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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 keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?
(a) A mantra.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Enough sleep.
(d) God.

2. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?
(a) Legal advisor in a complicated financial case.
(b) Legal assistant in a minor financial case.
(c) Legal advisor in a minor financial case.
(d) Legal assistant in a complicated financial case.

3. 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 Middle Eastern viewpoint.
(b) A traditionally Indian background.
(c) Any Westernized lens.
(d) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.

4. 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) Gandhi's father.
(c) Kasterbai.
(d) Eknath Easwaran.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other process did Gandhi teach?

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?

3. Gandhi acted out of compassion for both the British and the Indians for what reason?

4. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?

5. ________________ itself was on trial as Gandhi told about how the streets were filled with the starving and sick who became poorer and poorer while the British got rich from the labor of the Indians.

(see the answer key)

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