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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the women of a family become corrupt according to Arjuna?
(a) The men clap their hands.
(b) There is no one to cook meals.
(c) Everyone mourns.
(d) Society is plunged into chaos.

2. What does Krishna tell Arjuna is the goal of all work?
(a) Divine favor.
(b) Spiritual wisdom.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

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

4. What does Krishna tell Arjuna about the world of the senses?
(a) The world of the senses can lead an aspirant astray at first, but later may offer salvation.
(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 does not exist.
(d) The world of the senses is the source of salvation.

5. What creatures are most dear to Krishna?
(a) Human beings are most dear to Krishna.
(b) Cows are most dear to Krishna.
(c) Krishna looks upon all creatures equally.
(d) Flowers and birds are most dear to Krishna.

6. What is the path of jnana?
(a) The path of sacrifice.
(b) The path of service.
(c) The path of material abundance.
(d) The path of spiritual wisdom.

7. Who lives in freedom according to Krishna?
(a) Those who have a secure family life.
(b) Those who fill their lives with pleasure and root out all unpleasantness.
(c) Those who have amassed great wealth.
(d) Those who have gone beyond the dualities of life.

8. According to Arjuna what is the result of social chaos?
(a) Social chaos is a sign of the end of times.
(b) Social chaos creates many joyful parties.
(c) Social chaos brings justice to the poor.
(d) Social chaos disrupts the process of spiritual evolution.

9. Where do the paths of the practice of selfless action and the renunciation of action lead?
(a) Different goals.
(b) The same goal.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) Heaven and hell respectively.

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

11. According to Krishna what happens to us when our body is worn out?
(a) Our inner self acquires a new body.
(b) Our life comes to an end.
(c) We treat our body very delicately.
(d) We realize we have never been anything but our body.

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

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

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

15. According to Krishna, the standards that outstanding persons create will be followed by whom?
(a) Pious men and women.
(b) Unexceptional persons.
(c) Other outstanding persons.
(d) The whole world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the path for those who have ascended to yoga?

2. What has Arjuna forgotten that Krishna remembers?

3. Where does Sri Krishna tell Arjuna all paths lead?

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

5. Where do those who worship the gods go according to Krishna?

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