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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?
(a) A traditionally Indian background.
(b) Any Westernized lens.
(c) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.
(d) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.

2. Britain had forbidden Indians to gather their own salt, requiring instead that they buy it at a premium from British sources. So, on Gandhi's signal, all of India would simply walk to the ocean and pick up the salt that laid there for the taking and buy and sell it locally from each other, as if the law had never been enacted. What was this called?
(a) The Salt Selling of 1920.
(b) The Salt Wars of 1935.
(c) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(d) The Salt Collection of 1925.

3. Gandhi's appeal to people to purge themselves of their self-interest is what?
(a) A difficult request to make.
(b) One started by his wife.
(c) One he also had difficulty in doing.
(d) One he is qualified to make.

4. What was one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?
(a) The last ten verses of the 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 eighteen verses of the Second Chapter of the Gita.

5. What was the source of the inspiration to which Gandhi clung?
(a) The Koran.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Gita.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.

2. Gandhi's secretary, Mahadev Desai, answered the question of how Gandhi spoke so eloquently with no preparation or notes by explaining what?

3. When a British passenger discovered him there, what did he demand that Gandhi do?

4. Even ______________ was Gandhi embodying the spirit of compassion and forgiveness for which he had come to be known.

5. The elephant holding a piece of bamboo was enough to quiet their trunks the same way what is enough to still the busy-ness of a wandering and restless mind?

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