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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. With what does Mukunda compare scientific progress?

2. What title do the illiterate masses bestow on Gandhi?

3. Who does Kashi have to visit in Calcutta?

4. What does the person who lifts the Veil of Maya uncover?

5. To what does Mukunda compare Newton's law of motion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yogananda help Kashi when he dies?

2. Who is Trailanga?

3. Describe the school Yogananda opens.

4. What are Yogananda's feeling on God in Chapter 49?

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

6. How does Yogananda compare cinema to God's staging of life in Chapter 30?

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

8. Describe Yogananda's return to India,

9. Summarize Yogananda's thoughts in the final chapter.

10. What are Yogananda's ideas on reincarnation at the beginning of Chapter 35?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine music and spirituality. How is music intertwined with spirituality? In what way could Mukunda use music to attract the masses to religion? Is Indian music is more intertwined with spirituality than Western music?

Essay Topic 2

What is Kriya Yoga and how is it different from normal yoga? Why do Mukunda and his guru seem to put Kriya Yoga above other forms of Yoga?

Essay Topic 3

Yogananda talks about things that are specific to Indian culture such as the caste system and sanskrit. Choose one of these cultural references and discuss its relevance to Indian culture in terms of the following.

1) History

2) Identity

3) Spirituality

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