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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The Salt Collection of 1925.
(b) The Salt Selling of 1920.
(c) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(d) The Salt Wars of 1935.

2. What did Gandhi say as he died?
(a) I love all human kind.
(b) His mantra, "rama, rama, rama."
(c) He knows not what he does.
(d) Good bye.

3. The final chapter Eknath Easwaran writes is focused on the daily habits and the things that defined the personality of Gandhi as what?
(a) Not trusting those who need a private life.
(b) Needing his private life.
(c) An individual in his public life.
(d) An individual in his private life.

4. His daily chores were always done in the company of others, his meals were a time of what?
(a) Peace and quiet.
(b) Eating.
(c) Replenishing.
(d) Sharing and community.

5. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?
(a) Very successful.
(b) Not very successful.
(c) Somewhat successful.
(d) He did not practice law in Bombay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?

2. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?

3. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

4. He instructed a group of Indians to gather in Johannesburg and determined that the most effective course would be for the whole Indian population simply to do what?

5. When Gandhi was asked to explain in three words the secret of his life, what did he say?

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