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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Way of Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.
(a) Evil.
(b) Fear.
(c) Human capacity.
(d) Human strength.

2. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?
(a) He was taunted for inciting sedition.
(b) He was finally arrested for inciting sedition.
(c) His followers left him to be arrested for inciting sedition.
(d) His followers were arrested for inciting sedition.

3. The author comes from Gandhi's home and ethos, and sees the world from a perspective very like Gandhi's instead of through what?
(a) Any Westernized lens.
(b) The perspective of other Indian cultural groups.
(c) A traditionally Indian background.
(d) A Middle Eastern viewpoint.

4. 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 created the Jim Crow Laws.
(c) They had proposed the White Act.
(d) They had proposed the Black Act.

5. He made the determination then and there that he would do what?
(a) Follow the instructions of those in charge in South Africa.
(b) Return to England.
(c) Return home to India.
(d) Stay in South Africa and fight this injustice in whatever way he could.

Short Answer Questions

1. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

2. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?

3. Britain had forbidden Indians to gather their own salt, requiring instead that they buy it at a premium from British sources. So, on Gandhi's signal, all of India would simply walk to the ocean and pick up the salt that laid there for the taking and buy and sell it locally from each other, as if the law had never been enacted. What was this called?

4. Throughout these years of satyagraha in India, he continued to make friends and gain followers including who?

5. He also explained his commitment to truth and non-violence, saying that whatever the penalty for his crime, he was ready to take it, if what?

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