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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 was one of Gandhi's most treasured meditations?

2. Easwaran explains that most people see life in terms of what?

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

4. When he was speaking against the violence between the Hindu and Muslims living in India, a young man came out of the crowd and greeted him with his hands at his heart before he did what?

5. In addition to detachment, what was a guiding principle from the Gita to which Gandhi aspired?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do most people see life?

2. What happens when Gandhi reduced himself to zero?

3. When and how did Gandhi's process of learning to eliminate his fear start?

4. Who were most of Gandhi's followers? What did he say about them?

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

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

7. What did Gandhi often do in the evening?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gandhi's return home was a struggle.

Part 1) Why was his return home a struggle? How did he handle this?

Part 2) How might Gandhi have handled this struggle later in life? Why?

Part 3) How does this struggle lead Gandhi to be the man as the world knows him?

Part 4) What does this say about the importance of one's struggles?

Essay Topic 2

Gandhi inspired revolution in many fields.

Part 1) In what fields did he inspire revolution? How did this occur?

Part 2) Describe these types of revolutions. How are they unique?

Part 3) How are revolutionaries today inspired by Gandhi? How are some the opposite of Gandhi? How does this affect one's view of these revolutionaries, as well as the success of the revolutionaries?

Essay Topic 3

Self-Satyagraha is discussed.

Part 1) What is this type of satyagraha? To what is it compared?

Part 2) How can one begin a self-satyagraha? How can this benefit one's life?

Part 3) How different would your life be if you began a self-satyagraha? Why?

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