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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Patanjali say?
(a) In a person who has defeated all fear, there is now nothing of which otehr people can ever be afraid.
(b) Gandhi is an instrument of the gods.
(c) In a person who loves unconditionally, there is no conflict.
(d) Gandhi has changed greatly since his youth.

2. Easwaran explains that these verses describe what?
(a) The highest state of consciousness a human can attain.
(b) The peace that can be brought to one's mind.
(c) How one should live.
(d) The love one must feel for others.

3. What did Gandhi call the new form of resistance?
(a) Sahara.
(b) Satyagraha.
(c) Sit-down.
(d) Stand-up.

4. To direct the reader to the means to learning the answer, Nagler points to whom as the perfect man to tell Gandhi's life story?
(a) Eknath Easwaran.
(b) Gandhi's father.
(c) Gandhi's mother.
(d) Kasterbai.

5. Gandhi coined the word ____________ to describe the Dalits (the oppressed), to call them the children of God, in order to remind the higher classes that their actions toward the oppressed was a part of their worship of God.
(a) Madarijan.
(b) Darijan.
(c) Harijan.
(d) Maharijan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Easwaran explains that Gandhi was quoting what from Hindu scripture?

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

4. Gandhi determined that the whole British-Indian relationship could be transformed with such an approach of non-violence, or ____________.

5. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?

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