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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Fourth.
(c) First.
(d) Third.

2. 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.
(a) Madarijan.
(b) Maharijan.
(c) Darijan.
(d) Harijan.

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

4. Gandhi taught the process of what?
(a) Striving for love.
(b) Striving for purification.
(c) Striving for fearlessness.
(d) Striving for peace.

5. Easwaran opens his chapter describing the Way of Love by recounting what story?
(a) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to India.
(b) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to England.
(c) A transformative trip Gandhi took by boat.
(d) A transformative trip Gandhi took by train.

Short Answer Questions

1. A united mind is the only mind that is able to meditate and do what?

2. ________________ with problems of policy were welcomed to come and ask Gandhi for his advice.

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

4. What does one become when one meditates?

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.

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