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

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

3. He went into beautiful temples and told the people what?
(a) As long as they listened to the British, then God was not present there.
(b) As long as they denied access to non-Indians, then God was not present there.
(c) As long as they allow access to non-Hindus, then God was not present there.
(d) As long as they were complicit in denying untouchables access, then God was not present there either.

4. When the passenger summoned the police, what happened?
(a) They left him sitting alone at Maritzburg Station.
(b) They physically moved him to third class.
(c) They arrested him.
(d) They left him alone in his seat.

5. Nagler cites all of the fields in which Gandhi inspired revolution, including economics, politics, philosophy and the science and art of _________.
(a) Living frugally.
(b) Living healthfully.
(c) Living a life of solitude.
(d) Living quietly.

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 found himself a solitary apartment and began by doing what?

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

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.

5. Through a connection of his brother's, Gandhi was given a ____________ contract with a Muslim firm in South Africa to work what he thought would be a clerical position well below the dignity of his education.

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