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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 frugally.
(b) Living quietly.
(c) Living healthfully.
(d) Living a life of solitude.

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

3. Following a period of complete submission to all of the nuances of English dress and society, Gandhi concluded that the practice was doing what to him?
(a) Making him feel more at home.
(b) Making him more self conscious and costing him more money.
(c) Making him wish he were not Indian.
(d) Making him more friends.

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

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

6. ________________ itself was on trial as Gandhi told about how the streets were filled with the starving and sick who became poorer and poorer while the British got rich from the labor of the Indians.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Imperialism.
(d) Religion.

7. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?
(a) A second chance at high school.
(b) A job.
(c) New guidance.
(d) A new direction.

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

9. Leaving Kasturbai again, this time with two sons, Gandhi left for South Africa in the hopes of what?
(a) Making a new life for himself.
(b) Earning a better living.
(c) Gaining some experience.
(d) Forgetting about his family.

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

11. 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 religion.
(d) Go to England to study medicine.

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

13. What is the only universal thing?
(a) Peace.
(b) Truth.
(c) Love.
(d) Happiness.

14. 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) Its ability to be shaped by others.
(c) God's ability to shape humanity.
(d) Out world's ability to shape humanity.

15. 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 Atkins diet.
(c) The vegetarian diet.
(d) The raw foods diet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?

2. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

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

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

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

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