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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?
(a) Legal advisor in a minor financial case.
(b) Legal assistant in a minor financial case.
(c) Legal assistant in a complicated financial case.
(d) Legal advisor in a complicated financial case.

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

3. Applying the same self-discipline he learned in London, Gandhi applied his independent knowledge of bookkeeping to the accounts in question and became what?
(a) The single most informed person on the case.
(b) Not very well-informed on the case.
(c) Fairly well-informed on the case.
(d) Envied by others on the case.

4. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?
(a) A fellow Indian told him to go back home.
(b) A fellow Indian pointed out that the best things to be learned in England were English customs.
(c) A British student pointed out that the thing to be learne in England was English custom.
(d) A British student told him to go back home.

5. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?
(a) The raw foods diet.
(b) The British diet.
(c) The Atkins diet.
(d) The vegetarian diet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through a connection of his brother's, Gandhi was given a ____________ contract with a Muslim firm in South Africa to work what he thought would be a clerical position well below the dignity of his education.

2. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?

3. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.

4. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?

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.

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