The Swami and Mother Worship MCQ | Eleven 1st Semester WBCHSE
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ALTERNATIVE FROM THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS:
1. ‘The Swami and Mother Worship’ is taken from-
(a) Swamiji and this works
(b) The Gospel of Ramkrishna
(c) The Master and I Saw Him
(d) Swamiji as I Saw Him
2. Sister Nivedita was a/an-
(a) Italian social worker
(b) English social worker
(c) Irish social worker
(d) German social worker.
3. The full name of sister Nivedita is
(a) Margaret Noble
(b) Margaret Elizabeth
(c) Margaret Elizabeth Nobel
(d) None of these.
4. “The Swami and Mother Worship” was published in-
(a) 1905
(b) 1910
(c) 1915
(d) 1917
5. In this text Sister Nivedita has given the description of-
(a) Swamiji’s concept of Brahman
(b) Swamiji’s devotion to Mother
(c) her own devotion to Swamiji
(d) None of these.
6. Swami’s life would be singularly incom- plete without mentioning his worship of-
(a) the Mother
(b) Ramakrishna
(c) the Lord Shiva
(d) Amarnath.
7. As felt by Sister Nivedita, the number of elements present in Swami’s conscious- ness is-
(a) two
(b) three
(c) four
(d) five
8. According to Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Swamiji was born a/an-
(a) Bramhajnani
(b) Sacred monk
(c) Atmajnani
(d) leading spiritual figure.
9. Swami Vivekananda developed the power of entering Samadhi when he was only-
(a) five years old
(c) seven years old
(b) six years old
(d) eight years old.
10. At a very early age Swami Vivekananda developed the power of entering Samadhi at-
(a) the temple
(b) his play
(c) the field
(d) home.
11. The religious ideas towards which he naturally gravitated were highly-
(a) informative
(b) spiritual
(c) abstract and spiritual
(d) abstract and philosophical.
12. When Swamiji was only eight years old he developed the power of-
(a) Moksha
(b) Mahanirbana
(c) entering Samadhi
(d) Mahaprasthana.
13. The word ‘Brahman’ means-
(a) Lord Brahma
(b) the unlimited existence
(c) Spiritual devotion
(d) the ultimate reality and unity of all exist- ence.
14. The highly abstract and philosophical ideas towards which Swamiji has natural attraction were reverse toes
(a) Vedas
(b) idolatrous
(c) Jainism
(d) hymns
15. In his youth he became a formal member of-
(a) Asiatic Society
(b) Association of the Hindus
(c) Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
(d) Christian Missionaries
16. The only imperative of Swamiji, according to Sister Nivedita was the realisation of-
(a) the Goddess Kali
(b) the religious doctrines
(c) Brahman
(d) spirituality
17. Swami Vivekananda, as his sole scriptural autority, used to rely on-
(a) the Padma Purana
(b) the Bhagavad Gita
(c) Garuda Purana
(d) the Vedas and Upanishads
18. The only system of doctrine that Swami Vivekananda used to hold was
(a) Adwaita Pilosophy
(b) Baudhayana Sutras
(c) Vedic Philosophy
(d) Sankhya Philosophy
19. Swamiji naturally gravitated towards-
(a) political ideas
(b) abstract materials
(c) religious ideas
