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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his time abroad, Gandhi's thirst for what grew?

2. What did the Indians do with the registrations they had filled out?

3. How did Gandhi feel about his young marriage?

4. A sharecropper asked Gandhi to help the people in his region of what country?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Gandhi's first major speech.

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

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

5. What did Gandhi learn upon returning to India?

6. What happened when Gandhi went to Nepal?

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

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

9. Describe Gandhi as a child.

10. What happened after WWI ended?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Two incidences change Gandhi forever.

Part 1) What are these two incidences? Why do these incidences so greatly impact Gandhi?

Part 2) How do the world events during Gandhi's life, as a whole, impact him, his philosophy, and his actions?

Part 3) What incidences in your own life have impacted you? Why? How do they compare to incidences in Gandhi's life?

Essay Topic 2

Gandhi wins the support of the liberals.

Part 1) How does he go about doing this? How is this beneficial?

Part 2) Why is he able to win support form the liberals but not others?

Part 3) What issues in the United States might you compare this to? Explain the outcomes of these issues and how they compare to the issues with which Gandhi deals.

Essay Topic 3

Gandhi's personal life is not as successful as his public life.

Part 1) Describe his personal life. Why is it not as successful as his public life? How might he feel about this? Why?

Part 2) Could Gandhi have had a more balanced life and still have been successful? Why or why not?

Part 3) Is it possible for public figures to have healthy personal lives and be successful in their public agendas? Why or why not?

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