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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. A united mind is trained wholly to what?
(a) The same cause.
(b) The needs of others.
(c) The needs of the individual.
(d) The desires of the Lord.

2. Was Gandhi burdened by worry about what was to come?
(a) Yes, very much.
(b) Yes, at times.
(c) No.
(d) Yes, somewhat.

3. People came burdened and overwhelmed with their troubles, and left how?
(a) Less burdens and troubles.
(b) Laughing and lighthearted.
(c) With new burdens and troubles.
(d) With new ideas and beliefs.

4. What was one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?
(a) The middle verses of the Third Chapter of the Gita.
(b) The last ten verses of the the Second Chapter of the Gita.
(c) The first verse of the First Chapter of the Gita.
(d) The last eighteen verses of the Second Chapter of the Gita.

5. When one's love is deep enough, Sri Krishna explains to the eager Arjuna, selfish attachment, insecurity, fear and despair will do what?
(a) Fall away.
(b) Be diminished.
(c) Grow stronger at first, and then fall away.
(d) Start to disappear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?

2. How did Gandhi feel about meditation?

3. When one meditates, one drives what deep into the consciousness?

4. Gandhi described the process as reducing oneself to zero, which is when?

5. The final chapter Eknath Easwaran writes is focused on the daily habits and the things that defined the personality of Gandhi as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

2. How is a mantra important?

3. What did Gandhi often do in the evening?

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

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

6. How do most people see life?

7. What do Gandhi and his wife do for Indians?

8. What does a union with the Lord of Love do?

9. What is the purpose of the final chapter?

10. What happens when Gandhi reduced himself to zero?

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