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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How Nonviolence Works.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Religion.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Politics.
(d) Life.

2. When the passenger summoned the police, what happened?
(a) They left him sitting alone at Maritzburg Station.
(b) They arrested him.
(c) They physically moved him to third class.
(d) They left him alone in his seat.

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

4. Flinders appeals to families to look at the example of the Gandhi family for what?
(a) Inspiration on struggle.
(b) Inspiration on love.
(c) Inspiration on patience, forgiveness, and loving resistance without rancor whenever it might be necessary.
(d) Inspiration on happiness.

5. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?
(a) He was very intelligent.
(b) He was nothing remarkable.
(c) He was quite remarkable.
(d) He was outgoing and proud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what did Gandhi strive to cleanse his life?

2. What is Sevagram?

3. 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?

4. What does the author say is Gandhi's message?

5. The people who gravitated to Gandhi are testament to what?

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