Mahatma Gandhi Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

11. Gandhiji, the votary of nonviolence was shot dead on January 30, 1948 at Birla House, New Delhi, shortly after 5 p.m. while going to the prayer meeting. Which was that fateful day of the week?

1. Saturday
2. Wednesday
3. Friday
4. Monday

12. Gandhijis The Story of My Experiments with Truth was originally written in Gujarati. Who translated it into English?

1. Maganlal Gandhi
2. Mahadev Desai
3. Pyarelalji
4. Sushila Nayyar

13. How many children did Putlibai have?

1. Two sons and daughters
2. One daughter and three sons
3. Four sons
4. Three sons

14. How old was Gandhiji when his father died?

1. 15 years
2. 17 years
3. 16 years
4. 18 years

15. Identify the leader who last met Gandhiji for about an hour and left him just few minutes before he was shot dead on January 30, 1948 while on his way to the prayer meeting.

1. Vallabhbhai Patel
2. Sarojini Naidu
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Vinoba Bhave

16. Identify the Viceroy who wrote home these words after his first meeting with Gandhiji:Mr Gandhis religious and moral views are, I believe, admirable, but I confess that I find it difficult to understand the practice of them in politics.

1. Lord Wavell
2. Lord Irwin
3. Lord Reading
4. Lord Mountbatten

17. Identify the year in which Birla House, New Delhi, where Gandhiji very often used to stay and where he was shot dead, was turned into a government - run Gandhi museum.

1. 1960
2. 1965
3. 1971
4. 1976

18. In February 1933 Gandhiji started the publication of a weekly paper, Harijan, to promote the anti-untouchability campaign. Its first issue was out on February 11, 1933 from

1. Bombay
2. Ahmedabad
3. Poona
4. Nasik

19. In which South African unit had most of the India emigrants taken up abode?

1. Johannesburg
2. Durban
3. Maritzburg
4. Natal

20. In which year did Gandhiji pass his matriculation in England?

1. 1889
2. 1890
3. 1891
4. 1892