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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. One who loves the Lord of Love is able to learn from what?

2. What did Gandhi tell the man who killed him?

3. What does Rambha give Gandhi to say?

4. What did Gandhi say as he died?

5. In order to make his teaching more accessible, Gandhi established what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

5. What happens when Gandhi reduced himself to zero?

6. What role did Kasturbai play in Gandhi's personal transformation?

7. What analogy does Rambha give?

8. Who were most of Gandhi's followers? What did he say about them?

9. What is meant by detachment?

10. What did Gandhi often do in the evening?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Salt Satyagraha of 1930 was significant.

Part 1) What was this? Why is it significant?

Part 2) Why does this take place? Do you believe this satyagraha was necessary? Why or why not? How effective was it? Why?

Part 3) to what other satyagrahas does this lead? How does it affect the lives of those in India, as well as around the world?

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

The secret of life, according to Gandhi, is renounce and enjoy.

Part 1) What does this mean? How is this related to the Gita?

Part 2) How is it also related to other religions? Do you agree with Gandhi that this is the secret to life? Why or why not?

Part 3) How can this belief change your life? Why? How could it change society and the world?

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