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

2. Where do the paths of the practice of selfless action and the renunciation of action lead?
(a) The same goal.
(b) Heaven and hell respectively.
(c) Different goals.
(d) Nowhere.

3. What do those who have completely purified themselves see?
(a) They see the Self in every creature.
(b) They see visions of the future.
(c) They see beauty in every sunset.
(d) They see ugliness in cruel creatures.

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

5. Who lives in freedom according to Krishna?
(a) Those who have amassed great wealth.
(b) Those who have gone beyond the dualities of life.
(c) Those who have a secure family life.
(d) Those who fill their lives with pleasure and root out all unpleasantness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Krishna's true being?

2. What are those who have achieved perfect renunciation free from?

3. What happens when the women of a family become corrupt according to Arjuna?

4. According to Krishna, the wise grieve for whom?

5. According to Krishna, what cannot be pierced by weapons or burned by fire?

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