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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?
(a) To think of his family first.
(b) Be proud of his accomplishments and to forget his failures.
(c) To not run from failure again.
(d) To stay away from anything that could cause failure.

2. Who is Patanjali?
(a) Gandhi's follower.
(b) The ancient Indian teacher of meditation.
(c) Gandhi's closest friend.
(d) A leader in India.

3. The idea was detachment from the result of one's actions, so that one's focus is on what?
(a) One's needs.
(b) The spirit of his actions.
(c) God.
(d) Others.

4. Gandhi took this trip when he was in his ________________ year there in service to Dada Abdulla, and was riding in a first class compartment.
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

5. 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?
(a) The Salt Collection of 1925.
(b) The Salt Selling of 1920.
(c) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(d) The Salt Wars of 1935.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What is Sevagram?

4. As Mahadev Desai read the words of the Bhagavad Gita describing the man who has let ________________ shape his being and shed all selfish desire to a gathering of followers, Easwaran was astonished to see the words become reality in the person of Mahatma Gandhi.

5. Was jail problematic for Gandhi?

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