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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Way of Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Life.
(b) Politics.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Religion.

2. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?
(a) He was outgoing and proud.
(b) He was very intelligent.
(c) He was quite remarkable.
(d) He was nothing remarkable.

3. Gandhi coined the word ____________ to describe the Dalits (the oppressed), to call them the children of God, in order to remind the higher classes that their actions toward the oppressed was a part of their worship of God.
(a) Madarijan.
(b) Darijan.
(c) Maharijan.
(d) Harijan.

4. He went into beautiful temples and told the people what?
(a) As long as they listened to the British, then God was not present there.
(b) As long as they denied access to non-Indians, then God was not present there.
(c) As long as they allow access to non-Hindus, then God was not present there.
(d) As long as they were complicit in denying untouchables access, then God was not present there either.

5. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.
(a) His family.
(b) Peaceful living.
(c) Love.
(d) Meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. He instructed a group of Indians to gather in Johannesburg and determined that the most effective course would be for the whole Indian population simply to do what?

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

3. Following a period of complete submission to all of the nuances of English dress and society, Gandhi concluded that the practice was doing what to him?

4. 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?

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

(see the answer key)

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