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

2. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?
(a) Other students Gandhi's age.
(b) Gandhi as the world-changing figure he was to become.
(c) Gandhi's parents.
(d) Gandhi's wife.

3. 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 was a great man.
(b) To consider whether Gandhi might be the most significant historical figure of the 20th century.
(c) To consider whether Gandhi helped others.
(d) To consider whether Gandhi is a good example to follow.

4. 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.
(a) Meditation.
(b) Love.
(c) His family.
(d) Peaceful living.

5. How did Gandhi react to this British passenger?
(a) He refused to move.
(b) He did as he asked.
(c) He laughed at him.
(d) He stood up in his seat.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?

3. When the passenger summoned the police, what happened?

4. Easwaran quotes an excerpt from a letter Gandhi wrote to an English follower saying that those who do not see how politics and religion are related to one another do not understand what?

5. Where did Gandhi first attempt to practice law?

(see the answer key)

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