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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 Encinitas?

2. What nickname do the students give Mukunda?

3. What does Mukunda's father want him to become?

4. How long does Mukunda think it will take for his sister's illness to go away?

5. What did Babaji say when a man threatens to jump off a cliff?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yogananda use other people's experiences as well as his own?

2. Describe the school Yogananda opens.

3. What lesson does Yogananda learn in Chapter 26?

4. What has happened to Yukeswar in Chapter 42?

5. Who is Tagore?

6. How does Yukteswar and Yogananda's relationship change in Chapter 42?

7. What is Yogananda's opinion of Gandhi?

8. What does Mukunda's new name Yogananda mean?

9. How does Luther Burbank help Yogananda?

10. How does Mukunda pass his exams in Chapter 23?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Yogananda's writing style. How would you describe his prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? Does he use any specific writing techniques? What meaning does Yogananda's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 2

What major events had a profound affect on Mukunda's beliefs and how did they change him? What does Mukunda still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Eastern and Western culture.

1) What are the differences between the two cultures?

2) In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

3) In what way has the teaching of people like Yogananda been Westernized?

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