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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After reading ______________, Gandhi's life was forever changed.
(a) John Ruskins' The Stones of Venice.
(b) John Ruskins' Modern Painters.
(c) John Ruskins' Unto This Last.
(d) John Ruskins' Fors Clavigera.

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

3. The person who gave him this name won the Nobel Prize in ___________ in 1913.
(a) Literature.
(b) Art.
(c) Science.
(d) Mathematics.

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

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

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

7. What emerged during the meeting?
(a) Gandhi's enemies.
(b) Gandhi's philosophies.
(c) Gandhi's friends.
(d) Gandhi's leadership qualities.

8. On the surface, how was Mohandas as a child?
(a) Rude and annoying.
(b) Shy and obedient.
(c) Devious and sneaky.
(d) Rebellious and independent.

9. Why is the eating of meat so shocking?
(a) Hindus do not like the taste of meat.
(b) Meat is not available in India.
(c) Mohandas is allergic to meat.
(d) It is taboo in the Hindu religion.

10. Gandhi spent the next _______ years in an ashram.
(a) 26.
(b) 6.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

11. There was an assassination of who in Bengal?
(a) A government official.
(b) An aid worker.
(c) An Indian official.
(d) A police official.

12. 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?
(a) They did not want to live in South Africa.
(b) The people felt Gandhi was encouraging more Indian immigration.
(c) They were ill.
(d) They did not have the appropriate documentation.

13. 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?
(a) Education.
(b) Immigration to South Africa.
(c) Finding affordable housing.
(d) Discrimination against the Indians and other colored people by the white people.

14. For what did Gandhi take blame?
(a) Organizing the hartal.
(b) Miscalculating the dangers of the hartal.
(c) Leading the hartal.
(d) Allowing the hartal to get out of hand.

15. Why was it important that Gandhi was considered "colored?"
(a) He was not of African descent.
(b) He should not have been allowed to ride in first class.
(c) He was not allowed to ride on trains.
(d) He was in the minority.

Short Answer Questions

1. Clearing his mind and soul of personal needs and desires allowed him to do what?

2. Gandhi's philosophy was that for Indians to be treated fairly, they needed to do what?

3. What did Gandhi learn from the incident involving his brother, Laxmidas?

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

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

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