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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do Dhritarashtra's family and the Pandavas gather to fight?
(a) The great mountain.
(b) The field of dreams.
(c) The field of Rohan.
(d) The field of dharma.

3. Where is Krishna's eternal seed to be found?
(a) In a jar on a mountain top.
(b) In a bowl in a valley.
(c) Only in the human heart.
(d) In every creature.

4. Where do devotees of Krishna come?
(a) To Krishna.
(b) To Delhi.
(c) To rebirth.
(d) To church.

5. From whence does Krishna say delusion arises?
(a) From love of one's neighbor.
(b) From the devil.
(c) From falsehood.
(d) From the duality of attraction and aversion.

6. Who assembles the army of the Pandavas?
(a) Yudhishthira.
(b) Krishna.
(c) Sanjaya.
(d) Drona.

7. After Arjuna sinks into despair and falls silent what does Krishna say to him?
(a) Krishna rebukes Arjuna for weeping like a woman.
(b) Krishna laughs at Arjuna and urges him not to take life quite so seriously.
(c) Krishna stabs Arjuna in the hand.
(d) Krishna says Arjuna speaks with sincerity but his sorrow is without cause.

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

9. For what do the wise work according to Krishna?
(a) Their own profit.
(b) Their family.
(c) The welfare of the whole world.
(d) Fame.

10. Where do the birth and dissolution of the cosmos take place according to Krishna?
(a) Far, far away from Earth.
(b) In the center of the galaxy.
(c) In Krishna.
(d) In the center of the human heart.

11. What happens to the one who knows Krishna as his own divine Self?
(a) He understands his true nature to be his body.
(b) He understands all things and is reborn as someone stronger and more successful.
(c) He vanishes from existence, his physical essence consumed by the fire of God's knowledge.
(d) He breaks through the belief that he is the body and is not reborn as a separate creature.

12. What does Krishna say is the only friend of the Self?
(a) The will.
(b) The heart.
(c) God.
(d) The mind.

13. Who does Krishna say is the father, mother and grandfather of the universe?
(a) Krishna says that he is.
(b) Krishna says Vishnu is.
(c) Krishna says Dhritarashtra is.
(d) Krishna says Sanjaya is.

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

15. What is the dwelling place of those who have destroyed their family dharma?
(a) The saloon.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Hell.
(d) The desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Krishna, what do those who excel control?

2. Who may be regarded as Krishna's very Self?

3. Who does Krishna say is the purifier?

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

5. According to Krishna, what happens to those who perform all their actions in the spirit of service?

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