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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sevagram?
(a) Gandhi's birth name.
(b) Gandhi's home town.
(c) Gandhi's law practice.
(d) Gandhi's Ashram.

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

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

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

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

6. Gandhi acted out of compassion for both the British and the Indians for what reason?
(a) To point out how valuable both systems were.
(b) He was both British and Indian.
(c) To point out the flaws in their system.
(d) He loved both the British and Indian ideals.

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

8. Where did Gandhi first attempt to practice law?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rajkot.
(d) Bombay.

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

10. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?
(a) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.
(b) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.
(c) Any Westernized lens.
(d) A traditionally Indian background.

11. 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 childishness.
(c) His desire to not be married.
(d) His rude personality.

12. Gandhi met with Lord Irwin to negotiate, and made a point of taking a tiny bag of salt from his cloak and told the viceroy that he would drink his tea with salt in remembrance of what?
(a) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(b) The need for salt.
(c) The salt industry of Britain.
(d) The Boston Tea Party.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?

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 took this trip when he was in his ________________ year there in service to Dada Abdulla, and was riding in a first class compartment.

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