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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one become when one meditates?
(a) Happy.
(b) What he meditates on.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Fearless.

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

3. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.
(a) God's ability to shape humanity.
(b) Its ability to be shaped by others.
(c) Out world's ability to shape humanity.
(d) The capacity in each individual to reshape himself according to the highest ideals.

4. Sri Krishna calls it the ______________ that inspires selfish possession, and says they are free who have escaped it, united with the Lord of Love and assured immortality.
(a) Sin of man.
(b) Ego-cage.
(c) Selfish ego.
(d) Devil.

5. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?
(a) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.
(b) Any Westernized lens.
(c) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.
(d) A traditionally Indian background.

Short Answer Questions

1. What endeavor is the source of Gandhi's joy and strength?

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 nurse, Rambha, taught him that the way to eliminate fear was to do what?

4. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?

5. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?

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