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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. The elephant holding a piece of bamboo was enough to quiet their trunks the same way what is enough to still the busy-ness of a wandering and restless mind?

2. The people who gravitated to Gandhi are testament to what?

3. What does Rambha give Gandhi to say?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. According to Sri Krishna, what does the wise person's love for the Lord of Love do?

7. How is a mantra important?

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

9. What happens when Gandhi reduced himself to zero?

10. What is the purpose of the final chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One must learn to eliminate fear.

Part 1) Why must one learn to eliminate fear? How does Gandhi recommend doing this?

Part 2) How is this elimination of fear related to the major religions Gandhi studies?

Part 3) How does a person with no fear compare to one with fear? Do you believe this fearless person is better? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Gandhi studied law in England.

Part 1) Why did he study law in England? How did he change as a result of this experience?

Part 2) What else did Gandhi study while in England? Why does he study this? What does this reveal about Gandhi?

Part 3) How did this time in England prepare him for his future endeavors?

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