(d) practicality
20. In this text the word ‘Idolatrous’ means-
(a) worshipping idols
(b) mythical
(c) abstract ideals
(d) cursory knowledge
21. “…. the word ‘Mother’ was forever on his lips”-Here the word ‘Mother’ refers to-
(a) Vivekananda’s mother
(b) mother of Sister Nivedita
(c) Ma Kali
(d) mother India
22. Adwaita philosophy believes in-
(a) existence of God
(b) dualism
(c) ideas abstract
(d) nondualism
23. The word ‘Bramhajnani’ was attributed to Swamiji by-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(b) the disciples of Swamiji
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) None of these
24. Swami Vivekananda was deeply influenced by-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(c) Hindu mythology
(d) Christianity
25. “He spoke of Her”-Here ‘Her’ refers to-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(b) Ma Sarada
(c) Ma Kali
(d) Swamiji’s mother
26. Swamiji never preached anything that de- pended on a special form in
(a) Japan
(b) England and America
(c) Australia and Korea
(d) Germany and France
27. Swamiji was constantly preoccupied with-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(c) Ma Kali
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) his disciples
28. Unlike other disciples, to Ma Kali, Swamiji was always-
(a) gentle and humble
(b) gentle but not humble
(c) gentle but naughty
(d) naughty and rebellious
29. The right hand of Maa Kali raises for-
(a) protesting
(b) blessing
(c) cursing
(d) consolation
30. The left hand of Maa Kali holds
(a) human skull
(b) a pot full of blood
(c) the sword
(d) a club
31. “I worship the fers to- terrible”-Here ‘terrible’ re-
(a) a fierce spirit
(b) Ma Kali
(c) a powerful force
(d) demon
32. According to Swamiji’s instruction, his dis. ciple must-
(a) pray to Mother silently
(b) wait for him to chant mantras
(c) make Mother listen to his prayer
(d) make other listen what he prays
33. Any good or evil occurred to him was attributed to-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(b) his gurudev
(c) Ma Kali
(d) Sri Ramakrishna
34. “…. a certain short ‘psalm’ means- psalm”-The word
(a) poem
(b) prose
(c) short story
(d) hymn
35. The short psalm, called ‘Voice of the Mother’ was composed by-
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Sister Nivedita
(c) Swami Abhayananda
(d) Sri Ramakrishna
36. ‘The Voice of Mother’ is a
(a) poem
(b) biography
(c) hymn
(d) short story
37. Swamiji worshipped Mother (Ma Kali) as
(a) the merciful
(b) the protector
(c) the terrible
(d) the patron
38. “Let us worship the Terror”-Here the speaker, Swami Vivekananda was speak- ing about worshipping-
(a) Lord Shiva
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(c) Brahman
(d) Ma Kali
39. In the phrase ‘Veritable charm’ the mean- ing of ‘veritable’ is-
(a) spiritual
(b) moralistic
(c) authentic
(d) fictitious
40. According to Swami Vivekananda it is a mistake to think that with all pleasure is the motive because these are many who are born to seek after-
