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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. The answer to number 84 creates the mask that people call their personalities and hides what?
(a) Their compassion for others.
(b) Their true personalities.
(c) Their fearlessness, unconditional love and abiding joy.
(d) Their faith in a higher being.

2. Gandhi's secretary, Mahadev Desai, answered the question of how Gandhi spoke so eloquently with no preparation or notes by explaining what?
(a) Gandhi has a great memory.
(b) Everything Gandhi thinks, does, and says are exactly the same so all he has to do is to be.
(c) Gandhi is good at thinking on his feet.
(d) Gandhi used the same speech where ever he went.

3. Indeed one of the things that was most remarkable to Easwaran, and to Louis Fischer, the American journalist who followed Gandhi's campaigns in India for many years, was how what?
(a) How not private Gandhi was.
(b) How little privacy Gandhi received.
(c) How private Gandhi was.
(d) How much privacy Gandhi needed.

4. Gandhi's focus was on letting the wisdom, love, joy and peace he studied make up what?
(a) Most of his life.
(b) His private life.
(c) The very essence of his being.
(d) His public life.

5. During the walks with Gandhi, people would do what?
(a) Follow him silently.
(b) Pray for him.
(c) Give him advice.
(d) Ask him for advice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Evenings for Gandhi were made up of what kind of meals?

2. Kasturbai kept her faith in her husband's character even when what happened?

3. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?

4. When Gandhi was asked to explain in three words the secret of his life, what did he say?

5. What keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Gandhi reduced himself to zero?

2. What is the purpose of the final chapter?

3. What are things that Gandhi does in the company of others?

4. What is meant by detachment?

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

6. What did Gandhi often do in the evening?

7. How does Gandhi respond when he is asked the secret of life?

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

9. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

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

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