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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi's secretary, Mahadev Desai, answered the question of how Gandhi spoke so eloquently with no preparation or notes by explaining what?
(a) Everything Gandhi thinks, does, and says are exactly the same so all he has to do is to be.
(b) Gandhi is good at thinking on his feet.
(c) Gandhi used the same speech where ever he went.
(d) Gandhi has a great memory.

2. Indeed one of the things that was most remarkable to Easwaran, and to Louis Fischer, the American journalist who followed Gandhi's campaigns in India for many years, was how what?
(a) How much privacy Gandhi needed.
(b) How private Gandhi was.
(c) How not private Gandhi was.
(d) How little privacy Gandhi received.

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.
(a) Ten-year long.
(b) Year-long.
(c) Five-year long.
(d) Two-year long.

4. How many years from that day did Gandhi's determination blossom into inspiration to organize his first mass non-violent resistance?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Thirteen.

5. Nagler points to Gandhi's very inauspicious beginnings as an underachieving student with ____________________.
(a) A bad temper.
(b) A many ailments.
(c) Many friends.
(d) A bad home life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gandhi feel about meditation?

2. One who loves the Lord of Love is _____________________ by his circumstances.

3. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?

4. The answer to number 84 creates the mask that people call their personalities and hides what?

5. Describe Gandhi's early time in England.

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