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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finding himself happier and healthier for the change, Gandhi shifted his attention to what?
(a) Studying religion.
(b) His diet.
(c) Understanding British culture.
(d) Looking for a new wife.

2. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?
(a) Weak.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Minor.
(d) Instant and violent.

3. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?
(a) To not run from failure again.
(b) To think of his family first.
(c) Be proud of his accomplishments and to forget his failures.
(d) To stay away from anything that could cause failure.

4. 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.
(a) God.
(b) Family.
(c) Peace and hope.
(d) Selflessness and grace.

5. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?
(a) Go to England to study religion.
(b) Go to England to find work.
(c) Go to England to study medicine.
(d) Go to England to study law.

6. 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?
(a) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(b) The Salt Selling of 1920.
(c) The Salt Collection of 1925.
(d) The Salt Wars of 1935.

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

8. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?
(a) Legal assistant in a minor financial case.
(b) Legal advisor in a complicated financial case.
(c) Legal advisor in a minor financial case.
(d) Legal assistant in a complicated financial case.

9. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.
(a) Human capacity.
(b) Evil.
(c) Human strength.
(d) Fear.

10. Upon his return from his service to the British and witnessing the Zulu Rebellion, he discovered what about the Transvaal government?
(a) They had proposed the White Act.
(b) They had created the Jim Crow Laws.
(c) They were fairly kind to the Indian population.
(d) They had proposed the Black Act.

11. Michael N. Nagler of the University of California, Berkley provides the forward for the book, and opens by asking the reader what?
(a) To consider whether Gandhi might be the most significant historical figure of the 20th century.
(b) To consider whether Gandhi helped others.
(c) To consider whether Gandhi was a great man.
(d) To consider whether Gandhi is a good example to follow.

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

13. He instructed a group of Indians to gather in Johannesburg and determined that the most effective course would be for the whole Indian population simply to do what?
(a) Resolve not to submit to unfair treatment and be ready for any consequence.
(b) Return to India.
(c) Follow the instructions of those in charge in South Africa.
(d) Retaliate violently.

14. Gandhi described himself as what?
(a) An unusual child.
(b) A uniquely strong child.
(c) A typical child with many friends.
(d) A cowardly child with a rather weak mind.

15. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?
(a) A second chance at high school.
(b) A job.
(c) New guidance.
(d) A new direction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sevagram?

2. Gandhi found himself a solitary apartment and began by doing what?

3. He was such an irresistible fund-raiser for the oppressed in India that even who gave him money for his cause?

4. Nagler points to Gandhi's very inauspicious beginnings as an underachieving student with ____________________.

5. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

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