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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gandhi the Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gandhi call the Yeravda Prison?
(a) The Yeravda Ashram.
(b) The Yeravda Temple.
(c) The Yeravda Hell.
(d) The Yeravda Home.

2. Easwaran opens the chapter entitled Mother and Child by asking the question of how such a personal evolution could have come about, and how the evolution of a single person could effect what?
(a) Such sweeping interpersonal change.
(b) Such sweeping political and interpersonal change.
(c) Such sweeping political change.
(d) Such a minor political and interpersonal change.

3. Was Gandhi burdened by worry about what was to come?
(a) Yes, very much.
(b) No.
(c) Yes, at times.
(d) Yes, somewhat.

4. How did Gandhi feel about meditation?
(a) Content.
(b) Energized and invigorated.
(c) Confident and content.
(d) Tired and unsure.

5. What must be driven out of the mind?
(a) Fear.
(b) The small, distracting, and petty things that distract the mind.
(c) The highest ideals.
(d) Insecurities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Britain had forbidden Indians to gather their own salt, requiring instead that they buy it at a premium from British sources. So, on Gandhi's signal, all of India would simply walk to the ocean and pick up the salt that laid there for the taking and buy and sell it locally from each other, as if the law had never been enacted. What was this called?

2. Gandhi met with Lord Irwin to negotiate, and made a point of taking a tiny bag of salt from his cloak and told the viceroy that he would drink his tea with salt in remembrance of what?

3. The final chapter Eknath Easwaran writes is focused on the daily habits and the things that defined the personality of Gandhi as what?

4. In addition to detachment, what was a guiding principle from the Gita to which Gandhi aspired?

5. How many years from that day did Gandhi's determination blossom into inspiration to organize his first mass non-violent resistance?

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