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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi called the Bhagavad Gita what?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His God.
(d) His family.

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

3. When followers stopped asking questions, Gandhi would focus on what?
(a) His future plans.
(b) His own thoughts.
(c) Making children laugh.
(d) Raising questions.

4. 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?
(a) The Salt Selling of 1920.
(b) The Salt Collection of 1925.
(c) The Salt Wars of 1935.
(d) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.

5. Gandhi described the process as reducing oneself to zero, which is when?
(a) He becomes less than others.
(b) He puts all others before himself.
(c) He becomes completely truthful, wise, and irresistibly powerful.
(d) He puts God first.

Short Answer Questions

1. At Sevagram, people were so drawn to him, that what happened?

2. Describe Gandhi's evening walks.

3. Easwaran explains that Gandhi was quoting what from Hindu scripture?

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

5. He instructed a group of Indians to gather in Johannesburg and determined that the most effective course would be for the whole Indian population simply to do what?

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