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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________________ 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) Democracy.
(b) Imperialism.
(c) Isolationism.
(d) Religion.

2. 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.
(a) Five-year long.
(b) Ten-year long.
(c) Year-long.
(d) Two-year long.

3. Where did Gandhi first attempt to practice law?
(a) Bombay.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rajkot.

4. In order to bring about change in India in particular, the first such system he wanted to address was what?
(a) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's poorest classes.
(b) The one sanctioning the oppression of those Indians who were not Hindu.
(c) The one sanctioning the oppression of anyone not of Indian descent.
(d) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's wealthy.

5. By what year were civil rights written into law?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1918.

6. Gandhi resolved to make a project of what?
(a) Developing his character and living simply.
(b) His transformation into a British gentleman.
(c) His newfound friendships.
(d) His studies in England.

7. Gandhi determined that the whole British-Indian relationship could be transformed with such an approach of non-violence, or ____________.
(a) Ahimsa.
(b) Bahimsa.
(c) Baptisma.
(d) Allahisma.

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

9. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?
(a) Very successful.
(b) Not very successful.
(c) Somewhat successful.
(d) He did not practice law in Bombay.

10. 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) Selflessness and grace.
(c) Peace and hope.
(d) Family.

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

12. When a British passenger discovered him there, what did he demand that Gandhi do?
(a) Get off the train.
(b) Stand up.
(c) Move to third class.
(d) Go to the back of the car.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?

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

3. In Gandhi's view of human evolution, he saw what as the dharma of modern human beings--as the central law of their being--and violence as the dharma of the animals of the jungle?

4. He was also confronted with a form of prejudice against him for what reason?

5. Easwaran opens his chapter describing the Way of Love by recounting what story?

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