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

2. Where does Gandhi buy land in South Africa?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Bethlehem.
(c) Zhar-Ptitsa.
(d) Ceres.

3. Why does Gandhi travel to Kheda after the World War One Conference?
(a) To start another settlement.
(b) To speak at a conference.
(c) To raise recruits.
(d) To observe living conditions.

4. What is Gandhi warned about before traveling to Amritsar?
(a) The people will not follow his wishes.
(b) His health to too fragile to travel there.
(c) He does not have the necessary papers to travel there.
(d) Of the potential for his arrest.

5. What does Gandhi observe while traveling to Rangoon with his son, Ramdas?
(a) Unsanitary conditions on the boat.
(b) Unbridled corruption.
(c) Extreme poverty.
(d) Someone drowning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cause does Gandhi take on in India after his ten-year absence?

2. What is the Kheda Satyagraha struggle?

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

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

5. The quest for truth has drawn Gandhi to what field?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens as a result of Gandhi's practice of fasting?

3. What does Gandhi do in an attempt to recover from pleurisy?

4. What cause does Gandhi undertake after he returns to India following a ten-year absence?

5. What happens when Gandhi and his group oppose the Rowlatt Bill?

6. What are Gandhi's actions during the mill strike?

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

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

9. While in prison in 1908 what other dietary practices does Gandhi adopt?

10. What is known as Gandhi's Himalayan miscalculation?

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