Chapter 3 - 

Amarnath-Sister Nivedita


1. Swamiji declared about his pilgrimage to Amarnath during -

(a) breakfast        (b) supper        

(c) meal          (d) a meeting

Ans: (c)


2. The narrator and others including Swamiji were having their meals -

(a) inside the tent          (b) in the open-air          

(c) in a room          (d) in the Tehsildar's camp

Ans: (b)     


3. The boats of the travellers were kept in -

(a) Achhabal           (b) Amarnath          

(c) Islamabad          (d) Pahigam

Ans: (c)


4. During the journey of the narrator to Amarnath, Kashmir appeared to be full of -

(a)apples         (b) tourists      

(c) crowd         (d) pilgrims

Ans: (d)


5. The pilgrims who encamped at a site left the place -

(a) before dawn         (b) in the morning         

(c) at noon         (d) in the afternoon

Ans: (a)


6. The pitching of the tent and opening of the shops were done -

(a) slowly           (b) very quickly          

(c) by taking time           (d) in no hurry

Ans: (b)


7. The pilgrims carried with them -

(a) a team of security guards            (b) horses            

(c) their own provisions          (d) a bazaar

Ans: (d)


8. The either side of the Tehsildar's tent was occupied by -

(a) his subordinates          (b) Swamiji and the narrator        

(c) Swamiji and other monks        (d) his bodyguards

Ans: (c)


9. The evening fire was lit near -

(a) Swamiji's tent           (b) Tehsildar's tent         

(c) the writer's tent        (d) a spot far from the tent

Ans: (b)


10. The tents of the monks in the journey to Amarnath were -

(a) white in colour            (b) Gerrua in colour          

(c) red in colour            (d) of different colours

Ans: (b)


11. Swamiji's influence seemed to be magnetic among the -

(a) monks           (b) Western devotees          

(c) all the pilgrims           (d) narrator and her companions

Ans: (a)


12. Swain and the monks used to discuss about Sive in his tent -

(a) in the evening            (b) at night           

(c) throughout morning          (d) throughout the hours of daylight

Ans: (d)


13. Swamy bad love and sympathy for -

(a) Christianity           (b) Buddhism            

(c) Mohammedanism           (d) Abrahamic religion

Ans: (c)


14. The monks failed to conceive the unity between -

(a) Hindus and Mohammedans        (b) common people and sanyasins       

(c) Mohammedans and the people of Punjaub                (d) religious and worldly matters

Ans: (a)


15. The Tehsildar, many officers and servants of the journey to Amarnath were -

(a) Jains           (b) Sikhs of Punjaub       

(c) Mussalmans          (d) Christians

Ans: (c)


16. The place called Pawan was famous for -

(a) its holy lakes              (b) holy shrines           

(c) holy temples            (d) holy springs

Ans: (d)


17. Pahlgam way the village of -

(a) Tribesmen          (b) farmers           

(c) shepherds          (d) all of these people 

Ans: (c


18. The pilgrims halted at Pahigam one day for observing -

(a) Rakhibandhan             (b) Sivaratri            

(c) Ekadasi             (d) Purnima

Ans: (c)


19. The most part of Pahigam were -

(a) boulder-strewn valley             (b) mountain slopes             

(c) sandy islands        (d) pebble bed

Ans: (c)


20. At Pawan the narrator observed the reflection of brilliant light in the water of a -

(a) tank          (b) river         

(c) lake           (d) stream

Ans: (a