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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.
(a) Evil.
(b) Fear.
(c) Human capacity.
(d) Human strength.

2. What did Gandhi call the new form of resistance?
(a) Satyagraha.
(b) Sit-down.
(c) Sahara.
(d) Stand-up.

3. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?
(a) His love of his family.
(b) His rude personality.
(c) His childishness.
(d) His desire to not be married.

4. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?
(a) He was finally arrested for inciting sedition.
(b) His followers left him to be arrested for inciting sedition.
(c) He was taunted for inciting sedition.
(d) His followers were arrested for inciting sedition.

5. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?
(a) Be proud of his accomplishments and to forget his failures.
(b) To stay away from anything that could cause failure.
(c) To not run from failure again.
(d) To think of his family first.

Short Answer Questions

1. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?

2. Easwaran quotes an excerpt from a letter Gandhi wrote to an English follower saying that those who do not see how politics and religion are related to one another do not understand what?

3. Gandhi's marriage to Kasturbai was arranged by whom?

4. Finding himself happier and healthier for the change, Gandhi shifted his attention to what?

5. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?

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