The Swami and Mother Worship MCQ | Eleven 1st Semester WBCHSE

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The Swami and Mother Worship MCQ | Eleven 1st Semester WBCHSE

1. What was the real name of Sister Nivedita?

(a) Robert Galbraith

(b) Margaret Elizabeth Noble

(d) George Sand.

2. Who renamed Margaret Elizabeth Noble as Nivedita?

(a) Swami Vivekananda

(b) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

(d) Rabindranath Tagore.

3. When was Sister Nivedita born?

(a) October 28, 1887

(b) January 29, 1887

(d) October 28, 1867.

4. Sister Nivedita was educated at

(a) Harvard University

(b) Yale University

(c) Halifax College

(d) Kings College.

5. Nivedita met Swamiji for the first time in

(a) 1805

(b) 1895

(d) 1985.

6. Nivedita responded to Swamiji’s call and came to

(a) Calcutta

(b) Delhi

(d) Madras.

7. The plague epidemic in Calcutta occurred in

(a) 1899

(b) 1849

(d) 1889.

8. When did Sister Nivedita die?

(a) October 22, 1919

(b) October 15, 1918

(d) October 13, 1911.

9. Nivedita passed away at the age of –

(a) 40 years

(b) 45 years

(c) 43 years

(d) 49 years.

10. From which of the following books is the given excerpt taken?

(a) ‘Cradle Tales of Hinduism’

(b) ‘Religious and Dharma’

(d) ‘The Master as I Saw Him’.

11. Nivedita played an important role in

(a) spreading education among women

(b) Indian nationalism

(c) both (a) and (b)

(d) none of the above.

12. Which of the following books are written by Sister Nivedita?

(a) ‘Kali the Mother’

(b) ‘The Master As I Saw Him’

(d) Both (a) and (b).

13. In the excerpt ‘Swami’ refers to

(a) Swami Vivekananda

(b) Swami Smaranananda

(d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

14. The story of the Swami’s life would be incomplete if it contained no mention of his worship of

(a) the Divine

(b) the Supernatural

(d) the Mother.

15. Swamiji was called a Brahma-jnani by –

(a) Sister Nivedita

(b) Sri Ramakrishna

(d) one of his disciples.

16. The religious ideas towards which Swamiji naturally gravitated were

(a) abstract

(b) philosophical

(c) both (a) and

(d) none of these.

17. The reverse of Swamiji’s religious ideas can be commonly referred to as

(a) idolatrous

(b) nihilistic

(d) disapproval.

18. Where was Swamiji never known to preach anything that depended on a special form?

(a) England

(b) America

(d) England and America.

19. What was the only imperative for Swamiji?

(a) Worship of Kali

(b) Practising yoga

(c) Realisation of Brahman

(d) Reading the scriptures.

20. What were the sole scriptural authority for Swamiji?

(a) The Vedas

(b) The Upanishads

(c) Both (a) and

(d) None of these.

21. Who is deeply familiar of the household life?

(a) Swamiji

(b) Sri Ramakrishna

(c) Disciples of Swamiji

(d) The hermits.

22. Like other children Swamiji was not always-

(a) good

(b) naughty

(d) cruel.

23. To the Mother, Swamiji would sometimes be

(a) unkind

(b) naughty

(d) both (b) and (c).

24. Swamiji attributed the good or evil that befell to

(a) his misfortunes

(b) his family

(d) the Mother.

25. What did Swamiji entrust to a disciple on a certain solemn occasion?

(a) A hymn

(b) A charm

(c) A prayer

(d) A norm.

26. Swamiji warned that the receiver while praying to Mother should rid himself of any sort of

(a) defiance

(b) cringing

(d) flattery.

27. “Her curse is blessing!” being talked about here? Whose curse is

(a) Goddess Kali

(b) Goddess Lakshmi

(d) Goddess Saraswati.

28. The word ‘Mother’ in the text refers to –

(a) Sarada Devi

(b) Goddess Kali

(d) Mother Mary.

29. What is the colour of the knife of Kali, as mentioned in the text?

(a) Brown

(b) Orange

(d) Blood-red.

30. Kali is the feminine form of

(a) Kala

(b) Shiva

(d) Ganesha.

31. The Hindu word ‘Kala’ refers to

(a) black

(b) time

(d) both (a) and (b).