(a) wonder
(b) pain
(c) moral lesson
(d) spiritual doctrines
41. Swami Vivekananda has a whole-hearted contempt for-
(a) selfishness
(b) brutality
(c) ingratitude ris
(d) squeamishness or mawkishness
42. Swami Vivekananda spoke a few words when sister Nivedita went to him with her difficulties about –
(a) idol worshipping
(b) spirituality
(c) animal sacrifice in the temple
(d) chanting hymns before God
43. The general worshippers offer animal sac- rifice in temples-
(a) devotedly
(b) unhesitatingly
(c) indeterminately
(d) tactfully
44. Vivekananda told Sister Nivedita that he had never tolerated-
(a) offering of ornaments
(b) offering of money
(c) offering of blood
(d) offering of precious things
45. Swamiji’s own effort was to banish fear and weakness from-
(a) this world
(b) the devotees
(c) his own disciples
(d) his own consciousness
46. Swamiji’s constant effort was to learn to recognize the Mother as instinctively in-
(a) evil and terror
(b) sorrow
(c) annihilation
(d) All of these
47. According to Swami Vivekananda God manifests through-
(a) good only
(b) evil only
(c) good or evil
(d) good as well as evil
48. Swamiji had never tolerated the blood-of- fering commonly made during Mother wor- ship to the-
(a) devotees of Mother
(b) Mother
(c) demons who attend on Kali
(d) temples
49. What is referred to here as merely ‘shop- keeping’?
(a) blood offering to the devils
(b) animal sacrifice in the temple as part of Mother worshipping
(c) to become one with the terrible
(d) None of these
50. In Swami Vivekananda’s opinion blood of- Boferings to the demons who attend on Kali was simply-
(a) unorthodox
(b) devil worship
(c) uethical
(d) beyond consideration
51. With Swamiji’s idea of freedom, Sister Nivedita would have been altogether-
(a) ineficient
(b) inconsistent
(c) dubious
(d) frivolous
52. In her past life Sister Nivedita was a/an-
(a) tourist guide
(b) statesman
(c) educationist
(d) research scholar
53. Swamiji did not want to impose his per- ceptions of spirituality upon-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(b) his disciples
(c) any devotee of Ma Kali
(d) any monk of India
54. Sister Nivedita’s past life experiences as an educationist had impressed upon her the necessity of taking on-
(a) Indian religion
(b) Indian consciousness
(c) Swamiji’s conceptions
(d) Hindu religion
55. The personal perplexity of Nivedita was associated with the memory of the pil- grimage to-
(a) Kedarnath
(b) Amarnath
(c) Badrinath
(d) Kanyakumari
56. In religious matters, according to Nivedita Swamiji was-
(a) a simple disciple
(b) a great personality
(c) a born educator
(d) a born philosopher
57. In Sister Nivedita’s opinion Swamiji never checked a/an-
(a) person who is struggling
(b) emotional overflow
(c) struggling thought
(d) worshipper from worshipping
58. “I was able to understand as much as I did of our master’s life”-Here the word ‘master’ refers to-
(a) Sri Ramakrishna
(b) Swami Vivekananda
(c) Ma Kali
(d) Lord Shiva
59. When an image of Kali was brought in, noticing some passing expression Sister Nivedita said that perhaps Kali is the vi- sion of-
(a) Durga
(b) Mahamaya
(c) Shiva
(d) Ma Bhabani
60. One day Swamiji along with Sister Nivedita was going to visit-
(a) Tarapith
(b) Ma Kali temple in Dakshineswar
(c) Maharshi Devendra Nath
(d) his mother
61. They went to visit Maharshi in-
(a) Kalighat
(b) Tarapith
(c) Dumdum
(d) Jorasanko
62. Before Swamiji and Sister Nivedita Started for Jorasanko Swamiji questioned Nivedita about-
(a) religion in India
(b) Adwaita philosophy
(c) a death scene
(d) sacred place
63. The sudden realisation of sister Nivedita was that religions were nothing but–
(a) excuses
(b) languages
(c) some doctrines
(d) stubborn thoughts
64. The person who taught Swamiji of speak- ing with one in his own language was-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(c) Ma Sarada
(d) his father
65. The phrase ‘a whole hearted contempt means-
(a) a heart filled with disgrace
(b) a heart filled with trust
(c) a heart filled with extreme wish
(d) a heart filled with love and compassion
66. “….. loudly as we may attack this” Here ‘this’ refers to libev
(a) offering prayers
(b) offering precious things
(c) offering animal sacrifice
(d) None of these
67. “…. they put a garland of skulls round Thy neck”-Here thy refers to-
(a) Ma Sarada
(b) Ma Kali
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) Swami Vivekananda
68. They who put a garland of skulls around Ma Kali’s neck, call Ma Kali the-
(a) creator
(b) powerful
(c) merciful
(d) almighty
69. The egoism of worship is devoted to the
(a) human race
(b) demonic forces
(c) kind God
(d) merciless demons
70. The stern words of Swami Vivekananda were to-
(a) unfold mysteries in life
(b) traverse in the remote land
(c) seek death not life
