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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 England.
(c) A transformative trip Gandhi took by train.
(d) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to India.

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

4. 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) Eknath Easwaran.
(b) Kasterbai.
(c) Gandhi's mother.
(d) Gandhi's father.

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

6. When the passenger summoned the police, what happened?
(a) They left him alone in his seat.
(b) They physically moved him to third class.
(c) They left him sitting alone at Maritzburg Station.
(d) They arrested him.

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

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

9. Gandhi acted out of compassion for both the British and the Indians for what reason?
(a) To point out the flaws in their system.
(b) He was both British and Indian.
(c) To point out how valuable both systems were.
(d) He loved both the British and Indian ideals.

10. How did Gandhi react to this British passenger?
(a) He stood up in his seat.
(b) He refused to move.
(c) He did as he asked.
(d) He laughed at him.

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

12. What did Gandhi call the new form of resistance?
(a) Satyagraha.
(b) Sit-down.
(c) Stand-up.
(d) Sahara.

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 quietly.
(d) Living a life of solitude.

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

15. Gandhi took this trip when he was in his ________________ year there in service to Dada Abdulla, and was riding in a first class compartment.
(a) Fourth.
(b) Third.
(c) Second.
(d) First.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Gandhi deeply devoted?

2. Upon his return from his service to the British and witnessing the Zulu Rebellion, he discovered what about the Transvaal government?

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

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

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

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