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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Addressing the concept of ____________, Gandhi pleaded with the Indians that one cannot participate in such a system without becoming another of its victims and weakening the nation as a whole.
(a) Untouchability.
(b) Race.
(c) Religion.
(d) Poverty.

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

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

8. Describe Gandhi's early time in England.
(a) A time of making new friends.
(b) Surprisingly exciting.
(c) Incredibly lonely.
(d) Entertaining.

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

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

11. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?
(a) His rude personality.
(b) His love of his family.
(c) His desire to not be married.
(d) His childishness.

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

13. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.
(a) His family.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Peaceful living.
(d) Love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When his rebellion brought Gandhi into the presence of the leader of the Transvaal government himself, what did Gandhi do?

3. By what year were civil rights written into law?

4. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?

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

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