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Section A — Chapter 6 Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement Class 10 - Total History & Civics Solutions Multiple Choice Questions Question 1 Arrange the following historical events in the chronological order of their occurrence. (i) Non-Cooperation Movement (ii) Civil Disobedience Movement (iii) Chauri-Chaura Incident • (i), (ii), (iii) • (i), (iii), (ii) • (ii), (i), (iii) • (iii), (ii), (i) Answer (i), (iii), (ii) Question 2 Champaran, the site of Gandhi's first experiment in Satyagraha, is located in: • Bihar • Kerala • Gujarat • Punjab Answer Bihar Question 3 Complete the given analogy. Mahatma Gandhi : ....?.... : : Dadabhai Naoroji : Indian Association. • All India Congress • Indian Association • Indian National Congress • Natal Indian Congress Answer Natal Indian Congress Question 4 Who, among the following, presided over the historic Lahore session of 1929 of Indian National Congress? • Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru • Rajendra Prasad • Lala Lajpat Rai • Motilal Nehru Answer Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Question 5 Which of the following statements are correct? (i) Kheda Satyagraha was Gandhiji's experiment with Satyagraha. (ii) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the gift of the Kheda Satyagraha to the country. (iii) The government issued secret instructions of recovering revenue from the peasants. • (i) only • (i) and (ii) only • All of the above • None of the above. Answer (i) and (ii) only Question 6 What was the key objective of Gandhiji's Champaran Movement? • The security of...

For more than 200 years, Britain had asserted its iron will over India. From the East India Company levying taxes starting in the 18th century to Britain instituting direct rule over two-thirds of the country in the mid-19th century, India had been extorted for centuries—and with the start of World War II, India was declared to be at war with Germany without any Indian political leaders actually being consulted. The nation would go on to provide So in 1939, members of the Congress informed Viceroy Lord Linlithgow—the highest-ranking British official in India—they would only support the war effort if Indian independence lay at the end of it. To which Linlithgow issued his own threat: if the Congress didn’t support Britain, Britain would simply turn to, and empower, the But they hadn’t abandoned the fight, especially one of their most notable members: Mohandas “Mahatma” Karamchand Gandhi. The spiritual and political leader first experienced racism decades earlier, as a London-educated lawyer working in colonial South Africa. There, he was thrown off a train for trying to sit in the first class car; the 1893 incident led him to his civil rights work, for which he was repeatedly imprisoned. “I discovered that as a man and as an Indian I had no rights,” Agitating for change through nonviolence would become Gandhi’s lifelong pursuit. On the eve of World War II, By 1942, Prime Minister Churchill felt enough pressure to send Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the War Cabinet, to dis...