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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?
(a) He was finally arrested for inciting sedition.
(b) His followers left him to be arrested for inciting sedition.
(c) His followers were arrested for inciting sedition.
(d) He was taunted for inciting sedition.

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

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

5. 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 to England.
(c) Return home to India.
(d) Follow the instructions of those in charge in South Africa.

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

7. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?
(a) His love of his family.
(b) His desire to not be married.
(c) His rude personality.
(d) His childishness.

8. 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.
(a) Selflessness and grace.
(b) Family.
(c) Peace and hope.
(d) God.

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

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

11. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?
(a) Go to England to study religion.
(b) Go to England to study law.
(c) Go to England to study medicine.
(d) Go to England to find work.

12. 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) Forgetting about his family.
(c) Gaining some experience.
(d) Earning a better living.

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

14. 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 vegetarian diet.
(c) The raw foods diet.
(d) The British diet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Through a connection of his brother's, Gandhi was given a ____________ contract with a Muslim firm in South Africa to work what he thought would be a clerical position well below the dignity of his education.

2. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?

3. How did Gandhi react to this British passenger?

4. How many satyagrahis were jailed at this time?

5. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?

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