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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 7 through 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through parental arrangement, Mohandas married his life-long wife Kasturbai. How old were they when they married?
(a) Thirteen years old.
(b) Eighteen years old.
(c) Fifteen years old.
(d) Five years old.

2. Bramacharya included restraint in what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Sex, anger, diet and emotions.
(c) Speech.
(d) Prayer.

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

4. In his youth, Mohandas privately rejected what although he returned to it later in life?
(a) Reading.
(b) His family's Hindu religion.
(c) His family.
(d) School.

5. What happened January 30, 1948?
(a) Gandhi began a fast to the death.
(b) Kasurbai died.
(c) Gandhi was assassinated.
(d) Gandhi was injured.

Short Answer Questions

1. While riding on a train from Maritzburg, what did an English man do?

2. Like his mother, Gandhi took to what frequently?

3. Why was it important that Gandhi was considered "colored?"

4. As a young boy, did Gandhi show proclivity towards school work?

5. Gandhi felt that becoming a better person led to what?

(see the answer key)

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