WHO SAID IT?
WHOM DID GANDHI VISIT?
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
CLOSE READING CHALLENGE
SEQUENCE ROUND
100

"Fix a date."

Question: Who repeatedly made this request to Gandhi?

Rajkumar Shukla

100

Gandhi travelled to this city first to gather reliable information before entering Champaran.

Muzzafarpur

100

Shukla followed Gandhi to Ahmedabad.

Question: Where did Gandhi meet him again after months?

Calcutta

100

The exact mode of transport Gandhi used while going to investigate a peasant's complaint.

Elephant

100

Lucknow → Ahmedabad Ashram → Calcutta → ?

Patna

200

"They could give no information to an outsider."

Question: Who made this statement to Gandhi?

The Secretary of the British Landlords' Association

200

Gandhi stayed in the house of this government school teacher.

Professor Malkani

200

Gandhi arrived at Rajendra Prasad's house.

Question: What did the servants assume about Gandhi?

He was another poor peasant.

200

The country whose invention threatened the indigo plantation system.

Germany

200

Patna → Muzzafarpur → Tirhut Commissioner → ?

Motihari

300

 Gandhi was advised "forthwith to leave Tirhut."

Question: Who gave this advice?

The Commissioner of Tirhut Division

300

Gandhi sent a telegram to this professor before arriving at Muzzafarpur.

J.B. Kripalani

300

Gandhi met the Commissioner.

Question: What happened immediately afterward?

Gandhi proceeded to Motihari.

300

The group that frequently represented peasants in court before Gandhi arrived.

Lawyers

300

Notice to Leave Champaran → Summons to Court → ?

gathering of peasants at the courthouse

400

Gandhi stated that he had come to render "humanitarian and national service."

Question: To whom did Gandhi make this statement?


Answer: The Magistrate/Court

400

Gandhi visited this official after meeting the secretary of the landlords' association.

Commissioner of Tirhut

400

Gandhi received a notice to leave Champaran.

Question: What did he write on the notice?


Answer: That he would disobey the order.

400

The quality Gandhi believed peasants needed freedom from before anything else.

Fear

400

Secretary of Landlords' Association

Rajkumar Shukla

Commissioner

Professor Malkani 

J.B. Kripalani

Question: Arrange Gandhi's key contacts in chronological order before the trial.


Rajkumar Shukla → J.B. Kripalani → Professor Malkani → Secretary of Landlords' Association → Commissioner