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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forward/The Transformation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?
(a) When Gandhi was twenty years old.
(b) When Gandhi was eighteen years old.
(c) When Gandhi was twenty-two years old.
(d) When Gandhi was thirteen years old.

2. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?
(a) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.
(b) Any Westernized lens.
(c) A traditionally Indian background.
(d) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.

3. Describe Gandhi's early time in England.
(a) Entertaining.
(b) A time of making new friends.
(c) Surprisingly exciting.
(d) Incredibly lonely.

4. Following a period of complete submission to all of the nuances of English dress and society, Gandhi concluded that the practice was doing what to him?
(a) Making him more friends.
(b) Making him feel more at home.
(c) Making him wish he were not Indian.
(d) Making him more self conscious and costing him more money.

5. As Mahadev Desai read the words of the Bhagavad Gita describing the man who has let ________________ shape his being and shed all selfish desire to a gathering of followers, Easwaran was astonished to see the words become reality in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.
(a) Selflessness and grace.
(b) God.
(c) Peace and hope.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?

2. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

3. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?

4. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.

5. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?

(see the answer key)

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