32. Almost every line and syllable of which psalm did Nivedita gather from Swamiji?

(a) ‘Voice of the Guru’

(b) ‘The Mother’

(d) ‘Voice of the Mother’.

33. Swamiji insisted that he worshipped the

(a) Fearful

(b) Terrible

(d) Terrifying.sleve

34. Which of the following statements is true?

(a) Pleasure is the motive with all men.

(b) Some men are born to seek after pain.

(d) Neither (a) nor (b) is correct.

35. Swamiji had a whole-hearted contempt for

(a) Squeamishness

(b) Mawkishness

(d) Squeamishness or mawkishness.

36. Who came to Swami Vivekananda with difficulties about animal sacrifice in the temple?

(a) The common people

(b) The author

(d) Sri Ramakrishna.

37. Who made no reference to the fact that most people, do not hesitate to offer animal sacrifice to themselves?

(a) Nivedita

(b) Swamiji

(d) The hermits.

39. What has degraded under the modern system?

(a) The butcher

(b) The slaughter-house

(d) Both (a) and (b).

40. From whom did Nivedita come to know about the more austere side of Kali-worship?

(a) Sri Ramakrishna

(b) Sri Ramakrishna and his disciples

(d) Swamiji and another disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.

41. The more austere side of Kali-worship transcended

(a) the sacrifice of others

(b) the sacrifice of one’s sense of reasoning

(d) the sacrifice of one’s sense of the self.

42. What did Swamiji never tolerate?

(a) The blood-offering commonly made to the demons who attend on Kali.

(b) Devil-worship in the name of worshipping Kali.

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of these.

43. What did Swamiji constantly endeavour to banish from his consciousness?

(a) Fear

(b) Weakness

(c) Fear and weakness

(d) None of these.

44. What does the recognition of the Mother in times of evil, terror, sorrow and annihilation lead to?

(a) Sweetness and joy

(b) Love and peace

(d) Patience and virtue.

45. “…one thing he could not do away with was any sort of watering-down of the great conception.” What is the ‘great conception’ referred to in the text?

(a) The concept of the Mother

(b) The concept of the eternal Brahman

(d) The concept of Love and Sacrifice.

46. The word ‘watering-down’ in the text means

(a) to water plants

(b) to disrupt something

(d) to make an idea or opinion less extreme and more acceptable.

47. “Fools!” he exclaimed once,” – Who is referred to as ‘he’?

(a) Jesus Christ

(b) A disciple of Swamiji

(c) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Sri Ramakrishna.

48. “Fools! They put a garland…” referred to as ‘fools’ by Swamiji? Who are

(a) The disciples

(b) The atheists

(d) The conventional worshippers of Kali.

49. “…and call Thee ‘the Merciful’ !” Who is referred to as ‘thee’?

(a) Nivedita

(b) Kali

(d) Lakshmi.

50. Swamiji referred to the worship of Kali by the conventional worshippers as merely

(a) prejudice

(b) pride

(c) shop-keeping

(d) ignorance.

51. According to Swami Vivekananda, the true attitude for the mind and will are not to be baffled by

(a) the personal self

(b) the religious thoughts

(d) the idea of fraternity.

52. “….to hurl oneself upon the sword’s point,…” Whose ‘sword’ is being referred to in the text?

(a) Goddess Parvati

(b) Goddess Kali

(d) Lord Vishnu.

53. In the given text, the ‘Terrible’ refers to

(a) Mother Nature

(b) Goddess Durga

(c) Goddess Kali

(d) Lord Shiva.

54. In her past life Sister Nivedita had been a/an

(a) doctor

(b) businesswoman

(d) educationist.

55. What had Nivedita’s experiences of her past life contributed to impress on her?

(a) The necessity of taking on the Indian consciousness.

(b) The necessity of putting her thoughts to action.

(d) The necessity of going on a world tour.

56. With what did Nivedita compare the beginning of her worship of Kali?

(a) Learning a new language.

(b) Setting in a new country.

(d) Both (a) and (c).

57. “To this fact I owe it that I was able to understand….”- What is the fact being referred to here?

(a) Nivedita’s beginning of Kali worship.

(b) Nivedita’s realisation of Truth.

(d) Nivedita’s acceptance of Swamiji as the Master.

58. Nivedita set herself to enter into

(a) the Indian consciousness

(b) the worship of the Brahman

(c) the worship of Kali

(d) the Indian freedom struggle.

59. “…as much as I did of our Master’s life and thought.” Who is referred to as ‘Master’ in the text?

