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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II, Hinduism, "Thou Before Whom All Words Recoil," | Chapter II, Hinduism, Coming of Age in the Universe, | Chapter II, Hinduism, The World—Welcome and Farewell,.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After pleasure seeking, what does Hinduism see as the next major life goal?
(a) Travel and culture
(b) Overcoming illness
(c) Worldly success
(d) Spiritual enlightenment

2. What is one way Jnana yoga suggests one can distinguish Self from one's lesser physical being?
(a) To contemplate one's navel
(b) To study animals
(c) To participate in seances
(d) To think of the physical personal in the third person

3. According to Hinduism, what are the two receptors that control the lives of humans?
(a) Those of suffering and vocation
(b) Those of spiritual and material matters
(c) Those of pleasure and pain
(d) Those of ignorance and education

4. What is the result of seeking wealth, fame, and power?
(a) A lifetime of hard work
(b) Competition, which is always precarious
(c) More failure than success
(d) Either celebrity or noteriety

5. Eventually, how do Hindu minds conceive of God?
(a) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become constellations.
(b) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become animals.
(c) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become total abstractions.
(d) The Gods transcend the anthropomorphic and become statues.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to be the appeal bhakti yoga?

2. Who profits most from raja yoga?

3. Why is the question of "is this all" relevant to Hinduism?

4. In the caste system, who receives the greatest punishment for wrong doing?

5. Under what condition does Hinduism allow for self-gratification of the senses?

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