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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Religion by the Heavenly Perfections.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Krishna speaks of how many ancient ancestors?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Seven.
(d) Eight.

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

3. What happens to the one who knows Krishna as his own divine Self?
(a) He breaks through the belief that he is the body and is not reborn as a separate creature.
(b) He understands all things and is reborn as someone stronger and more successful.
(c) He understands his true nature to be his body.
(d) He vanishes from existence, his physical essence consumed by the fire of God's knowledge.

4. Why do neither gods nor sages know Krishna's origins?
(a) Because gods and sages do not care.
(b) Because Krishna is very secretive.
(c) Because gods and sages are foolish.
(d) Because Krishna is the source of gods and sages.

5. According to Sri Krishna, nothing is higher than what for a warrior?
(a) A war against relations.
(b) A war against evil.
(c) A peaceful settlement of a conflict.
(d) Dying in battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where should those who aspire to the state of yoga seek the Self?

2. According to Krishna, what is beheld by only a few?

3. What is adhidaiva?

4. Where does Sri Krishna tell Arjuna all paths lead?

5. Who does Krishna say will come to him?

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