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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?
(a) A second chance at high school.
(b) A new direction.
(c) New guidance.
(d) A job.

2. What did Gandhi call the secret to the art of living?
(a) The middle verses of the Third Chapter of the Gita.
(b) The last ten verses of the the Second Chapter of the Gita.
(c) The last eighteen verses of the Second Chapter of the Gita.
(d) The first verse of the First Chapter of the Gita.

3. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?
(a) When Gandhi was twenty years old.
(b) When Gandhi was thirteen years old.
(c) When Gandhi was twenty-two years old.
(d) When Gandhi was eighteen years old.

4. When a British passenger discovered him there, what did he demand that Gandhi do?
(a) Get off the train.
(b) Stand up.
(c) Go to the back of the car.
(d) Move to third class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Easwaran explains that these verses describe what?

2. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?

3. What must be driven out of the mind?

4. Sri Krishna calls it the ______________ that inspires selfish possession, and says they are free who have escaped it, united with the Lord of Love and assured immortality.

5. ________________ itself was on trial as Gandhi told about how the streets were filled with the starving and sick who became poorer and poorer while the British got rich from the labor of the Indians.

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