Prueba Ingles Gandhi

Comprehension Test
Gandhi
Rowena Akinyemi

1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
a ___ Mohandas was the oldest child in his family.
b ___ Gandhi’s wife could read and write only a little.
c ___ When war started between the British and the Afrikaners in South Africa, Gandhi decided to help the British.
d ___ Gandhi believed that all Indians should speak English.e ___ Charles Andrews gave Gandhi all his money.
f ___ Gandhi paid for his son Harilal to study in London.
g ___ Gandhi often wrote for newspapers.
h ___ When Gandhi was in London, he had tea with Queen Elizabeth the Second.
i ___ Gandhi enjoyed working as a nurse.
j ___ Gandhi wanted India to be divided into two countries.
20 marks
2 Match a number from A witha letter from B to make complete sentences.
A
1 ___ A judge told Gandhi to leave the court because . . .
2 ___ After Gandhi was pushed off a train in South Africa, . . .
3 ___ After Gandhi read a book by John Ruskin, . . .
4 ___ When Gandhi managed to stop a yearly £3 tax, . . .
5 ___ Gandhi was killed while . . .
B
a . . . he was going to a prayer meeting.b . . . he refused to take off his turban.
c . . . poor Indians began to call him ‘Mahatma’.
d . . . he began to live in a simpler way.
e . . . he decided to fight against injustice.
20 marks
3 Who in the book . . . ? Nehru, Jinnah, Laxmidas, Abdullah Sheth, Mountbatten.
a . . . paid for Mohandas’s studies in London? __________
b . . . was the last Viceroy ofIndia? __________
c . . . was the first leader of independent India? __________
d . . . asked Gandhi to help him in South Africa? __________
e . . . was leader of the Muslim League? __________
__________
20 marks
4 Match a word from A with a definition from B.
A
1 ___ ash
2 ___ compartment
3 ___ province
4 ___ tax
5 ___ election
Ba part of a train where people sit
b a time when people choose their government by voting
c the grey powder that is left when something has been burnt
d money that people have to pay to the government
e large part of a country, with its own government officials
20 marks

5 Fill in the gaps using the following words:
experiences, faith, law, married, meat,promised, shy, vegetarian, voyage, western
Mohandas Gandhi ________ when he was thirteen. Six years later, he decided to travel to London to study ________. Although he was ________, he was not afraid of new ________. He bought a ticket and some ________ clothes. The ________ was three weeks long. He had ________ his mother that he would not eat ________, because it was against their Hindu ________.He found a ________ restaurant in London where he enjoyed the food.
20 marks
Total marks

Multiple-choice Test
Gandhi
Rowena Akinyemi

Places

Choose the best answer.
1 Gandhi was born in _____.
a [ ] France b [ ] India c [ ] Britain d [ ] South Africa
2 Abdullah Sheth asked Gandhi to work with him in _____.
a [ ] London b [ ] Delhi c [ ]Calcutta d [ ] Durban
3 The British leader Joseph Chamberlain visited South Africa to _____.
a [ ] collect money b [ ] start a farm c [ ] meet Gandhi d [ ] help the Zulus
4 When Gandhi and his friends moved away from Phoenix Farm, they called their new home _____ Farm.
a [ ] Nehru b [ ] Ruskin c [ ] Tolstoy d [ ] Kallenbach
5 Gandhi’s son Harilal was angry becauseGandhi did not allow him to _____.
a [ ] get a job b [ ] come to South Africa c [ ] study in London d [ ] marry
6 Hundreds of people were killed at a meeting in a large garden in _____.
a [ ] Amritsar b [ ] Calcutta c [ ] Bombay
d [ ] Delhi
7 Gandhi met a film actor, a writer, and a King while he was in _____.
a [ ] Durban b [ ] London c [ ] Delhi d...