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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?
(a) Serve.
(b) Earn more money.
(c) Work on more difficult cases.
(d) Take on court cases.

2. He made the determination then and there that he would do what?
(a) Stay in South Africa and fight this injustice in whatever way he could.
(b) Return to England.
(c) Follow the instructions of those in charge in South Africa.
(d) Return home to India.

3. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?
(a) His followers left him to be arrested for inciting sedition.
(b) His followers were arrested for inciting sedition.
(c) He was finally arrested for inciting sedition.
(d) He was taunted for inciting sedition.

4. Weeks of more protest followed, as did hundreds more arrests, culminating at last with what?
(a) Gandhi's arrest.
(b) The end to the protest.
(c) Kasturbai's arrest.
(d) Gandhi's death.

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

6. Easwaran opens his chapter describing the Way of Love by recounting what story?
(a) A transformative trip Gandhi took by boat.
(b) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to India.
(c) A transformative trip Gandhi took by train.
(d) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to England.

7. 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) Any Westernized lens.
(b) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.
(c) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.
(d) A traditionally Indian background.

8. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.
(a) Out world's ability to shape humanity.
(b) Its ability to be shaped by others.
(c) God's ability to shape humanity.
(d) The capacity in each individual to reshape himself according to the highest ideals.

9. To direct the reader to the means to learning the answer, Nagler points to whom as the perfect man to tell Gandhi's life story?
(a) Gandhi's father.
(b) Kasterbai.
(c) Eknath Easwaran.
(d) Gandhi's mother.

10. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?
(a) Quit the case.
(b) Find a way that all could benefit.
(c) Find a solution that would serve both parties and close the case quickly.
(d) Draw out the court case, so the lawyers could earn a great deal of money.

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

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

13. He was such an irresistible fund-raiser for the oppressed in India that even who gave him money for his cause?
(a) Non-Indians.
(b) Children.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) The poor.

14. How many satyagrahis were jailed at this time?
(a) A few.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Dozens.
(d) Thousands.

15. 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) Evil.
(b) Human capacity.
(c) Fear.
(d) Human strength.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?

2. Gandhi described himself as what?

3. Applying the same self-discipline he learned in London, Gandhi applied his independent knowledge of bookkeeping to the accounts in question and became what?

4. ________________ 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.

5. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?

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