(a) Sri Ramakrishna

(b) Jesus Christ

(c) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Lord Shiva.

60. Swami never checked a/an –

(a) statement

(b) struggling thought

(d) action.

61. Who called Kali the ‘Vision of Shiva’?

(a) Sister Nivedita

(b) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Ramakrishna’s disciples.

62. On hearing Nivedita’s realisation that Kali was the ‘Vision of Shiva’ Swamiji commented

(a) “You are right.”

(b) “You are absolutely wrong.”

(d) “Express it in your own way!”

63. Who went to visit Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore one day?

(a) The author

(b) Swamiji

(d) Both (a) and (b).

64. Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore lived in the seclusion of his home in

(a) Hatibagan

(b) Jorasanko

(d) Burrabazar.

65. According to Nivedita, one must speak to man in his own

(a) medium

(b) way

(c) language

(d) dialect.

66. The only person who advocated that one must speak to all men in their own language was

(a) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

(b) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore.

67. Where was Nivedita about to lecture when Swamiji gave her the instructions about the foreign friends?

(a) Kalighat

(b) Belur Math

(d) Kamarpukur.

68. What were the foreign friends expected to do if they were to attend Nivedita’s lecture at Kalighat?

(a) They had to remove their shoes.

(b) They had to sit on the floor.

(d) Both (a) and (b).

69. “In that Presence no exceptions were to be made.” – Who constituted this ‘Presence’?

(a) The devotees of Lord Shiva.

(b) The devotees of Goddess Durga.

(c) The devotees of Goddess Kali.

(d) The devotees of the Brahman.

70. “I was myself to be responsible for this.” What was the responsibility?

(a) To make all foreigners follow the rules set by Swamiji.

(b) To connect all foreigners into Hinduism.

(d) To spread Christianity among all.

71. Swamiji made a shy reference to

(a) Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Song Offerings’

(b) Colonel Hay’s ‘Guardian Angels’

(d) Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’.

72. Who made a reference to Colonel Hay’s ‘Guardian Angels’?

(a) Devendra Nath Tagore

(b) Swamiji

(d) A disciple of Swamiji.

73. By referring to ‘Guardian Angels’ Swamiji reinstated his belief in

(a) Brahman

(b) The Gods

(c) Brahman and the Gods

(d) None of these.

74. “…in the incompatibility of the exaltation of one definite scheme of worship…”. What is the ‘scheme of worship’ being referred to?

(a) The worship of the Brahman

(b) The worship of the Gods

(d) The worship of Truth.

75. “…he was himself the reconciliation of these opposites…” – Who is referred to as ‘he’?

(a) Swami Vivekananda

(b) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

(d) Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore.d)

76. “…he was himself the reconciliation of these opposites….” – Which two opposites are being refferred to here?

(a) The belief in Gods.

(b) The belief in Brahman.

(d) Both (a) and (b).

77. Following up his train of thought, Swamiji dropped into a mood of

(a) depression

(b) dejection

(d) half-soliloquy.

78. “And all Her ways!” – Who is referred to as ‘Her’?

(a) Nivedita

(b) Sarada Devi

(d) Goddess Kali.

79. How many years did it take for Swamiji to fight against himself to finally come to an acceptance of Kali?

(a) Seven

(b) Six

(d) Two.

80. “…and now I believe that She guides me in every little thing I do….”- Who is referred to as ‘She’?

(a) Goddess Kali

(b) Swamiji’s mother

(d) Nivedita.

81. “His greatness had not dawned on me then.” – Who is referred to as ‘he’?

(a) Swamiji

(b) Sri Ramakrishna

(d) Lord Shiva.

82. “…I thought him a brain-sick baby,” – Whom did Swamiji think of as a ‘brain-sick baby’?

(a) Sri Ramakrishna

(b) Lord Shiva

(d) Lord Jagannath.

83. When Goddess Kali made a slave of Swamiji, the latter was suffering from

(a) chronic diseases

(b) mental disorder

(c) great misfortunes

(d) disbelief.

84. How long did Sri Ramakrishna live after introducing Swamiji to Goddess Kali?

(a) Only two years

(b) Less than two years

(d) A decade.

85. “And he passed over all his own family….”- Who is referred to as ‘he’?

(a) Sri Ramakrishna

(b) Swamiji

(c) Guru Nanak

(d) Mahatma Gandhi.

