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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Way of Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does this type of revolution mean?
(a) Listen to yourself.
(b) Forget the truth.
(c) Holding fast to truth.
(d) Do what needs to be done.

2. Finding himself happier and healthier for the change, Gandhi shifted his attention to what?
(a) Understanding British culture.
(b) His diet.
(c) Looking for a new wife.
(d) Studying religion.

3. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?
(a) Somewhat successful.
(b) He did not practice law in Bombay.
(c) Not very successful.
(d) Very successful.

4. Gandhi acted out of compassion for both the British and the Indians for what reason?
(a) He was both British and Indian.
(b) To point out how valuable both systems were.
(c) He loved both the British and Indian ideals.
(d) To point out the flaws in their system.

5. He was also confronted with a form of prejudice against him for what reason?
(a) His education.
(b) His faith.
(c) His race.
(d) His accent.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Gandhi deeply devoted?

2. Nagler points to Gandhi's very inauspicious beginnings as an underachieving student with ____________________.

3. As Mahadev Desai read the words of the Bhagavad Gita describing the man who has let ________________ shape his being and shed all selfish desire to a gathering of followers, Easwaran was astonished to see the words become reality in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.

4. 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?

5. 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?

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