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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. What does this type of revolution mean?
(a) Do what needs to be done.
(b) Forget the truth.
(c) Listen to yourself.
(d) Holding fast to truth.

2. When a man does everything in worship, Easwaran explains, everywhere he goes is what?
(a) His world.
(b) A temple.
(c) His family.
(d) His home.

3. Perhaps one of his most potent moments on the world stage came when what happened?
(a) His followers left him to be arrested for inciting sedition.
(b) His followers were arrested for inciting sedition.
(c) He was taunted for inciting sedition.
(d) He was finally arrested for inciting sedition.

4. He was such an irresistible fund-raiser for the oppressed in India that even who gave him money for his cause?
(a) The poor.
(b) Non-Indians.
(c) Children.
(d) The wealthy.

5. Gandhi met with Lord Irwin to negotiate, and made a point of taking a tiny bag of salt from his cloak and told the viceroy that he would drink his tea with salt in remembrance of what?
(a) The salt industry of Britain.
(b) The Boston Tea Party.
(c) The Salt Satyagraha of 1930.
(d) The need for salt.

Short Answer Questions

1. The remarkable thing about humanity, he says, is not its ability to shape our world, but ______________________.

2. He made the determination then and there that he would do what?

3. He also explained his commitment to truth and non-violence, saying that whatever the penalty for his crime, he was ready to take it, if what?

4. Part of what made Gandhi so very winsome was what?

5. When were Gandhi and Kasturbai married?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Easwaran open this chapter?

2. What requires courage regarding this movement against the Black Act?

3. How did Gandhi feel about volunteering? How did these feelings influence him?

4. What is the Black Act? What does Gandhi think of it?

5. What is ahimsa?

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

7. How is Gandhi irresistible to followers?

8. How does Gandhi go about changing India?

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

10. What was different about Gandhi's behavior compared to other men in his position?

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