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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi was considering another civil disobedience that he called what?
(a) Forget India.
(b) Quit England.
(c) Quit India.
(d) Where is India?

2. Did Gandhi attend the official celebration?
(a) No, he was ill.
(b) No, he refused to attend.
(c) Yes.
(d) Yes, but only for a short while.

3. Gandhi was very distressed but torn as he was pro-England and pro-American and ______________.
(a) Pro-Japan and pro-German.
(b) Anti-Japan and pro-German.
(c) Pro-Japan and anti-German.
(d) Anti-Japan and anti-German.

4. Prime Minister Churchill was a purist and would not allow India to do what?
(a) Help in the war.
(b) Fight next to British soldiers.
(c) Participate in British battles.
(d) Be lost as a British possession.

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

6. Gandhi once considered converting to Christianity but could not reconcile himself to what fact?
(a) God had only one Son.
(b) Jesus was the Son of God.
(c) The only path to God is through Jesus Christ.
(d) Jesus was resurrected.

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

8. On what day of the fast, was an agreement reached which Gandhi approved?
(a) The fourth.
(b) The fifth.
(c) The second.
(d) The third.

9. What did temples do for the untouchables?
(a) They provided shelter for them.
(b) They gave them food.
(c) They ignored them.
(d) They opened their doors to them.

10. Churchill would crush what in order to save England and keep it as it had always been?
(a) All colonists.
(b) Gandhism.
(c) The Axis powers.
(d) The Indian Congress.

11. In ________ of 1946, an envoy of British officials came to India to settle the terms of its independence.
(a) April.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) March.

12. Nehru became Prime Minister of India on what day?
(a) November 2, 1946.
(b) September 2, 1946.
(c) December 2, 1946.
(d) October 2, 1946.

13. When asked if he was a Christian, how did Gandhi reply?
(a) He was a part of no religion.
(b) He ws a Hindu, a Christian, a Jew and a Moslem.
(c) No.
(d) He was a Christian.

14. Was Gandhi able to meet Churchill?
(a) No, Churchill was out of the country.
(b) Yes.
(c) No, Churchill refused to see him.
(d) No, Churchill was ill.

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) Lessening the civil disobedience.
(b) The civil disobedience.
(c) Ending the civil disobedience.
(d) Shortening the civil disobedience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi and his followers were still most concerned about what?

2. Gandhi heard of violence in Noakhali in the province of Bengal and decided to do what?

3. In August 1946, Nehru was authorized to do what?

4. Gandhi was comfortable in London and wore what everywhere?

5. Gandhi wrote a book on what while in jail?

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