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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. Who attains the goal of yoga according to Krishna?
(a) Those who lack energy.
(b) Those who enjoy sensual pleasure.
(c) Those who work without expectation of reward.
(d) Those who refrain from action.

2. What is adhibhuta?
(a) The imperishable Brahman.
(b) Krishna's son.
(c) The perishable body.
(d) Krishna's daughter.

3. What is the source of every selfless act according to Krishna?
(a) Vishnu.
(b) Drona.
(c) Brahman.
(d) Krishna.

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

5. For whose needs will Krishna provide?
(a) Krishna will provide for those who make offerings of soma and slaughtered pigs.
(b) Krishna will provide for the needs of those who worship him and meditate upon him constantly.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the paths of the practice of selfless action and the renunciation of action lead?

2. Who does Krishna say is the sum of all knowledge?

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

4. Why is Arjuna overcome by sorrow?

5. What is Krishna's true being?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What specific instructions does Krishna give for dying?

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

4. Do actions cling to Krishna? Why?

5. What are some of the metaphors Krishna gives for his nature in this chapter?

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

7. What is Krishna's highest nature and how does it give every creature its existence?

8. What does Krishna say about competing with another's dharma?

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

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

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