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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Through parental arrangement, Mohandas married his life-long wife Kasturbai. How old were they when they married?
(a) Fifteen years old.
(b) Eighteen years old.
(c) Thirteen years old.
(d) Five years old.

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

6. Gandhi's philosophy was that for Indians to be treated fairly, they needed to do what?
(a) Improve themselves and discard any bad habits.
(b) Become wealthy.
(c) Leave South Africa.
(d) Attack government officials.

7. What did the Rowlatt Acts of 1919 do?
(a) They gave complete equality to the Indians.
(b) They continued the unfair conditions for the Indians.
(c) They gave more freedom to the Indians.
(d) They enslaved all Indians.

8. For Gandhi, what was Bramacharya?
(a) The giving up of marriage.
(b) Celibacy.
(c) Vegetarianism.
(d) The giving up of shelter.

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

10. In 1909, Gandhi got word to England about the treatment of the Indians in South Africa. He won the support of many of the ___________ of the country.
(a) Members of Parliament.
(b) Conservatives.
(c) Whigs.
(d) Liberals.

11. By the time they arrived at the sea on April 5th, they were how many strong?
(a) Several thousand.
(b) Several million.
(c) Several dozen.
(d) Several hundred.

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

13. In January 1924, the Mahatma was rushed from prison to the hospital. Why?
(a) He had acute appendicitis.
(b) He had collapsed.
(c) He had had a heart attack.
(d) He was fasting to death.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did British officials order their soldiers to do at Amritsar?

2. To achieve success in South Africa, Gandhi's most effective tool was a unique creation of his own called 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. While riding on a train from Maritzburg, what did an English man do?

5. Gandhi urged that Indian freedom was dependent upon what?

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