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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapters 20 and 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were holy men seen openly doing with Harijans?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Praying.
(c) Talking.
(d) Dining.

2. Gandhi bought a large farm in _____________, where learning to live the austere life of self-control occupied him.
(a) Phoenix, Natal.
(b) Natal Province.
(c) North Sumatra.
(d) Phoenix, Arizona.

3. Gandhi was offered a position as a lawyer in _________ which he accepted.
(a) Nepal.
(b) South America.
(c) South Africa.
(d) India.

4. Gandhi encouraged the Indians to observe what?
(a) Lent.
(b) A hartal.
(c) Prayer time.
(d) A moment of silence.

5. Gandhi returned to India to bring his wife and two sons back with him to South Africa. When their steamer and another from India arrived in South Africa, both filled with new Indian immigrants, they were at first not allowed to disembark. Why?
(a) They did not want to live in South Africa.
(b) They did not have the appropriate documentation.
(c) The people felt Gandhi was encouraging more Indian immigration.
(d) They were ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it important that Gandhi was considered "colored?"

2. Winston Churchill was reviled by the appearance of equality between who and what he termed the half-naked, seditious fakir from India?

3. What did the Rowlatt Acts of 1919 do?

4. Why did Gandhi not eat until the next day?

5. While riding on a train from Maritzburg, what did an English man do?

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