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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years from that day did Gandhi's determination blossom into inspiration to organize his first mass non-violent resistance?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Four.

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

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

4. Gandhi coined the word ____________ to describe the Dalits (the oppressed), to call them the children of God, in order to remind the higher classes that their actions toward the oppressed was a part of their worship of God.
(a) Madarijan.
(b) Darijan.
(c) Harijan.
(d) Maharijan.

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

6. To whom was Gandhi deeply devoted?
(a) His family.
(b) His friends.
(c) His culture.
(d) His education.

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

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

9. By what year were civil rights written into law?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1924.

10. In order to bring about change in India in particular, the first such system he wanted to address was what?
(a) The one sanctioning the oppression of those Indians who were not Hindu.
(b) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's wealthy.
(c) The one sanctioning the oppression of India's poorest classes.
(d) The one sanctioning the oppression of anyone not of Indian descent.

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

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

13. 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?
(a) Follow the instructions of those in charge in South Africa.
(b) Resolve not to submit to unfair treatment and be ready for any consequence.
(c) Return to India.
(d) Retaliate violently.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. He was also confronted with a form of prejudice against him for what reason?

3. Nagler cites all of the fields in which Gandhi inspired revolution, including economics, politics, philosophy and the science and art of _________.

4. 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.

5. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?

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