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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. What does Rambha give Gandhi to say?
(a) Rama, rama, rama.
(b) I am not afraid.
(c) The Lord's Prayer.
(d) Stay away, Fear.

2. What is the key to transformation of character and consciousness?
(a) Openness of mind.
(b) Meditation.
(c) God.
(d) A desire to transform.

3. What does one become when one meditates?
(a) Happy.
(b) Fearless.
(c) Quiet.
(d) What he meditates on.

4. Why did Gandhi experiment with variations on vegetarian dishes?
(a) To make them nutritious in spite of taste.
(b) To make them readily available to others.
(c) To make them for filling.
(d) To make them appealing to all.

5. His ashram family, however, the ones who came to be called his _____________________ were the ones who knew best the man Gandhi was in his daily life.
(a) Ashram menagerie.
(b) Ashram life.
(c) Ashram crew.
(d) Ashram herd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?

2. ________________ with problems of policy were welcomed to come and ask Gandhi for his advice.

3. A united mind is trained wholly to what?

4. Who is Patanjali?

5. Gandhi used what Rambha taught him his whole life, repeating it rhythmically when?

Short Essay Questions

1. Besides detachment, what is another guiding principle from the Gita?

2. Who came to see Gandhi? Why did they come to see him?

3. What does Gandhi do on the day of his death?

4. How does detachment help Gandhi?

5. On what was Gandhi focused? What do the people who gravitated to Gandhi reveal about him?

6. What happens when Gandhi reduced himself to zero?

7. What did Gandhi do to make his teaching more accessible?

8. What is one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?

9. What analogy does Rambha give?

10. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

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