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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Easwaran opens his chapter describing the Way of Love by recounting what story?
(a) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to England.
(b) A transformative trip Gandhi took by boat.
(c) A transformative vacation Gandhi took to India.
(d) A transformative trip Gandhi took by train.

2. What did Gandhi call the new form of resistance?
(a) Sit-down.
(b) Satyagraha.
(c) Stand-up.
(d) Sahara.

3. Nagler cites all of the fields in which Gandhi inspired revolution, including economics, politics, philosophy and the science and art of _________.
(a) Living healthfully.
(b) Living a life of solitude.
(c) Living quietly.
(d) Living frugally.

4. Having promised his mother not to eat meat as the English did, Gandhi took up the scientific study of what?
(a) The Atkins diet.
(b) The vegetarian diet.
(c) The raw foods diet.
(d) The British diet.

5. How did Gandhi react to this British passenger?
(a) He stood up in his seat.
(b) He laughed at him.
(c) He did as he asked.
(d) He refused to move.

6. Gandhi coined the word ____________ to describe the Dalits (the oppressed), to call them the children of God, in order to remind the higher classes that their actions toward the oppressed was a part of their worship of God.
(a) Madarijan.
(b) Maharijan.
(c) Harijan.
(d) Darijan.

7. 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?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Life.

8. His discovery inspired him to finding more and more means to do what?
(a) Take on court cases.
(b) Serve.
(c) Earn more money.
(d) Work on more difficult cases.

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

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

11. What does this type of revolution mean?
(a) Holding fast to truth.
(b) Do what needs to be done.
(c) Listen to yourself.
(d) Forget the truth.

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

13. How does Gandhi plan on taking the lessons from the failures of his past?
(a) To stay away from anything that could cause failure.
(b) To think of his family first.
(c) To not run from failure again.
(d) Be proud of his accomplishments and to forget his failures.

14. Michael N. Nagler of the University of California, Berkley provides the forward for the book, and opens by asking the reader what?
(a) To consider whether Gandhi was a great man.
(b) To consider whether Gandhi helped others.
(c) To consider whether Gandhi might be the most significant historical figure of the 20th century.
(d) To consider whether Gandhi is a good example to follow.

15. The position was as Dada Abdulla's lawyer and a role as what?
(a) Legal advisor in a complicated financial case.
(b) Legal assistant in a minor financial case.
(c) Legal assistant in a complicated financial case.
(d) Legal advisor in a minor financial case.

Short Answer Questions

1. Addressing the concept of ____________, Gandhi pleaded with the Indians that one cannot participate in such a system without becoming another of its victims and weakening the nation as a whole.

2. 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.

3. The police reaction to the Indian response was what?

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

5. Following a period of complete submission to all of the nuances of English dress and society, Gandhi concluded that the practice was doing what to him?

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