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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many people were killed?
(a) 79.
(b) 179.
(c) 479.
(d) 379.

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

4. When it was time to decide upon a career, Gandhi decided to become what?
(a) A doctor.
(b) An accountant.
(c) A politician.
(d) A lawyer.

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

6. 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.

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

8. What could not be ignored, regarding Indian soldiers?
(a) The many Indians who died during WWI.
(b) The many Indians who were treated unfairly during WWI.
(c) The bravery of the many Indians who fought for the British in WWI.
(d) The strength of the many Indians who fought for the British in WWI.

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

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

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

12. 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) Prayed and meditated.
(c) Sang.
(d) Listened to others.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in Amritsar?

2. The person who gave him this name won the Nobel Prize in ___________ in 1913.

3. Gandhi's philosophy was that for Indians to be treated fairly, they needed to do what?

4. Why did Gandhi's family not tell him of this tragic news?

5. What is the ashram?

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