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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 called the Bhagavad Gita what?
(a) His mother.
(b) His family.
(c) His God.
(d) His father.

2. Easwaran opens the chapter entitled Mother and Child by asking the question of how such a personal evolution could have come about, and how the evolution of a single person could effect what?
(a) Such sweeping interpersonal change.
(b) Such sweeping political change.
(c) Such a minor political and interpersonal change.
(d) Such sweeping political and interpersonal change.

3. Sri Krishna says that the wise person's love for the Lord of Love does what?
(a) Gives him love to share with others.
(b) Has consumed all of his selfishness and preoccupation with pleasing his own senses.
(c) Takes away his need to love.
(d) Shows him how to love himself and others.

4. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?
(a) His rude personality.
(b) His love of his family.
(c) His desire to not be married.
(d) His childishness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gandhi first attempt to practice law?

2. He instructed a group of Indians to gather in Johannesburg and determined that the most effective course would be for the whole Indian population simply to do what?

3. Weeks of more protest followed, as did hundreds more arrests, culminating at last with what?

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

5. What was one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?

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