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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Persecution stemmed from what?

4. Gandhi spent the next _______ years in an ashram.

5. What happened in Amritsar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Gandhi's first major speech.

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

3. How did Gandhi get the title of Mahatma?

4. Describe satyagraha's first test.

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

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

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

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

9. What happened when Gandhi went to Nepal?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gandhi studies in London.

Part 1) What did he study? Why does he study this? Why did he go to London to study?

Part 2) What lessons does Gandhi really learn during his time in London? How do these lessons affect Gandhi?

Part 3) How important is London throughout Gandhi's life? Why?

Part 4) When have you faced adversity? How did it affect you?

Essay Topic 2

Prejudice is strong in South Africa.

Part 1) Describe prejudice in South Africa. How does it compare to prejudice in other parts of the world at the turn of the century and the twentieth century?

Part 2) Why is prejudice so strong in South Africa? How does this affect Gandhi? How does this affect others in South Africa?

Part 3) What prejudice do you face in your own life? How do you deal with this?

Essay Topic 3

Gandhi creates satyagraha.

Part 1) What is satyagraha? How is it created? How do his philosophies and beliefs help to create satyagraha?

Part 2) Describe the first time satyagraha is tested. How successful is this test? Why?

Part 3) How can we, as Americans, benefit from satyagraha?

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