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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is different about the Kheda Satyagraha struggle than the other causes?
(a) It is the most successful campaign.
(b) Gandhi fasts.
(c) The government is not involved.
(d) It is covered by the press.

2. What is Gokhale's reaction to Gandhi continuing his dietary practices?
(a) He throws a fit.
(b) He praises him.
(c) He adopts some of Gandhi's practices.
(d) He leaves for India.

3. What happens at the All-India Congress Committee in 1920?
(a) They form a solidarity with oppressed countries.
(b) Gandhi's proposed constitution is passed.
(c) They demand fiscal responsibility.
(d) They are unable to reach an agreement and disband.

4. What does the Gandhi family do after the offer for services of the Indian Ambulance Corps is accepted by the South African Government?
(a) They sell all of their possessions.
(b) They close down their house in Johannesburg.
(c) They return to India.
(d) The family volunteers its services.

5. What is the Khilafat question discussed at the conference in Delhi?
(a) Whether families should sell their property and migrate to Afghanistan.
(b) Should Hindus join with the Muslims in the fight for Indian independence?
(c) Whether to support the agrarian uprisings.
(d) Whether to take a position in the Hindu-Muslim communal clashes.

6. What practice does Gandhi not believe in when disciplining children?
(a) Tough love.
(b) Having boundaries.
(c) Corporal punishment.
(d) Time outs.

7. What happens when Gandhi returns to the ashram after his work in Kheda?
(a) He has dysentery.
(b) The river floods.
(c) He receives news that one of his causes is successful.
(d) Many of his followers leave.

8. The quest for truth has drawn Gandhi to what field?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Law.
(c) Sanitation.
(d) Politics.

9. What is the Khadi Movement?
(a) The use of Indian-produced products.
(b) The use of hand-woven products.
(c) Of being self-reliant.
(d) The use of the traditional karahi cooking vessel for cooking kadai dishes.

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

11. What is a problem with the land Gandhi's group purchases for their new ashram?
(a) The soil is contaminated.
(b) It is snake-infested.
(c) It is on an earthquake fault line.
(d) It is in a flood plain.

12. Who does Gandhi send to Durban to take over the newspaper?
(a) Mr. West.
(b) Mr. Coates.
(c) Mr. Polak.
(d) Mr. Banker.

13. Who travels with the Gandhi family after they leave South Africa during World War One?
(a) Sorabji.
(b) Gokhale.
(c) Kallenbach.
(d) Mr. Polak.

14. What does Gandhi do during a strike in the mills?
(a) He makes speeches.
(b) He marches in picket lines
(c) He travels.
(d) He fasts.

15. Which is NOT one of the things Gandhi's group does when living at the rented house in Motihari?
(a) Gandhi presents grievances from the peasants to the Planters' Association.
(b) They conduct programs for the spiritual development of children.
(c) They open schools for children in nearby villages.
(d) They begin a campaign of cleanliness and sanitation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gandhi tell the police commissioner in Ahmedabad?

2. What is Gandhi's approach to opposing the tinkathia system?

3. Who is learning the printing business on the Phoenix settlement?

4. Who offers reforms at the Congress at Amritsar?

5. What movement does Gandhi become involved in at the World War One conference in Delhi?

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