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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 the message in the letter Gandhi receives from the government of Bihar?
(a) That the government is in full support of his efforts.
(b) That his family would be in danger if he continues his actions.
(c) That he end his inquiry and leave Bihar.
(d) That his group should keep a lower profile.

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

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

4. What does the doctor give Kasturbai for her ailments in Gandhi's absence?
(a) Leeches
(b) Milk
(c) Penicillin
(d) Beef tea

5. What is Gandhi's approach to opposing the tinkathia system?
(a) To have Indian natives oversee the education of their children.
(b) Meeting with both farmers and tenants to learn the facts.
(c) To talk to others in India to persuade them to give the untouchables more rights.
(d) To have the merchants keep more of their profits.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Gandhi unable to travel to Punjab?

2. What does Gandhi promise the governor after their meeting in Bombay?

3. What is the concern when Gandhi wants to join the Servants of India Society?

4. What is the Khadi Movement?

5. What does Gandhi do after he arrives at Shantiniketan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What term does Gandhi's group coin at the Phoenix Settlement and what does it mean?

2. What is the Khadi Movement?

3. What is the reaction of the Servants of India Society when Gandhi wants to join the organization?

4. What is the Kheda Satyagraha struggle?

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

6. What is Mr. Polak's relationship with Gandhi?

7. What happens as a result of the black plague outbreak in the Indian district in Johannesburg?

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

9. How does Gandhi resolve the dilemma with the Servants of India Society?

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

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