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Sent 1: Independence with Partition: The British began to see India's independence as inevitable; however, only a few seemed to understand the vital role of the religious groups.
Sent 2: Britain prepared a parliamentary democracy with majority rule, but the majority were Hindus — and Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs had been killing each other in war for many centuries.
Sent 3: Nehru's Congress Party, largely Hindu with a socialist leadership, wanted a parliamentary democracy.
Sent 4: As counterweight, British legislation reserved parliamentary seats for religious minorities, but the Punjab and Bengal had such a complicated mixture of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs that it was not possible to avoid fights over how separate constituencies were to be formed.
Sent 5: The seeds of future trouble were sown.
Sent 6: The legislation on reserving seats gave the Muslims the basis for an alternative to an India in which they were only a quarter of the population: Partition.
Sent 7: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.
Sent 8: A small group of Indian Muslims at Cambridge came up with the name Pakistan, using the initials of the Punjab, Afghania (N.W. Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning "pure"), and adding "stan," the Persian suffix for the word "country.
Sent 9: " The Muslim campaign for Partition was led by London-trained Bombay lawyer, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Sent 10: Meanwhile, Gandhi vehemently opposed any dismemberment of the country, and tried to keep people united by fasting to uphold the spirit of love, and by focussing on the common adversary: the British.
Sent 11: Advocating civil disobedience, he led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax.
Sent 12: This put more than 60,000 in jail.
Sent 13: Against this militancy, World War II did not elicit the solidarity of the first.
Sent 14: Indians courageously fought alongside the British troops, in Burma, the Middle East, and Europe, but Gandhi saw the British as a provocation for Japanese invasion and was jailed yet again, for launching a "Quit India" campaign in the year 1942.
Sent 15: Some anti-British extremists saw the Japanese as an Asian liberator.
Sent 16: Winston Churchill didn't want any Indian independence and so it was probably as well for India that he was defeated by Attlee's Labor Party in 1945.
Sent 17: With riots growing ever more bloody in Bengal, Bihar, and the Punjab, India's last viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, kept a mandate to make the British departure as quick and as smooth as possible.
Sent 18: Quick it was — six months after his arrival — but not smooth.

Question: Who were the main religious groups involved in India's Independence struggles? (true/0)

Question: Who led the famous Salt March to the sea? (false/1)

Question: How long did the British departure from India take? (true/2)

Question: What did Gandhi disagree with Muhammad Ali Jinnah about? (true/3)

Whether or not to keep British rule
The partition of India
The idea of Quit India movement
How much to charge for salt
Partition by the Muslims

Question: What act of civil disobedience put more than 60,000 in jail? (false/4)

Question: How many people were jailed because of the Salt March? (false/5)

Question: Who gave the Muslims the idea of partition? (true/6)

Ghandi
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammadali Jinnah
Winston Churchill

Question: What march was held by Gandhi to refocus his country's citizens on the common adversary-the British? (true/7)

Question: Who led his famous Salt March to the sea, to scoop up salt and circumvent the hated British salt tax? (true/8)

Question: Why would Nehru's largely Hindu Congress Party want a parliamentary democracy? (false/9)

To become a part of Japan
Because. parliamentary democracy has majority rule and Hindus were the majority
To upset Britain
They were socialists and wanted all groups to have a say in how the new country was run, to avoid further violence
Since he wanted to rule
To elect a king

Question: In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India. This proposal began the birth of what country? (true/10)

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Uzbekistan

Question: What did Gandhi disagree about with Winston Churchill? (false/11)

Independence of India
Indian independence
World War II
American independence
About the formation of Pakistan
Winston Churchill did not want Indian independence and Gandhi did

Question: What happened to many Indian people when they participated in the Salt March to protest the British salt tax? (true/12)

Killed in firing
They ate too much salt and got sick
They were jailed
More than 60,000 of them ended up in jail
The British government supported them