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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. A united mind is the only mind that is able to meditate and do what?
(a) Understand others.
(b) Find peace and exercise judgment.
(c) Love others fully.
(d) Find joy and peace.

5. Gandhi's process of learning to eliminate his fear started when?
(a) He moved to South Africa.
(b) He studied law in England.
(c) He was first married.
(d) He was a child and was afraid of the dark.

6. Gandhi's nurse, Rambha, taught him that the way to eliminate fear was to do what?
(a) Replace it in one's mind with a mantra of joy.
(b) Ask God to take the fear.
(c) Ignore it.
(d) Pray.

7. 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) Needing his private life.
(c) An individual in his private life.
(d) Not trusting those who need a private life.

8. Sri Krishna says that the wise person's love for the Lord of Love does what?
(a) Takes away his need to love.
(b) Shows him how to love himself and others.
(c) Gives him love to share with others.
(d) Has consumed all of his selfishness and preoccupation with pleasing his own senses.

9. What types of people did Gandhi love?
(a) The religious.
(b) Indians.
(c) Every variety.
(d) Hindus.

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

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

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

13. When Gandhi was asked to explain in three words the secret of his life, what did he say?
(a) Peace, love, happiness.
(b) Renounce and enjoy.
(c) Love all others.
(d) Give to God.

14. Kasturbai maintained a standard Gandhi could live up to and never doing what?
(a) Retaliating when he behaved unfairly.
(b) Believing he acted unfairly.
(c) Leaving his side.
(d) Telling him when he acted unfairly.

15. When one's love is deep enough, Sri Krishna explains to the eager Arjuna, selfish attachment, insecurity, fear and despair will do what?
(a) Fall away.
(b) Start to disappear.
(c) Be diminished.
(d) Grow stronger at first, and then fall away.

Short Answer Questions

1. When one meditates, one drives what deep into the consciousness?

2. Prayer meetings featured readings from what?

3. What did Gandhi keep no matter the situation?

4. How does Easwaran close this chapter?

5. When he was speaking against the violence between the Hindu and Muslims living in India, a young man came out of the crowd and greeted him with his hands at his heart before he did what?

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