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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. What happened January 30, 1948?
(a) Gandhi was injured.
(b) Kasurbai died.
(c) Gandhi began a fast to the death.
(d) Gandhi was assassinated.

2. When Gandhi returned to India, what did he learn?
(a) His brother is missing.
(b) His mother died.
(c) His wife is missing.
(d) His father died.

3. 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) March 1st.
(b) March 21st.
(c) March 11th.
(d) April 11th.

4. What did British officials order their soldiers to do at Amritsar?
(a) Surrender to the massive crowd.
(b) Force the Indians out of Amritsar.
(c) Capture the Indians.
(d) Fire on a massive crowd that had gathered.

5. Jawaharlal Nehru was emerging as a leader of who and was not in agreement with Gandhi on non-violent rebellion?
(a) The Moslems.
(b) The young.
(c) The Hindus.
(d) The old.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child, what did Gandhi hide from his elders as much as possible?

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

3. While riding on a train from Maritzburg, what did an English man do?

4. What is the ashram?

5. What could not be ignored, regarding Indian soldiers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Gandhi end his campaign against the Rowlatt Act?

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

4. Describe Gandhi's first major speech.

5. What is a Yogi?

6. What did Gandhi learn upon returning to India?

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

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

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

10. What happened initially when Gandhi got word to England about the treatment of Indians in South Africa?

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