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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why could Gandhi not reconcile himself to this fact?
(a) Why did he need to be resurrected?
(b) Why did God need sons?
(c) Why is there only one path to God?
(d) Why not have more sons?

2. The author of the book, Louis Fischer, visits Gandhi where?
(a) In his ashram.
(b) In his apartment.
(c) In South Africa.
(d) In Bombay.

3. When did India wins its independence?
(a) On June 15, 1947.
(b) On August 15, 1947.
(c) On September 15, 1947.
(d) On July 15, 1947.

4. Gandhi wrote a book on what while in jail?
(a) Equality.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Boycotting.
(d) Religion.

5. Since Gandhi was a man of action and was not afraid of dying, he contemplated doing what regarding the issue of India's untouchables, the lowest caste of Indians?
(a) Becoming a suicide bomber.
(b) Committing suicide.
(c) Running for office.
(d) Fasting to death.

6. Nehru later confessed that had he known the violence and death that would result leading to the War of Kashmir, he would have done what?
(a) Rejected the idea of a unified India.
(b) Created a Pakistani state sooner.
(c) Held out for a unified India.
(d) Left India.

7. The Indian Congress vowed to do what?
(a) Work with the British.
(b) Obstruct England's plans.
(c) Meet with the British officials to work out a compromise.
(d) Boycott all things British.

8. In response to continued unrest and violence, Gandhi embarked on what?
(a) A month-long meditation.
(b) A pilgrimage to Mecca.
(c) A fast to death.
(d) A journey to Pakistan.

9. One of Gandhi's closest associates was Charles Freer Andrews. Who is Andrews?
(a) A Christian bishop.
(b) A Christian missionary.
(c) A Moslem.
(d) A Catholic priest.

10. Gandhi was saddened by the continuing violence spurred on by what?
(a) The creation of an Indian Congress.
(b) The creation of a unified India.
(c) The creation of an Indian common wealth.
(d) The creation of Pakistan.

11. Gandhi was comfortable in London and wore what everywhere?
(a) A suit.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A robe.
(d) His loincloth.

12. Nehru visited one day and argued against what?
(a) Postponing the civil disobedience.
(b) Extending the civil disobedience.
(c) Ending the civil disobedience.
(d) Another civil disobedience.

13. Why did Gandhi not eat until the next day?
(a) He was not hungry.
(b) He had changes made in the agreement.
(c) When the plan was certified by the English.
(d) He was not happy with the agreement.

14. Was Gandhi's personal life as successful as his public life?
(a) Part of the time.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Mostly.

15. By the time Nehru left the ashram, Fischer could detect that Nehru was being won over, later becoming a stronger advocate of____________ than Gandhi himself.
(a) The civil disobedience.
(b) Shortening the civil disobedience.
(c) Lessening the civil disobedience.
(d) Ending the civil disobedience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Word came that the neighboring province of Bihar had broken out into violence. Thousands of Moslems were massacred. Gandhi put the blame at the feet of whom?

2. What did Gandhi do when all parties agreed to end the violence in Calcutta?

3. What doid Nehru, who ridiculed Gandhi for fasting for the Harijan cause, do?

4. When violence broke out, who did the Viceroy blame?

5. The Indian Congress, although mostly pacifists, was willing to bring India fully into the war for what?

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