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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. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?
(a) A British student pointed out that the thing to be learne in England was English custom.
(b) A fellow Indian told him to go back home.
(c) A British student told him to go back home.
(d) A fellow Indian pointed out that the best things to be learned in England were English customs.

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

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

4. Following a period of complete submission to all of the nuances of English dress and society, Gandhi concluded that the practice was doing what to him?
(a) Making him more friends.
(b) Making him more self conscious and costing him more money.
(c) Making him feel more at home.
(d) Making him wish he were not Indian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?

2. What is the only universal thing?

3. Applying the same self-discipline he learned in London, Gandhi applied his independent knowledge of bookkeeping to the accounts in question and became what?

4. To whom was Gandhi deeply devoted?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Gandhi irresistible to followers?

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

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

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

5. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

6. How does Gandhi deal with the Black Act?

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

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

9. What did Gandhi learn about the law while in South Africa?

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

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