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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________________ with problems of policy were welcomed to come and ask Gandhi for his advice.
(a) Religious leaders.
(b) Educators.
(c) Political leaders.
(d) Students.

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

3. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?
(a) People have and do not have.
(b) People fear.
(c) People have, like, desire, and fear.
(d) People want.

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

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

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

7. 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 not private Gandhi was.
(b) How private Gandhi was.
(c) How little privacy Gandhi received.
(d) How much privacy Gandhi needed.

8. What does Patanjali say?
(a) Gandhi is an instrument of the gods.
(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 has changed greatly since his youth.

9. He was so intimately involved and concerned with the intimate details of the worlds of the people who surrounded him that what happened?
(a) He was unable to keep track of the details.
(b) Not a single detail escaped his notice.
(c) He became overwhelmed.
(d) He could not help everyone.

10. His daily chores were always done in the company of others, his meals were a time of what?
(a) Eating.
(b) Sharing and community.
(c) Peace and quiet.
(d) Replenishing.

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

12. He cared for the sick in the ashram, and filled every interaction with what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Hope.
(d) Food.

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

14. The answer to number 84 creates the mask that people call their personalities and hides what?
(a) Their compassion for others.
(b) Their fearlessness, unconditional love and abiding joy.
(c) Their faith in a higher being.
(d) Their true personalities.

15. What endeavor is the source of Gandhi's joy and strength?
(a) Translating the truths of the Bhagavad Gita into his daily life.
(b) Caring for his family.
(c) Meditating on his mantra.
(d) Helping others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi's nurse, Rambha, taught him that the way to eliminate fear was to do what?

2. A united mind is trained wholly to 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. Gandhi's secretary, Mahadev Desai, answered the question of how Gandhi spoke so eloquently with no preparation or notes by explaining what?

5. Gandhi's process of learning to eliminate his fear started when?

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