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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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 Selling of 1920.
(d) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.

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

9. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?
(a) Very.
(b) Not at all.
(c) Only at first.
(d) Somewhat.

10. Nagler points to Gandhi's very inauspicious beginnings as an underachieving student with ____________________.
(a) A many ailments.
(b) A bad temper.
(c) Many friends.
(d) A bad home life.

11. 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) Second.
(b) Fourth.
(c) First.
(d) Third.

12. 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?
(a) Baptisma.
(b) Ahimsa.
(c) Allahisma.
(d) Bahimsa.

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

14. 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) Draw out the court case, so the lawyers could earn a great deal of money.
(b) Quit the case.
(c) Find a way that all could benefit.
(d) Find a solution that would serve both parties and close the case quickly.

15. Easwaran quotes an excerpt from a letter Gandhi wrote to an English follower saying that those who do not see how politics and religion are related to one another do not understand what?
(a) Life.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout these years of satyagraha in India, he continued to make friends and gain followers including who?

2. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?

3. 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.

4. In order to bring about change in India in particular, the first such system he wanted to address was what?

5. 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?

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