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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi received the title of Mahatma from whom?
(a) His sons.
(b) The Prime Minister of England.
(c) Rabindranath Tagore.
(d) Kasturbai.

2. Gandhi had made "humility and truth more powerful than ______________."
(a) Love.
(b) God.
(c) Empires.
(d) Mankind.

3. When Gandhi returned to India, what did he learn?
(a) His brother is missing.
(b) His wife is missing.
(c) His mother died.
(d) His father died.

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

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

6. The incident on this train led to what?
(a) Gandhi's venture into politics.
(b) Gandhi's resolve to fight color prejudice.
(c) Gandhi's resolve to become a lawyer.
(d) Gandhi's decision to return to India.

7. Indians became the political football in the early 1900s when the Prime Minister promises to do what?
(a) Give them jobs.
(b) Find them a place to live.
(c) Drive the "coolies" out of the country.
(d) Give them equal rigths.

8. The Indians had expected a charismatic return of a new leader based on what?
(a) His work in Africa.
(b) His work in India.
(c) His behavior in London.
(d) His success.

9. A sharecropper asked Gandhi to help the people in his region of what country?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Sri Lanka.
(c) Nepal.
(d) China.

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

11. Gandhi returned to India in 1915 to the shouts of Mahatmaji. What does the "ji" suffix indicate?
(a) Friend.
(b) Leader.
(c) Respect and affection.
(d) Father.

12. Winston Churchill was reviled by the appearance of equality between who and what he termed the half-naked, seditious fakir from India?
(a) The Indian people.
(b) The Hindus.
(c) The British people.
(d) The Prime Minister.

13. What happened in 1906?
(a) Swadeshi was tested.
(b) Ahimsa was tested.
(c) Duragraha was tested.
(d) Satyagraha was tested.

14. On the way, Gandhi told who to make homemade clothing, reject alcohol and drugs, abandon child marriage and live pure lives?
(a) His family members.
(b) Village people they pass.
(c) His followers.
(d) All Hindus.

15. Gandhi was offered a position as a lawyer in _________ which he accepted.
(a) South America.
(b) India.
(c) Nepal.
(d) South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What could not be ignored, regarding Indian soldiers?

2. To achieve success in South Africa, Gandhi's most effective tool was a unique creation of his own called what?

3. Those who adore Gandhi feel that his death leaves ___________ of mankind without a spokesman.

4. What did Gandhi lose when he spoke to this group?

5. Gandhi knew that prejudice could not be eradicated by what?

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