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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When followers stopped asking questions, Gandhi would focus on what?
(a) Raising questions.
(b) His own thoughts.
(c) Making children laugh.
(d) His future plans.

2. The people who gravitated to Gandhi are testament to what?
(a) The need of the Indian people.
(b) The desire for peace around the world.
(c) The unhappiness of others.
(d) His success.

3. Kasturbai kept her faith in her husband's character even when what happened?
(a) She did not believe in it.
(b) He did not display it.
(c) He did not deserve it.
(d) He was gone from her.

4. That detachment was what allowed Gandhi to move with what?
(a) Such energy.
(b) Such purpose.
(c) Such peace.
(d) Such happiness.

5. The elephant holding a piece of bamboo was enough to quiet their trunks the same way what is enough to still the busy-ness of a wandering and restless mind?
(a) Work.
(b) A mantra.
(c) Sleep.
(d) God.

6. Indeed one of the things that was most remarkable to Easwaran, and to Louis Fischer, the American journalist who followed Gandhi's campaigns in India for many years, was how what?
(a) How little privacy Gandhi received.
(b) How not private Gandhi was.
(c) How much privacy Gandhi needed.
(d) How private Gandhi was.

7. When did Gandhi meditate?
(a) Every morning at six or seven.
(b) Every morning at three or four.
(c) Every afternoon at three or four.
(d) Every evening at eight or nine.

8. Prayer meetings featured readings from what?
(a) The Muslim scriptures.
(b) All three major scriptures.
(c) The Christian scriptures.
(d) The Hindu scriptures.

9. Easwaran explains that these verses describe what?
(a) The highest state of consciousness a human can attain.
(b) How one should live.
(c) The peace that can be brought to one's mind.
(d) The love one must feel for others.

10. What does Rambha give Gandhi to say?
(a) I am not afraid.
(b) The Lord's Prayer.
(c) Stay away, Fear.
(d) Rama, rama, rama.

11. Who is Patanjali?
(a) The ancient Indian teacher of meditation.
(b) A leader in India.
(c) Gandhi's closest friend.
(d) Gandhi's follower.

12. Evenings for Gandhi were made up of what kind of meals?
(a) Boisterous.
(b) Communal.
(c) Long.
(d) Quiet.

13. What keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?
(a) A mantra.
(b) Enough sleep.
(c) Confidence.
(d) God.

14. His ashram family, however, the ones who came to be called his _____________________ were the ones who knew best the man Gandhi was in his daily life.
(a) Ashram life.
(b) Ashram herd.
(c) Ashram crew.
(d) Ashram menagerie.

15. With whom did Gandhi take all of his solitude?
(a) His wife and children.
(b) His ashram family.
(c) His closest followers.
(d) His students.

Short Answer Questions

1. The idea was detachment from the result of one's actions, so that one's focus is on what?

2. He cared for the sick in the ashram, and filled every interaction with what?

3. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?

4. What did Gandhi say as he died?

5. The answer to number 84 creates the mask that people call their personalities and hides what?

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