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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gandhi observe while traveling to Rangoon with his son, Ramdas?
(a) Unbridled corruption.
(b) Unsanitary conditions on the boat.
(c) Extreme poverty.
(d) Someone drowning.

2. What is one of Gandhi's dietary practices at Tolstoy Farm?
(a) Macrobiotic.
(b) Eating raw foods.
(c) Avoiding eating solid foods after noon.
(d) Fasting.

3. Why is Gandhi unable to travel to Punjab?
(a) The viceroy will not give him permission.
(b) He does not have the proper papers.
(c) He is afflicted with dysentery.
(d) There is a plague outbreak and the area is quarantined.

4. What do Gandhi and his group do at Ahmedabad?
(a) They meet with the governor.
(b) They spend the night.
(c) They establish the Satyagraha Ashram.
(d) They stage a protest.

5. Who requests Gandhi's assistance in opposing the tinkathia system?
(a) Rajkumar Shukla.
(b) Balendu Chandran.
(c) Sahastrajit Dhatri.
(d) Madhav Shrivastava.

6. What resolution is proposed in March 1916?
(a) A resolution to establish the central provinces.
(b) A resolution to end the poll tax.
(c) A resolution to have India become an independent state.
(d) A resolution to end the indentured servant system.

7. Who coins the name for the passive resistance movement?
(a) Kasturbai.
(b) Maganlal Gandhi.
(c) Mr. Polak.
(d) Mahatma Gandhi.

8. What is the concern when Gandhi wants to join the Servants of India Society?
(a) Whether he is committed enough to their aims.
(b) Whether he can afford the dues.
(c) Whether or not they can accept Gandhi's beliefs.
(d) That Gandhi will take over the group.

9. What is Gandhi's philosophy to exposing children to those who are less desirable?
(a) The good children can positively influence the natures of the bad children.
(b) That exposing children to different types of people helps to develop their character.
(c) They develop a sense of empathy.
(d) They are a bad influence on other children.

10. Why does Gandhi have to return to India?
(a) His brother is sick.
(b) He develops pleurisy.
(c) He has to keep his promise to Kasturbai that they would spend only a year in England.
(d) He is a troublemaker and is asked to leave England.

11. To Gandhi, the only means for the realization of truth is ___?
(a) Satyangraha.
(b) Ahimsa.
(c) Brahmacharya.
(d) Ananda.

12. What movement does Gandhi become involved in at the World War One conference in Delhi?
(a) To lower taxes on Indian-manufactured goods.
(b) To have the Ali brothers released from prison.
(c) To stop the tithe on cashew farmers.
(d) To stop the English indoctrination of Indian children.

13. What committee is formed at the Congress at Amritsar?
(a) A committee to advocate for tenants' rights.
(b) A committee to advocate for rights for the untouchables.
(c) A committee to select Indian leadership.
(d) A committee to formulate a constitution.

14. What is Gandhi's approach to opposing the tinkathia system?
(a) To have the merchants keep more of their profits.
(b) To talk to others in India to persuade them to give the untouchables more rights.
(c) Meeting with both farmers and tenants to learn the facts.
(d) To have Indian natives oversee the education of their children.

15. What is NOT a new dietary practice while Gandhi is in prison in 1908?
(a) To stop using salt.
(b) To stop drinking tea.
(c) To not eat between meals.
(d) To finish dinner before sunset.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do children learn best in Gandhi's philosophy?

2. What have Gandhi's experiments provided him with?

3. Who is the Ice Doctor?

4. At this point in Gandhi's life, his experiments with truth are made through...?

5. What do people blame Gandhi about?

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