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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 bought a large farm in _____________, where learning to live the austere life of self-control occupied him.
(a) Phoenix, Natal.
(b) Natal Province.
(c) North Sumatra.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

2. A sharecropper asked Gandhi to help the people in his region of what country?
(a) China.
(b) Sri Lanka.
(c) Nepal.
(d) Pakistan.

3. What did Gandhi tell his people to do when the government announced that all Indians must register?
(a) To register.
(b) To flee the country.
(c) To riot.
(d) To resist and pledge defiance.

4. What did the Indians do with the registrations they had filled out?
(a) They burned them.
(b) They threw them away.
(c) They tore them up.
(d) They turned them in.

5. In what did the boycott result?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Equality.
(c) Peace.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi encouraged the Indians to do what around Transvaal, the city forbidden to unregistered Indians?

2. What did British officials order their soldiers to do at Amritsar?

3. Gandhi told the masses not to wear what?

4. After WWI ended, did conditions for the Indians improve?

5. Gandhi returned to India in 1915 to the shouts of Mahatmaji. What does the "ji" suffix indicate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is satyagraha?

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

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

5. Describe satyagraha's first test.

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

7. Describe Gandhi's marriage. What was his opinion about this type of marriage?

8. How did Gandhi get the title of Mahatma?

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

10. For what operation did Gandhi then call? What were the consequences of this?

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