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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Finding himself happier and healthier for the change, Gandhi shifted his attention to what?
(a) Looking for a new wife.
(b) Studying religion.
(c) Understanding British culture.
(d) His diet.

2. Having made a dismal performance in high school, what did Gandhi need?
(a) A new direction.
(b) New guidance.
(c) A second chance at high school.
(d) A job.

3. Gandhi resolved to make a project of what?
(a) His newfound friendships.
(b) His transformation into a British gentleman.
(c) His studies in England.
(d) Developing his character and living simply.

4. What is the only universal thing?
(a) Truth.
(b) Love.
(c) Peace.
(d) Happiness.

5. 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) Kasterbai.
(d) Gandhi's mother.

6. How many satyagrahis were jailed at this time?
(a) A few.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Dozens.
(d) Thousands.

7. ________________ itself was on trial as Gandhi told about how the streets were filled with the starving and sick who became poorer and poorer while the British got rich from the labor of the Indians.
(a) Religion.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Imperialism.

8. To whom was Gandhi deeply devoted?
(a) His education.
(b) His culture.
(c) His family.
(d) His friends.

9. In Gandhi's view of human evolution, he saw what as the dharma of modern human beings--as the central law of their being--and violence as the dharma of the animals of the jungle?
(a) Ahimsa.
(b) Baptisma.
(c) Bahimsa.
(d) Allahisma.

10. Gandhi determined that the whole British-Indian relationship could be transformed with such an approach of non-violence, or ____________.
(a) Allahisma.
(b) Baptisma.
(c) Ahimsa.
(d) Bahimsa.

11. In the first chapter, Easwaran describes the contrast between Gandhi as a youth to what?
(a) Other students Gandhi's age.
(b) Gandhi's wife.
(c) Gandhi's parents.
(d) Gandhi as the world-changing figure he was to become.

12. When the passenger summoned the police, what happened?
(a) They left him alone in his seat.
(b) They physically moved him to third class.
(c) They arrested him.
(d) They left him sitting alone at Maritzburg Station.

13. Gandhi described himself as what?
(a) A typical child with many friends.
(b) A uniquely strong child.
(c) An unusual child.
(d) A cowardly child with a rather weak mind.

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

15. Describe Gandhi's early time in England.
(a) Incredibly lonely.
(b) Entertaining.
(c) Surprisingly exciting.
(d) A time of making new friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Michael N. Nagler of the University of California, Berkley provides the forward for the book, and opens by asking the reader what?

2. Easwaran quotes an excerpt from a letter Gandhi wrote to an English follower saying that those who do not see how politics and religion are related to one another do not understand what?

3. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?

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

5. Leaving Kasturbai again, this time with two sons, Gandhi left for South Africa in the hopes of what?

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