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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How Nonviolence Works.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. People came burdened and overwhelmed with their troubles, and left how?
(a) Laughing and lighthearted.
(b) Less burdens and troubles.
(c) With new ideas and beliefs.
(d) With new burdens and troubles.

2. Why did Gandhi experiment with variations on vegetarian dishes?
(a) To make them readily available to others.
(b) To make them for filling.
(c) To make them appealing to all.
(d) To make them nutritious in spite of taste.

3. What was Kasturbai able to do to Gandhi?
(a) Love him.
(b) Help him help others.
(c) Soften his heart.
(d) Leave him.

4. What does the author say is Gandhi's message?
(a) His life.
(b) Bring peace to all.
(c) Love others above yourself.
(d) All religions are right.

5. What did Gandhi call the secret to the art of living?
(a) The last eighteen verses of the Second Chapter of the Gita.
(b) The middle verses of the Third Chapter of the Gita.
(c) The first verse of the First Chapter of the Gita.
(d) The last ten verses of the the Second Chapter of the Gita.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. On what does one who loves the Lord of Love focus?

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.

4. Gandhi's focus was on letting the wisdom, love, joy and peace he studied make up what?

5. Gandhi's process of learning to eliminate his fear started when?

(see the answer key)

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