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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Gandhi expressed his rather unconventional thoughts on what in his first book, HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE?
(a) Running a country.
(b) Religion.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Indian independence.

3. Gandhi and 75 male members of the ashram started their march south to where?
(a) The salt works.
(b) The sea.
(c) The city.
(d) The desert.

4. What did the Indians do with the registrations they had filled out?
(a) They burned them.
(b) They threw them away.
(c) They turned them in.
(d) They tore them up.

5. England was beginning to realize what?
(a) The importance of India as a colony.
(b) The importance to India of their equality.
(c) The importance of India as a common wealth.
(d) The importance to India of their independence.

6. Gandhi told the masses not to wear what?
(a) Western clothing.
(b) Hats.
(c) Indian clothing.
(d) Shoes.

7. In his youth, Mohandas privately rejected what although he returned to it later in life?
(a) School.
(b) His family.
(c) Reading.
(d) His family's Hindu religion.

8. Gandhi felt that becoming a better person led to what?
(a) A longer life.
(b) A safer life.
(c) A more religious life.
(d) A better life.

9. How successful was Gandhi at learning English?
(a) Not very.
(b) He does not try to learn English.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Very.

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

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

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

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

14. After WWI ended, did conditions for the Indians improve?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) A little.

15. Gandhi's austere Satyagraha Ashram was located at Sabarmati where Gandhi lived in a cell-like room free of possessions where he did what?
(a) Spoke.
(b) Listened to others.
(c) Sang.
(d) Prayed and meditated.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the surface, how was Mohandas as a child?

2. Gandhi eventually traveled there and found that the million peasant Indians there were suffering from what?

3. During his time abroad, Gandhi's thirst for what grew?

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

5. As a child, what did Gandhi hide from his elders as much as possible?

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