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

2. Although later touting full independence, Gandhi went through a stage when he saw India on a par with what countries?
(a) The United States and Canada.
(b) South Africa and Pakistan.
(c) Canada and Australia.
(d) The Virgin Islands and British Isles.

3. Gandhi had made "humility and truth more powerful than ______________."
(a) God.
(b) Empires.
(c) Mankind.
(d) Love.

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

5. Jawaharlal Nehru was emerging as a leader of who and was not in agreement with Gandhi on non-violent rebellion?
(a) The young.
(b) The Hindus.
(c) The old.
(d) The Moslems.

Short Answer Questions

1. The incident on this train led to what?

2. Gandhi received the title of Mahatma from whom?

3. Gandhi spent the next _______ years in an ashram.

4. Gandhi and 75 male members of the ashram started their march south to where?

5. Gandhi expressed his rather unconventional thoughts on what in his first book, HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Gandhi get the title of Mahatma?

4. Describe Gandhi's first major speech.

5. Describe where Gandhi spent the next sixteen years of his life.

6. Describe politics involving Indians in the early 1900s. How did this affect Gandhi?

7. What is a Yogi?

8. What did Gandhi learn upon returning to India?

9. Why did Gandhi try to unify the Hindus and Moslems? What were the end results of this attempt?

10. Why were a million people gathered on January 31, 1948?

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