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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?
(a) His ability to give.
(b) His kind personality.
(c) The simplicity and poverty in which he continued to voluntarily live.
(d) The extravagant life he led.

2. Gandhi's appeal to people to purge themselves of their self-interest is what?
(a) One he is qualified to make.
(b) One he also had difficulty in doing.
(c) A difficult request to make.
(d) One started by his wife.

3. What manifested itself in proud and oppressive rule over Katurbai until her tender and forgiving example made her one of his most effective teachers?
(a) His childishness.
(b) His desire to not be married.
(c) His love of his family.
(d) His rude personality.

4. 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?
(a) Such a minor political and interpersonal change.
(b) Such sweeping interpersonal change.
(c) Such sweeping political change.
(d) Such sweeping political and interpersonal change.

5. His ashram family, however, the ones who came to be called his _____________________ were the ones who knew best the man Gandhi was in his daily life.
(a) Ashram herd.
(b) Ashram life.
(c) Ashram crew.
(d) Ashram menagerie.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to detachment, what was a guiding principle from the Gita to which Gandhi aspired?

2. What does Patanjali say?

3. One who loves the Lord of Love is _____________________ by his circumstances.

4. What did Gandhi gain from being around children?

5. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?

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