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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. From these meager surroundings, Gandhi restored India's confidence through what?
(a) His magical personality and consistent relation to the truth.
(b) Prayer and meditation.
(c) Political speeches.
(d) Those he sends out into the world.

4. What happened in 1906?
(a) Duragraha was tested.
(b) Swadeshi was tested.
(c) Satyagraha was tested.
(d) Ahimsa was tested.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did Gandhi feel about his young marriage?

3. A sharecropper asked Gandhi to help the people in his region of what country?

4. Who took Gandhi's place and led a march to the salt works some 150 miles away?

5. Gandhi felt that becoming a better person led to what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is satyagraha?

2. Describe where Gandhi spent the next sixteen years of his life.

3. By 1920, how did most British officials feel about Indians? How did this affect Gandhi?

4. For what operation did Gandhi then call? What were the consequences of this?

5. Describe Gandhi's marriage. What was his opinion about this type of marriage?

6. What happened when Gandhi and his followers walk freely around Transvaal?

7. Why were a million people gathered on January 31, 1948?

8. How did "Unto This Last" change Gandhi's life forever?

9. Describe satyagraha's first test.

10. Describe politics involving Indians in the early 1900s. How did this affect Gandhi?

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