Towards Civil Disobedience

Correct answer: A. The Lahore Session gave the goal and the Dandi March began action

Step 1: The Lahore Session set the goal of complete independence. Step 2: The Dandi March began Civil Disobedience toward that goal. Step 3: Remember goal and action together.

Correct answer: A. The government imposed tax and control on an essential item

Step 1: Salt was needed by everyone. Step 2: Government tax and control over it showed interference in people’s lives. Step 3: Connect the salt law with colonial injustice and control.

Correct answer: A. It connected common people to the movement through an everyday item

Step 1: Salt was connected with every household. Step 2: Therefore poor, rich, women and men could all connect with it. Step 3: Write the role of simple and shared issues in mass politics.

Correct answer: A. Unjust laws were broken but the method was kept peaceful

Step 1: The aim of Civil Disobedience was to challenge unjust laws. Step 2: Gandhi did it in a non-violent and disciplined way. Step 3: Identify method and purpose separately.

Correct answer: A. It showed peaceful and public protest against an unjust law

Step 1: The Dandi March used a common and essential issue like salt. Step 2: Raising it peacefully made the movement morally strong. Step 3: Connect moral strength with non-violence and public issue.

Correct answer: A. Linking a big goal with a simple mass issue

Step 1: Complete independence was a big political goal. Step 2: Salt Satyagraha connected it with people’s everyday need. Step 3: Understand Gandhi’s strategy as a link between goal and symbol.

Correct answer: A. He turned it into a political symbol of colonial injustice

Step 1: Salt tax was an economic burden. Step 2: Gandhi presented it as a symbol of unjust British policy. Step 3: Understand salt in both economic and political meanings.

Correct answer: A. The movement would remain peaceful and organised

Step 1: Volunteers showed discipline in the Dandi March. Step 2: This created a non-violent and organised image of the movement. Step 3: Treat discipline as a strength of Gandhian movements.

Correct answer: A. Making salt at the seashore could directly disobey the law

Step 1: Salt could be made from the sea. Step 2: Reaching Dandi and making salt was a clear act of breaking the law. Step 3: Remember place and purpose together.

Correct answer: A. Salt tax was a burden on their daily expenses

Step 1: Salt was essential even in the food of poor families. Step 2: The tax made this essential item costly and burdensome. Step 3: Connect salt tax with the living expenses of the poor.

Correct answer: A. A simple issue like salt created connection with every household

Step 1: Salt was linked with home and food. Step 2: Therefore women and common people could see it as their own issue. Step 3: Connect mass participation with the simplicity of the issue.

Correct answer: A. The message reached people in simple language

Step 1: Understanding salt did not require difficult political language. Step 2: Everyone could understand its importance through life. Step 3: Treat a simple symbol as a strength of public communication.

Correct answer: A. Both the larger political goal and immediate public problems were important

Step 1: Complete independence gave the larger goal of freedom. Step 2: The eleven demands brought immediate public problems forward. Step 3: Understand the movement as a link between larger aim and daily demands.

Correct answer: A. It could unite different classes on a common issue

Step 1: Salt was needed by every class. Step 2: So opposition to the tax could unite different social groups. Step 3: Write salt as a shared public issue.

Correct answer: A. Because it gave people a simple way to disobey law

Step 1: Violation of the salt law was easy and symbolic. Step 2: If people adopted it, government authority would face an open challenge. Step 3: Treat it as a mass challenge to colonial power.

Correct answer: A. The long march carried the message to village after village

Step 1: The Dandi March was an open and long march. Step 2: People along the route could see Gandhi and the movement directly. Step 3: Connect visual impact with public awakening.

Correct answer: A. Challenging unjust laws was seen as people’s moral right

Step 1: Gandhi did not speak of opposing all laws. Step 2: He stressed non-violent disobedience of unjust laws. Step 3: Connect the moral basis with justice and non-violence.

Correct answer: A. Because people would have had a less clear national goal

Step 1: A movement needs a goal to give it clear direction. Step 2: Complete independence gave that clear direction. Step 3: Remember the role of an aim in any movement.

Correct answer: A. Salt connected the big goal of complete independence with common people

Step 1: Complete independence was a large political goal. Step 2: A simple issue like salt connected people with that goal. Step 3: Write the relation between goal and symbol in exams.

Correct answer: A. Adopting dialogue and struggle in sequence

Step 1: Gandhi first gave the government a chance to correct policies. Step 2: When demands were not accepted he began peaceful disobedience. Step 3: Understand the sequence as moving from dialogue to struggle.

Correct answer: A. It shows how a big movement connects with ordinary life

Step 1: Salt was an everyday need of every person. Step 2: Through this simplicity the movement reached a wide public. Step 3: In answers write the link between simple issue and mass movement.

Correct answer: A. The national struggle moved from demand for representation to mass disobedience

Step 1: Protest against the Simon Commission raised the issue of representation. Step 2: Complete independence and Dandi March carried the struggle toward mass disobedience. Step 3: Understand the development from background to movement.

Correct answer: A. Complete independence clarified the goal, so Dandi March became mass action

Step 1: Complete independence clarified the direction of the national movement. Step 2: The Dandi March turned that direction into mass action. Step 3: Remember cause-effect relation in correct order.

Correct answer: A. Simon protest, complete independence, Gandhi’s demands, Dandi March

Step 1: First the protest against Simon Commission increased dissatisfaction. Step 2: Then complete independence and Gandhi’s demands shaped the direction. Step 3: Dandi March began Civil Disobedience.

Correct answer: A. Protest over representation, complete independence and Salt Satyagraha prepared the way for Civil Disobedience

Step 1: Protest against the Simon Commission increased dissatisfaction. Step 2: Complete independence gave the goal and Salt Satyagraha connected people. Step 3: In conclusion write background, goal and mass action together.