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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 4 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The people felt Gandhi was encouraging more Indian immigration.
(b) They were ill.
(c) They did not want to live in South Africa.
(d) They did not have the appropriate documentation.

2. A short time after the incident on the train, Gandhi gave his first major speech at a meeting of the Indians of Pretoria. What was the subject of the meeting?
(a) Discrimination against the Indians and other colored people by the white people.
(b) Finding affordable housing.
(c) Immigration to South Africa.
(d) Education.

3. Gandhi knew that prejudice could not be eradicated by what?
(a) The whites.
(b) Him.
(c) Average citizens.
(d) Legislation.

4. In his youth, Mohandas privately rejected what although he returned to it later in life?
(a) His family.
(b) Reading.
(c) School.
(d) His family's Hindu religion.

5. The future of the 100,000 Indians in South Africa was in jeopardy. What does Gandhi decide to do?
(a) Pray.
(b) Fast.
(c) Save them.
(d) Go to India.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. He traveled to what city where he enrolled in a three-year course of study?

3. Gandhi had made "humility and truth more powerful than ______________."

4. How was Gandhi as a lawyer in Rajkot and Bombay?

5. What did Gandhi lose when he spoke to this group?

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