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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seeing that his client was clearly right, and a long court battle would benefit no one but the lawyers, what was Gandhi determined to do?
(a) Draw out the court case, so the lawyers could earn a great deal of money.
(b) Find a solution that would serve both parties and close the case quickly.
(c) Find a way that all could benefit.
(d) Quit the case.

2. Weeks of more protest followed, as did hundreds more arrests, culminating at last with what?
(a) Gandhi's death.
(b) The end to the protest.
(c) Gandhi's arrest.
(d) Kasturbai's arrest.

3. When his rebellion brought Gandhi into the presence of the leader of the Transvaal government himself, what did Gandhi do?
(a) He mocked the leader.
(b) He lied to the leader.
(c) He stayed silent.
(d) He told him clearly what he was doing and why.

4. From that moment, Easwaran's lifelong dedication to ______________ took on a new life as he strove to embody the principals of the Bhagavad Gita in the same way he had seen them made real in the person of Gandhi.
(a) Peaceful living.
(b) His family.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Love.

5. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?
(a) The extravagant life he led.
(b) His ability to give.
(c) His kind personality.
(d) The simplicity and poverty in which he continued to voluntarily live.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through a connection of his brother's, Gandhi was given a ____________ contract with a Muslim firm in South Africa to work what he thought would be a clerical position well below the dignity of his education.

2. Nagler refers to the Berkley documentary called Gandhi's India in which one of the women interviewed praised Gandhi's view as one from which there are no limits to ______________, and Nagler praises the clarity with which Gandhi's life demonstrated the point.

3. In order to bring about change in India in particular, the first such system he wanted to address was what?

4. He was such an irresistible fund-raiser for the oppressed in India that even who gave him money for his cause?

5. How successful was Gandhi in Bombay?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Gandhi find himself when he first arrived in England?

2. What does Easwaran describe in the first chapter?

3. How was Imperialism put on trial?

4. What is ahimsa?

5. What does Gandhi's uncle do for him after high school?

6. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

7. What did Gandhi do when his spirituality increased?

8. What does Gandhi call the new form of resistance? What does it mean?

9. What is Gandhi's reputation at this time in South Africa? Why?

10. How does Gandhi go about changing India?

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