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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Gandhi tell the man who killed him?
(a) Get some help.
(b) I forgive you, I love you, I bless you.
(c) You'll be sorry.
(d) I'm sorry.

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

4. One who loves the Lord of Love is _____________________ by his circumstances.
(a) Relieved.
(b) Distracted.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) No longer agitated.

5. ________________ with problems of policy were welcomed to come and ask Gandhi for his advice.
(a) Educators.
(b) Religious leaders.
(c) Political leaders.
(d) Students.

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

7. The final chapter Eknath Easwaran writes is focused on the daily habits and the things that defined the personality of Gandhi as what?
(a) Not trusting those who need a private life.
(b) An individual in his private life.
(c) An individual in his public life.
(d) Needing his private life.

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

9. During the walks with Gandhi, people would do what?
(a) Follow him silently.
(b) Ask him for advice.
(c) Give him advice.
(d) Pray for him.

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

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

12. Easwaran opens the chapter entitled Mother and Child by asking the question of how such a personal evolution could have come about, and how the evolution of a single person could effect what?
(a) Such sweeping political and interpersonal change.
(b) Such a minor political and interpersonal change.
(c) Such sweeping interpersonal change.
(d) Such sweeping political change.

13. A united mind is trained wholly to what?
(a) The desires of the Lord.
(b) The needs of the individual.
(c) The needs of others.
(d) The same cause.

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

15. What was the source of the inspiration to which Gandhi clung?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Gita.
(d) The Koran.

Short Answer Questions

1. Prayer meetings featured readings from what?

2. In addition to detachment, what was a guiding principle from the Gita to which Gandhi aspired?

3. How does Easwaran close this chapter?

4. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?

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

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