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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mother and Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi resolved to make a project of what?
(a) His newfound friendships.
(b) Developing his character and living simply.
(c) His studies in England.
(d) His transformation into a British gentleman.

2. What does Patanjali say?
(a) In a person who has defeated all fear, there is now nothing of which otehr people can ever be afraid.
(b) In a person who loves unconditionally, there is no conflict.
(c) Gandhi is an instrument of the gods.
(d) Gandhi has changed greatly since his youth.

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

4. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?
(a) People have and do not have.
(b) People have, like, desire, and fear.
(c) People fear.
(d) People want.

5. In order to bring about change in India in particular, the first such system he wanted to address was what?
(a) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's wealthy.
(b) The one sanctioning the oppression of those Indians who were not Hindu.
(c) The one sanctioning the oppression of anyone not of Indian descent.
(d) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's poorest classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gandhi call the new form of resistance?

2. How did Gandhi react to this British passenger?

3. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?

4. What does this type of revolution mean?

5. Leaving Kasturbai again, this time with two sons, Gandhi left for South Africa in the hopes of what?

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