86. To whom did Guru Nanak transfer his power before passing away?

(a) His disciples

(b) His sons

(d) A boy.

87. According to Nivedita, who was an Incarnation of Kali?

(a) Swamijii

(b) Sri Ramakrishna

(d) Guru Nanak.

88. Which of the following is a part of Swamiji’s belief?

(a) A great power exists somewhere.

(b) It thinks of Herself as feminine.

(d) All of these.

89. Swamiji called the Brahman as the

(a) One

(b) Companion

(d) Disciple.

90. “These gods are not merely symbols!” Swamiji said this on returning from a pigrimage in-

(a) Ladakh

(b) Assam

(d) Kashmir.

91. “They are the forms that the bhaktas have seen!” – Through this line Swamiji means to say that –

(a) The gods are essentially symbols of worship.

(b) The gods are representations of how the bhaktas or devotees view them all.

(d) None of these.

92. The word ‘bhaktas’ means

(a) the devotees

(b) the hermits

(d) the children.

93. “He who came as Rama, as Krishna, as Jesus dwells here” – Who is referred to as ‘He’?

(a) The soul that dwelt within Sri Ramakrishna

(b) Lord Shiva

(d) Swamiji.

94. Who was the chief disciple of Sri Ramakrishna?

(a) Nivedita

(b) Guru Nanak

(c) Swamiji

(d) Mother Teresa.

95. The struggle in the soul of the Swami was between the Mother and

(a) the Father

(b) the Divine

(d) the Brahman.

96. “The impersonal God, seen through the mists of sense, is personal.” statement? Who made this

(a) Nivedita

(b) Swamiji

(d) Jesus Christ.

97. Which of the following statements is true?

(a) The two ideas of the Mother and the Brahman could not be reconciled.

(b) Both these concepts could not be equally true at the same time.

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) None of these.

98. The melting of the two concepts of the Mother and the Brahman depends on the worshippers’

(a) destiny

(b) past

(d) both (a) and (b).

99. For Nivedita, the conversation with Swamiji about the reconciliation of opposites marks a/ an

(a) epoch

(b) era

(d) millennium.

100. Swamiji explained the image of Kali as the book of

(a) innocence

(b) experience

(d) revelation.

101. Kali the Mother is to be the worship of the Indian

(a) future

(b) consciousness

(d) culture.

102. “Each man will know at the hour of death, that all his life was but as a dream”. This is part of an ancient

(a) custom

(b) ritual

(d) wisdom.

103. “Not verily, by avoiding action, can a man rise to this inaction!” from These words are taken

(a) The Gita

(b) The Vedas

(d) The Quran.

104. In the end Swamiji would be wrapped away into

(a) oblivion

(b) the Supreme Being

(c) the Supreme Revelation

(d) death.

105. At the end Swamiji would be awakened to the truth that

(a) ‘All is fair in love and war’.

(b) ‘Beauty is truth and truth beauty’.

(d) ‘All this was but a dream’.

Fill in the blanks

1. Sister Nivedita was a / an ___________ by birth.

(a) American

(b) Indian

(d) Irish.

2. __________ was the ‘master’ of Sister Nivedita.

(a) Sri Ramakrisha

(b) Swami Brahmananda

(c) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Mahatma Gandhi.

3. Nivedita’s ‘The Master as I Saw Him’ was published in ___________.

(a) 1910

(b) 1810

(d) 1710.

4. The excerpt describes the story of the ____________ of the Swami’s life through the eyes of Nivedita.

(a) glimpses

(b) tokens

(d) failures.

5. Nivedita felt that there were __________ elements in Swamiji’s consciousness.

(a) six

(b) three

(c) two

(d) five.

6. Swamiji had the power of _________ at the age of eight years.

(a) memorising scriptures

(b) entering Samadhi

(d) preaching.

7. Under the influence of Sri Ramakrishna, Swamiji became a member of the ___________.

(a) All India Forward Bloc

(b) Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

(d) Hindu Mahasabha.

8. ___________ was Swamiji’s only system of doctrine

(a) The Advaita philosophy

(b) Secularism

(d) Communism.

9. In India the word __________ was forever on Swamiji’s lips.

(a) Shiva

(b) Kali

(c) Mother

(d) Ramakrishna

10. Swamiji spoke of Mother, as we of one deeply familiar in the ___________ life.

(a) household

(b) ascetic

(d) real.

