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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Religion by Renouncing Fruit of Works.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Krishna, the wise grieve for whom?
(a) The dead.
(b) Both the living and the dead.
(c) The living.
(d) Neither the living nor the dead.

3. According to Krishna who are truly wise and fit for immortality?
(a) Those who are the same in pleasure and in pain.
(b) Those who practice selfless service.
(c) Those walk great distances.
(d) Those who have devoutly studied scripture.

4. According to Arjuna, what happens when a family declines?
(a) Ancient traditions are destroyed.
(b) Women weep constantly.
(c) Morality vanishes.
(d) There is a widespread famine.

5. After Arjuna sinks into despair and falls silent what does Krishna say to him?
(a) Krishna says Arjuna speaks with sincerity but his sorrow is without cause.
(b) Krishna laughs at Arjuna and urges him not to take life quite so seriously.
(c) Krishna rebukes Arjuna for weeping like a woman.
(d) Krishna stabs Arjuna in the hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do those who have completely purified themselves see?

2. According to Krishna which of the following is highest?

3. According to Arjuna what is the result of social chaos?

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

5. What happens to the one who knows Krishna as his own divine Self?

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