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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How Nonviolence Works.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the kingdom of heaven?
(a) Upanishad.
(b) Nirvana.
(c) Vedanta.
(d) Ahisma.

2. Sri Krishna calls it the ______________ that inspires selfish possession, and says they are free who have escaped it, united with the Lord of Love and assured immortality.
(a) Selfish ego.
(b) Devil.
(c) Sin of man.
(d) Ego-cage.

3. Gandhi described himself as what?
(a) A uniquely strong child.
(b) A cowardly child with a rather weak mind.
(c) An unusual child.
(d) A typical child with many friends.

4. What was the source of the inspiration to which Gandhi clung?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Gita.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Koran.

5. His daily chores were always done in the company of others, his meals were a time of what?
(a) Eating.
(b) Sharing and community.
(c) Replenishing.
(d) Peace and quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what year were civil rights written into law?

2. Evenings for Gandhi were made up of what kind of meals?

3. Easwaran opens the chapter entitled Mother and Child by asking the question of how such a personal evolution could have come about, and how the evolution of a single person could effect what?

4. Addressing the concept of ____________, Gandhi pleaded with the Indians that one cannot participate in such a system without becoming another of its victims and weakening the nation as a whole.

5. Britain had forbidden Indians to gather their own salt, requiring instead that they buy it at a premium from British sources. So, on Gandhi's signal, all of India would simply walk to the ocean and pick up the salt that laid there for the taking and buy and sell it locally from each other, as if the law had never been enacted. What was this called?

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