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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. According to Krishna, the standards that outstanding persons create will be followed by whom?
(a) Unexceptional persons.
(b) Pious men and women.
(c) Other outstanding persons.
(d) The whole world.

2. What does Krishna tell Arjuna about the world of the senses?
(a) The world of the senses is the source of salvation.
(b) The world of the senses does not exist.
(c) Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery.
(d) The world of the senses can lead an aspirant astray at first, but later may offer salvation.

3. What souls live in the body as its master?
(a) Those who live for bodily pleasure.
(b) Those who enjoy material existence.
(c) Those who renounce attachment in all their deeds.
(d) Those who honor their father and mother.

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

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 does Krishna tell Arjuna is the goal of all work?

2. What has the person done, who indulges his senses for his own pleasure, ignoring the needs of others, according to Krishna?

3. According to Krishna, how may one be released from Karma?

4. What is Krishna's true being?

5. According to Krishna which of the following is highest?

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