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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the key to transformation of character and consciousness?
(a) God.
(b) A desire to transform.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Openness of mind.

2. Gandhi took this trip when he was in his ________________ year there in service to Dada Abdulla, and was riding in a first class compartment.
(a) Second.
(b) First.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Third.

3. Sri Krishna says that the wise person's love for the Lord of Love does what?
(a) Takes away his need to love.
(b) Shows him how to love himself and others.
(c) Gives him love to share with others.
(d) Has consumed all of his selfishness and preoccupation with pleasing his own senses.

4. Leaving Kasturbai again, this time with two sons, Gandhi left for South Africa in the hopes of what?
(a) Forgetting about his family.
(b) Earning a better living.
(c) Gaining some experience.
(d) Making a new life for himself.

5. How many satyagrahis were jailed at this time?
(a) Thousands.
(b) Dozens.
(c) A few.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what did Gandhi strive to cleanse his life?

2. 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?

3. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?

4. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?

5. One who loves the Lord of Love is able to learn from what?

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