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

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

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

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

5. For what did Gandhi take blame?
(a) Allowing the hartal to get out of hand.
(b) Organizing the hartal.
(c) Miscalculating the dangers of the hartal.
(d) Leading the hartal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prior to this period, at the beginning of the 20th century, what had begun to emerge?

2. For how long did Gandhi tour the countryside to bolster his campaign?

3. Gandhi returned to India to bring his wife and two sons back with him to South Africa. When their steamer and another from India arrived in South Africa, both filled with new Indian immigrants, they were at first not allowed to disembark. Why?

4. What is the ashram?

5. He traveled to what city where he enrolled in a three-year course of study?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Gandhi get the title of Mahatma?

2. How was Gandhi's theory regarding the gaining of equality for Indians strengthened?

3. What is contained in Gandhi's first book, HIND SWARAJ or INDIAN HOME RULE?

4. Describe satyagraha's first test.

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

6. Describe Gandhi's first major speech.

7. What is a Yogi?

8. What happened after WWI ended?

9. What was the first incident that changed Gandhi forever?

10. Describe Gandhi. Why did major leaders come to pay homage to him?

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