The Swami and Mother-Worship by Sister Nivedita – MCQ, Class 11, Semester I, WBCHSE


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


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