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1.	The first scene in Gandhi is of the title character’s:
		birth
		marriage
		assassination
		funeral

2.	Flashback to South Africa in 1893, where Gandhi goes through an abrupt introduction to racial injustice by:
		being beaten for refusing to move out of a white person’s way
		being thrown out of a train for traveling with a first-class ticket
		being refused service at a restaurant
		being barred from staying in his hotel

3.	What is Gandhi’s first act of non-violent protest, for which he is mercilessly beaten?
		public fasting
		leading a march to support a coal-miners’ strike
		burning registration passes
		refusing payment of taxes

4.	Gandhi receives a visit from Charlie Andrews, a British clergyman who is interested in Gandhi’s style of protest. While out walking, they are accosted by a group of young white men who don’t take kindly to non-whites walking on the pavement. Which now-famous actor plays their leader, Colin?
		Gary Oldman
		Ian McShane
		Daniel Day-Lewis
		Hugh Grant

5.	A visiting American journalist, Vince Walker, is interviewing South Africa’s Colonial Minister (and later Prime Minister) General Jan Smuts. Who plays Walker?
		Martin Sheen
		Robert Duvall
		James Woods
		Gene Hackman

6.	Gandhi has started ashram, with others who believe that different people can live together. All tasks are shared equally, but he fights with his wife Ba after she refuses to do which task?
		spin cloth
		carry water from the well
		clean out the pig pen
		rake and cover the latrine

7.	General Smuts has introduced new legislation. What is not one of the features raised by Gandhi at the town hall meeting with the Indian community?
		every Indian will be fingerprinted
		no marriage other than Christian marriages will be valid
		Indians would be removed from the general electoral roll and placed on a separate roll
		a policeman passing an Indian dwelling may enter and ask for the residents’ registration cards

8.	The meeting ends with what patriotic British song?
		Rule Britannia
		Jerusalem
		Land of Hope and Glory
		God Save The King

9.	Gandhi and his family arrive back in India, and Gandhi meets the leaders of the Indian National Congress, including a Mr Prakash, who is unfortunately awaiting trial for:
		sedition and inducement to murder
		treason and rabble-rousing
		agitation and incitement to rebellion
		terrorism and conspiracy to overthrow the government

10.	Like Gandhi, several leaders of the Indian National Congress were educated at British universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and the Inns of Court. Which one is depicted as wearing a monocle?
		Jawaharlal Nehru
		Vallabhbhai Patel
		Muhammad Ali Jinnah
		Acharya Kripalani

11.	Gandhi notices that the Congress Party make speeches to each other but the people of India are untouched and their politics is confined to:
		bread and salt
		rice and lentils
		flour and cooking oil
		dhal and water

12.	Gandhi visits Champaran, a village. For years, the landlords of the village have ordered the farmers to make what crop, for which new technologies have killed demand?
		saffron
		henna
		indigo
		rose petals

13.	In Champaran, Gandhi is greeted as “Bapu”. What does Bapu mean?
		father
		blessed
		teacher
		lord

14.	There is new legislation coming into effect, which allows arrest without warrant and automatic imprisonment for possession of materials deemed to be seditious. Gandhi’s response is to embarrass all of those who wish to treat Indians as slaves, through what means?
		a general strike
		non-payment of taxes
		a day of prayer and fasting
		marching and song

15.	People have begun to refer to Gandhi as “Mahatma”. What does Mahatma mean?
		blessed leader
		great soul
		learned scholar
		the wisest

16.	Despite a ban on meetings, about 20,000 Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs gather to celebrate a local religious and cultural festival. Brigadier-General Dyer decides to punish the Indians for their disobedience by shooting as many as possible. This takes place in what Punjabi city (pictured above)?
		Lahore
		Firozpur
		Gujrat
		Amritsar

17.	General Dyer is played by which British actor?
		Trevor Howard
		Edward Fox
		Jack Hawkins
		Stanley Baker

18.	There were 1,516 casualties at the Amritsar massacre. How many bullets were expended?
		1,650
		1,750
		1,850
		1,950

19.	Arriving at the ashram is a Miss Slade from England, who is to make her home there. But she prefers the name she believes Gandhi has given her, which is:
		Lakshmibai
		Ranijindan
		Mirabehn
		Ranasanga

20.	Gandhi calls off the campaign of mass civil disobedience after a riot breaks out in Chauri Chaura, killing 23 policemen. He is then arrested for sedition, and sentenced (at Gandhi’s insistence) to the maximum period of:
		two years
		four years
		six years
		eight years

21.	Gandhi makes good copy. What did Winston Churchill call him the other day?
		a half-naked Indian fakir
		a remarkable man and a colossal fraud
		the most ambitious man in the British Empire
		the world’s greatest charlatan

22.	Walker is in India, interviewing Gandhi again. Gandhi and Ba re-enact their marriage for him. How old were they when they married?
		10
		11
		12
		13

23.	Gandhi has decided on his latest protest to prove that the King’s Writ no longer runs in India. It involves what?
		salt
		water
		bread
		cooking oil

24.	The British begin negotiations with Gandhi, but they break down when the British will not agree to a transfer of power. Jinnah, Nehru and Patel want to take independence now while the British are preparing for war, but Gandhi has a goat-related task to attend to. What is it?
		milking
		changing the bedding
		separating a young buck from the herd
		preparing a mud pack

25.	Gandhi, imprisoned in the Aga Khan’s former palace and is visited by a photographer for Life Magazine, Margaret Bourke-White, played by:
		Faye Dunaway
		Julie Christie
		Candice Bergen
		Catherine Deneuve

26.	In hindsight, the strangest bit part in the movie is Margaret Bourke-White’s driver, who is played by:
		John Ratzenberger
		Michael Richards
		Bronson Pinchot
		Ed O’Neill

27.	Bourke-White comments that Gandhi is the only man she knows who makes his own:
		soap
		clothes
		shoes
		paper

28.	India wins its independence from the British, and is partitioned into India and Pakistan. Mass violence between Hindus and Muslims erupts. To try to end the violence, Gandhi goes to stay with a Muslim family for a hunger strike in which city?
		Srinagar
		Patna
		Calcutta
		Hyderabad

29.	The violence eventually ceases. What does Gandhi break his fast with?
		tea
		lemonade
		vegetable broth
		orange juice

30.	Gandhi is assassinated. What are his last words?
		“Not yet, Lord.”
		“I forgive you.”
		“Oh God.”
		“It is time.”