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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bramacharya included restraint in what?
(a) Sex, anger, diet and emotions.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Thought.
(d) Speech.

2. How many people were killed?
(a) 479.
(b) 79.
(c) 379.
(d) 179.

3. Why was it important that Gandhi was considered "colored?"
(a) He was in the minority.
(b) He was not allowed to ride on trains.
(c) He should not have been allowed to ride in first class.
(d) He was not of African descent.

4. England was beginning to realize what?
(a) The importance to India of their independence.
(b) The importance to India of their equality.
(c) The importance of India as a colony.
(d) The importance of India as a common wealth.

5. What did Gandhi learn from the incident involving his brother, Laxmidas?
(a) He never wanted to be part of the pettiness and snobbery of the government.
(b) He did not want his brother to take part in the corrupt government.
(c) He never wanted to be part of the stressful and taxing government.
(d) He wanted to be a part of the exciting new government.

6. What is the ashram?
(a) A religious retreat for a monk.
(b) A hotel.
(c) An Indian commune.
(d) A cult.

7. In what did the boycott result?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Peace.
(c) Equality.
(d) Violence.

8. Gandhi spent the next _______ years in an ashram.
(a) 6.
(b) 26.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

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

10. What happened when Gandhi tried to register?
(a) He was sent home.
(b) He was mocked and teased.
(c) He was not allowed to register.
(d) He was attacked and injured.

11. What did the Indians do with the registrations they had filled out?
(a) They burned them.
(b) They turned them in.
(c) They tore them up.
(d) They threw them away.

12. What did Gandhi tell his people to do when the government announced that all Indians must register?
(a) To flee the country.
(b) To resist and pledge defiance.
(c) To register.
(d) To riot.

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

14. After weeks of meditation, Gandhi informed the British Viceroy that civil disobedience would take place on what day, since he feared the promises for India's change of status would never be fulfilled?
(a) April 11th.
(b) March 21st.
(c) March 1st.
(d) March 11th.

15. Gandhi's creation abandoned the eye-for-an-eye attitude in favor of what?
(a) Returning good for evil until the evil doer is exhausted.
(b) Protest meant more to harass than enlighten opponents.
(c) Ignoring evil doers.
(d) Holding on by force.

Short Answer Questions

1. The person who gave him this name won the Nobel Prize in ___________ in 1913.

2. Gandhi secretly ate meat for what reason?

3. Those who adore Gandhi feel that his death leaves ___________ of mankind without a spokesman.

4. Like his mother, Gandhi took to what frequently?

5. Gandhi was born in ____________ on October 2, 1869, a small seaside home on the Kathiawar Peninsula in western Indian.

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