The Swami and Mother Worship MCQ

The Master as I Saw Him – Chapter – XI

The Swami and Mother Worship

Sister Nivedita [1867-1911]

The Swami and Mother Worship MCQ – 1 Mark Important Questions

62 Different Categorical Important Questions

Informative

Q1. The text ‘The Swami and Mother Worship’ is taken from —

• (A) Wings of Fire.
• (B) Kali the Mother.
• (C) The Alchemist.
• (D) The Master as I Saw Him.

Q2. The text ‘The Swami and Mother Worship’ deals with the life of —

• (A) Sri Ramkrishna.
• (B) Sister Nivedita.
• (C) Swami Vivekananda.
• (D) Swami’s mother.

Q3. Swami Vivekananda was born a /an —

• (A) ordinary.
• (B) monk
• (C) meritorious
• (D) Brahmajnani.

Q4. Swami Vivekananda had developed the power of entering —

• (A) cave.
• (B) temple.
• (C) tunnel.
• (D) Samadhi.

Q5. Swami Vivekananda had developed the power of entering Samadhi at the age of —

• (A) seven.
• (B) eight.
• (C) nine.
• (D) ten.

Q6. Swami Vivekananda had been under the influence of —

• (A) Sri Ramkrishna.
• (B) Mother Teresa.
• (C) Sister Nivedita.
• (D) Swami Samarth.

Q7. Sri Ramkrishna cast on impact on Swami Vivekananda in his —

• (A) infancy.
• (B) youth.
• (C) middle age.
• (D) old age.

Q8. Swami Vivekananda became a member of —

• (A) the Brahmo Samaj.
• (B) the Brahmo Samity.
• (C) the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.
• (D) the Asiatic Society.

Q9. Swami Vivekananda was never known to preach in the country /countries —

• (A) Australia.
• (B) England.
• (C) America.
• (D) both England and America.

Q10. Swami Vivekananda’s realization of Brahman was —

• (A) instructional.
• (B) narrative.
• (C) beseeching.
• (D) appealing.

Q11. Swami Vivekananda’s doctrine was —

• (A) the Advaita philosophy.
• (B) the Platonic philosophy.
• (C) the Aristotelian philosophy.
• (D) the Buddhist philosophy.

Q12. Swami Vivekananda’s soul spiritual authority was —

• (A) the Vedas.
• (B) the Upanishads.
• (C) the Bible.
• (D) both (A) and (B).

Q13. The only one word which was always on Swami Vivekananda’s lips was —

• (A) Father.
• (B) Mother.
• (C) God.
• (D) Ramkrishna.

Q14. Swami always spoke the word ‘Mother’ in —

• (A) England.
• (B) America.
• (C) Australia.
• (D) India.

Q15. ‘He spoke to Her ….’ — Here ‘Her’ refers to:

• (A) Sister Nivedita.
• (B) Mother Teresa.
• (C) Kali the Mother.
• (D) Sarada Devi.

Q16. Swami Vivekananda was preoccupied with —

• (A) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (B) Sarada Devi.
• (C) Jesus Christ.
• (D) Kali the Mother.

Q17. Sometimes, Swami Vivekananda would be —

• (A) naughty.
• (B) rebellious.
• (C) arrogant.
• (D) both (A) and (B).

Q18. Swami Vivekananda entrusted a prayer to Kali to —

• (A) a priest.
• (B) a disciple.
• (C) a prophet.
• (D) a pilgrim.

Q19. The right hand of Kali the Mother raised in —

• (A) curse.
• (B) blessing.
• (C) regret.
• (D) consolation.

Q20. The Goddess Kali holds in her left hand —

• (A) knife.
• (B) blessing.
• (C) sword.
• (D) curse.

Q21. The intensity of Swami Vivekananda’s feeling sometimes becomes —

• (A) sonnet.
• (B) lyric.
• (C) half-lyric.
• (D) ode.

Q22. The knife of Goddess Kali flashes —

• (A) red.
• (B) blood-red.
• (C) black.
• (D) pink color.

Q23. Swami Vivekananda worshipped —

• (A) The Terrible.
• (B) The Beauty.
• (C) The Danger.
• (D) The Nature.

Q24. Swami Vivekananda was the disciple of —

• (A) Kali the Mother.
• (B) Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (C) Sarada Devi.
• (D) Swami Brahmananda.

Q25. Swami Vivekananda dwelt on the worship of —

• (A) the Worst.
• (B) the Best.
• (C) the Terrible.
• (D) the Nature.

Q26. ‘They put a garland of flowers around Thy neck ….’ — Here ‘Thy’ refers to:

• (A) Swami Vivekananda.
• (B) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (C) Kali the Mother.
• (D) Sister Nivedita.

Q27. People call Kali —

• (A) the Mother.
• (B) the Merciful.
• (C) the Greatest.
• (D) the Powerful.

Q28. The stern words of Swami Vivekananda were —

• (A) to seek life not death.
• (B) to seek death not life.
• (C) to seek truth.
• (D) to seek light not darkness.

Q29. Swami Vivekananda wanted to become one with —

• (A) the Terrible.
• (B) the Peace.
• (C) the Danger.
• (D) the Nature.

Q30. Sister Nivedita’s personal perplexity was associated with the memory of the pilgrimage of —

• (A) Kedarnath.
• (B) Badrinath.
• (C) Sarnath.
• (D) Amarnath.

Q31. ‘I did of our Master’s life and thought.’ — Here ‘Master’ refers to:

• (A) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (B) Swami Brahmananda.
• (C) Swami Vivekananda.
• (D) Jesus Christ.

Q32. ‘……… he was without knowing it a born educator.’ — Here ‘a born educator’ refers to:

• (A) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (B) Swami Brahmananda.
• (C) Swami Vivekananda.
• (D) Jesus Christ.

