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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. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?
(a) Quit the case.
(b) Draw out the court case, so the lawyers could earn a great deal of money.
(c) Find a solution that would serve both parties and close the case quickly.
(d) Find a way that all could benefit.

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

3. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?
(a) Minor.
(b) Instant and violent.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Weak.

4. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?
(a) When Gandhi was thirteen years old.
(b) When Gandhi was twenty years old.
(c) When Gandhi was twenty-two years old.
(d) When Gandhi was eighteen years old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only universal thing?

2. Easwaran quotes an excerpt from a letter Gandhi wrote to an English follower saying that those who do not see how politics and religion are related to one another do not understand what?

3. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

4. Gandhi coined the word ____________ to describe the Dalits (the oppressed), to call them the children of God, in order to remind the higher classes that their actions toward the oppressed was a part of their worship of God.

5. Finding himself happier and healthier for the change, Gandhi shifted his attention to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Gandhi feel about English customs? What did he do with these feelings?

3. What is Gandhi's reputation at this time in South Africa? Why?

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

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

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

7. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

8. What did Gandhi do when his spirituality increased?

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

10. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

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