1) Sister Nivedita mentions Swamiji’s life without a mention of his worship of the mother would be –
a) singularly incomplete
b) incomplete
c) complete
d) none of these
Answer: a) singularly incomplete
2) Ramkrishna Paramhansa used to call Swamiji –
a) Atmagyani
b) Brahmajnani
c) Karmagyani
d) all of this
Answer: b) Brahmajnani
3) Swami Vivekananda had developed the power of entering samadhi at the age of –
a) Five
b) Six
c) Seven
d) Eight
Answer: d) Eight
4) Swami Vivekananda became a formal member of the –
a) Mahabodhi Society
b) The sadharan brahmo samaj
c) The ideal Brahma Samaj
d) Christian association
Answer: The Sadharan Braham Samaj
5) The scriptures on which Swamiji relied –
a) the Vedas and upnishad
b) The puranas and upnishad
c) The Geeta and the Vedanta
d) The Ramayana and the Mahabharata
Answer: a) the Vedas and the Upanishads
6) What was Swamiji’s only imperative?
a) The realisation of God
b) The realisation of self
c) The realisation of Brahmin
d) The realisation of Advaita philosophy
Answer: c) The realisation of Brahmin
7) What was Swamiji’s only system of doctrine?
a) Nirvana philosophy
b) Advaita philosophy
c) Marxist philosophy
d) Dvaita philosophy
Answer: a) Nirvana philosophy
8) Which word was forever on Vivekananda’s lips?
a) Kali
b) Mother
c) Shri Krishna
d) Shri Ramakrishna
Answer: b) mother
9) Like other children, Swamiji was not always good. Sometimes he would be –
a) Stoic and cold
b) Intimate and warm
c) Naughty and rebellious
d) None of these
Answer: c) Naughty and rebellious
10) “The right hand raised in blessing, the left holding the sword.” The God mentioned here is –
a) Durga
b) Kali
c) Lakshmi
d) Saraswati
Answer: b) Kali
11) “Her curse is blessing.” It was a sudden exclamation of –
a) Sister Nivedita
b) Swami Vivekananda
C) Ramakrishna
d) A disciple of Ramakrishna
Answer: b) Swami Vivekananda
12) The psalm which was written and published by sister Nivedita was-
a) Voice of India
b) Voice of the Mother
c) Kali, the mother
d) Worshipping the mother
Answer: b) Voice of the Mother
13) “I worship the terrible.” Who was continually saying this?
a) Swami Mahimananda
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) Shri Ramakrishna
d) Disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
Answer: b) Swami Vivekananda
14) “Let us worship the terror for its own sake.” Here, ‘the terror’ refers to the –
a) Chandi
b) Shiva
c) Kali
d) none of these
Answer: c) Kali
15) Sister Nivedita came to Swami Vivekananda with her doubts about animal sacrifice in the temple. What was Swamiji’s reply to her objections?
a) Why not a bull sacrifice to complete the picture
b) Why not a good sacrifice to complete the picture
c) Why not a little blood to complete the picture
d) Why not sacrifice the cell to complete the picture
Answer: c) Why not a little blood to complete the picture
16) Who, according to Swami Vivekananda, offers blood to attend on Kali?
a) The human
b) The demons
c) The gods
d) None of these
Answer: d) the demons
17) Swami ji considered offering to the demons to attend the Kali as –
a) Something quite necessary
b) Simply a devil worship
c) An essential part of the ritual
d) An appreciable activity
Answer: b) simply a devil worship
18) Swami Vivekananda learnt to recognise the mother as instinctively –
a) Through good
b) Through good or evil
c) Through evil and good
d) Through evil
Answer: b) through good and evil
19) “To seek death not life, to hurl oneself upon the sword’s point, to become one with the Terrible forevermore.” Here, Swami Vivekananda means to say –
20) Who did not want to impose any conceptions on the disciples?
a) Shri Ramakrishna
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) Sister Nivedita
d) None of the above
Answer: b) Swami Vivekananda
21) “I set myself therefore to enter into Kali worship.” Who uttered these words?
