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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 type of doctor does Gandhi call in to assist with his recovery from pleurisy?
(a) An expert in treating pleurisy.
(b) A vegetarian doctor.
(c) A witch doctor.
(d) An ayurvedic doctor.

2. Why does Gandhi's autobiography end in 1921?
(a) Gandhi is assassinated.
(b) Gandhi is too busy to write.
(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 role does Gandhi take at Tolstoy Farm?
(a) A nursing function.
(b) Educating children.
(c) As a spritual leader.
(d) As a dietary advisor.

4. Who is the Ice Doctor?
(a) One of Gandhi's confidants.
(b) The doctor Gandhi permits to treat him at the ashram.
(c) A governor of one of the Indian states.
(d) A British agent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What practice does Gandhi not believe in when disciplining children?

2. What do Gandhi and his group do at Ahmedabad?

3. What do the planters do to Gandhi's group after their case is thrown out of court?

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

5. Which is NOT one of the things Gandhi's group does when living at the rented house in Motihari?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Gandhi's rationale for assisting the British During World War I?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens when Gandhi attends a war conference?

8. What happens when Gandhi travels to Amristar?

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

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

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