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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Religion by the Threefold Kinds of Faith.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Krishna, what cannot be pierced by weapons or burned by fire?
(a) Arjuna's body.
(b) The Self.
(c) Arjuna's palace.
(d) Arjuna's chariot.

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

4. According to Krishna, what happens to those who perform all their actions in the spirit of service?
(a) Their karma is dissolved.
(b) They are to be considered fools.
(c) They are born into a lower caste.
(d) Their children are happy.

5. Where does the supreme Reality stand revealed according to Krishna?
(a) In the consciousness of those who are attached to their senses.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Everywhere.
(d) In the consciousness of those who have conquered themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three gunas?

2. According to Krishna, what have those done who are established in the Self?

3. According to Sri Krishna, nothing is higher than what for a warrior?

4. What does Arjuna say he sees within Krishna's body?

5. What does Arjuna say is Krishna's place among the gods?

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