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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. How many years from that day did Gandhi's determination blossom into inspiration to organize his first mass non-violent resistance?
(a) Ten.
(b) Four.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Eight.

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 home to India.
(d) Return to England.

3. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?
(a) New guidance.
(b) A new direction.
(c) A second chance at high school.
(d) A job.

4. 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 raw foods diet.
(c) The British diet.
(d) The vegetarian diet.

5. 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) Madarijan.
(b) Maharijan.
(c) Darijan.
(d) Harijan.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what year were civil rights written into law?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gandhi deal with the Black Act?

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

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

4. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

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

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

7. How is Gandhi irresistible to followers?

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

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

10. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

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