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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom does Yogananda want to write a biography?
(a) Dick Wright
(b) Babaji
(c) Kedhabananda
(d) Lahiri Mahasaya

2. Where does Mukunda search for Kashi?
(a) The astral realm
(b) Middle earth
(c) Heaven
(d) His bedroom

3. Srimati sees Lahiri surrounded by __________.
(a) Elderly men
(b) Stars
(c) Angels
(d) Seven virgins

4. What is Maya?
(a) A natural anti depressive
(b) A mathematic equasion
(c) An eastern philosophy
(d) A cheese spread

5. What does Yogananda want to unite?
(a) India and Pakistan
(b) The Sikhs and the Hindus
(c) China and Japan
(d) The East and the West

6. What kind of animal does Mukunda save in this chapter?
(a) A monkey
(b) A deer
(c) A cow
(d) A sheep

7. What is God's only sport?
(a) Cosmic creation
(b) Cruelty
(c) Protecting
(d) Developing his family

8. To what does Mukunda compare Newton's law of motion?
(a) Marxism
(b) Buddhism
(c) Maya
(d) Existentialism

9. Yogananda cite the history of ______________.
(a) Cricket
(b) The caste system
(c) India
(d) Yoga

10. What does Vedas tell us?
(a) The world is an illusion.
(b) The world is flat.
(c) The world is the only planet in the universe.
(d) The world has a soul.

11. What is the name of Mukunda's favorite student?
(a) Dani
(b) Bashi
(c) Kashi
(d) Yogi

12. Where is there a growing interest in meditation?
(a) Japan
(b) Africa
(c) Australia
(d) The western world

13. Whose ideas does the school follow?
(a) Christians
(b) Indian sikhs
(c) Indian rishis
(d) Muslims

14. Which of the following vows does an Indian monk not take?
(a) Chastity
(b) Starvation
(c) Obedience
(d) Poverty

15. What does Giri Bala say she was as a child?
(a) Materialistic
(b) A greedy eater
(c) Spoiled
(d) Enthusiastic

Short Answer Questions

1. What nickname do the students give Mukunda?

2. Who describes the meeting in his/her journal?

3. What does Yogananda mean?

4. What does Giri Bala live without?

5. Which character's life is changed by his experience with the Kali statue?

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