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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) The river floods.
(b) He has dysentery.
(c) He receives news that one of his causes is successful.
(d) Many of his followers leave.

2. Why does Gandhi's autobiography end in 1921?
(a) Gandhi is too busy to write.
(b) Gandhi is assassinated.
(c) Gandhi has other people writing about his life.
(d) Gandhi thought his life and his works were public from that time on.

3. What is one of Gandhi's dietary practices at Tolstoy Farm?
(a) Fasting.
(b) Macrobiotic.
(c) Eating raw foods.
(d) Avoiding eating solid foods after noon.

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

5. Where does Gandhi's group move their ashram after a plague outbreak?
(a) Hyderabad.
(b) Bhavnager.
(c) Ahnedabad.
(d) Haryana.

6. What does the education of the children NOT consist of at Tolstoy farm?
(a) Literature.
(b) A trade.
(c) Spiritual training.
(d) Arithmetic.

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

8. What is the Kheda Satyagraha struggle?
(a) A boycott of British products.
(b) A rule that Indians could not produce salt.
(c) A dispute over the rights of untouchables.
(d) A dispute over the taxation of crops.

9. How do children learn best in Gandhi's philosophy?
(a) By rote memory.
(b) Through experience.
(c) By following their role models.
(d) By reading the works of spirtual leaders and philosophers.

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

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

12. Why is Gandhi unable to travel to Punjab?
(a) There is a plague outbreak and the area is quarantined.
(b) He does not have the proper papers.
(c) He is afflicted with dysentery.
(d) The viceroy will not give him permission.

13. What did the swami ask Gandhi at Gurukul?
(a) Why his diet is so extreme.
(b) If he reads the Gita.
(c) Why he does not wear the sacred threads.
(d) Why he does not join the religious order.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What agreement does Gandhi refuse to make with the Inspector of Police from Lahore?

2. Who does Gandhi encourage to get married?

3. What has been Gandhi's ceaseless effort?

4. What does the Gandhi family do after the offer for services of the Indian Ambulance Corps is accepted by the South African Government?

5. What is Gandhi's approach to opposing the tinkathia system?

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