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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what year were civil rights written into law?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1904.

2. Gandhi described himself as what?
(a) A typical child with many friends.
(b) A uniquely strong child.
(c) A cowardly child with a rather weak mind.
(d) An unusual child.

3. 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.

4. 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 quietly.
(c) Living healthfully.
(d) Living a life of solitude.

5. Addressing the concept of ____________, Gandhi pleaded with the Indians that one cannot participate in such a system without becoming another of its victims and weakening the nation as a whole.
(a) Race.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Religion.
(d) Untouchability.

Short Answer Questions

1. The idea was detachment from the result of one's actions, so that one's focus is on what?

2. As Mahadev Desai read the words of the Bhagavad Gita describing the man who has let ________________ shape his being and shed all selfish desire to a gathering of followers, Easwaran was astonished to see the words become reality in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.

3. How many satyagrahis were jailed at this time?

4. Gandhi found himself a solitary apartment and began by doing what?

5. What does Patanjali say?

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