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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mother and Child.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Upon his return from his service to the British and witnessing the Zulu Rebellion, he discovered what about the Transvaal government?
(a) They were fairly kind to the Indian population.
(b) They had proposed the Black Act.
(c) They had proposed the White Act.
(d) They had created the Jim Crow Laws.

2. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?
(a) People have and do not have.
(b) People want.
(c) People have, like, desire, and fear.
(d) People fear.

3. What is Sevagram?
(a) Gandhi's law practice.
(b) Gandhi's Ashram.
(c) Gandhi's home town.
(d) Gandhi's birth name.

4. Easwaran opens the chapter entitled Mother and Child by asking the question of how such a personal evolution could have come about, and how the evolution of a single person could effect what?
(a) Such a minor political and interpersonal change.
(b) Such sweeping political change.
(c) Such sweeping political and interpersonal change.
(d) Such sweeping interpersonal change.

5. What is the only universal thing?
(a) Peace.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Love.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gandhi call the Yeravda Prison?

2. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?

3. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

4. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?

5. Easwaran explains that Gandhi was quoting what from Hindu scripture?

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