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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?
(a) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.
(b) Any Westernized lens.
(c) A traditionally Indian background.
(d) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.

2. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?
(a) A fellow Indian told him to go back home.
(b) A fellow Indian pointed out that the best things to be learned in England were English customs.
(c) A British student told him to go back home.
(d) A British student pointed out that the thing to be learne in England was English custom.

3. He went into beautiful temples and told the people what?
(a) As long as they denied access to non-Indians, then God was not present there.
(b) As long as they were complicit in denying untouchables access, then God was not present there either.
(c) As long as they allow access to non-Hindus, then God was not present there.
(d) As long as they listened to the British, then God was not present there.

4. Leaving Kasturbai again, this time with two sons, Gandhi left for South Africa in the hopes of what?
(a) Forgetting about his family.
(b) Making a new life for himself.
(c) Gaining some experience.
(d) Earning a better living.

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

6. ________________ itself was on trial as Gandhi told about how the streets were filled with the starving and sick who became poorer and poorer while the British got rich from the labor of the Indians.
(a) Imperialism.
(b) Religion.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Democracy.

7. 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.
(a) Madarijan.
(b) Harijan.
(c) Maharijan.
(d) Darijan.

8. What does this type of revolution mean?
(a) Listen to yourself.
(b) Holding fast to truth.
(c) Forget the truth.
(d) Do what needs to be done.

9. 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.

10. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?
(a) His ability to give.
(b) The simplicity and poverty in which he continued to voluntarily live.
(c) The extravagant life he led.
(d) His kind personality.

11. Gandhi's marriage to Kasturbai was arranged by whom?
(a) His parents.
(b) Himself and Kasturbai.
(c) God.
(d) The religious leaders.

12. Gandhi met with Lord Irwin to negotiate, and made a point of taking a tiny bag of salt from his cloak and told the viceroy that he would drink his tea with salt in remembrance of what?
(a) The salt industry of Britain.
(b) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(c) The Boston Tea Party.
(d) The need for salt.

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

14. What is Sevagram?
(a) Gandhi's birth name.
(b) Gandhi's home town.
(c) Gandhi's law practice.
(d) Gandhi's Ashram.

15. Gandhi found himself a solitary apartment and began by doing what?
(a) Modeling himself after a fellow student whose poverty dictated that he cook his own meals and walk instead of paying for transportation.
(b) Hosting parties.
(c) Decorating it.
(d) Looking for a roommate.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Michael N. Nagler of the University of California, Berkley provides the forward for the book, and opens by asking the reader what?

3. When a British passenger discovered him there, what did he demand that Gandhi do?

4. He also explained his commitment to truth and non-violence, saying that whatever the penalty for his crime, he was ready to take it, if what?

5. In order to bring about change in India in particular, the first such system he wanted to address was what?

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