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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many satyagrahis were jailed at this time?
(a) Thousands.
(b) A few.
(c) Dozens.
(d) Hundreds.

2. To whom was Gandhi deeply devoted?
(a) His culture.
(b) His family.
(c) His friends.
(d) His education.

3. Where did Gandhi first attempt to practice law?
(a) Rajkot.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Bombay.

4. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.
(a) Human strength.
(b) Human capacity.
(c) Fear.
(d) Evil.

5. Michael N. Nagler of the University of California, Berkley provides the forward for the book, and opens by asking the reader what?
(a) To consider whether Gandhi was a great man.
(b) To consider whether Gandhi is a good example to follow.
(c) To consider whether Gandhi might be the most significant historical figure of the 20th century.
(d) To consider whether Gandhi helped others.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________________ itself was on trial as Gandhi told about how the streets were filled with the starving and sick who became poorer and poorer while the British got rich from the labor of the Indians.

2. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

3. Addressing the concept of ____________, Gandhi pleaded with the Indians that one cannot participate in such a system without becoming another of its victims and weakening the nation as a whole.

4. In Gandhi's view of human evolution, he saw what as the dharma of modern human beings--as the central law of their being--and violence as the dharma of the animals of the jungle?

5. By what year were civil rights written into law?

Short Essay Questions

1. What intervened in Gandhi's life after graduation and his return to India?

2. What happens when Gandhi meets the leader of the Transvaal government?

3. How is Gandhi irresistible to followers?

4. What did Gandhi do when his spirituality increased?

5. How was Imperialism put on trial?

6. What requires courage regarding this movement against the Black Act?

7. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

8. What did Gandhi learn about the law while in South Africa?

9. What is the Black Act? What does Gandhi think of it?

10. How does Gandhi deal with the Black Act?

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