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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. People came burdened and overwhelmed with their troubles, and left how?

2. 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.

3. Easwaran explains that these verses describe what?

4. What did Gandhi keep no matter the situation?

5. A united mind is trained wholly to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is meant by detachment?

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

4. When and how did Gandhi's process of learning to eliminate his fear start?

5. How does detachment help Gandhi?

6. What did Gandhi often do in the evening?

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

8. What is the purpose of the final chapter?

9. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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