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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gandhi keep no matter the situation?
(a) The peace.
(b) His wife close by.
(c) His calm demeanor.
(d) His good humor and wisdom.

2. What does Rambha give Gandhi to say?
(a) Stay away, Fear.
(b) The Lord's Prayer.
(c) I am not afraid.
(d) Rama, rama, rama.

3. 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?
(a) How little privacy Gandhi received.
(b) How not private Gandhi was.
(c) How much privacy Gandhi needed.
(d) How private Gandhi was.

4. When did Gandhi meditate?
(a) Every evening at eight or nine.
(b) Every morning at six or seven.
(c) Every afternoon at three or four.
(d) Every morning at three or four.

5. He was so intimately involved and concerned with the intimate details of the worlds of the people who surrounded him that what happened?
(a) He could not help everyone.
(b) He became overwhelmed.
(c) Not a single detail escaped his notice.
(d) He was unable to keep track of the details.

6. What must be driven out of the mind?
(a) The highest ideals.
(b) Insecurities.
(c) Fear.
(d) The small, distracting, and petty things that distract the mind.

7. When one's love is deep enough, Sri Krishna explains to the eager Arjuna, selfish attachment, insecurity, fear and despair will do what?
(a) Be diminished.
(b) Start to disappear.
(c) Fall away.
(d) Grow stronger at first, and then fall away.

8. The fact that most of Gandhi's ashram were women led Gandhi to say in response to their gentle strength that if non-violence is the future of humanity, then the future is what?
(a) With woman.
(b) For woman.
(c) Going to be good.
(d) With all men.

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

10. That detachment was what allowed Gandhi to move with what?
(a) Such energy.
(b) Such purpose.
(c) Such happiness.
(d) Such peace.

11. Sri Krishna says that the wise person's love for the Lord of Love does what?
(a) Gives him love to share with others.
(b) Has consumed all of his selfishness and preoccupation with pleasing his own senses.
(c) Shows him how to love himself and others.
(d) Takes away his need to love.

12. Why did Gandhi experiment with variations on vegetarian dishes?
(a) To make them readily available to others.
(b) To make them appealing to all.
(c) To make them for filling.
(d) To make them nutritious in spite of taste.

13. His body was so light and strong that what happened?
(a) Gandhi lost many of his followers.
(b) Gandhi walked at a fast pace.
(c) Gandhi walked for great distances.
(d) Gandhi annoyed many who wanted to talk to him.

14. Kasturbai kept her faith in her husband's character even when what happened?
(a) He did not deserve it.
(b) She did not believe in it.
(c) He did not display it.
(d) He was gone from her.

15. Gandhi called the Bhagavad Gita what?
(a) His family.
(b) His father.
(c) His God.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Patanjali?

2. In order to make his teaching more accessible, Gandhi established what?

3. He cared for the sick in the ashram, and filled every interaction with what?

4. What keeps a mind steady in every circumstance?

5. What endeavor is the source of Gandhi's joy and strength?

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