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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. What happened in 1906?

2. Like his mother, Gandhi took to what frequently?

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. How was Gandhi as a lawyer in Rajkot and Bombay?

5. By the time they arrived at the sea on April 5th, they were how many strong?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Gandhi give up at the age of thirty-seven? Why?

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

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

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

5. What happened when Gandhi went to Nepal?

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

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

8. What is satyagraha?

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

10. What was Gandhi's philosophy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gandhi's ashram is called the White House of India.

Part 1) What is an ashram? Describe Gandhi's ashram. Why is it called the White House of India?

Part 2) How do these two places compare? Can his ashram truly be called the White House of India? Why or why not?

Part 3) What does this name imply about the Indian people's feelings towards Gandhi, his followers, and the U.S.?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

As a child, Gandhi shows no proclivity towards school work and no special talent.

Part 1) How does this change? What role does his time in London play in this change?

Part 2) Describe incidences that create major changes in Gandhi's life, actions, and personality. Would Gandhi have changed so drastically without these incidences? Why or why not?

Part 3) What can you learn from Gandhi's childhood and adult life?

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