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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 live in the body as its master?
(a) Those who honor their father and mother.
(b) Those who enjoy material existence.
(c) Those who renounce attachment in all their deeds.
(d) Those who live for bodily pleasure.

2. According to Krishna, what fulfills all human desire?
(a) The Upanishads.
(b) The Devas.
(c) The Father, Son and Holy spirit.
(d) The Devil.

3. How does Arjuna respond to Sri Krishna's advice from the previous chapter?
(a) Arjuna says Krishna's advice seems inconsistent.
(b) Arjuna says Krishna's advice is inspiring.
(c) Arjuna says Krishna's advice is foolish.
(d) Arjuna says Krishna's advice is very wise.

4. What happens to the one who knows Krishna as his own divine Self?
(a) He understands all things and is reborn as someone stronger and more successful.
(b) He vanishes from existence, his physical essence consumed by the fire of God's knowledge.
(c) He understands his true nature to be his body.
(d) He breaks through the belief that he is the body and is not reborn as a separate creature.

5. What does Krishna tell Arjuna about the world of the senses?
(a) The world of the senses is the source of salvation.
(b) The world of the senses does not exist.
(c) The world of the senses can lead an aspirant astray at first, but later may offer salvation.
(d) Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What satisfaction will Arjuna find from killing Dhritarashtra's sons?

2. According to Krishna, the standards that outstanding persons create will be followed by whom?

3. According to Sri Krishna, nothing is higher than what for a warrior?

4. What does Krishna say it is difficult to achieve perfect renunciation without?

5. According to Krishna what happens to us when our body is worn out?

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