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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. What did Gandhi call the Yeravda Prison?
(a) The Yeravda Home.
(b) The Yeravda Hell.
(c) The Yeravda Ashram.
(d) The Yeravda Temple.

2. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?
(a) Go to England to study law.
(b) Go to England to study religion.
(c) Go to England to find work.
(d) Go to England to study medicine.

3. Easwaran opens his chapter describing the Way of Love by recounting what story?
(a) A transformative trip Gandhi took by boat.
(b) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to England.
(c) A transformative trip Gandhi took by train.
(d) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to India.

4. He made the determination then and there that he would do what?
(a) Return to England.
(b) Follow the instructions of those in charge in South Africa.
(c) Stay in South Africa and fight this injustice in whatever way he could.
(d) Return home to India.

5. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?
(a) His ability to give.
(b) The simplicity and poverty in which he continued to voluntarily live.
(c) His kind personality.
(d) The extravagant life he led.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only universal thing?

2. 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.

3. He was such an irresistible fund-raiser for the oppressed in India that even who gave him money for his cause?

4. What is Sevagram?

5. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gandhi go about changing India?

2. How was Imperialism put on trial?

3. What is one of the most potent moments in Gandhi's life?

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

5. What did Gandhi do when his spirituality increased?

6. What was different about Gandhi's behavior compared to other men in his position?

7. How did Gandhi come to be married to Kasturbai?

8. How did Gandhi feel about volunteering? How did these feelings influence him?

9. What is ahimsa?

10. What does Gandhi call the new form of resistance? What does it mean?

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