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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi saw that Kasturbai was already living what he was studying, and began to do what?
(a) Feel guilty for not being more like her.
(b) Become envious of her.
(c) Have her lead.
(d) Emulate her example.

2. One who loves the Lord of Love is able to learn from what?
(a) Other's mistakes.
(b) The Lord of Love.
(c) One's mistakes.
(d) The love of others.

3. Sri Krishna calls it the ______________ that inspires selfish possession, and says they are free who have escaped it, united with the Lord of Love and assured immortality.
(a) Devil.
(b) Sin of man.
(c) Selfish ego.
(d) Ego-cage.

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

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

6. The final chapter Eknath Easwaran writes is focused on the daily habits and the things that defined the personality of Gandhi as what?
(a) An individual in his public life.
(b) An individual in his private life.
(c) Needing his private life.
(d) Not trusting those who need a private life.

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

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

9. What did Gandhi say as he died?
(a) Good bye.
(b) His mantra, "rama, rama, rama."
(c) I love all human kind.
(d) He knows not what he does.

10. The two of them became what for men and women throughout India?
(a) A source of jealousy.
(b) An unattainable goal.
(c) A painful reminder of their inadequacy.
(d) Inspiration.

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

12. What must be driven out of the mind?
(a) Insecurities.
(b) Fear.
(c) The highest ideals.
(d) The small, distracting, and petty things that distract the mind.

13. What was the source of the inspiration to which Gandhi clung?
(a) The Koran.
(b) The Gita.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Torah.

14. People came burdened and overwhelmed with their troubles, and left how?
(a) With new ideas and beliefs.
(b) Laughing and lighthearted.
(c) Less burdens and troubles.
(d) With new burdens and troubles.

15. On what does one who loves the Lord of Love focus?
(a) Where to find love.
(b) How to love oneself.
(c) Giving love to others.
(d) Living in the spirit of love.

Short Answer Questions

1. A united mind is the only mind that is able to meditate and do what?

2. He was so intimately involved and concerned with the intimate details of the worlds of the people who surrounded him that what happened?

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

4. A united mind is trained wholly to what?

5. Gandhi's secretary, Mahadev Desai, answered the question of how Gandhi spoke so eloquently with no preparation or notes by explaining what?

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