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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) Fearless.
(d) Quiet.

2. ________________ itself was on trial as Gandhi told about how the streets were filled with the starving and sick who became poorer and poorer while the British got rich from the labor of the Indians.
(a) Isolationism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Imperialism.
(d) Democracy.

3. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?
(a) New guidance.
(b) A new direction.
(c) A job.
(d) A second chance at high school.

4. How many years from that day did Gandhi's determination blossom into inspiration to organize his first mass non-violent resistance?
(a) Eight.
(b) Four.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Ten.

5. Gandhi acted out of compassion for both the British and the Indians for what reason?
(a) To point out the flaws in their system.
(b) To point out how valuable both systems were.
(c) He was both British and Indian.
(d) He loved both the British and Indian ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi determined that the whole British-Indian relationship could be transformed with such an approach of non-violence, or ____________.

2. 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.

3. In Gandhi's view of human evolution, he saw what as the dharma of modern human beings--as the central law of their being--and violence as the dharma of the animals of the jungle?

4. One who loves the Lord of Love is able to learn from what?

5. Throughout these years of satyagraha in India, he continued to make friends and gain followers including who?

(see the answer key)

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