Read this passage and answer questions 1 to 4:
''He was born in 1879,10 years after Gandhi was born,and 10 years before Nehru was born.His political life began 1919 and continued until his death in 1973.And that was the second, big surprise of Periyar: that he should have lived so long,that his career should have for many years run parallel with that of Gandhi,and that Gandhi,through many of later years of his struggle and search,should have had at his back this figure of the anti-Hindu who finally became the ant-Gandhi,a man whose life and career echoed and reversed much of Gandhi's own.
He was different from Gandhi,opposed to him,and yet in some ways-in his discovery of his cause,his working out ways to serve it,his lifelong adherence to it and above all,in his practical business sense-he was like Gandhi.Like Gandhi,Periyar was born into a Hindu merchant caste.Gandhi came from a family of small-scale administrators. Periyar came from a family of well-to -do merchants. Periyar was not as well educated as Gandhi,and it could be said that he was more devout and traditional. Gandhi went against the principles if his caste and traveled to London to study Law. Periyar in his mid twenties(while Gandhi was in South Africa,fighting hard battles),went to Banaras to live the life of a sanyasi,to live naked,on the aims of the devout,in the hope of finding some kind of spiritual illumination''