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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The elephant holding a piece of bamboo was enough to quiet their trunks the same way what is enough to still the busy-ness of a wandering and restless mind?
(a) A mantra.
(b) Work.
(c) God.
(d) Sleep.

2. Gandhi described the process as reducing oneself to zero, which is when?
(a) He puts all others before himself.
(b) He becomes less than others.
(c) He becomes completely truthful, wise, and irresistibly powerful.
(d) He puts God first.

3. By what year were civil rights written into law?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1904.

4. To direct the reader to the means to learning the answer, Nagler points to whom as the perfect man to tell Gandhi's life story?
(a) Gandhi's father.
(b) Eknath Easwaran.
(c) Gandhi's mother.
(d) Kasterbai.

5. Prayer meetings featured readings from what?
(a) The Muslim scriptures.
(b) The Hindu scriptures.
(c) All three major scriptures.
(d) The Christian scriptures.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Gandhi found himself a solitary apartment and began by doing what?

3. He was so intimately involved and concerned with the intimate details of the worlds of the people who surrounded him that what happened?

4. Gandhi's nurse, Rambha, taught him that the way to eliminate fear was to do what?

5. Gandhi coined the word ____________ to describe the Dalits (the oppressed), to call them the children of God, in order to remind the higher classes that their actions toward the oppressed was a part of their worship of God.

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