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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. 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.
(a) Poverty.
(b) Untouchability.
(c) Race.
(d) Religion.

2. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?
(a) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.
(b) Any Westernized lens.
(c) A traditionally Indian background.
(d) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.

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

4. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?
(a) His childishness.
(b) His love of his family.
(c) His desire to not be married.
(d) His rude personality.

5. When a British passenger discovered him there, what did he demand that Gandhi do?
(a) Stand up.
(b) Get off the train.
(c) Move to third class.
(d) Go to the back of the car.

Short Answer Questions

1. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

2. Gandhi described himself as what?

3. 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.

4. When his rebellion brought Gandhi into the presence of the leader of the Transvaal government himself, what did Gandhi do?

5. How many satyagrahis were jailed at this time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Imperialism put on trial?

2. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

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

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

5. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

6. How does Gandhi go about changing India?

7. How does Gandhi deal with the Black Act?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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