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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 the author say is Gandhi's message?
(a) Love others above yourself.
(b) Bring peace to all.
(c) His life.
(d) All religions are right.

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

3. 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?
(a) How little privacy Gandhi received.
(b) How much privacy Gandhi needed.
(c) How not private Gandhi was.
(d) How private Gandhi was.

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

5. In order to make his teaching more accessible, Gandhi established what?
(a) Churches.
(b) Temples.
(c) Ashrams.
(d) Parades.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even ______________ was Gandhi embodying the spirit of compassion and forgiveness for which he had come to be known.

2. What does Rambha give Gandhi to say?

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

4. Gandhi's process of learning to eliminate his fear started when?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Gandhi and his wife do for Indians?

2. What did Gandhi often do in the evening?

3. According to Sri Krishna, what does the wise person's love for the Lord of Love do?

4. How is a mantra important?

5. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

6. What would happen that reveals how Gandhi was revered?

7. What is one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?

8. What happens when Gandhi reduced himself to zero?

9. How do most people see life?

10. What are things that Gandhi does in the company of others?

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