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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Evenings for Gandhi were made up of what kind of meals?
(a) Communal.
(b) Long.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Boisterous.

3. What was one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?
(a) The first verse of the First Chapter of the Gita.
(b) The last eighteen verses of the Second Chapter of the Gita.
(c) The middle verses of the Third Chapter of the Gita.
(d) The last ten verses of the the Second Chapter of the Gita.

4. Gandhi described the process as reducing oneself to zero, which is when?
(a) He becomes less than others.
(b) He puts all others before himself.
(c) He becomes completely truthful, wise, and irresistibly powerful.
(d) He puts God first.

5. What did Gandhi say as he died?
(a) I love all human kind.
(b) His mantra, "rama, rama, rama."
(c) He knows not what he does.
(d) Good bye.

6. What types of people did Gandhi love?
(a) Hindus.
(b) The religious.
(c) Every variety.
(d) Indians.

7. How did Gandhi feel about meditation?
(a) Confident and content.
(b) Tired and unsure.
(c) Content.
(d) Energized and invigorated.

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

9. Describe Gandhi's evening walks.
(a) They were a time for him to be with his wife and children.
(b) They were slow and peaceful.
(c) They were quiet.
(d) They were a parade of adoring community members.

10. When followers stopped asking questions, Gandhi would focus on what?
(a) His future plans.
(b) Making children laugh.
(c) His own thoughts.
(d) Raising questions.

11. Sri Krishna calls it the ______________ that inspires selfish possession, and says they are free who have escaped it, united with the Lord of Love and assured immortality.
(a) Sin of man.
(b) Devil.
(c) Selfish ego.
(d) Ego-cage.

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

13. 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 life.
(b) Ashram menagerie.
(c) Ashram herd.
(d) Ashram crew.

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

15. What does Patanjali say?
(a) In a person who loves unconditionally, there is no conflict.
(b) Gandhi is an instrument of the gods.
(c) Gandhi has changed greatly since his youth.
(d) In a person who has defeated all fear, there is now nothing of which otehr people can ever be afraid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Easwaran explains that Gandhi was quoting what from Hindu scripture?

2. What did Gandhi call the secret to the art of living?

3. The two of them became what for men and women throughout India?

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

5. A united mind is trained wholly to what?

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