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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forward/The Transformation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.
(a) Its ability to be shaped by others.
(b) The capacity in each individual to reshape himself according to the highest ideals.
(c) Out world's ability to shape humanity.
(d) God's ability to shape humanity.

2. Leaving Kasturbai again, this time with two sons, Gandhi left for South Africa in the hopes of what?
(a) Gaining some experience.
(b) Earning a better living.
(c) Making a new life for himself.
(d) Forgetting about his family.

3. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?
(a) He was very intelligent.
(b) He was outgoing and proud.
(c) He was quite remarkable.
(d) He was nothing remarkable.

4. Gandhi described himself as what?
(a) An unusual child.
(b) A typical child with many friends.
(c) A cowardly child with a rather weak mind.
(d) A uniquely strong child.

5. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?
(a) The raw foods diet.
(b) The Atkins diet.
(c) The vegetarian diet.
(d) The British diet.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?

2. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.

3. Nagler cites all of the fields in which Gandhi inspired revolution, including economics, politics, philosophy and the science and art of _________.

4. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?

5. Describe Gandhi's early time in England.

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