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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Gandhi returns to the ashram after his work in Kheda?
(a) He receives news that one of his causes is successful.
(b) Many of his followers leave.
(c) The river floods.
(d) He has dysentery.

2. Why is Gandhi unable to stay in Bihar after his work is completed?
(a) He is in danger.
(b) Because there was nothing left for him to do.
(c) He receives offers from various places in need of his assistance.
(d) His son is ill.

3. What does Gandhi do with the money of the people who live in the Indian district in Johannesburg?
(a) He returns the money to the people.
(b) He uses it for public good.
(c) He uses it to finance the newspaper.
(d) He cleanses it and deposits it in a bank.

4. What happens at the All-India Congress Committee in 1920?
(a) Gandhi's proposed constitution is passed.
(b) They form a solidarity with oppressed countries.
(c) They demand fiscal responsibility.
(d) They are unable to reach an agreement and disband.

5. What is the Khilafat question discussed at the conference in Delhi?
(a) Whether to take a position in the Hindu-Muslim communal clashes.
(b) Whether to support the agrarian uprisings.
(c) Should Hindus join with the Muslims in the fight for Indian independence?
(d) Whether families should sell their property and migrate to Afghanistan.

6. What cause does Gandhi take on in India after his ten-year absence?
(a) Indian independence.
(b) The Viramgam customs.
(c) The poll tax.
(d) Rationing rice.

7. What is the Khadi Movement?
(a) Of being self-reliant.
(b) The use of the traditional karahi cooking vessel for cooking kadai dishes.
(c) The use of hand-woven products.
(d) The use of Indian-produced products.

8. What do Gandhi and his group do at Ahmedabad?
(a) They establish the Satyagraha Ashram.
(b) They meet with the governor.
(c) They spend the night.
(d) They stage a protest.

9. What plans does Gandhi have for the group from South Africa when they arrive in India?
(a) To recruit people to their cause.
(b) To live on a settlement like the Phoenix Settlement.
(c) To begin Satyagraha.
(d) To sightsee.

10. Who partners with Gandhi in his experiments with diet?
(a) Mr. Polak.
(b) Max Velthuijs.
(c) Kasturbai.
(d) Hermann Kellenbach.

11. What resolution is proposed in March 1916?
(a) A resolution to have India become an independent state.
(b) A resolution to end the indentured servant system.
(c) A resolution to end the poll tax.
(d) A resolution to establish the central provinces.

12. What is different about the Kheda Satyagraha struggle than the other causes?
(a) The government is not involved.
(b) It is the most successful campaign.
(c) Gandhi fasts.
(d) It is covered by the press.

13. What is Gandhi's philosophy to exposing children to those who are less desirable?
(a) They are a bad influence on other children.
(b) They develop a sense of empathy.
(c) The good children can positively influence the natures of the bad children.
(d) That exposing children to different types of people helps to develop their character.

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

15. What does Gandhi do after he arrives at Shantiniketan?
(a) He sells the livestock.
(b) He invites more people to live there.
(c) He starts holding public meetings.
(d) He fires the cooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gandhi's group move their ashram after a plague outbreak?

2. What does Gandhi do during a strike in the mills?

3. Why does Gandhi have to return to India?

4. What have Gandhi's experiments provided him with?

5. What movement does Gandhi become involved in at the World War One conference in Delhi?

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