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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 poorest classes.
(b) The one sanctioning the oppression of those Indians who were not Hindu.
(c) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's wealthy.
(d) The one sanctioning the oppression of anyone not of Indian descent.

2. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?
(a) Gandhi's wife.
(b) Other students Gandhi's age.
(c) Gandhi as the world-changing figure he was to become.
(d) Gandhi's parents.

3. Where did Gandhi first attempt to practice law?
(a) London.
(b) Rajkot.
(c) Bombay.
(d) Paris.

4. Gandhi's marriage to Kasturbai was arranged by whom?
(a) The religious leaders.
(b) God.
(c) His parents.
(d) Himself and Kasturbai.

5. ________________ 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) Democracy.
(d) Imperialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Gandhi's early time in England.

2. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?

3. When the passenger summoned the police, what happened?

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

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

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