Q33. Oneday Swami Vivekananda along with Sister Nivedita went to Jorasanko to meet —

• (A) Rabindranath Tagore.
• (B) Maharshi Devendranath Tagore.
• (C) Abindranath Tagore.
• (D) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.

Q34. The narrator was about to lecture at —

• (A) Mumbai.
• (B) Delhi.
• (C) Kalighat.
• (D) Dakshineswar.

Q35. In ‘Swami and Mother Worship’ Swami Vivekananda mentioned a poem written by —

• (A) Robert Browning.
• (B) John Claire.
• (C) Colonel Hay.
• (D) Sarojini Naidu.

Q36. Swami Vivekananda believed in —

• (A) Brahman and the gods.
• (B) Brahman and anything else.
• (C) the gods and anything else.
• (D) Brahman.

Q37. Swami Vivekananda dropped into a mood of —

• (A) soliloquy.
• (B) half-soliloquy.
• (C) thoughtfulness.
• (D) happiness.

Q38. ‘How I used to hate Kali!’ — This was said by:

• (A) Sister Nivedita.
• (B) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (C) Maharishi Devendranath Tagore.
• (D) Swami Vivekananda.

Q39. Swami Vivekananda was dedicated to Goddess Kali by —

• (A) Sarada Devi.
• (B) Bhuvaneswari Devi.
• (C) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (D) his father.

Q40. ‘At that time I thought him a brain-sick baby’ — Here the ‘brain-sick baby’ refers to:

• (A) Sarada Devi.
• (B) Sister Nivedita.
• (C) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (D) Maharishi Devendranath Tagore.

Q41. Ramkrishna Paramhansa lived only __________ after making Vivekananda over to Goddess Kali. 

• (A) two years
• (B) five years
• (C) ten years
• (D) fifteen years

Q42. Guru Nanak was the founder of —

• (A) Hinduism.
• (B) Buddhism.
• (C) Jainism.
• (D) Sikhism.

Q43. Ideally, Guru Nanak was like —

• (A) Sister Nivedita.
• (B) Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
• (C) Maharishi Devendranath Tagore.
• (D) Swami Vivekananda.

Q44. Besides Goddess Kali Vivekananda also believed in —

• (A) Brahman.
• (B) Jainism.
• (C) Buddhism.
• (D) Sikhism.

Q45. Swami Vivekananda had returned from a pilgrimage in —

• (A) Russia.
• (B) Ladakh.
• (C) Himachal Pradesh.
• (D) Kashmir.

Q46. ‘…. turning to his chief disciple’ — Who is the ‘chief disciple’ referred to here:

• (A) Swami Vivekananda.
• (B) Sister Nivedita.
• (C) Sarada Devi.
• (D) Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa.

Q47. From a different perspective, either _____________ must become Brahman or Brahman, the Mother. 

• (A) Father
• (B) pious man
• (C) Mother
• (D) devotee

Q48. ‘One of the two must melt into the other.’ — Here ‘two’ refers to:

• (A) Mother and Father.
• (B) Mother and Grandmother.
• (C) Father and Grandfather.
• (D) Mother and Brahman.

Q49. ‘I saw him in my Master’s attitude.’ — Here ‘Master’ refers to:

• (A) Rabindranath Tagore.
• (B) Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
• (C) Swami Vivekananda.
• (D) Sri Ramkrishna Paramhansa.

Q50. Veda-like words are found in —

• (A) the Bible.
• (B) the Ramayana.
• (C) the Mahabharata.
• (D) the Gita.

Q51. Sister Nivedita saw each day how Swami Vivekananda himself was turning the pages of the book of —

• (A) nature.
• (B) the Gita.
• (C) experience.
• (D) none of these.

Filling the Blanks

Q52. Sister Nivedita felt that there were _________ elements in Swami Vivekananda’s consciousness.

• (A) two
• (B) three
• (C) a number of
• (D) many

Q53. Nivedita had a sudden realisation that religions were only _________.

• (A) literatures
• (B) stories
• (C) languages
• (D) communications

Q54. On a certain occasion Swamiji entrusted to a disciple a prayer to Her that in his own life acted as a _________.

• (A) variable charm
• (B) veritable harm
• (C) veritable charm
• (D) variable harm

Q55. The short psalm ‘Voice of the Mother’ was written by _____________.

• (A) Swami Vivekananda
• (B) Sister Nivedita
• (C) Sri Ramakrishna
• (D) Guru Nanak

Q56. Swamiji considered the blood-offering made to the _________ who attend on Kali as devil worship.

• (A) devotees
• (B) priests
• (C) demons
• (D) people

Q57. God manifests through ____________ as well as through good.

• (A) evil
• (B) bad
• (C) joyful
• (D) sorrowful

Q58. Nivedita said to Swamiji, “Perhaps, Swamiji, Kali is the ________ of Siva.”

• (A) image
• (B) extension
• (C) opposite
• (D) vision

Q59. Nivedita was accompanied to Maharshi Devendra Nath Tagore’s house by _________.

• (A) a friend
• (B) Swami Vivekananda
• (C) a foreign companion
• (D) Sri Ramakrishna

Q60. On the day of her lecture at Kalighat Swami Vivekananda instructed the foreign friends of Nivedita to sit on the ____________.

• (A) bench
• (B) chair
• (C) floor
• (D) sofa

Q61. Swami Vivekananda saw the marvellous ___________ and wonderful love of Sri Ramakrishna.

• (A) wisdom
• (B) knowledge
• (C) affection
• (D) purity

Q62. Regarding the transference of power to the disciple Sri Ramakrishna reminds us the life of the great saint _________.

• (A) Adi Shankaracharya
• (B) Tukaram
• (C) Guru Nanak
• (D) Tulsidas