(d) seek truth
71. Swami Vivekananda wanted to become one with the-
(a) merciful
(b) terrible
(c) the Gurudev
(d) Vedas
72. “But everything in my past life as an edu- cationist”-Who is referred to here as ‘an educationist’?-
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Sister Nivedita
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sri Ramkrishna
73. The personal perplexity of Sister Nivedita was associated with the memory of
(a) the pilgrimage to Amarnath sins
(b) Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
(c) the great Indian Monks
(d) Swami Vivekananda
74. Sister Nivedita held herself to enter into-
(a) Durga worship
(b) Lord Shiva worship
(c) Kali worship
(d) Sri Ramakrishna worship
75. Sister Nivedita compared her eagerness to enter into Kali worship to-
(a) learn a new language
(b) take birth in a new race
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
76. “Kali is the vision of Shiva ! Is she?” Here the speaker is-
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Sister Nivedita
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) Ma Saradadevi
77. One day along with Swamiji, Sister Nivedita was going to Jorasanko to visit
(a) Prince Dwarakanath
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) Maharshi Debendra Nath Tegore
78. “…. and before we started, he questioned me”-Here ‘we’ refers to-
(a) Sister Nivedita and Maharshi Debendra Nath Tagore
(b) Swamiji and Sri Ramakrishna
(c) Sister Nivedita and Swamiji
(d) Swamiji and Maharshi Debendra Nath Tagore
79. “I told him eagerly of the sudden realisation that had come to me”-Here ‘the sudden realisation’ was that-
(a) religions were only languages
(b) they must speak to a man in his own language }
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
80. “He was the only man who ever had the courage to say that”-Here ‘the only man’ refers to-
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(c) Swami Bramhananda
(d) Swami Parameswarananda
81. He was the only man who ever had the courage to say that-
(a) we must stop offering animal sacrifice
(b) we must not feel shy while chanting prayers 08
(c) we must speak to all men in their own language
(d) none of these
82. Sister Nivedita’s sudden realisation made Swamiji-
(a) perplexed
(b) bewildered
(c) quite pleased
(d) offended
83. One day Swamiji found it necessary to lay down clearly his own position in the matter of-
(a) offering animal sacrifice
(b) Mother worship
(c) Hindu philosophy
(d) Amarnath Yatra
84. Swamiji came to instruct Sister Nivedita when she was about to lecture
(a) at Belur Math
(b) at Kalighat
(c) at Dakhshineswar
(d) at Howrah
85. When Sister Nivedita was about to lec- ture at Kalighat, Swamiji came to instruct her about-
(a) her disciples
(b) her foreign friends
(c) the devotees
(d) the method of lecture
86. Nivedita’s foreign friends wishing to at- tend her lecture at Kalighat must-
(a) remove their shoes
(b) sit on the floor like others
(c) maintain the customs of this place
(d) All the three
87. According to Swamiji, before entering St Kalighat where Nivedita’s lecture was to be held, all the audience along with her foreign friends were to-
(a) sit on the floor after removing their belts and ties
(b) sit on the floor after removing their hats and coats
(c) sit on the floor after removing their shoes
(d) bow down before taking seat
88. The poem ‘Guardian Angles’ is written by-
(a) William Wordswoth
(b) Robert Browning
(c) Colonel Hay
(d) W.B. Yeats
89. Swamiji believed in-
(a) only Brahman
(b) doctrines only
(c) Brahman and Gods
(d) gods only
90. According to Nivedita an example of the reconciliation of the opposites was-
(a) Swamiji himself
(b) Ma Kali
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) Brahman
91. Followed by the thought of intellectual dif- ficulty Swami Vivekananda dropped into a smood of-
(a) dejection
(b) exhilaration
(c) halfsoliloquy
(d) melancholia
92. While answering questions in order to make himslef clear, Swamiji began talk- ing-
(a) coherently
(b) disjointedly
(c) in a lucid way
(d) in an ambiguous way
93. Swamiji said that he used to hate-
(a) Brahman
(b) Kali
(c) religion
(d) Lord Shiva
94. Swamiji’s ground of fight for not accept- ing Kali went on for-
(a) six years
(b) eight years
(c) ten years
(d) twelve years
95. “But I had to accept her at last”-Here Swamiji is talking about accepting-
(a) Sister Nivedita
(b) Goddess Kali
(c) Goddess Durga
(d) Ma Sarada
96. Who dedicated Swamiji to Ma Kali?
(a) Sri Ramakrishna
(b) Ma Sarada
(c) Guru Nanak
(d) Brahman
97. Swamiji had the belief that in every little arthing he did, he was guided by-
(a) Brahman
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(c) Ma Kali
(d) Lord Shiva
98. “I saw his marvellous purity”-Here the speaker is talking about the purity of-
