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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. As Mahadev Desai read the words of the Bhagavad Gita describing the man who has let ________________ shape his being and shed all selfish desire to a gathering of followers, Easwaran was astonished to see the words become reality in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.
(a) God.
(b) Peace and hope.
(c) Selflessness and grace.
(d) Family.

2. 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.
(a) Harijan.
(b) Madarijan.
(c) Darijan.
(d) Maharijan.

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

4. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?
(a) Legal assistant in a complicated financial case.
(b) Legal advisor in a complicated financial case.
(c) Legal advisor in a minor financial case.
(d) Legal assistant in a minor financial case.

5. Britain had forbidden Indians to gather their own salt, requiring instead that they buy it at a premium from British sources. So, on Gandhi's signal, all of India would simply walk to the ocean and pick up the salt that laid there for the taking and buy and sell it locally from each other, as if the law had never been enacted. What was this called?
(a) The Salt Wars of 1935.
(b) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(c) The Salt Collection of 1925.
(d) The Salt Selling of 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a man does everything in worship, Easwaran explains, everywhere he goes is what?

2. Nagler points to Gandhi's very inauspicious beginnings as an underachieving student with ____________________.

3. 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?

4. How did Gandhi react to this British passenger?

5. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gandhi go about changing India?

2. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

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

4. What was the Salt Satyagraha of 1930?

5. What did Gandhi do when his spirituality increased?

6. How did Gandhi find himself when he first arrived in England?

7. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

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

9. What is ahimsa?

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

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