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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Did the government follow through with its agreement to make the registration voluntary?
(a) At first.
(b) Somewhat.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

3. After weeks of meditation, Gandhi informed the British Viceroy that civil disobedience would take place on what day, since he feared the promises for India's change of status would never be fulfilled?
(a) March 1st.
(b) March 11th.
(c) April 11th.
(d) March 21st.

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

5. It took them 24 days to walk how many miles?
(a) 124
(b) 142.
(c) 241.
(d) 412.

6. What did Gandhi lose when he spoke to this group?
(a) His train of thought.
(b) His shyness and inability to speak in public.
(c) His motivation.
(d) His purpose.

7. Why were Gandhi and one of his sons and many other Indians arrested?
(a) For protesting.
(b) For not wearing the appropriate clothing.
(c) For boycotting.
(d) For being non-registered coloreds.

8. Clearing his mind and soul of personal needs and desires allowed him to do what?
(a) Be careless.
(b) Work for the common welfare.
(c) Stay peaceful.
(d) Be a better father.

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

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

11. Like his mother, Gandhi took to what frequently?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Fasting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Praying.

12. Prior to this period, at the beginning of the 20th century, what had begun to emerge?
(a) A better-educated middle class.
(b) A lower class.
(c) An upper class.
(d) A less-educated middle class.

13. In May, what happened to Gandhi?
(a) He was again arrested and jailed.
(b) He gave power to his son.
(c) He became ill.
(d) He fasted.

14. Gandhi urged that Indian freedom was dependent upon what?
(a) The nation treating the British in a just manner.
(b) The education of the masses.
(c) The unification of all religious groups.
(d) The faith of the Indians.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi had made "humility and truth more powerful than ______________."

2. England was beginning to realize what?

3. Near the holy waters of Jumna, outside New Delhi, a million people wait in the oppressive heat for ___________ of the Mahatma, Mohandas K. Gandhi.

4. What happened in Amritsar?

5. A sharecropper asked Gandhi to help the people in his region of what country?

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