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

2. Unto whom does Krishna say abiding joy comes?
(a) To those who give all of their possessions to the poor.
(b) To those who do not judge others.
(c) To those who accomplish many good works.
(d) To those who still their mind.

3. According to Krishna, what have those done who are established in the Self?
(a) They have forgotten their true nature.
(b) They have learned to hate their father and mother.
(c) They have abandoned everyone they know.
(d) They have renounced all selfish attachments.

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

5. Why is Arjuna overcome by sorrow?
(a) Arjuna is overcome by sorrow at the sight of his father dying.
(b) Arjuna is overcome by sorrow at the sight of his mother dying.
(c) Arjuna is overcome by sorrow at the sight of his brother dying.
(d) Arjuna is overcome by sorrow at the sight of his kinsmen in opposition to one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sri Krishna counsel Arjuna to do?

2. What does Krishna say is the fate of those who have no faith in the supreme law of life?

3. Where do devotees of Krishna come?

4. According to Krishna, what may no one gain perfection by abstaining from?

5. What souls live in the body as its master?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of those who seek the spiritual life, who are the most blessed according to Krishna?

2. What does Krishna say determines the destination of the dying.

3. What does Krishna say about those who abstain from action to enjoy sensual pleasures?

4. How does Krishna say Arjuna may pass from death to immortality?

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

6. What does Sri Krishna say about Ajuna's sorrow?

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

8. Describe Krishna's instructions for the practice of meditation.

9. What specific instructions does Krishna give for dying?

10. What does Arjuna say would be better than killing Dhritarashtra's sons?

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