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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For whose needs will Krishna provide?
(a) Krishna will provide for the needs of those who worship him and meditate upon him constantly.
(b) Krishna will provide for those who make offerings of soma and slaughtered pigs.
(c) Krishna will provide for the needs of anyone and everyone, whatever actions they take.
(d) Krishna will provide for those who practice Vedic rituals everyday.

2. What is the only creature that is not subject to rebirth according to Krishna?
(a) The human being.
(b) The cow.
(c) The creature which is united with Krishna.
(d) The woman.

3. What has the person done, who indulges his senses for his own pleasure, ignoring the needs of others, according to Krishna?
(a) Wasted his life.
(b) Discovered the meaning of life.
(c) Harmed no one.
(d) Worshipped God.

4. What is Krishna's true being?
(a) Temporal and passing.
(b) Unborn and changeless.
(c) Misery and suffering.
(d) Hilarious and uplifting.

5. How many people does Krishna say will seek perfection?
(a) One person in many thousands.
(b) One person in many hundreds.
(c) One person in many millions.
(d) Many millions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where should those who aspire to the state of yoga seek the Self?

2. For what do the wise work according to Krishna?

3. Who does Krishna say is the purifier?

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

5. What does Krishna do when someone is devoted to something with complete faith?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Krishna say is the difference between those whose desires are fragmented and those whose consciousness is unified?

2. What does Krishna say about the duality of attraction and aversion?

3. How does Krishna say ignorance is destroyed?

4. What are some of the things Krishna says to describe his nature as the Lord?

5. When does Krishna say a spiritual aspirant ascends to a unitive state?

6. Do actions cling to Krishna? Why?

7. What happens when dharma declines according to Krishna?

8. How does Krishna say a sinner may become holy?

9. What are the eight divisions of Krishna's prakriti?

10. Krishna tells Arjuna that he declared to paths for the pure of heart at the beginning of time. What are these paths?

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