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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. One who loves the Lord of Love is able to learn from what?
(a) One's mistakes.
(b) The love of others.
(c) The Lord of Love.
(d) Other's mistakes.

3. The idea was detachment from the result of one's actions, so that one's focus is on what?
(a) One's needs.
(b) The spirit of his actions.
(c) Others.
(d) God.

4. With whom did Gandhi take all of his solitude?
(a) His ashram family.
(b) His students.
(c) His closest followers.
(d) His wife and children.

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

6. Who is Patanjali?
(a) Gandhi's closest friend.
(b) The ancient Indian teacher of meditation.
(c) A leader in India.
(d) Gandhi's follower.

7. He cared for the sick in the ashram, and filled every interaction with what?
(a) Hope.
(b) Food.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Wisdom.

8. The two of them became what for men and women throughout India?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) An unattainable goal.
(c) A painful reminder of their inadequacy.
(d) A source of jealousy.

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

10. On what does one who loves the Lord of Love focus?
(a) How to love oneself.
(b) Giving love to others.
(c) Living in the spirit of love.
(d) Where to find love.

11. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?
(a) People want.
(b) People have, like, desire, and fear.
(c) People have and do not have.
(d) People fear.

12. Even ______________ was Gandhi embodying the spirit of compassion and forgiveness for which he had come to be known.
(a) When others threatened him.
(b) When he was a small child.
(c) On the last day of Gandhi's life.
(d) When he was alone.

13. 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) Devil.
(b) Sin of man.
(c) Selfish ego.
(d) Ego-cage.

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

15. What endeavor is the source of Gandhi's joy and strength?
(a) Translating the truths of the Bhagavad Gita into his daily life.
(b) Caring for his family.
(c) Meditating on his mantra.
(d) Helping others.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Gandhi feel about meditation?

2. Gandhi's nurse, Rambha, taught him that the way to eliminate fear was to do what?

3. He was so intimately involved and concerned with the intimate details of the worlds of the people who surrounded him that what happened?

4. What was the source of the inspiration to which Gandhi clung?

5. 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?

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