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

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) Phoenix, Arizona.
(d) North Sumatra.

3. The killer escaped and became what?
(a) A fugitive.
(b) A hero to the people.
(c) A public enemy.
(d) A threat.

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

5. Winston Churchill was reviled by the appearance of equality between who and what he termed the half-naked, seditious fakir from India?
(a) The Prime Minister.
(b) The Indian people.
(c) The British people.
(d) The Hindus.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Gandhi, what was Bramacharya?

2. How did Gandhi feel about his young marriage?

3. Gandhi decided to live the simple life of what?

4. Gandhi urged that Indian freedom was dependent upon what?

5. Gandhi was offered a position as a lawyer in _________ which he accepted.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the first incident that changed Gandhi forever?

2. Describe Gandhi's first major speech.

3. How did Gandhi end up in South Africa? What was the second incident that changed Gandhi's life?

4. What took place on March 11, 1928?

5. What happened when Gandhi was again arrested and jailed in May?

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

7. What was Gandhi's philosophy?

8. What did Winston Churchill think of Gandhi? Why?

9. How was Gandhi's theory regarding the gaining of equality for Indians strengthened?

10. How did Gandhi get the title of Mahatma?

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