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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?
(a) Confidence.
(b) A mantra.
(c) God.
(d) Enough sleep.

2. The fact that most of Gandhi's ashram were women led Gandhi to say in response to their gentle strength that if non-violence is the future of humanity, then the future is what?
(a) For woman.
(b) With woman.
(c) With all men.
(d) Going to be good.

3. Easwaran explains that Gandhi was quoting what from Hindu scripture?
(a) The Vedanta.
(b) The Tevaram Saivite hymns.
(c) The Isha Upanishad.
(d) The Puranas.

4. What did Gandhi call the Yeravda Prison?
(a) The Yeravda Hell.
(b) The Yeravda Temple.
(c) The Yeravda Home.
(d) The Yeravda Ashram.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sri Krishna says that the wise person's love for the Lord of Love does what?

2. A united mind is trained wholly to what?

3. Who has learned to see beyond his own opinions?

4. When a man does everything in worship, Easwaran explains, everywhere he goes is what?

5. 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.

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