11. Swamiji was always preoccupied with ___________.

(a) his disciples

(b) his master

(d) the Mother.

12. The prayer that Swamiji had acted as a entrusted to a disciple __________ in his own life.

(a) guiding light

(b) veritable charm

(d) driving force.

13. “Her curse is blessing!” would be the sudden exclamation at the end of a long __________.

(a) dream

(b) speech

(d) reverie.

14. Swamiji wanted to worship the __________ for its own sake.

(a) Horror

(b) Fear

(c) Terror

(d) Beauty.

15. “Why not a little blood, to complete the picture?” – This remark was made by _____________.

(a) Nivedita

(b) Ramakrishna ad

(d) Swamiji.

16. Swamiji had no place for ___________.

(a) nature-worship

(b) devil-worship

(d) worship of idols.

17. Swamiji learnt to recognise _____________ instinctively in evil, terror, sorrow and annihilation.

(a) the Mother

(b) the Upanishads

(d) the Guru.

18. The conventional worshippers put a garland of __________ round Kali’s neck.

(a) flowers

(b) leaves

(d) skulls.

19. The conventional worshippers of Goddess Kali call Her __________.

(a) ‘the Vengeful’

(b) ‘the Terrible’

(d) ‘the Merciful’.

20. “To seek death not life, to hurl oneself upon the sword’s point…” – These words are described as __________ by Nivedita.

(a) smooth

(b) stern

(d) simple

21. In line with Swamiji’s idea of freedom, he did not try to impose his own __________ on his disciples.

(a) conceptions

(b) criticisms

(d) rules.(0)

22. In this text, Nivedita talks about the personal perplexity associated with the memory of the pilgrimage to ____________.

(a) Kedarnath

(b) Badrinath)

(c) Amarnath

(d) Tungnath.s

23. “I set myself therefore to enter into Kali worship…” – Here, ‘I’ refers to ___________.

(a) Swamiji

(b) Sister Nivedita

(d) Sri Ramakrishna.

24. Nivedita’s Kali worship enabled her to understand her Master’s ____________.

(a) life and thought

(b) background

(d) works.

25. In religious matters, Swami Vivekananda was unknowingly, a born ____________.

(a) activist

(b) worshipper

(d) educator.

26. “Perhaps, Swamiji, Kali is the Vision of Shiva!”- Nivedita made this statement one day when a/an ___________ of Kali was brought in.

(a) image

(b) idol

(d) book.

27. Before visiting Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore, Swamiji questioned Nivedita about a __________ at which she had been present the day before.

(a) funeral

(b) prayer meeting

(d) death-scene.

28. Nivedita realised that religions were only _________.

(a) medium

(b) languages

(d) myth.

29. Sri Ramakrishna had the courage to say that we must speak to all men in their own _________.

(a) language

(b) dialect

(d) accent.

30. “I was myself to be responsible for this.” Here ‘I’ refers to __________.

(a) Sister Nivedita

(b) Mother Teresa

(d) Swamiji.

31. ‘Guardian Angles’ is a/an ___________ by Colonel Hay.

(a) essay

(b) poem

(d) novel.

32. Swamiji was afraid that Nivedita’s intellectual difficulty lay in the incompatibility of the exaltation of one definite scheme of worship with the ____________.

(a) highest Vedantic theory of Brahman

(b) the theory of divine

(d) the theory of secularism.

33. Swamiji spoke disjointedly into a mood of half-soliloquy seeming as if to be held by some _____________ that he could not break.

(a) shackles

(b) barriers

(c) spell

(d) chains.

34. ____________ dedicated Swamiji to Goddess Kali.

(a) Sri Ramakrishna

(b) Nivedita

(d) disciples of Sri Ramakrishna.

35. “And then I too had to accept Her!” Here Swamiji talks about his acceptance of __________.

(a) the existence of the Brahman

(b) the existence of Shivalena

(c) the existence of Goddess Kali

(d) the existence of Goddess Durga.

36. According to Swamiji, Goddess Kali had made a ___________ of him.

(a) slave

(b) student

(d) devotee.

37. Sri Ramakrishna was able to keep his own health and brightness for not more than ___________ months after dedicating Swamiji to Kali.

(a) seven

(b) ten

(c) six

(d) three.pe

38. ___________ had spend his time looking for the one disciple to whom he would give his power.

(a) Guru Nanak

(b) Jesus Christ

(d) Lord Shiva.

