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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 determined that the whole British-Indian relationship could be transformed with such an approach of non-violence, or ____________.
(a) Ahimsa.
(b) Allahisma.
(c) Bahimsa.
(d) Baptisma.

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

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

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

5. Applying the same self-discipline he learned in London, Gandhi applied his independent knowledge of bookkeeping to the accounts in question and became what?
(a) The single most informed person on the case.
(b) Fairly well-informed on the case.
(c) Not very well-informed on the case.
(d) Envied by others on the case.

Short Answer Questions

1. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?

2. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?

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

4. How many years from that day did Gandhi's determination blossom into inspiration to organize his first mass non-violent resistance?

5. What did Gandhi call the Yeravda Prison?

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