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

2. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?
(a) Earn more money.
(b) Take on court cases.
(c) Serve.
(d) Work on more difficult cases.

3. When his rebellion brought Gandhi into the presence of the leader of the Transvaal government himself, what did Gandhi do?
(a) He lied to the leader.
(b) He mocked the leader.
(c) He stayed silent.
(d) He told him clearly what he was doing and why.

4. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?
(a) The raw foods diet.
(b) The British diet.
(c) The vegetarian diet.
(d) The Atkins diet.

5. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?
(a) He was finally arrested for inciting sedition.
(b) He was taunted for inciting sedition.
(c) His followers were arrested for inciting sedition.
(d) His followers left him to be arrested for inciting sedition.

Short Answer Questions

1. To direct the reader to the means to learning the answer, Nagler points to whom as the perfect man to tell Gandhi's life story?

2. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?

3. Through a connection of his brother's, Gandhi was given a ____________ contract with a Muslim firm in South Africa to work what he thought would be a clerical position well below the dignity of his education.

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. Throughout these years of satyagraha in India, he continued to make friends and gain followers including who?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

2. With what was Gandhi confronted in South Africa? How did he deal with this?

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

4. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

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

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

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

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 go about changing India?

(see the answer keys)

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