1. What were Gandhi's principles of civil disobedience?
   
   Where did those ideas originate?
   
   How are those principles supposed to work?
   
   What is the difference between active and passive resistance?
   
   What did Gandhi mean when he said, "We will not strike a blow, but we will receive them"


2. Being thrown off the train in South Africa proved to be a turning point in Gandhi's life. Why was he so traumatized by that event?
   
   Why did Gandhi adopt civil disobedience as a political strategy in South Africa?
   
   How effective were those principles in his confrontations in South Africa? Why?
   
   How did the British rulers in England respond to Gandhi's protests? Why?


3. How did the political context of India differ from that of South Africa?


4. How did the differences affect the implementation of non-violence?
   
   Did non-violence accelerate or delay Indian independence?


5. How does the movie portray the caste system?
   
   How did Gandhi's approach threaten the traditional Hindu caste system?


6. Who supported Gandhi's strategy in India? Who opposed him? Why?
   
   When faced with opposition, why did Gandhi undertake personal fasts? Were they effective? Why?


7. Among Gandhi's tactics was the encouragement of home spinning of cloth. Why did he advocate home spinning?
   
   Was this tactic effective in pressuring the British government? Why?
   
   How does Gandhi's economic protest compare to those used by American colonists against the British empire in the 18th-century?


8. What were Gandhi's views of women? Did they change during the course of his life?


9. Why did Gandhi accept the partition of India into two nations?
   
   Why did he consider that agreement a profound failure? Do you agree that is was a failure?


10. How did Gandhi's doctrine of non-violent civil disobedience influence political developments in other countries? Did it prove successful outside India?

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