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

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

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

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

5. What does Gokhale advise Gandhi to do after he returns to London from Paris?
(a) To stop his dietary experiments.
(b) To return to South Africa
(c) To present a list of demands to the British government.
(d) To spend more time with his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gandhi's autobiography end in 1921?

2. Why is Gandhi unable to stay in Bihar after his work is completed?

3. What is a problem with the land Gandhi's group purchases for their new ashram?

4. What is NOT a new dietary practice while Gandhi is in prison in 1908?

5. What type of doctor does Gandhi call in to assist with his recovery from pleurisy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Gandhi think it is unnecessary to write further about his life?

2. What is one of Gandhi's ceaseless efforts?

3. What happens in Ahmedabad when Gandhi's suggestion of arbitration for workers wages is rejected?

4. What role does Gandhi take with children at the Tolstoy Farm?

5. What is the Khadi Movement?

6. What is the Kheda Satyagraha struggle?

7. What is the tinkathia system and what happens when Gandhi's group opposes it?

8. What is Gandhi's position on the Khilafat question?

9. Why does Gandhi buy land in Phoenix?

10. What dietary experiments does Gandhi undertake at Tolstoy Farms?

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