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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does Gandhi take at Tolstoy Farm?
(a) Educating children.
(b) A nursing function.
(c) As a dietary advisor.
(d) As a spritual leader.

2. What is NOT a new dietary practice while Gandhi is in prison in 1908?
(a) To stop drinking tea.
(b) To not eat between meals.
(c) To stop using salt.
(d) To finish dinner before sunset.

3. At this point in Gandhi's life, his experiments with truth are made through...?
(a) Non-cooperation.
(b) Fasting.
(c) His public work.
(d) The congress.

4. What may happen as a result of Gandhi's fasting in South Africa?
(a) He may lose the use of his legs.
(b) More people will follow Gandhi's practices.
(c) The South African government will listen to his advice.
(d) Gandhi will lose too much weight.

5. What suggestion does Gandhi make to the Indian community during World War One?
(a) To oppose and boycott the war.
(b) To present a list of demands to the British government.
(c) To volunteer as ambulance attendants for the British.
(d) To engage in civil disobedience and go to jail.

6. Who does Gandhi send to Durban to take over the newspaper?
(a) Mr. Coates.
(b) Mr. Banker.
(c) Mr. West.
(d) Mr. Polak.

7. What is Gokhale's reaction to Gandhi continuing his dietary practices?
(a) He adopts some of Gandhi's practices.
(b) He throws a fit.
(c) He praises him.
(d) He leaves for India.

8. What happens as a result of Gandhi's efforts in Bihar?
(a) Members of his group are harmed physically.
(b) The standard of living for the community is improved.
(c) The tinkaithia system is ended.
(d) Nothing changes.

9. Why does Gandhi's group loose their funding?
(a) They are imprisoned.
(b) They are not achieving results.
(c) They lose sight of their mission.
(d) They let an untouchable family join their group.

10. What is the name Gandhi's group coins for their passive resistance movement?
(a) Jelebi.
(b) Brahmacharya.
(c) Satyagraha.
(d) Ananda.

11. Why does Gandhi buy land in South Africa?
(a) To gradually buy more land to gain controlling interest of South Africa.
(b) To resettle the displaced Indians from Johannesburg.
(c) To establish a settlement.
(d) As an investment.

12. Who offers reforms at the Congress at Amritsar?
(a) The viceroy.
(b) The Ali brothers.
(c) The king.
(d) Gandhi.

13. What is an unintended consequence of the hartal in 1919?
(a) Not many people participate.
(b) Gandhi contracts another illness.
(c) The police open fire on demonstrations in several cities.
(d) Russia supports Gandhi's efforts.

14. To Gandhi, the only means for the realization of truth is ___?
(a) Ananda.
(b) Satyangraha.
(c) Brahmacharya.
(d) Ahimsa.

15. What happens during the suspension of Satyagraha?
(a) Gandhi educates the people about Satyagraha.
(b) The British enforce a curfew.
(c) Gandhi recruits more people.
(d) There is more violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gandhi offer the services of the Indian Ambulance Corps the second time?

2. What is the message in the letter Gandhi receives from the government of Bihar?

3. What does Gokhale advise Gandhi to do after he returns to London from Paris?

4. Who partners with Gandhi in his experiments with diet?

5. What happens at the All-India Congress Committee in 1920?

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