(a) Lord Shiva
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(c) One of his disciples
(d) a renowned devotee
99. The love of Sri Ramakrishna that Swamiji felt was-
(a) unattainable
(b) impalpable
(c) wonderful
(d) ethereal
100. Whom did Swamiji think a brain-sick baby?
(a) Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore
(b) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
(c) Sister Nivedita
(d) Mother Kali
101. Swami Vivekananda was able to feel the greatness of Sri Ramakrishna when-
(a) he had a chance to meet him
(b) he saw himworshipping Mother Kali
(c) surrendered himself to Sri Ramakrishna
(d) Sri Ramakrishna passed away
102. In spite of hatred, Swamiji had to accept-
(a) christianity
(b) Ma Kali
(c) Lord Shiva
(d) Sri Ramakrishna
103. Swamiji became a slave of Ma Kali when-
(a) he met with Sister Nivedita
(b) he was passing through great misfortunes
(c) he was inclined to Brahman Philosophy
(d) None of these
104. Guru Nanak was in search of a disciple to-
(a) supply food to others
(b) transfer his power
(c) worship the Almighty
(d) unfold his secrets
105. Guru Nanak died only after giving his power to-
(a) his son
(b) his daughter
(c) a boy
(d) his nephew
106. “She worked up the body of Ramakrishna for Her own ends”-Here ‘She’ refers to-
(a) a common woman
(b) Ma Kali
(c) Sarada Devi
(d) Sister Nivedita
107. Mother Kali, according to Swamiji, worked up the body of Ramakrishna for-
(a) the devotees
(b) her worshippers
(c) the commoners
(d) her own ends
108. Swamiji can not but believe that there is somewhere a great-
(a) shadow
(c) philosophical truth
(b) power
(d) demonic vision
109. Once Swamiji had returned from a pilgrim- age in-
(a) Himachal Pradesh
(b) Kashi
(c) Kashmir
(d) Kanyakumari
110. According to Swamiji gods are not merely-
(a) images
(b) symbols
(c) idols
(d) reveries
111. Coming out of Samadhi, Sri Ramakrishna sometimes speak of the past experience of that soul that dwelt within-
(a) Ma Kali
(b) Swamiji
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) others
112. In Swami’s own words ‘The impersonal God, seen through the mists of sense, is-
(a) obvious
(b) personal
(c) neutral
(d) twofold
113. “In truth it might well be that the two ideas could not be reconciled” -The two ideas that could not be reconciled are related to-
(a) Brahman
(b) Swamiji
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) God
114. “One of the two must melt into the other”-The ‘two’ here refers to-
(a) Swamiji and Sri Ramakrishna
(b) Swamiji and Brahman
(c) Swamiji and Ma Kali
(d) Brahman and Mother Kali
115. According to Sister Nivedita’s opinion, her conversation with Swami Vivekananda re- garding Mother worship marked-
(a) a barrier
(b) an epoch
(c) a difference
(d) a similarity
116. When asked to explain the image of Kali, Swamiji would always speak of it as-
(a) of little significance
(b) a manuscript of bravery
(c) a draft of courage
(d) a book of experience
117. “I have thought I saw in my Master’s atti- tude a certain element”-The ‘Master’ re- ferred to here is-
(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Sri Ramakrishna
(c) Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore
(d) None of these
118. The words of the Gita mentioned here are like-
(a) Brahma Purana
(b) the Veda
(c) Vishnu Purana
(d) the Ramayana
119. “As I look more and more closely into the life of that great Teacher”-Here ‘the great Teacher’ is-
(a) Maharshi Debendra Nath
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Sri Ramakrishna
(d) Swami Vivekananda
120. Sister Nivedita saw each day with grow- ing clearness how Swamiji himself was turning the pages of-
(a) the Vishnu Purana
(b) the Bhagavata Purana
(c) the Vedas
(d) the book of experience
121. And that it was only when he had come to the last word that he could lie back line-
(a) a meek boy
(b) a weary child
(c) an obedient child
(d) an astonishing child
122. Each man will know in the end that all his life was but as-
(a) a nightmare
(b) an imagination
(c) a dream
(d) a reverie
123. “All this was but a dream” is referred to in the text as-
(a) reality
(b) a trance like state
(c) the Supreme Realization
(d) the sublime authority
124. “Not, verily, by avoiding action, can a man rise to this inaction”-These Veda like words are the words of-
(a) the Kurma Purana
(b) the Ramayana
(c) the Gita
(d) the Bible
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