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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.
(a) Human strength.
(b) Evil.
(c) Fear.
(d) Human capacity.

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

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

4. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?
(a) Gandhi as the world-changing figure he was to become.
(b) Gandhi's parents.
(c) Gandhi's wife.
(d) Other students Gandhi's age.

5. He went into beautiful temples and told the people what?
(a) As long as they listened to the British, then God was not present there.
(b) As long as they allow access to non-Hindus, then God was not present there.
(c) As long as they denied access to non-Indians, then God was not present there.
(d) As long as they were complicit in denying untouchables access, then God was not present there either.

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

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

8. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?
(a) His ability to give.
(b) The extravagant life he led.
(c) The simplicity and poverty in which he continued to voluntarily live.
(d) His kind personality.

9. Finding himself happier and healthier for the change, Gandhi shifted his attention to what?
(a) Studying religion.
(b) Looking for a new wife.
(c) Understanding British culture.
(d) His diet.

10. 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) Peaceful living.
(b) Love.
(c) Meditation.
(d) His family.

11. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?
(a) To think of his family first.
(b) To stay away from anything that could cause failure.
(c) Be proud of his accomplishments and to forget his failures.
(d) To not run from failure again.

12. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?
(a) Legal advisor in a minor financial case.
(b) Legal assistant in a minor financial case.
(c) Legal assistant in a complicated financial case.
(d) Legal advisor in a complicated financial case.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi acted out of compassion for both the British and the Indians for what reason?

2. Weeks of more protest followed, as did hundreds more arrests, culminating at last with what?

3. Gandhi determined that the whole British-Indian relationship could be transformed with such an approach of non-violence, or ____________.

4. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?

5. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

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