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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Weeks of more protest followed, as did hundreds more arrests, culminating at last with what?
(a) The end to the protest.
(b) Kasturbai's arrest.
(c) Gandhi's arrest.
(d) Gandhi's death.

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

4. 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) Two-year long.
(b) Year-long.
(c) Five-year long.
(d) Ten-year long.

5. 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.
(a) Selflessness and grace.
(b) Peace and hope.
(c) Family.
(d) God.

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

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

8. He went into beautiful temples and told the people what?
(a) As long as they listened to the British, then God was not present there.
(b) As long as they were complicit in denying untouchables access, then God was not present there either.
(c) As long as they denied access to non-Indians, then God was not present there.
(d) As long as they allow access to non-Hindus, then God was not present there.

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

10. He made the determination then and there that he would do what?
(a) Stay in South Africa and fight this injustice in whatever way he could.
(b) Follow the instructions of those in charge in South Africa.
(c) Return home to India.
(d) Return to England.

11. By what year were civil rights written into law?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1914.

12. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.
(a) Peaceful living.
(b) His family.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Love.

13. Gandhi sulked in his homesickness until when?
(a) A British student pointed out that the thing to be learne in England was English custom.
(b) A fellow Indian told him to go back home.
(c) A British student told him to go back home.
(d) A fellow Indian pointed out that the best things to be learned in England were English customs.

14. Gandhi found himself a solitary apartment and began by doing what?
(a) Decorating it.
(b) Modeling himself after a fellow student whose poverty dictated that he cook his own meals and walk instead of paying for transportation.
(c) Looking for a roommate.
(d) Hosting parties.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gandhi's marriage to Kasturbai was arranged by whom?

2. He was such an irresistible fund-raiser for the oppressed in India that even who gave him money for his cause?

3. Gandhi met with Lord Irwin to negotiate, and made a point of taking a tiny bag of salt from his cloak and told the viceroy that he would drink his tea with salt in remembrance of what?

4. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?

5. What does the author say about Gandhi as a boy?

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