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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What endeavor is the source of Gandhi's joy and strength?
(a) Caring for his family.
(b) Meditating on his mantra.
(c) Translating the truths of the Bhagavad Gita into his daily life.
(d) Helping others.

2. When Gandhi was asked to explain in three words the secret of his life, what did he say?
(a) Give to God.
(b) Renounce and enjoy.
(c) Love all others.
(d) Peace, love, happiness.

3. Easwaran explains that Gandhi was quoting what from Hindu scripture?
(a) The Vedanta.
(b) The Isha Upanishad.
(c) The Tevaram Saivite hymns.
(d) The Puranas.

4. Gandhi's focus was on letting the wisdom, love, joy and peace he studied make up what?
(a) Most of his life.
(b) The very essence of his being.
(c) His public life.
(d) His private life.

5. Easwaran explains that these verses describe what?
(a) How one should live.
(b) The highest state of consciousness a human can attain.
(c) The peace that can be brought to one's mind.
(d) The love one must feel for others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Indeed one of the things that was most remarkable to Easwaran, and to Louis Fischer, the American journalist who followed Gandhi's campaigns in India for many years, was how what?

2. His daily chores were always done in the company of others, his meals were a time of what?

3. Kasturbai kept her faith in her husband's character even when what happened?

4. Who is Patanjali?

5. What types of people did Gandhi love?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what was Gandhi focused? What do the people who gravitated to Gandhi reveal about him?

2. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

3. What analogy does Rambha give?

4. How does Gandhi respond when he is asked the secret of life?

5. How is a mantra important?

6. How do most people see life?

7. How does detachment help Gandhi?

8. What do Gandhi and his wife do for Indians?

9. Besides detachment, what is another guiding principle from the Gita?

10. According to Sri Krishna, what does the wise person's love for the Lord of Love do?

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