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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi and 75 male members of the ashram started their march south to where?
(a) The desert.
(b) The sea.
(c) The city.
(d) The salt works.

2. Gandhi knew that prejudice could not be eradicated by what?
(a) Average citizens.
(b) Legislation.
(c) The whites.
(d) Him.

3. Gandhi returned to India in 1915 to the shouts of Mahatmaji. What does the "ji" suffix indicate?
(a) Friend.
(b) Respect and affection.
(c) Leader.
(d) Father.

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

5. Near the holy waters of Jumna, outside New Delhi, a million people wait in the oppressive heat for ___________ of the Mahatma, Mohandas K. Gandhi.
(a) The arrival.
(b) The death.
(c) The birth.
(d) The funeral procession.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Rowlatt Acts of 1919 do?

2. Clearing his mind and soul of personal needs and desires allowed him to do what?

3. Winston Churchill was reviled by the appearance of equality between who and what he termed the half-naked, seditious fakir from India?

4. Did the government follow through with its agreement to make the registration voluntary?

5. After reading ______________, Gandhi's life was forever changed.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe satyagraha's first test.

2. By 1920, how did most British officials feel about Indians? How did this affect Gandhi?

3. Why did Gandhi end his campaign against the Rowlatt Act?

4. What did Gandhi learn upon returning to India?

5. What did Gandhi give up at the age of thirty-seven? Why?

6. What took place on March 11, 1928?

7. How did Gandhi end up in South Africa? What was the second incident that changed Gandhi's life?

8. What happened after WWI ended?

9. What happened when Gandhi and his followers walk freely around Transvaal?

10. What did Winston Churchill think of Gandhi? Why?

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