Passage 1
Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi was educated in the United Kingdom and earned a law degree from University College in London. He was greatly troubled by the way the British government ruled the people of India, and he dedicated much of his life to helping achieve India’s independence. Gandhi taught methods of passive resistance, such as hunger strikes, to those who struggled with him. He never favored violence. In fact, he admitted to learning many of the principles he followed from the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, from Christ, and from the American writer Henry David Thoreau.
Passage 2
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was the son of migrant farm workers. Born in Arizona, he was forced to leave school after the sixth grade and begin working on farms himself. He served in the US navy during World War II, then came back to the US and began working to create a farm workers union. He was disgusted by the low wages paid to migrant workers, by their harsh working conditions, and by the lack of medical care and insurance provided to them. Chavez led a great war on the farm owners, but he did it without weapons or violence. He used such methods as hunger strikes and boycotts to further his message. In 1977, the United Farm Workers became an official union.
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What differences were there in the lives of Gandhi and Chavez?
A.
Gandhi led a large group of people in revolt and Chavez did not.
B.
Gandhi received an advanced education and Chavez did not.
C.
Gandhi believed that all people should have the right to govern themselves and Chavez did not.
D.
Gandhi spent his life in pursuit of human rights and Chavez did not.