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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The Indians had expected a charismatic return of a new leader based on what?
(a) His success.
(b) His work in India.
(c) His behavior in London.
(d) His work in Africa.

4. Winston Churchill was reviled by the appearance of equality between who and what he termed the half-naked, seditious fakir from India?
(a) The British people.
(b) The Indian people.
(c) The Hindus.
(d) The Prime Minister.

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

6. Gandhi decided to live the simple life of what?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) A monk.
(d) A farmer.

7. India saw much unrest in what year?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1926.
(d) 1929.

8. Bramacharya included restraint in what?
(a) Thought.
(b) Speech.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Sex, anger, diet and emotions.

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

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

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

12. To achieve success in South Africa, Gandhi's most effective tool was a unique creation of his own called what?
(a) Ahimsa.
(b) Satyagraha.
(c) Duragraha.
(d) Swadeshi.

13. The incident on this train led to what?
(a) Gandhi's resolve to become a lawyer.
(b) Gandhi's venture into politics.
(c) Gandhi's resolve to fight color prejudice.
(d) Gandhi's decision to return to India.

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

15. By 1920, most British officials looked at Indians as what?
(a) Strange.
(b) Dumb.
(c) An inferior people.
(d) Powerful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gandhi tell his people to do when the government announced that all Indians must register?

2. What happened in Amritsar?

3. 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?

4. On the way, Gandhi told who to make homemade clothing, reject alcohol and drugs, abandon child marriage and live pure lives?

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

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