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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Religion by Renouncing Fruit of Works.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sri Krishna counsel Arjuna to do?
(a) Stab Krishna in the heart.
(b) Return to his palace for forty days and nights of fasting.
(c) Rise up with a brave heart and destroy the enemy.
(d) Forgive his enemies and renounce violence.

2. What does Krishna say happened to the practice of yoga through time?
(a) The practice of yoga became corrupted.
(b) The practice of yoga became enhanced.
(c) The practice of yoga was lost.
(d) The practice of yoga was discovered.

3. What happens when the women of a family become corrupt according to Arjuna?
(a) Society is plunged into chaos.
(b) The men clap their hands.
(c) Everyone mourns.
(d) There is no one to cook meals.

4. According to Krishna, who thinks always, "I am not the doer?"
(a) Those without consciousness.
(b) Those whose consciousness is unified.
(c) Those whose consciousness is divided.
(d) Those with hightened consciousness.

5. According to Krishna, what happens to those who perform all their actions in the spirit of service?
(a) Their children are happy.
(b) They are born into a lower caste.
(c) Their karma is dissolved.
(d) They are to be considered fools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What satisfaction will Arjuna find from killing Dhritarashtra's sons?

2. How does Krishna say the wise master their senses?

3. What does Arjuna believe will happen to him if he kills Bhishma and Drona?

4. According to Krishna, the standards that outstanding persons create will be followed by whom?

5. Krishna says that even if Arjuna were the most sinful of sinners he could cross beyond all sin. How?

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