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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. 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 resist and pledge defiance.
(d) To riot.

2. By the time they arrived at the sea on April 5th, they were how many strong?
(a) Several thousand.
(b) Several dozen.
(c) Several million.
(d) Several hundred.

3. How successful was Gandhi at learning English?
(a) Very.
(b) He does not try to learn English.
(c) Somewhat.
(d) Not very.

4. For Gandhi, what was Bramacharya?
(a) Celibacy.
(b) The giving up of shelter.
(c) The giving up of marriage.
(d) Vegetarianism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened January 30, 1948?

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

3. Indians became the political football in the early 1900s when the Prime Minister promises to do what?

4. India saw much unrest in what year?

5. There was an assassination of who in Bengal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Gandhi's philosophy?

2. Describe Gandhi as a child.

3. What happened when Gandhi went to Nepal?

4. How did "Unto This Last" change Gandhi's life forever?

5. Describe Gandhi's first major speech.

6. Give two examples of unrest in India in 1928.

7. How did Gandhi feel about his life in London?

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

9. What is a Yogi?

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

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