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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When one's love is deep enough, Sri Krishna explains to the eager Arjuna, selfish attachment, insecurity, fear and despair will do what?
(a) Be diminished.
(b) Grow stronger at first, and then fall away.
(c) Start to disappear.
(d) Fall away.

2. 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 desire to not be married.
(b) His rude personality.
(c) His childishness.
(d) His love of his family.

3. 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?
(a) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(b) The Salt Selling of 1920.
(c) The Salt Collection of 1925.
(d) The Salt Wars of 1935.

4. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?
(a) The simplicity and poverty in which he continued to voluntarily live.
(b) His ability to give.
(c) The extravagant life he led.
(d) His kind personality.

5. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?
(a) Weak.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Minor.
(d) Instant and violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. When one meditates, one drives what deep into the consciousness?

2. Where did Gandhi first attempt to practice law?

3. What must be driven out of the mind?

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

5. 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?

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