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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Easwaran opens his chapter describing the Way of Love by recounting what story?
(a) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to England.
(b) A transformative trip Gandhi took by train.
(c) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to India.
(d) A transformative trip Gandhi took by boat.

2. What did Gandhi call the Yeravda Prison?
(a) The Yeravda Home.
(b) The Yeravda Ashram.
(c) The Yeravda Hell.
(d) The Yeravda Temple.

3. Nagler cites all of the fields in which Gandhi inspired revolution, including economics, politics, philosophy and the science and art of _________.
(a) Living healthfully.
(b) Living a life of solitude.
(c) Living quietly.
(d) Living frugally.

4. 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) Gandhi's parents.
(d) Other students Gandhi's age.

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

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

7. Addressing the concept of ____________, Gandhi pleaded with the Indians that one cannot participate in such a system without becoming another of its victims and weakening the nation as a whole.
(a) Untouchability.
(b) Race.
(c) Religion.
(d) Poverty.

8. 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.
(a) Two-year long.
(b) Year-long.
(c) Ten-year long.
(d) Five-year long.

9. 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 wish he were not Indian.
(b) Making him more friends.
(c) Making him more self conscious and costing him more money.
(d) Making him feel more at home.

10. 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.

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

12. What does this type of revolution mean?
(a) Forget the truth.
(b) Holding fast to truth.
(c) Listen to yourself.
(d) Do what needs to be done.

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

14. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?
(a) He was quite remarkable.
(b) He was very intelligent.
(c) He was outgoing and proud.
(d) He was nothing remarkable.

15. 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 capacity.
(b) Human strength.
(c) Fear.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

2. What is Sevagram?

3. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?

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 police reaction to the Indian response was what?

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