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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long did Gandhi tour the countryside to bolster his campaign?
(a) Four months.
(b) Six months.
(c) Seven months.
(d) Five months.

2. How did Gandhi feel about his young marriage?
(a) He considered it to be wrong.
(b) He found it strange.
(c) He considered it to be exciting.
(d) He found it embarrassing.

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

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

5. While riding on a train from Maritzburg, what did an English man do?
(a) He gaveup his seat for Gandhi.
(b) He protested Gandhi's presence in first-class.
(c) He glared at Gandhi.
(d) He had Gandhi arrested.

6. When he died, was Gandhi a private citizen with noteworthy professional achievement?
(a) Yes, some.
(b) Yes, only later in his career.
(c) Yes, a great deal.
(d) No.

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

8. What happened in Amritsar?
(a) A strange incident.
(b) An unusual incident.
(c) The most tragic incident.
(d) A minor incident.

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

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

11. What did Gandhi learn from the incident involving his brother, Laxmidas?
(a) He never wanted to be part of the stressful and taxing government.
(b) He wanted to be a part of the exciting new government.
(c) He never wanted to be part of the pettiness and snobbery of the government.
(d) He did not want his brother to take part in the corrupt government.

12. Gandhi encouraged the Indians to observe what?
(a) Prayer time.
(b) A hartal.
(c) Lent.
(d) A moment of silence.

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

14. How was Gandhi as a lawyer in Rajkot and Bombay?
(a) He was not very good.
(b) He was very good.
(c) He did not practice law.
(d) He never worked in Raikot or Bombay.

15. What did Gandhi tell his people to do when the government announced that all Indians must register?
(a) To resist and pledge defiance.
(b) To register.
(c) To riot.
(d) To flee the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to this period, at the beginning of the 20th century, what had begun to emerge?

2. Gandhi and 75 male members of the ashram started their march south to where?

3. Gandhi was born in ____________ on October 2, 1869, a small seaside home on the Kathiawar Peninsula in western Indian.

4. Through parental arrangement, Mohandas married his life-long wife Kasturbai. How old were they when they married?

5. For what did Gandhi take blame?

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