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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through How Nonviolence Works.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through a connection of his brother's, Gandhi was given a ____________ contract with a Muslim firm in South Africa to work what he thought would be a clerical position well below the dignity of his education.
(a) Five-year long.
(b) Year-long.
(c) Ten-year long.
(d) Two-year long.

2. Easwaran explains that these verses describe what?
(a) How one should live.
(b) The highest state of consciousness a human can attain.
(c) The love one must feel for others.
(d) The peace that can be brought to one's mind.

3. To direct the reader to the means to learning the answer, Nagler points to whom as the perfect man to tell Gandhi's life story?
(a) Gandhi's father.
(b) Eknath Easwaran.
(c) Gandhi's mother.
(d) Kasterbai.

4. Whose example did Gandhi want to follow?
(a) Jesus'.
(b) Other's.
(c) His wife's.
(d) God's.

5. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?
(a) Find a solution that would serve both parties and close the case quickly.
(b) Quit the case.
(c) Find a way that all could benefit.
(d) Draw out the court case, so the lawyers could earn a great deal of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Weeks of more protest followed, as did hundreds more arrests, culminating at last with what?

2. Indeed one of the things that was most remarkable to Easwaran, and to Louis Fischer, the American journalist who followed Gandhi's campaigns in India for many years, was how what?

3. How does Easwaran close this chapter?

4. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

5. What does this type of revolution mean?

(see the answer key)

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