) Communal Harmony Day
Q.15) The only session of Indian National Congress (INC) which was presided by Mahatma Gandhi was held at ?
A.) Lucknow, 1916
B.) Lahore, 1929
C.) Calcutta, 1917
D.) Belgaum, 1924
Q.16) Who led the ‘Salt Satyagraha Movement’ with Mahatma Gandhi ?
A.) Annie Besant
B.) Mridula Sarabhai
C.) Muthu Lakshmi
D.) Sarojini Naidu
Q.17) Which of the following movements was not started by Gandhi ji ?
A.) Non-cooperation Movement
B.) Civil Disobedience Movement
C.) Quit India Movement
D.) Swadeshi Movement
Q.18) Gandhi ji organized ‘Dandi March’ in 1930 against
A.) Atrocities on Harijans
B.) Repression of the Congress
C.) Imposition of tax on salt
D.) The Communal Award
Q.19) What is the name of Gandhi’s autobiography ?
A.) “The Struggle for Freedom”
B.) “My Experiment with Truth”
C.) “The Story of My Life”
D.) “My Journey to Independence”
Q.20) Who translated the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi written in Gujarati to English ?
A.) Mahadev Desai
B.) J.B. Kriplani
C.) Mohanlal Pandya
D.) Vinoba Bhave
Q.21) Which of the following books inspired Gandhi ji ?
A.) ‘The Kingdom of God is Within You’ by Leo Tolstoy
B.) ‘Unto This Last’ by John Ruskin
C.) Both A and B
D.) Neither A nor B
Q.22) Gandhi’s ideology of non-violence and civil disobedience was heavily influenced by the teachings of
A.) Karl Marx
B.) Thomas Hobbes
C.) Jeremy Bentham
D.) Henry David Thoreau
Q.23) Which of the following was the second Satyagraha of Gandhi ji in India ?
A.) Kheda Satyagraha
B.) Ahmedabad Mill Strike
C.) Champaran Satyagraha
D.) None of the above
Q.24) Who referred to Mahatma Gandhi as ‘Half-naked fakir’ ?
A.) Lord Mountbatten
B.) Clement Attlee
C.) Ramsay MacDonald
D.) Winston Churchill
Q.25) Who was Mahatma Gandhi’s wife ?
A.) Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia
B.) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
C.) Sarojini Naidu
D.) Indira Gandhi
Q.26) What were the vows taken up by Gandhiji before he left for England ?
A.) Not to take alcohol
B.) Not to eat meat
C.) Not to eye other women
D.) All of the Above
Q.27) Identify the viceroy who wrote home these words after his first meeting with Gandhiji: “Mr. Gandhi’s religious and moral views are, I believe, admirable, but I confess that I find it difficult to understand the practice of them in politics.”
A.) Lord Wavell
B.) Lord Irwin
C.) Lord Reading
D.) Lord Mountbatten
Q.28) The difference with Gandhiji led Subhas Chandra Bose to resign the Presidentship of the Indian National Congress in 1939. Leaving the Congress he formed a new party called ________.
A.) Indian National Party
B.) Forward Bloc
C.) Truth and Freedom Party
D.) Freedom Bloc
Q.29) Which of the following did Gandhiji describes as his two lungs ?
A.) Ahimsa and peace
B.) Ahimsa and truth
C.) Truth and Peace
D.) Brahamcharya and Aparigriha
Q.30) How many Children did Mahatma Gandhi have ?
A.) Two
B.) Three
C.) Four
D.) Five
Q.31) Which of the following, according to Gandhiji, is an essential principle of Satyagraha ?
A.) Infinite capacity for suffering
B.) Non-violence
C.) Truth
D.) All of the above
Q.32) What did Gandhiji mean by ‘Swaraj’ ?
A.) Freedom for the country
B.) Freedom for the meanest of the countrymen
C.) Self-Government
D.) Complete independence
Q.33) On being arrested for his ‘Quit India’ programme, where was Gandhiji detained ?
A.) Yeravda Jail
B.) Byculla Prison
C.) Agha Khan Palace Jail
D.) Ahmedabad Prison
Q.34) At which place was Gandhiji arrested for the first time by the British Government for Sedition ?
A.) Bombay
B.) Pune
C.) Calcutta
D.) Ahmedabad
Q.35) Subhas Chandra Bose was elected President of the Congress in 1938 with Gandhiji’s goodwill. He wanted a second, but Gandhiji did not approve of it. Despite the disapproval, Bose fought the election and won it, defeating the official candidate by over 200 votes. Gandhiji took it as a personal defeat. Identify the candidate.
A.) Lala Lajpatrai
B.) Jawaharlal Nehru
C.) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
D.) Sarojini Naidu
Q.36) In which of the following year Sabarmati Ashram was established by Mahatma Gandhi ?
A.) 1910
B.) 1912
C.) 1915
D.) 1917
Q.38) Which of these slogans is associated with Gandhiji ?
A.) Freedom is my Birthright
B.) Inquilab Zindabad
C.) Do or Die
D.) Delhi Chalo
Q.39) In which year did Mahatma Gandhi first arrive in South Africa ?
A.) 1888
B.) 1890
C.) 1891
D.) 1893
Q.40) For how many years did Mahatma Gandhi live in South Africa ?
A.) 21 years
B.) 23 years
C.) 15 years
D.) 17 years
Q.41) Who portrayed the character of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough’s famous film Gandhi ?
A.) Ben Kingsley
B.) Rajit Kapoor
C.) Anupam Kher
D.) Annu Kapoor
Q.42) Mahatma Gandhi believes in
A.) End justifies Means
B.) Means justifies End
C.) Neither End justifies Means nor Means justifies End
D.) End and Means both should be justified
Q.43) Which of the following Round Table Conference was attended by Mahatma Gandhi ?
A.) First
B.) Second
C.) Third
D.) Both First and Second
Q.44) Who said about Gandhiji that “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood ?
A.) Winston Churchill
B.) Lord Mountbatten
C.) Albert Einstein
D.) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q.45) In Gandhian Socialism :-
A.) State is required
B.) State is not required
C.) State is sometimes required and sometimes not required
D.) State is neither required nor not required
Q.46) In which of the following movements did Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of Hunger Strike as a weapon ?
A.) Non-Cooperation Movement, 1920-22
B.) Rowlatt Satyagraha, 1919
C.) Ahmedabad Strike, 1918
D.) Bardoli Satyagraha, 1928
Q.47) Which of the following is not correct about Mahatma Gandhi ?
A.) Gandhi believe in the sanctity of means
B.) Gandhi supported close relation between religion and politics
C.) Gandhi advocated complete separation of politics from religion
D.) Gandhi believe in non-violence
Q.48) In relation to which of the following did Gandhiji use the phrase “Post-dated cheque on a crashing bank” ?
A.) Cabinet Mission
B.) Simon Commission
C.) Cripps Mission
D.) Montague-Chelmsford Reforms
Q.49) Who led the extremists before the arrival of Gandhi on the political scene for India’s freedom struggle ?
A.) Dadabhai Naoroji
B.) Surendranath Banerjee
C.) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
D.) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q.50) Which of the following banks was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1919 ?
A.) Indian Bank Cells
B.) Allahabad Bank
C.) Union Bank of India
D.) Punjab National Bank
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