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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Krishna say the body is called?
(a) The field.
(b) The vase.
(c) The temple.
(d) The plate.
2. What does Krishna say tamas binds us to?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Action.
(c) Delusion.
(d) Drink.
3. What does Arjuna say he sees within Krishna's body?
(a) Golden organs.
(b) A vast sea of nothingness.
(c) All the gods and every living creature.
(d) Silver organs.
4. Among mountains what is Krishna?
(a) The Alps.
(b) The Rockies.
(c) The Andes.
(d) The Himalayas.
5. What word best describes sattva?
(a) Funny.
(b) Lethargic.
(c) Pure.
(d) Passionate.
6. What is the destiny of those who are selfish and malicious?
(a) These souls are bound to plumbers.
(b) These souls are bound to be sent to heaven.
(c) These souls are destined to be born to parents with the same tendencies.
(d) These souls have no destiny.
7. What is the quality of the path to the Unrevealed according to Krishna?
(a) Full of unbearable suffering.
(b) Wide and easy.
(c) Impossible to miss.
(d) Hazardous and slow.
8. What does Krishna say is better than mechanical practice?
(a) Reading.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Singing.
(d) Swimming.
9. What do those whose faith is tamasic worship?
(a) Spirits and ghosts.
(b) Power and wealth.
(c) Forms of God.
(d) Nothing.
10. What does the one Krishna loves live beyond the reach of?
(a) "I" and "mine."
(b) Love and affection.
(c) Wit and cleverness.
(d) "We" and "ours."
11. What does Arjuna say Vishnu does to the worlds?
(a) Arjuna says Vishnu stands before the world and stomps on every single living thing.
(b) Arjuna say Vishnu breathes light into the world.
(c) Arjuna says Vishnu laps the worlds into his burning mouth and swallows them.
(d) Arjuna says Vishnu blows out the light of the world.
12. What is the attitude toward praise and blame for a devotee of Krishna?
(a) Krishna's devotee is enamored of praise and terrified of blame.
(b) Krishna's devotee is ambivalent about praise and blame.
(c) Krishna's devotee is never praised and is never blamed.
(d) Krishna's devotee is neither lifted up by praise nor dragged down by blame.
13. What does Arjuna say he believes everything Krishna has said thus far to be?
(a) Utterly false.
(b) Mostly true.
(c) Very confusing.
(d) Divine Truth.
14. Who does Krishna tell Arjuna is the most established in yoga?
(a) Those who sit with their eyes closed longer than anyone else.
(b) Those who enjoy material existence fully.
(c) Those who practice daily rituals morning, noon and night.
(d) Those who set their hearts on Krishna and worship him with unwavering devotion and faith.
15. What kind of renunciation is sannyasa?
(a) Surrendering attachment to the fruits of action.
(b) Refraining from selfish acts.
(c) Refraining from meat.
(d) Refraining from sex.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do those who strive resolutely on the path to yoga see?
2. Krishna speaks of how many great sages?
3. Who does Krishna say is truly his devotee?
4. What do those whose faith is rajastic worship?
5. Who does Krishna say will be swiftly rescued from the cycle of birth and death?
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