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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Easwaran close this chapter?
(a) With a few more quotes from Gandhi.
(b) Words from the Gita.
(c) With a letter from Kasturbai.
(d) With a prayer.

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

3. How did Gandhi feel about meditation?
(a) Confident and content.
(b) Energized and invigorated.
(c) Content.
(d) Tired and unsure.

4. The idea was detachment from the result of one's actions, so that one's focus is on what?
(a) One's needs.
(b) Others.
(c) God.
(d) The spirit of his actions.

5. 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) Ego-cage.
(b) Selfish ego.
(c) Devil.
(d) Sin of man.

6. During the walks with Gandhi, people would do what?
(a) Follow him silently.
(b) Pray for him.
(c) Give him advice.
(d) Ask him for advice.

7. What is the key to transformation of character and consciousness?
(a) Meditation.
(b) A desire to transform.
(c) God.
(d) Openness of mind.

8. What does Patanjali say?
(a) Gandhi has changed greatly since his youth.
(b) In a person who loves unconditionally, there is no conflict.
(c) In a person who has defeated all fear, there is now nothing of which otehr people can ever be afraid.
(d) Gandhi is an instrument of the gods.

9. When one meditates, one drives what deep into the consciousness?
(a) The highest ideals.
(b) Desire.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Fear.

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

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

12. What was one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?
(a) The last eighteen verses of the Second Chapter of the Gita.
(b) The first verse of the First Chapter of the Gita.
(c) The last ten verses of the the Second Chapter of the Gita.
(d) The middle verses of the Third Chapter of the Gita.

13. In order to make his teaching more accessible, Gandhi established what?
(a) Temples.
(b) Parades.
(c) Ashrams.
(d) Churches.

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

15. Easwaran explains that Gandhi was quoting what from Hindu scripture?
(a) The Puranas.
(b) The Isha Upanishad.
(c) The Vedanta.
(d) The Tevaram Saivite hymns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rambha give Gandhi to say?

2. 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?

3. The final chapter Eknath Easwaran writes is focused on the daily habits and the things that defined the personality of Gandhi as what?

4. ________________ with problems of policy were welcomed to come and ask Gandhi for his advice.

5. Gandhi called the Bhagavad Gita what?

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