View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gandhi the Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?
(a) Confidence.
(b) God.
(c) A mantra.
(d) Enough sleep.

3. Gandhi acted out of compassion for both the British and the Indians for what reason?
(a) To point out how valuable both systems were.
(b) To point out the flaws in their system.
(c) He loved both the British and Indian ideals.
(d) He was both British and Indian.

4. Michael N. Nagler of the University of California, Berkley provides the forward for the book, and opens by asking the reader what?
(a) To consider whether Gandhi is a good example to follow.
(b) To consider whether Gandhi helped others.
(c) To consider whether Gandhi might be the most significant historical figure of the 20th century.
(d) To consider whether Gandhi was a great man.

5. What does one become when one meditates?
(a) Fearless.
(b) Quiet.
(c) What he meditates on.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?

2. The final chapter Eknath Easwaran writes is focused on the daily habits and the things that defined the personality of Gandhi as what?

3. What does Patanjali say?

4. Through a connection of his brother's, Gandhi was given a ____________ contract with a Muslim firm in South Africa to work what he thought would be a clerical position well below the dignity of his education.

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 399 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample