Multiple
Choice
Identify the choice
that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which of the following
BEST describes Mohandas
Gandhi’s technique for achieving Indian independence?
A. | Non-violent
resistance | B. | Cooperation with Britain after 1945 | C. | Working cooperatively with the
Muslims | D. | Economic development based on Indian
handicrafts |
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The first Prime Minister of
independent India was
A. | Jawaharlal
Nehru. | B. | Mohandas Gandhi. | C. | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. | D. | Muhammed Ali
Jinnah |
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The Soweto massacre in South
Africa was sparked by student protests over
A. | rapid school fee
increases. | B. | the imposition of pass laws and travel
restrictions. | C. | the policy of establishing black homelands
(Bantustans). | D. | regulations requiring students to learn the Afrikaner
language. |
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In the struggle to win Indian
independence, Mohandas Gandhi supported all of the following except
A. | hunger
strikes. | B. | civil disobedience. | C. | boycotts of British goods.
| D. | destruction of British property in
India. |
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5.
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The first elected president of
a racially integrated South Africa was
A. | Desmond
Tutu | B. | Stephen Biko | C. | Nelson Mandela | D. | Jan Smuts |
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As a result of the Amritsar
Massacre of 1919, the
A. | British exiled Gandhi to
Kashmir. | B. | British granted independence to India. | C. | Indian Congress Party split into Hindu and Muslim
parts. | D. | Indian Congress Party demanded complete
independence. |
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Gandhi’s ideal for India
in the 1930s was a
A. | federal state composed of India and
Pakistan. | B. | state where Hindus and Muslims had equality. | C. | self-governing dominion within the British
Empire. | D. | Hindu nationalist state composed of India and
Pakistan. |
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“Everything pulls us
apart. The Hindus consider cows sacred. We, the Muslims, want to eat them. There are only two links
between the Muslims and the Hindus: British rule — and the common desire to get rid of
it.”
- Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1944)
Jinnah wanted to get rid of British rule
by
A. | fighting a guerrilla war against the
British. | B. | using parliamentary reform to seize power. | C. | establishing separate Muslim and Hindu
states. | D. | supporting a UN partition of the Indian
subcontinent. |
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The apartheid system deprived
black South Africans of all of the following rights except to
A. | live wherever they
wished. | B. | vote for black members of parliament. | C. | marry members of their own tribal
group. | D. | work in any area of the country they
wished. |
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As a result of the British
withdrawal, India was
A. | prohibited from joining the
U.N. | B. | divided into Hindu and Muslim states. | C. | united under the leadership of
Gandhi. | D. | admitted to the South East Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO). |
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After independence in 1947,
India
A. | instituted a one-child
policy. | B. | fought border wars with Pakistan and China. | C. | expelled its entire Muslim
population. | D. | elected Mahatma Gandhi’s daughter as Prime
Minister. |
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