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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Gandhi meditate?
(a) Every morning at six or seven.
(b) Every evening at eight or nine.
(c) Every afternoon at three or four.
(d) Every morning at three or four.

2. Throughout these years of satyagraha in India, he continued to make friends and gain followers including who?
(a) The wealthy and privileged Jawaharlal Nehru.
(b) The poor.
(c) The British leaders.
(d) The leaders of many nations.

3. The answer to number 84 creates the mask that people call their personalities and hides what?
(a) Their faith in a higher being.
(b) Their true personalities.
(c) Their fearlessness, unconditional love and abiding joy.
(d) Their compassion for others.

4. Easwaran quotes an excerpt from a letter Gandhi wrote to an English follower saying that those who do not see how politics and religion are related to one another do not understand what?
(a) Life.
(b) Religion.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Politics.

5. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?
(a) Find a way that all could benefit.
(b) Draw out the court case, so the lawyers could earn a great deal of money.
(c) Quit the case.
(d) Find a solution that would serve both parties and close the case quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?

2. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.

3. 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.

4. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?

5. Kasturbai kept her faith in her husband's character even when what happened?

(see the answer key)

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