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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kasturbai quietly submitted to what?
(a) Gandhi's anger.
(b) Gandhi's religious beliefs.
(c) Gandhi's love for her.
(d) Gandhi's unreasonable demands.

2. When a man does everything in worship, Easwaran explains, everywhere he goes is what?
(a) His home.
(b) A temple.
(c) His world.
(d) His family.

3. People came burdened and overwhelmed with their troubles, and left how?
(a) Less burdens and troubles.
(b) Laughing and lighthearted.
(c) With new burdens and troubles.
(d) With new ideas and beliefs.

4. When someone focuses on oneself, one insists on what?
(a) Being alone.
(b) One's preference being adopted by the whole group.
(c) Being in charge.
(d) Having what one wants.

5. Nagler cites all of the fields in which Gandhi inspired revolution, including economics, politics, philosophy and the science and art of _________.
(a) Living healthfully.
(b) Living a life of solitude.
(c) Living quietly.
(d) Living frugally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the key to transformation of character and consciousness?

2. Was Gandhi burdened by worry about what was to come?

3. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?

4. Flinders appeals to families to look at the example of the Gandhi family for what?

5. As Mahadev Desai read the words of the Bhagavad Gita describing the man who has let ________________ shape his being and shed all selfish desire to a gathering of followers, Easwaran was astonished to see the words become reality in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.

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