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

Multiple Choice 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.
(a) Fear.
(b) Evil.
(c) Human strength.
(d) Human capacity.

2. To direct the reader to the means to learning the answer, Nagler points to whom as the perfect man to tell Gandhi's life story?
(a) Gandhi's mother.
(b) Eknath Easwaran.
(c) Gandhi's father.
(d) Kasterbai.

3. Gandhi found himself a solitary apartment and began by doing what?
(a) Decorating it.
(b) Hosting parties.
(c) Looking for a roommate.
(d) Modeling himself after a fellow student whose poverty dictated that he cook his own meals and walk instead of paying for transportation.

4. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?
(a) Weak.
(b) Minor.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Instant and violent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?

3. In order to make his teaching more accessible, Gandhi established what?

4. Why did Gandhi experiment with variations on vegetarian dishes?

5. Gandhi met with Lord Irwin to negotiate, and made a point of taking a tiny bag of salt from his cloak and told the viceroy that he would drink his tea with salt in remembrance of what?

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