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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Krishna speaks of how many ancient ancestors?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Seven.

2. What are those who "know" truly free from according to Krishna?
(a) Pride and deceit.
(b) Smiles and laughter.
(c) Dishonor and scandal.
(d) Success and failure.

3. What is Krishna's motivation for destroying the darkness of ignorance?
(a) Affection.
(b) Greed.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Lust.

4. Who does Krishna say is truly his devotee?
(a) One who seeks pleasure as life's supreme goal.
(b) One who seeks family as life's supreme goal.
(c) One who seeks penance as life's supreme goal.
(d) One who seeks Krishna as life's supreme goal.

5. Among the luminaries what is Krishna?
(a) The Dragon Lamp.
(b) The Big Dipper.
(c) The Sun.
(d) The Moon.

6. What does Arjuna say is Krishna's place among the gods?
(a) First.
(b) Last.
(c) Third.
(d) Second.

7. What kind of renunciation is tyaga?
(a) Refraining from selfish acts.
(b) Refraining from sex.
(c) Surrendering attachment to the fruits of action.
(d) Refraining from meat.

8. Which kind of renunciation is superior according to Krishna?
(a) Prakriti.
(b) Tyaga.
(c) Purusha.
(d) Sannyasa.

9. Krishna speaks of how many great sages?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Six.

10. From what is no creature free from?
(a) The desires of Dhritarashtra.
(b) The conditioning of the gunas.
(c) The desires of the devil.
(d) The conditioning of Sanjaya.

11. What arises in the body?
(a) Pleasure and Pain.
(b) Will.
(c) All of these.
(d) Intelligence.

12. How does Krishna's devotee look upon friend and foe?
(a) Krishna's devotee loves friends and hates foes.
(b) Krishna's devotee looks on both with equal regard.
(c) Krishna's devotee interacts with no one.
(d) Krishna's devotee hates friends and loves foes.

13. What is the quality of the path to the Unrevealed according to Krishna?
(a) Impossible to miss.
(b) Hazardous and slow.
(c) Wide and easy.
(d) Full of unbearable suffering.

14. What does Krishna say sattva binds us to?
(a) Action.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Drink.
(d) Delusion.

15. Who does Krishna tell Arjuna is the most established in yoga?
(a) Those who set their hearts on Krishna and worship him with unwavering devotion and faith.
(b) Those who enjoy material existence fully.
(c) Those who practice daily rituals morning, noon and night.
(d) Those who sit with their eyes closed longer than anyone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Krishna tell Arjuna to still his mind?

2. What does the one Krishna loves live beyond the reach of?

3. For what does Arjuna apologize?

4. What is Krishna among bodies of water?

5. Who does Krishna say will be swiftly rescued from the cycle of birth and death?

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