1. Why Arjuna addresses Krishna as “Purushottama” in BG 8.1? * 5 points
a) Because it is offensive to call Krishna by any other casual name
b) Because a chariot driver has to be addressed like that
c) Because Arjuna knew that Krishna is the supreme authority able to give definitive answers
to his questions
d) All of the above
2. Quitting one’s body at the time of death in Krishna consciousness, __________________.
* 5 points
a) Transfers one to the transcendental abode of Krishna
b) Relieves one of all relations
c) Takes one far away from this world
d) None of these
3. What effects one at the moment of death? * 5 points
a) Thoughts of one’s life
b) Actions of one’s life
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
4. What instruction Krishna gives to Arjuna for fixing his mind on Him? * 5 points
a) Always think of Krishna
b) Carry out the prescribed duty of fighting dedicating to Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
5. For ________________, the syllable om is identical with Brahman. * 5 points
a) Celibates
b) Renounced persons
c) Impersonalists
d) None of the above
6. What one has to do first, to practice the yoga system? * 5 points
a) Detach from all sensual engagements
b) Fix the life air at the top of the head
c) Leave one’s body by meditating on the Supersoul
d) All of the above
7. The personalists after quitting this body enter __________________. * 5 points
a) Goloka Vrindavan
b) Vaikunthas
c) Brahmajyoti
d) Both a & b
8. Bhakti-yogi is engaged in how many different ways? * 5 points
a) Two
b) Five
c) Sixteen
d) Twenty-two
9. How Krishna describes this material world as to Arjuna? * 5 points
a) Temporary world
b) Full of miseries
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
10. What comprises one day of Brahma according to human calculation? * 5 points
a) The four yugas rotating million times earth years
b) The four yugas rotating billion times earth years
c) The four yugas rotating hundred times earth years
d) The four yugas rotating thousand times earth years
11. At what time of Brahma’s life are living entities annihilated? * 5 points
a) When Brahma's day in manifest
b) At the arrival of Brahma’s night
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
12. Which of the following are the presiding deities who make arrangements for the passage
of the soul? * 5 points
a) Fire
b) Light
c) Day and moon
d) All of these
13. For who is there no fear of returning, whether he leaves the body at an auspicious or
inauspicious moment, by accident or arrangement? * 5 points
a) Yogi
b) Pure devotee
c) Mystic yogi
d) All of the above
14. Citing a Srila Prabhupada purport that was mentioned in class about one who quits his
body. According to ______________, if a poor man, after laboring very, very hard, gets some
___________ at the end of his life, he is considered a success, even though he again dies
while suffering ____________. * 5 points
a) The materialistic way of life, material profit, the threefold miseries
b) Scripture, material profit, their past misdeeds
c) Scripture, result, the threefold miseries
d) The materialistic way of life, material profit, their past misdeeds
15. Citing a verse that was mentioned in class pertaining to the material world. What is the
highest possible gain for embodied souls forced to wander throughout the material world? *
5 points
a) The Supreme Lord’s saṅkīrtana movement
b) Krishna Consciousness
c) Association of Devotees
d) Getting Krishna’s mercy
16. Citing a purport that was mentioned in class pertaining to always fixed in devotion. What
do devotees do when they are suffering difficulties? And, by doing this - they become firmly
fixed in devotional service and eligible to return home, back to Godhead, without a doubt. *
5 points
a) Devotees simply offer their prayers
b) Devotees simply offer service more enthusiastically
c) They pray to Krishna
d) Devotees simply offer their prayers and service more enthusiastically