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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Krishna who are truly wise and fit for immortality?
(a) Those who are the same in pleasure and in pain.
(b) Those who practice selfless service.
(c) Those who have devoutly studied scripture.
(d) Those walk great distances.

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

3. According to Krishna, what do those who excel control?
(a) Children.
(b) Senses.
(c) Time.
(d) Wives.

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

5. According to Krishna, what is beheld by only a few?
(a) The terror of death.
(b) The thrill of battle.
(c) The rising sun.
(d) The glory of the Self.

6. According to Krishna, how may one be released from Karma?
(a) One must perform many good deeds.
(b) One must live in accordance with divine laws without complaining.
(c) One must live to destroy the enemies of God Almighty.
(d) One must seek to enjoy pleasure deeply.

7. What souls are bound in everything they do according to Krishna?
(a) Those souls whose desires are fragmented.
(b) Those souls who offer everything to Brahman.
(c) Those souls who see the Self in all.
(d) Those souls whose minds are unified.

8. On what should one sit while meditating?
(a) On a cloth.
(b) Any of these.
(c) On a deerskin.
(d) On kusha grass.

9. Who does Krishna say is the inner witness?
(a) Krishna says he is.
(b) Krishna says Sanjaya is.
(c) Krishna says Dhritarashtra is.
(d) Krishna says Vishnu is.

10. What do the foolish not look beyond?
(a) Their nose.
(b) Physical appearances.
(c) Their doorway.
(d) Their inner Self.

11. What are those who have achieved perfect renunciation free from?
(a) Any sense of duality.
(b) Desire for personal gain.
(c) Hatred of pain.
(d) Love of pleasure.

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

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

14. What does Krishna say the syllable Om represents?
(a) Krishna.
(b) Arjuna.
(c) The changeless Brahman.
(d) The power of forgiveness.

15. When does Krishna say judgment is clouded?
(a) Judgement is clouded when it is obscured by joy.
(b) Judgement is clouded when it is obscured by emotion.
(c) Judgement is clouded when it is obscured by anger.
(d) Judgement is clouded when it is obscured by ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Krishna what happens to us when our body is worn out?

2. What is adhyatma?

3. Where do Dhritarashtra's family and the Pandavas gather to fight?

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

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

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