39. The future will call Sri Ramakrishna an incarnation of ____________.

(a) Kali

(b) Shiva e

(d) Allah.

40. Swamiji felt that Kali created ___________ to satisfy Her own ends.

(a) Sri Ramakrishna

(b) Jesus Christ

(d) Nivedita.

41. The ____________ in the body make up the personality, the many brain-centres.

(a) bones

(b) flesh

(d) multitude of cells.

42. Swamiji equated unity in ___________ with the Brahman.

(a) diversity

(b) complexity

(d) tranquility.

43. Sri Ramakrishna would sometimes speak of the past experiences of that soul that dwelt in him by coming out of ____________.

(a) Slumber

(b) Meditation

(c) Samadhi

(d) Brahmacharya.

44. ‘Noren’ was the other name of __________.

(a) Swamiji

(b) Sri Ramakrishna

(d) Sarada Devi.

45. Nivedita gives us a glimpse of the ____________ and mutual adjustment of the different realisations that goes on in great souls.

(a) relation

(b) correlation

(d) fluctuation.

46. In Swamiji’s own words, “The impersonal God, seen through the mists of sense, is ____________.

(a) philosophical

(b) objective

(d) personal.

47. Nivedita tells us that in the end, one of the two concepts of ______________ must melt into the other.

(a) the Brahman and the Shiva

(b) the Mother and the Kali

(c) the Brahman and the Mother

(d) none of these.

48. The understanding that the two concepts of the Mother and the Brahman must melt into each other is part of Nivedita’s ____________ realisation.

(a) subjective

(b) objective

(d) impersonal.

49. In the book of experience the ____________ turns page after page only to find that there is nothing in it. neve

(a) sole

(b) soul

(d) child.

50. When death comes each man realises that all his life was but a/an ____________.

(a) fragment

(b) imagination

(d) dream.

51. Through various struggles, one reaches the safe ___________ of the soul where all is one.

(a) heaven

(b) haven

(d) chamber.

52. After reading the last word of the book of experience, Swamiji could lie back like a ____________ child in the arms of his Mother.

(a) rebellions

(b) naughty

(d) weary.

Select the correct options

1. What image of Goddess Kali do we get from Swamiji’s fragment of description?

(1) Her right hand is raised in blessing.

(II) Her left hand holds the sword.

(III) Her right hand holds the sword.

(IV) Her left hand is raised in blessing.

(a) Only Sentence (I) is correct.

(b) Only Sentence (II) is correct.

(c) Both Sentences (1) and (II) are correct.

(d) Both Sentences (III) and (IV) are correct.

2. What is referred to as the ‘incarnation of the sword’?

(I) Goddess Kali

(II) Worshippers of Goddess Kali

(a) Only (I) is correct.

(b) Only (II) is correct.

(d) Neither (I) nor (II) is correct

3. Which of the following statements is true?

(1) Worshippers are devoted to the kind God.

(II) Worshippers do not recognise God in the earthquake, or God in the volcano.

(III) God manifests through both good and evil.

(a) Sentence (I) and (II) are not true.

(b) Sentence (III) is not true.

c) None of the sentences are true.

(d) All the sentences are true.song

4. Which of the following statements is true?

(I) Nivedita realised that all religions were merely languages.

(II) Nivedita understood that one must speak to a man in his own language.

(III) Sri Ramakrishna also advocated these thoughts.

(a) All the statements are true.

(b) Only sentence (I) is true, Sentences (II) and (III) are false.

(d) None of the sentences are true.

5. What did Swamiji realise about Sri Ramakrishna after becoming his disciple?

(I) Swamiji saw Ramakrishna’s marvellous purity.

(II) Swamiji felt Ramakrishna’s wonderful love.

(III) Ramakrishna’s greatness dawned on Swamiji thereafter.

(a) Only Sentence (I) is correct.

(b) Only Sentence (III) is correct.

(c) All sentences are correct.

(d) All sentences are incorrect.

Pick out the false statements

1. (I) There were two elements in Swamiji’s consciousness.

(II) Swamiji became a member of the Indian National Congress.

(III) Swamiji believed in devil-worship.

(IV) Swamiji believed that God manifests through both good and evil.

(a) (I)

(b) (II)

(d) (II) and (III).

2. (1) Nivedita recorded glimpses of the Swami’s worship of the Mother.

(II) Nivedita was against animal sacrifice in the temple.

