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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 22 and 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In January 1924, the Mahatma was rushed from prison to the hospital. Why?
(a) He had acute appendicitis.
(b) He was fasting to death.
(c) He had had a heart attack.
(d) He had collapsed.

2. At thirty-seven years of age, Gandhi decided to give up what as a selfless act?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Sex.
(d) Meat.

3. What is the ashram?
(a) An Indian commune.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A cult.
(d) A religious retreat for a monk.

4. Gandhi eventually traveled there and found that the million peasant Indians there were suffering from what?
(a) Unfair treatment by the British.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Fear.
(d) Depression.

5. What did British officials order their soldiers to do at Amritsar?
(a) Force the Indians out of Amritsar.
(b) Fire on a massive crowd that had gathered.
(c) Surrender to the massive crowd.
(d) Capture the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gandhi returned to India to bring his wife and two sons back with him to South Africa. When their steamer and another from India arrived in South Africa, both filled with new Indian immigrants, they were at first not allowed to disembark. Why?

3. Gandhi spent the next _______ years in an ashram.

4. It took them 24 days to walk how many miles?

5. Who took Gandhi's place and led a march to the salt works some 150 miles away?

(see the answer key)

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