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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Gandhi the Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When followers stopped asking questions, Gandhi would focus on what?
(a) Making children laugh.
(b) His own thoughts.
(c) Raising questions.
(d) His future plans.

3. What did Gandhi keep no matter the situation?
(a) The peace.
(b) His good humor and wisdom.
(c) His wife close by.
(d) His calm demeanor.

4. What did Gandhi's uncle suggest he do?
(a) Go to England to find work.
(b) Go to England to study law.
(c) Go to England to study religion.
(d) Go to England to study medicine.

5. One who loves the Lord of Love is able to learn from what?
(a) One's mistakes.
(b) The love of others.
(c) The Lord of Love.
(d) Other's mistakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?

2. 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?

3. Gandhi's focus was on letting the wisdom, love, joy and peace he studied make up what?

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

5. He went into beautiful temples and told the people what?

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