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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In order to bring about change in India in particular, the first such system he wanted to address was what?
(a) The one sanctioning the oppression of those Indians who were not Hindu.
(b) The one sanctioning the oppression of anyone not of Indian descent.
(c) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's poorest classes.
(d) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's wealthy.

3. 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.
(a) God.
(b) Peace and hope.
(c) Selflessness and grace.
(d) Family.

4. A united mind is the only mind that is able to meditate and do what?
(a) Love others fully.
(b) Understand others.
(c) Find peace and exercise judgment.
(d) Find joy and peace.

5. He went into beautiful temples and told the people what?
(a) As long as they were complicit in denying untouchables access, then God was not present there either.
(b) As long as they denied access to non-Indians, then God was not present there.
(c) As long as they listened to the British, then God was not present there.
(d) As long as they allow access to non-Hindus, then God was not present there.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. The answer to number 84 creates the mask that people call their personalities and hides what?

5. Gandhi described the process as reducing oneself to zero, which is when?

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