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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Upon his return from his service to the British and witnessing the Zulu Rebellion, he discovered what about the Transvaal government?
(a) They were fairly kind to the Indian population.
(b) They had created the Jim Crow Laws.
(c) They had proposed the Black Act.
(d) They had proposed the White Act.

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

4. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?
(a) When Gandhi was twenty-two years old.
(b) When Gandhi was thirteen years old.
(c) When Gandhi was twenty years old.
(d) When Gandhi was eighteen years old.

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

6. 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.

7. When his rebellion brought Gandhi into the presence of the leader of the Transvaal government himself, what did Gandhi do?
(a) He stayed silent.
(b) He told him clearly what he was doing and why.
(c) He mocked the leader.
(d) He lied to the leader.

8. When a man does everything in worship, Easwaran explains, everywhere he goes is what?
(a) A temple.
(b) His home.
(c) His world.
(d) His family.

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

10. 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) Allahisma.
(b) Ahimsa.
(c) Bahimsa.
(d) Baptisma.

11. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?
(a) The Atkins diet.
(b) The raw foods diet.
(c) The British diet.
(d) The vegetarian diet.

12. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?
(a) Instant and violent.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Weak.
(d) Minor.

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

14. 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) The capacity in each individual to reshape himself according to the highest ideals.
(c) Its ability to be shaped by others.
(d) God's ability to shape humanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?

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

3. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?

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

5. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?

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