Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following directions issued by Gandhi for the Civil Disobedience Movement:

No. Direction
1. Violate the salt law wherever possible
2. Lawyers could abandon practice and the public could boycott courts by avoiding litigation
3. Government employees should remain in office while secretly assisting the movement
4. Truth and non-violence must govern every form of action

How many of the above directions are correctly stated?

  1. Only three
  2. Only two
  3. Only one
  4. All four
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