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

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

2. What endeavor is the source of Gandhi's joy and strength?
(a) Caring for his family.
(b) Meditating on his mantra.
(c) Helping others.
(d) Translating the truths of the Bhagavad Gita into his daily life.

3. One who loves the Lord of Love is able to learn from what?
(a) The Lord of Love.
(b) The love of others.
(c) Other's mistakes.
(d) One's mistakes.

4. Gandhi took this trip when he was in his ________________ year there in service to Dada Abdulla, and was riding in a first class compartment.
(a) First.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Second.
(d) Third.

5. Upon his return from his service to the British and witnessing the Zulu Rebellion, he discovered what about the Transvaal government?
(a) They were fairly kind to the Indian population.
(b) They had created the Jim Crow Laws.
(c) They had proposed the Black Act.
(d) They had proposed the White Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?

2. When Gandhi was asked to explain in three words the secret of his life, what did he say?

3. As Mahadev Desai read the words of the Bhagavad Gita describing the man who has let ________________ shape his being and shed all selfish desire to a gathering of followers, Easwaran was astonished to see the words become reality in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.

4. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

5. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?

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