2.03 Mahatma Gandhi Quiz Review

Which detail from "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action" gives an example of the impact of British rule on Indians' economic power?

• "Since taking control, Britain had made laws that imposed harsh taxes and stopped Indian trade with other countries."

• "Eventually, many Indians began to demand independence from Britain."

• "Non-cooperation meant that Indians would boycott British goods, take their children out of British schools, and pay not a single rupee of British taxes."

• "Still, for Gandhi, it was not enough to bring down British rule."

Which detail from "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action" introduces the idea that Gandhi influenced people outside of India?

• "In London, he trained to become a lawyer."

• "He was appalled to find that in some parts of South Africa, Indians were not allowed to vote or to own more than a certain amount of property."

• "He stopped wearing Western clothes, learned to spin cloth, and wore only a cotton shawl and dhoti, a kind of loincloth, which had been spun by Indian hands."

• "In the United States, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., once said that Gandhi’s words and actions showed him how to use nonviolence to lead the civil rights movement in the 1960s."

Which detail from "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action" introduces an obstacle faced by Indians who wanted to win independence from the British?

• "The British had been gaining power in India since the mid-1700s, and had officially taken control of India in 1858."

• "They spoke different languages, quarreled over religion and social class, and were scattered across the land in cities and tiny villages, long before telephones or the Internet could connect them.

• "To win their independence, the Indians would have to overcome their differences and work together to defeat their common adversary."

• "Then one day in January 1915, a large crowd of Indians, rich and poor, from the cities and the villages, and from every social class, gathered around a dock in Bombay.

Based on "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action," what can be inferred about where black South Africans stood within the social hierarchy of South Africa during the period the article describes?

• They were discriminated against.

• They were the ruling class.

• They had a higher status than the Indians.

• They had been run out of the country years before.

Based on the details in "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action," what inference can be made?

• People must cooperate to make change happen.

• The Indian people undervalue Gandhi.

• Gandhi is most successful using aggressive forms of resistance.

• People are mostly accepting of those who are different.

Read the excerpt from “"Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action”.

Satyagraha was not an easy path. Once, a mob of white South Africans threw stones and rotten eggs at Gandhi. Officials offered to take the members of the mob to court. But Gandhi refused. “What is the use?” he asked; “I am sure that, when the truth becomes known, they will be sorry for their conduct.”

What inference can be made from this passage?

• Gandhi believed that satyagraha could change the way people think.

• The South African officials despised Gandhi.

• Gandhi wanted the people in the mob to be prosecuted in court.

• The people in the mob had a change of heart after throwing stones and eggs at Gandhi.

What evidence from "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action” supports the idea that black South Africans were discriminated against in South Africa?

• "Once, Gandhi himself purchased a first-class train ticket, only to be told after he had boarded that he had to sit in the third-class compartment reserved for Indians and Africans"

• "Since he was meeting with little success in India, he decided to make the long trip to South Africa, where many Indians lived and worked."

• "While he was in South Africa, Gandhi developed the idea of satyagraha, a word that means 'the pursuit of truth.'"

• "He was appalled to find that in some parts of South Africa, Indians were not allowed to vote or to own more than a certain amount of property."

What evidence from "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action” supports the idea that people must cooperate to make change happen?

• "To win their independence, the Indians would have to overcome their differences and work together to defeat their common adversary."

• "He burned piles of British clothing in front of Indians, and encouraged them to spin their own cloth and grow their own food or buy it from each other, instead of from the British."

• "So he reached out to the outcasts of Indian society, the poorest of the poor, called the Untouchables."

• Through his efforts, Untouchables were allowed into temples and invited to participate in Indian assemblies."

Read the excerpt from “Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action”.

Satyagraha was not an easy path. Once, a mob of white South Africans threw stones and rotten eggs at Gandhi. Officials offered to take the members of the mob to court. But Gandhi refused. “What is the use?” he asked; “I am sure that, when the truth becomes known, they will be sorry for their conduct.”

What text evidence in this passage supports the idea that Gandhi believed that satyagraha could change the way people think?

• Satyagraha was not an easy path.

• Once, a mob of white South Africans threw stones and rotten eggs at Gandhi.

• But Gandhi refused. “What is the use?” he asked“I am sure that, when the truth becomes known, they will be sorry for their conduct.”

• “I am sure that, when the truth becomes known, they will be sorry for their conduct.”

  “I am sure that, when the truth becomes known, they will be sorry for their conduct.”,

In "Mohandas Gandhi: Truth in Action," why did Gandhi originally go to South Africa?

• to find out how Indians in South Africa were being treated

• to establish his legal career

• to fight injustice

• to escape the punishment of a theft he had committed