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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mother and Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi's nurse, Rambha, taught him that the way to eliminate fear was to do what?
(a) Ask God to take the fear.
(b) Replace it in one's mind with a mantra of joy.
(c) Pray.
(d) Ignore it.

2. What does one become when one meditates?
(a) Fearless.
(b) What he meditates on.
(c) Happy.
(d) Quiet.

3. He also explained his commitment to truth and non-violence, saying that whatever the penalty for his crime, he was ready to take it, if what?
(a) The jury would pray for him.
(b) The jury truly believed that their system existed for the good of the people.
(c) The jury did not sentence him to death.
(d) The jury believed he was guilty of breaking the law.

4. Gandhi met with Lord Irwin to negotiate, and made a point of taking a tiny bag of salt from his cloak and told the viceroy that he would drink his tea with salt in remembrance of what?
(a) The Boston Tea Party.
(b) The need for salt.
(c) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(d) The salt industry of Britain.

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. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

2. That detachment was what allowed Gandhi to move with what?

3. What is Sevagram?

4. He made the determination then and there that he would do what?

5. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?

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