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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forward/The Transformation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi's marriage to Kasturbai was arranged by whom?
(a) God.
(b) The religious leaders.
(c) His parents.
(d) Himself and Kasturbai.

2. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?
(a) A job.
(b) A new direction.
(c) New guidance.
(d) A second chance at high school.

3. What is Sevagram?
(a) Gandhi's Ashram.
(b) Gandhi's birth name.
(c) Gandhi's home town.
(d) Gandhi's law practice.

4. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.
(a) God's ability to shape humanity.
(b) Out world's ability to shape humanity.
(c) Its ability to be shaped by others.
(d) The capacity in each individual to reshape himself according to the highest ideals.

5. Michael N. Nagler of the University of California, Berkley provides the forward for the book, and opens by asking the reader what?
(a) To consider whether Gandhi helped others.
(b) To consider whether Gandhi is a good example to follow.
(c) To consider whether Gandhi might be the most significant historical figure of the 20th century.
(d) To consider whether Gandhi was a great man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leaving Kasturbai again, this time with two sons, Gandhi left for South Africa in the hopes of what?

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

3. Gandhi described himself as what?

4. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?

5. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.

(see the answer key)

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