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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. How did the country feel about Gandhi living and conditions being improved for the Harijans?
(a) Jubilant.
(b) Sad.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Nervous.

2. Was Gandhi able to meet Churchill?
(a) No, Churchill was out of the country.
(b) Yes.
(c) No, Churchill refused to see him.
(d) No, Churchill was ill.

3. Churchill would crush what in order to save England and keep it as it had always been?
(a) The Axis powers.
(b) Gandhism.
(c) All colonists.
(d) The Indian Congress.

4. Gandhi was saddened by the continuing violence spurred on by what?
(a) The creation of an Indian common wealth.
(b) The creation of an Indian Congress.
(c) The creation of Pakistan.
(d) The creation of a unified India.

5. The author of the book, Louis Fischer, visits Gandhi where?
(a) In South Africa.
(b) In Bombay.
(c) In his apartment.
(d) In his ashram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gandhi decide to do again?

2. What doid Nehru, who ridiculed Gandhi for fasting for the Harijan cause, do?

3. The author describes Gandhi as the most ________ man on earth.

4. Why could Gandhi not reconcile himself to this fact?

5. Gandhi was very distressed but torn as he was pro-England and pro-American and ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Gandhi's personal life.

2. Describe Gandhi's ashram.

3. How did Gandhi feel about the west?

4. What positive action took place while Gandhi fasted?

5. How did Gandhi act when he was once again put into jail?

6. What took place in September of 1946?

7. What happened that led to violence and arrests on August 9th?

8. What took place in March of 1946?

9. How did Gandhi deal with the violence he saw and heard about?

10. What did Gandhi think about Christianity and other religions?

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