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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 the name of the famous Indian poet?

2. What nickname do the students give Mukunda?

3. With what has Nalini fallen ill?

4. Yuteswar love Yogananda as _________.

5. What is Encinitas?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Satish's life transformed in Chapter 22?

2. What has happened to Yukeswar in Chapter 42?

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

4. Who is Babaji?

5. How does Mukenda help his sister Nalini?

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

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

8. Who is Giri Bala?

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

10. What is Yogananda's opinion of Gandhi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1) What were the main concerns during the first part of the 20th century? How does Yogananda express these concerns?

2) In what ways do you think the book's meaning would change if it were set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Yogananda use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the stories Yogananda tells through the book.

1) Are the stories more symbolic than than they are true?

2) Choose one of the stories and discuss its meaning in relation to Yogananda's teachings.

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