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

2. What kind of food do tamasic people prefer?
(a) Spicy food.
(b) Leftover food.
(c) Salty food.
(d) Mild food.

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

4. Krishna says one cannot renounce action all together so long as one has what?
(a) A body.
(b) A house.
(c) A wife.
(d) A family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Arjuna apologize?

2. What is Krishna among bodies of water?

3. What does Arjuna tell Krishna he longs for at the beginning of this chapter?

4. What does Sanjaya say would resemble Krishna's revealed splendor?

5. What does Krishna say will befall all the warriors on the field of dharma with or without Arjuna's participation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of knowledge belongs to each of the gunas?

2. Describe those with demonic tendencies.

3. What is the difference between the two kinds of renunciation?

4. What does Sanjaya say that Krishna showed Arjuna?

5. Describe the three gunas.

6. How do those ruled by each of the gunas worship?

7. Who does Krishna say sees truly?

8. What does Krishna say are the two orders of being in the world? Is there anything beyond?

9. Who does Krishna say are the most established in yoga?

10. What does Krishna tell Arjuna about the path to the Unrevealed?

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