People of Peace: Mohandas K. Gandhi (Grade 9)

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People of Peace: Mohandas K. Gandhi

Instructions: Answer the questions about Mohandas Gandhi, perhaps the most deserving of leaders to have never received the Nobel Peace Prize, although he was nominated five times. Gandhi is widely seen as the leader of and inspiration for many of the 20th century's non-violent peace movements.

Gandhi was born in 1869 in into a Hindu family which considered as very important non-violence and tolerance between religious groups.

western India
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka

Gandhi studied in London, then was an attorney in India and later South Africa where he worked to improve living conditions for the Indian minority.

international politics
art
medicine
law

In South Africa, Gandhi created a method of non-violence in the Indian struggle for basic human rights known as satyagraha, or

peace corps.
truth force.
resistance.
passive assertion.

What were the main ideas behind satyagraha?

After World War I, Gandhi began a series of campaigns against the British authorities in India.

non-violent
violent
silent
secretive

Although his first name was Mohandas, Gandhi was called Mahatma, a title derived from two Sanskrit words meaning .

While resisting unjust British rule, Gandhi made strong efforts to unite followers of the three main religions of India -- the , and -- into a political force.

Gandhi also worked for greater freedom for what class of Hindu society?

the republicans
the Shudras
the Brahmins
the untouchables

What was the Salt March?

10.

Gandhi believed the British authorities were promoting discord among Muslims and Hindus so as to divide and control India, thus he demanded an immediate British withdrawal from India in the summer of 1942. This became known as the

Brexit.
Great Divide.
Partition of India.
Quit India Movement.

11.

Gandhi's greatest desire was to see a unified and independent India, so as violent tensions increased between Muslims and Hindus after World War II, he worked for unity and acceptance among all Indians by undertaking a , his 17th and last.

12.

Himself a Hindu, Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a fellow Hindu, a radical who despised Gandhi because of his tolerance of all faiths and ethnicities.