question: Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable")—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa—is now used worldwide. In India, he is also called Bapu ji (Gujarati: endearment for "father", "papa") and Gandhi ji. He is unofficially called the "Father of the Nation" 

Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for various social causes and for achieving "Swaraj" or self-rule. 

Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to "Quit India" in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, upon many occasions, in both South Africa and India. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian "dhoti" and shawl, woven with yarn hand-spun on a "charkha". He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as a means of both self-purification and political protest.
1. Where was Ghandi raised?
2. what march did he lead?
3. who did he lead?
4. what was the march for?
5. when was he born?
6. what did he do for India?
7. what has he been called in India?
8. is that his offical name?
9. what is his offical name?
10. Is he still living?
11. when was his death?
12. what did he do for self purification?
13. what was his diet like when not fasting?
14. What did he train in at school?
15. Where?
16. Did he return to India after school?
17. when?
18. Was he ever jaoled?
19. what does dhoti mean?
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answer: 1. Gujarat,
2. Dandi Salt March
3. Indians
4. challenging the British-imposed salt tax
5. 2 October 1869
6. the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.
7. the "Father of the Nation"
8. No
9. Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
10. No
11. 30 January 1948
12. undertook long fasts
13. simple vegetarian food
14. law
15. the Inner Temple, London
16. Yes
17. 1915
18. Yes
19. unknown


question: Once upon a time there was a man who needed to write story. His name was Mark. He had a bad case of writer's block. After a bit, he wrote a story about writing a story. This may seem a bit odd. Well, it was. The important thing to know is that Mark wanted money. This was so he could show off for his girl, Wendy. Wendy had two living parents named Greg and Gail. The exciting thing about Mark writing these stories, was that he could write whatever he wanted to. He could have written about bears. Or it could have been his best friend Error. There were so many choices for Mark. He was very happy. He was happy because he was almost done writing the story. Wendy, had she known about the writing would have been sad that Mark spent so much time thinking of odd stories.
1. What did the man need to do?
2. Why did he want to write them?
3. What was standing in his way?
4. What made him content?
5. Was the topic of the story the normal thing to write about?
6. What was so great about writing these stories?
7. What type of things could be included in the stories?
8. How did his girlfriend feel about the stories?
9. How would she have felt had she found out about them?
10. Why?
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answer: 1. write a story
2. he wanted money
3. writer's block.
4. he was almost done writing the story.
5. no
6. he could write whatever he wanted to
7. bears, his friend
8. she did not know about it
9. sad
10. because he spent so much time thinking of odd stories


question: Alexandria, Virginia (CNN) -- A former Marine Corps reservist pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting at the Pentagon and other military-related buildings and to trying to desecrate graves at Arlington National Cemetery containing the remains of veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

Yonathan Melaku entered a guilty plea to three counts: damaging U.S. property with a firearm, using a firearm in a crime of violence and attempting injury to veterans' memorials on U.S. property. 

Melaku, a 23-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Ethiopia, was arrested June 17 at the cemetery. He had a backpack with four plastic bags each containing 5 pounds of ammonium nitrate, material commonly used in homemade explosives. He also had numerous 9 mm spent shell casings; black paint and a notebook with Arabic statements mentioning al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and the "Path to Jihad." 

In the statement of facts document signed by Melaku, he admitted he "intended to desecrate and injure grave markers by spray-painting the markers with Arabic statements and by leaving the ammonium nitrate he was carrying at the sites of these grave markers." 

Melaku did not have all the components needed to make a bomb. In a search of his home, investigators found a typed list that included various components including batteries, wire and a "digital kitchen countdown timer." But he had not obtained all of those items. 

Melaku admitted to five shootings with a legally owned handgun at military buildings in Northern Virginia between October 17 and November 2 of 2010. He said he attacked the Pentagon, Marine and Coast Guard recruiting offices and he twice fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. 
1. Did Melaku have all the things he needed to make an explosive device?
2. What was found in his home during a search?
3. What was on the list?
4. Did he enter a plea in court?
5. Was it guilty or not guilty?
6. To how many counts?
7. What did he damage with a gun?
8. Was he formerly a part of the U.S. Military?
9. Which branch?
10. Which cemetery were the graves located in?
11. How old is Melaku?
12. Where was he born?
13. How many plastic bags were in his backpack?
14. What was in them?
15. What was in his notebook?
16. How did he plan on desecrating the graves?
17. How many shootings did he admit to?
18. Was the gun he used obtained legally?
19. The cemetery contained the graves of veterans who fought in which wars?
20. What date was Melaku arrested?
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answer:
1. No
2. a typed list
3. various components including batteries, wire and a "digital kitchen countdown timer.
4. Yes
5. guilty
6. three
7. veterans' memorials
8. Yes
9. Marine Corps
10. Arlington National Cemetery
11. 23
12. Ethiopia
13. four
14. each containing 5 pounds of ammonium nitrate
15. Arabic statements
16. spray-painting the markers with Arabic statements
17. five
18. Yes
19. Iraq and Afghanistan.
20. June 17