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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Gandhi lends money to a woman to open a vegetarian restaurant?
(a) She repays Gandhi.
(b) She needs more money and asks for another loan.
(c) She dies and her son assumes the loan.
(d) She defaults on the loan.

2. What does Gandhi do when he is informed that he will have to travel third class on the train to Pretoria?
(a) He files a civil suit in court.
(b) He bleaches his skin and claims he is a white man, then purchases a first class ticket.
(c) He becomes indignant and writes a letter to the editor to the newspaper in Pretoria.
(d) He finds a loophole in the train company regulations and purchases a first-class ticket.

3. What is the condition of Gandhi's third son when he arrives in South Africa during Gandhi's third stay?
(a) He has a broken foot.
(b) He has the plague.
(c) He has a broken arm.
(d) He has dysentery.

4. Which one of these dietary practices and treatments does Gandhi NOT try?
(a) He stops eating breakfast.
(b) He stops eating cooked foods.
(c) He recommends a diet of fruit and nuts.
(d) He applies a mud poultice to his abdomen.

5. What dietary advice written in a pamphlet does Gandhi later recant?
(a) That no milk is needed beyond a mother's milk.
(b) That people should eat the entire fruit, not just the juice.
(c) That children should not eat wheat products until they are five years old.
(d) That vegetables are for animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Gandhi acclimate to South Africa?

2. What does Gandhi do with the gifts showered on him for his second departure from South Africa?

3. What action does Gandhi's group take against the Asiatic Department in Johannesburg?

4. What does Gandhi think about the lodging at Ripon college during the Congress in Calcutta?

5. What promise does Gandhi make when he returns to India the second time?

(see the answer key)

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