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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Religion by Discernment.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What satisfaction will Arjuna find from killing Dhritarashtra's sons?
(a) Arjuna will be satisfied to have killed these evil men.
(b) Arjuna will be satisfied to have won the crown for himself.
(c) Arjuna will be satisfied to have saved India from eternal damnation.
(d) Arjuna will find no satisfaction.

2. What two paths did Krishna at the beginning of time for the pure of heart?
(a) The contemplative path of spiritual wisdom and the active path of selfless service.
(b) The straight path and the narrow path.
(c) The wide path and the smooth path.
(d) The path of sages and the path of kings.

3. What does Krishna say the Lord of this world does not partake in?
(a) The good deeds of any person.
(b) The good and evil deeds of any person.
(c) The evil deeds of any person.
(d) Sensual pleasures.

4. How does Krishna say the wise master their senses?
(a) Through union with a woman.
(b) Through the practice of rituals.
(c) Through meditation.
(d) Through sacrifice.

5. According to Krishna, the wise grieve for whom?
(a) The dead.
(b) Neither the living nor the dead.
(c) The living.
(d) Both the living and the dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Arjuna believe will happen to him if he kills Bhishma and Drona?

2. According to Krishna who are truly wise and fit for immortality?

3. According to Krishna, what binds a person to continual rebirth?

4. Whose family does Bhishma fight for?

5. On what should one sit while meditating?

(see the answer key)

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