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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi described himself as what?

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

3. Gandhi took this trip when he was in his ________________ year there in service to Dada Abdulla, and was riding in a first class compartment.

4. Upon his return from his service to the British and witnessing the Zulu Rebellion, he discovered what about the Transvaal government?

5. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Salt Satyagraha of 1930?

2. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

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

4. With what was Gandhi confronted in South Africa? How did he deal with this?

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

6. What is ahimsa?

7. What did Gandhi do when his spirituality increased?

8. How did Gandhi come to be married to Kasturbai?

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

10. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A guiding principle from the Gita is undivided singleness of mind.

Part 1) What is meant by undivided singleness of mind? Why is it important to Gandhi?

Part 2) How is this connected to Gandhi's secret to life?

Part 3) How does the use of meditation and mantras support this idea? How does yoga also aid in this?

Essay Topic 2

Self-Satyagraha is discussed.

Part 1) What is this type of satyagraha? To what is it compared?

Part 2) How can one begin a self-satyagraha? How can this benefit one's life?

Part 3) How different would your life be if you began a self-satyagraha? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Gandhi's return home was a struggle.

Part 1) Why was his return home a struggle? How did he handle this?

Part 2) How might Gandhi have handled this struggle later in life? Why?

Part 3) How does this struggle lead Gandhi to be the man as the world knows him?

Part 4) What does this say about the importance of one's struggles?

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