1. What did the Indians do with the registrations they had filled out?
(a) They tore them up.
(b) They threw them away.
(c) They turned them in.
(d) They burned them.

2. Those who adore Gandhi feel that his death leaves ___________ of mankind without a spokesman.
(a) The minorities.
(b) The conscience.
(c) The poor.
(d) The majority.

3. The future of the 100,000 Indians in South Africa was in jeopardy. What does Gandhi decide to do?
(a) Go to India.
(b) Fast.
(c) Save them.
(d) Pray.

4. Persecution stemmed from what?
(a) Lack of self-worth by the whites.
(b) Lack of understanding by the majority.
(c) Lack of self-worth by the persecuted.
(d) Lack of education of the persecuted.

5. Gandhi knew that prejudice could not be eradicated by what?
(a) Him.
(b) Average citizens.
(c) The whites.
(d) Legislation.

Short Answer Questions

1. A short time after the incident on the train, Gandhi gave his first major speech at a meeting of the Indians of Pretoria. What was the subject of the meeting?

2. Through parental arrangement, Mohandas married his life-long wife Kasturbai. How old were they when they married?

3. Gandhi's creation abandoned the eye-for-an-eye attitude in favor of what?

4. Gandhi encouraged the Indians to do what around Transvaal, the city forbidden to unregistered Indians?

5. At thirty-seven years of age, Gandhi decided to give up what as a selfless act?

(see the answer key)

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