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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the key to transformation of character and consciousness?

2. Kasturbai maintained a standard Gandhi could live up to and never doing what?

3. Gandhi called the Bhagavad Gita what?

4. Was Gandhi burdened by worry about what was to come?

5. What did Gandhi say as he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a union with the Lord of Love do?

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

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

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

5. How does detachment help Gandhi?

6. Who came to see Gandhi? Why did they come to see him?

7. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

8. On what was Gandhi focused? What do the people who gravitated to Gandhi reveal about him?

9. How does Gandhi respond when he is asked the secret of life?

10. What role did Kasturbai play in Gandhi's personal transformation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Salt Satyagraha of 1930 was significant.

Part 1) What was this? Why is it significant?

Part 2) Why does this take place? Do you believe this satyagraha was necessary? Why or why not? How effective was it? Why?

Part 3) to what other satyagrahas does this lead? How does it affect the lives of those in India, as well as around the world?

Essay Topic 2

The principles used in Self-Satyagraha can be used in regards to various individuals.

Part 1) What principles can be used to keep harmony in a relationship and family? How do these relationships benefit from these principles?

Part 2) How can these principles then be used in ever larger groups? How might society as we know it change is satyagrahas took place?

Part 3) How can satyagraha take place in your school community? What can you do to encourage the following of these principles? How would this change the school environment? Why would this environment be changed?

Essay Topic 3

As a child, Gandhi was unremarkable.

Part 1) How was he an unremarkable child? Why was he unremarkable?

Part 2) Why is this important to know about him?

Part 3) How is he transformed into the powerful man he later becomes? By who and what was he inspired? How is he an inspiration today?

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