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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 did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?
(a) Go to England to study medicine.
(b) Go to England to find work.
(c) Go to England to study religion.
(d) Go to England to study law.

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?
(a) Religion.
(b) Life.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Politics.

3. Gandhi's process of learning to eliminate his fear started when?
(a) He moved to South Africa.
(b) He was a child and was afraid of the dark.
(c) He studied law in England.
(d) He was first married.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a man does everything in worship, Easwaran explains, everywhere he goes is what?

2. Gandhi called the Bhagavad Gita what?

3. Easwaran opens the chapter entitled Mother and Child by asking the question of how such a personal evolution could have come about, and how the evolution of a single person could effect what?

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

5. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?

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