a) Shri Rama Krishna
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) sister Nivedita
d) none of the above
answer: c) sister Nivedita
22) “Kali is the vision of Siva!” Who is the speaker of the line?
a) Shri Ramakrishna
b) sister Nivedita
c) Swami Vivekananda
d) None of the above
Answer: b)sister Nivedita
23) One day, Swami Vivekananda was going with Sister Nivedita to visit –
a) Sri Ramakrishna
b) Kalighat
c) Devendranath Tagore
d) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: c) Devendranath Tagore
24) Where had sister Nivedita been present the night before the visit to Maharshi Devendranath Tagore?
a) Murder scene
b) Kali puja
c) death scene
d) Kalighat
Answer: c) death scene
25) “He was the only man who ever had the courage to say that we must speak to all men in their own language.” Here ‘he’ refers to –
a) Swami Vivekananda
b) Ramakrishna paramhansa
c) sister Nivedita
d) Swami Atmananda
Answer: b) Ramkrishna Paramhansa
26) Sister Nivedita delivered a lecture at
a) Belur Math
b) Jorasanko
c) Amarnath
d) Kalighat
Answer: d) Kalighat
27) Swami Vivekananda instructed sister Nivedita that at Kalighat her foreign friends should –
a) Sit on the chair
b) Put on their shoes
c) Remove their shoes
d) Remove their hats
Answer: d) Remove their shoes
28) The poem Guardian Angels was written by –
a) Colonel Hey
b) Alexander Pope
c) John Donne
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: a) Colonel Hey
29) “I believe in Brahmin and the gods and not in anything else.” Who uttered these words?
a) Sister Nivedita
b) Ramkrishna paramhansa
c) Swami Vivekananda
d) Colony Hay
answer: c) Swami Vivekananda
30) “How I used to hate Kali!” he said, and all her ways!” Here ‘he’ refers to –
a) Ramkrishna paramhans
b) Sister Nivedita
c) Swami Vivekananda
d) Colonel Hey
Answer: c) Swami Vivekananda
31) Swami Vivekananda refused to accept Mother Kali for –
a) 5 years
b) 6 years
c) 3 years
d) all his life
Answer: b) 6 years
32) “I would not accept her.” Whom did Swami Vivekananda not accept?
a) Sister Nivedita
b) Mother Kali
c) Friends of sister Nivedita
d) None of the above
Answer: b) Mother Kali
33) How many Years did Sri Ramakrishna live after dedicating Swami Vivekananda to Mother Kali?
a) 2 years
b) 3 years
c) 1 year
d) 6 months
answer: a) 2 years
34) Swami Vivekananda was made a slave of Mother Kali when he was –
a) eager to know about her
b) trying to disobey her
c) passing through miseries
d) a boy or 8 years old
Answer: c) passing through miseries
35) Like Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, _______________ was looking for the one disciple to whom he would give his power.
a) Swami Atmanand
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) Sister Nivedita
d) Guru Nanak
Answer: d) Guru Nanak
36) When Guru Nanak was going to die, he was looking for a disciple to –
a) Look after his family
b) hand in the holy book
c) give his power
d) teach him Sikhism
Answer: c) give his power
37) “But not in your Vedanta sense, Noren!” Here, Noren is –
a) Swami Vivekananda
b) Swami Atmanand
c) sister Nivedita
d) None of the above
Answer: b) Swami Vivekananda
38) Shri Ramakrishna used to call Swami Vivekananda-
a) Swamiji
b) Vivekanand
c) Noren
d) my boy
answer: c) Noren
39) What, according to Sister Nivedita, is the ultimate realisation of man about his life?
a) meaningful
b) a dream
c) meaningless
d) full of pleasures
Answer: b) a dream
40) What, according to sister Nivedita, is the Swamiji’s attitude towards Mother worship?
a) he advocates for the worship of all deities equally
b) he emphasises the importance of mother worship in spiritual life
c) he considered it a primitive form of religious expression
d) he discourages devotees from practising Mother worship
Answer: b) he emphasises the importance of mother worship in spiritual life