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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gandhi secretly ate meat for what reason?
(a) He is rebellious.
(b) To gain size.
(c) He likes the taste of it.
(d) To fit in.

2. When it was time to decide upon a career, Gandhi decided to become what?
(a) A politician.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) An accountant.
(d) A doctor.

3. At thirty-seven years of age, Gandhi decided to give up what as a selfless act?
(a) Meat.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Sex.

4. By 1920, most British officials looked at Indians as what?
(a) An inferior people.
(b) Dumb.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Strange.

5. 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) Immigration to South Africa.
(b) Finding affordable housing.
(c) Education.
(d) Discrimination against the Indians and other colored people by the white people.

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

7. Why is the eating of meat so shocking?
(a) Mohandas is allergic to meat.
(b) Hindus do not like the taste of meat.
(c) Meat is not available in India.
(d) It is taboo in the Hindu religion.

8. How did Gandhi feel about his young marriage?
(a) He found it embarrassing.
(b) He considered it to be wrong.
(c) He considered it to be exciting.
(d) He found it strange.

9. Indians became the political football in the early 1900s when the Prime Minister promises to do what?
(a) Give them equal rigths.
(b) Give them jobs.
(c) Drive the "coolies" out of the country.
(d) Find them a place to live.

10. A sharecropper asked Gandhi to help the people in his region of what country?
(a) Nepal.
(b) Sri Lanka.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) China.

11. How was Gandhi as a lawyer in Rajkot and Bombay?
(a) He was not very good.
(b) He never worked in Raikot or Bombay.
(c) He was very good.
(d) He did not practice law.

12. Why did Gandhi's family not tell him of this tragic news?
(a) They did not know details of the event.
(b) They were afraid to tell him.
(c) They forgot to tell him.
(d) They knew he would be very upset.

13. Gandhi expressed his rather unconventional thoughts on what in his first book, HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE?
(a) Indian independence.
(b) Religion.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Running a country.

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

15. It took them 24 days to walk how many miles?
(a) 124
(b) 241.
(c) 142.
(d) 412.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi's philosophy was that for Indians to be treated fairly, they needed to do what?

2. What is the ashram?

3. On the way, Gandhi told who to make homemade clothing, reject alcohol and drugs, abandon child marriage and live pure lives?

4. Clearing his mind and soul of personal needs and desires allowed him to do what?

5. Although later touting full independence, Gandhi went through a stage when he saw India on a par with what countries?

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