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Gandhi
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100
What are the three dominant religions of the region?
What is Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam
100
What group was responsible for the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001?
What is al Qaeda
100
Who was the leader and founder of Al Qaeda when the attacks on the US occured?
What is Osama Bin Laden
100
On what charge was Gandhi arrested and convicted?
What is Sedition
100
What is a common misconception about civil disobedience?
What is it is passive
200
What are the basic beliefs of Buddhism?
What is Four Noble Truths
200
What group invaded Afghanistan in 1979?
What is Soviet Union
200
Who was the leader of the Northern Alliance and nicknamed the "Lion of Panshir"?
What is Ahmed Shah Massoud
200
In Gandhi's speech before the Indian Congress after his tour of India, did he feel that they were ready for independence? Why or why not?
What is No; He feels India isn't ready because of the Caste System
200
What is meant by western materialism?
What is the desire for material posessions with a focus on western ideas rather than Indian ideas
300
What is the name for the deity of Hinduism?
What is Brahma
300
What group was not allowed to work during the Taliban?
What is women
300
Who was the founder of Buddhism?
What is Gautama
300
What did Gandhi attempt to do to help the sharecroppers in Champaran?
What is to write what was happening and try to put it in the papers
300
When the South African government offered to repeal the passes act, what did it threaten to do instead?
What is limit immigration
400
What is the holy book for Hinduism? Buddhism?
What is Vedas (Hinduism) and Tripitaka or the Three Baskets (Buddhism)
400
What groups battled for control of Afghanistan once the foreign invaders withdrew in the 1980s?
What is Taliban and the Northern Alliance
400
Who was the first leader of India?
What is Nehru
400
Why was Gandhi assassinated? By whom?
What is for betraying the Hindu cause by giving too much too the Muslims by negotiating with Jinnah; Nathuram Godse
400
What is boycott?
What is the refusal to buy a product
500
What are the major sects of Hinduism?
What is Savism, Saktism, and Vaishavism
500
What foreign invaders tried to conquer Afghanistan?
What is Great Britain, Soviet Union, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, and the Mongols
500
Who was the first leader of Pakistan?
What is Jinnah
500
On Gandhi's return to India, he said he supported the war effort. Which war?
What is World War I
500
What are the three provisions of the South African government pass regarding Indians?
What is All Indians must be fingerprinted; Cannot marry; police men can enter the houses when they want