(III) Nivedita did not find it necessary to take on the Indian consciousness.

(IV) To Nivedita Swamiji symbolised the reconciliation of opposites.

(a) (III)

(b) (II) and (III)

(d) (I).

3. (I) Sri Ramakrishna insisted that Swamiji was a Brahma-jnani.

(II) Sri Ramakrishna had the power to meet past souls in his state of Samadhi.

(III) Sri Ramakrishna asserted the importance of Hinduism and disrespected all other religions.

(IV) Sri Ramakrishna always saw visions of Shiva.

(a) (I)

(b) (II)

(c) (III) and (IV)

(d) (III).

Assertion – Reason

1. Assertion: Swamiji advised his disciple not to cringe about anything while praying to the Mother.

Reason: Swamiji entrusted a prayer to the disciple that has acted as a veritable charm in his own life.

(a) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.

(b) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is not the correct explation for Assertion.

(d) Assertion is false and Reason is true.

2. Assertion: Swamiji never tolerated the blood offering made to the devils who attend on Kali.

Reason: When Nivedita raised objections to animal sacrifice in temples, Swamiji said, “Why not a little blood to complete the picture?”

(a) Both Assertion and Reason are false.

(b) Assertion is true but Reason is false.

(c) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion.

(d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.

3. Assertion: People put a garland of flowers round the neck of Goddess Kali, then start back in terror and call her the Merciful.

Reason: The people are devoted to the kind God and do not have a heart for the God that manifests in the form of earthquake, volcano etc.

(a) Both Assertion and Reason are false.

(b) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation for assertion.

(d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.

4. Assertion: Swamiji encourages Nivedita to express the Mother in her own way.

Reason: Nivedita had a realisation that perhaps Kali was the Vision of Shiva.

(a) Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.

(b) Assertion is true but Reason is false.

(d) Both Assertion and Reason are false.

5. Assertion: Kali the Mother is to be the worship of the Indian future.

Reason: Each human being at the hour of death will realise that all his life was but as a dream.

(a) Both Assertion and Reason are false.

(b) Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion.

(d) Assertion is false but Reason is true.

Rearrangement of sentences

1. (1) In England and America Swamiji was never known to preach anything that depended on a special form.

(II) Swamiji wanted to worship the Terror for its own sake.

(III) Swamiji wished to recognise the Mother as instinctively in evil, terror, sorrow and annihilation as in that which leads to sweetness and joy.

(IV) Swamiji entrusted a prayer to a disciple.

(a) (1), (IV), (II), (III)

(b) (I), (III), (IV), (II)

(d) (II), (III), (I), (IV).

2. (1) Goddess Kali’s curse is blessing.

(II) Kali worked up the body of Ramakrishna for Her own ends.

(III) Kali made a slave of Swamiji.

(IV) Deep in the heart of hearts of Her own, flashes the blood-red knife of Kali.

(a) (I), (IV), (II), (III)

(b) (I), (IV), (III), (II)

(d) (IV), (II), (I), (III).

3. (1) Swamiji gravitated towards ideas that were highly abstract and philosophical.

(II) Pleasure is not the motive with all men.

(III) Swamiji attributed to the Mother, the good or evil that befell

(IV) The greatness of Sri Ramakrishna dawned on Swamiji later.

(a) (I), (IV), (II), (III)

(b) (I), (II), (IV), (III)

(c) (I), (III), (II), (IV)

(d) (II), (III), (I), (IV).

4. (1) Swamiji fought with himself for six years to finally accept Kali.

(II) Swamiji had a contempt for squeamishness or mawkishness.

(III) Swamiji spoke of the Mother as one deeply

familiar in the household life.

(IV) Swamiji was influenced by the teachings of the Advaita philosophy, the Vedas and the Upanishads.

(a) (III), (IV), (II), (I)

(b) (I), (III), (IV), (II)

(d) (IV), (III), (II), (I).

5. (I) The future would remember Sri Ramakrishna as an Incarnation of Kali.

(II) A great Power exists somewhere that thinks of Herself as feminine and is called Kali, the Mother.

(III) In the end one of the two concepts of Brahman and the Mother must melt into the other.

(IV) According to Swamiji, the souls turn the pages of the book of experience only to find that there is nothing in it, after all.

(a) (I), (II), (III), (IV)

(b) (I), (IV), (II), (III)

(d) (IV), (II), (III), (I).

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