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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Religion by Devotion to the One Supreme God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is adhiyajna?
(a) The supreme sacrifice.
(b) The perishable body.
(c) Krishna's daughter.
(d) The eternal Brahman.

2. What does Krishna do when someone is devoted to something with complete faith?
(a) Krishna laughs at that person.
(b) Krishna unifies that person's faith.
(c) Krishna teaches that person discrimination.
(d) Krishna disillusions that person.

3. Where should one meditate?
(a) On ungroomed soil.
(b) On a clean spot, neither too high nor too low.
(c) On the lowest spot that may be found.
(d) On the highest spot that may be found.

4. According to Krishna, what happens to those who surrender all selfish attachments to Brahman?
(a) They live a life of worldly pleasure.
(b) Sin cannot touch them.
(c) They become fools.
(d) Good deeds cannot reach them.

5. What is the path for aspirants seeking to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness according to Krishna?
(a) Selfless work.
(b) Inaction.
(c) Playing music.
(d) Pleasure seeking.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what should one sit while meditating?

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

3. What does Arjuna do at the very end of the chapter?

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

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

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