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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. Britain had forbidden Indians to gather their own salt, requiring instead that they buy it at a premium from British sources. So, on Gandhi's signal, all of India would simply walk to the ocean and pick up the salt that laid there for the taking and buy and sell it locally from each other, as if the law had never been enacted. What was this called?

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

3. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?

4. Weeks of more protest followed, as did hundreds more arrests, culminating at last with what?

5. What does this type of revolution mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gandhi's uncle do for him after high school?

2. How did Gandhi find himself when he first arrived in England?

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

4. How does Gandhi deal with the Black Act?

5. What requires courage regarding this movement against the Black Act?

6. What is ahimsa?

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

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

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

10. What did Gandhi do when his spirituality increased?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In South Africa, Gandhi's attitude toward law changed.

Part 1) What was Gandhi doing in South Africa? How was his attitude changed regarding law?

Part 2) How did the discovery about law change other aspects of Gandhi's life? Why?

Part 3) How did his experiences in England prepare him for this change in South Africa? How did this change guide him down a new path?

Essay Topic 2

As a child, Gandhi was unremarkable.

Part 1) How was he an unremarkable child? Why was he unremarkable?

Part 2) Why is this important to know about him?

Part 3) How is he transformed into the powerful man he later becomes? By who and what was he inspired? How is he an inspiration today?

Essay Topic 3

Gandhi creates a new form of resistance.

Part 1) What is the resistance called? What does it mean?

Part 2) How does it reflect this style of resistance? How successful is it?

Part 3) How does this form of resistance affect and influence other protesters and reformers?

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