Unit 2: Quiz

Below is a sample of questions that will appear on the quiz. Use them to guide your reading. A subset of these will appear on the quiz. 

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1. The word that means “liberation” is

2. The word Vedas is related to the English word

3. Vedic worship primarily involved

4. A characteristic symbolic object associated with Krishna, indicative of the attractive power of the divine, is a

5. A mantra is a

6. What animal is treated with special devotion and care by Hindus?

7. The term for the divine nature of each person is

8. The Vedic god of fire was

9. The hallucinatory drink used in Vedic worship was called

10. The oldest and most important of the Vedas is

11. The Upanishads are

12. When was the Bhagavad Gita written?

13. The Bhagavad Gita is part of a long Indian epic poem called

14. The prince who is counseled by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita is

15. The term maya may be translated as

16. Bhakti means

17. The god Rama is frequently paired with

18. The Vedic god of storm and war was

19. What god—ordinarily shown with the face of a monkey—helped return Sita after her abduction to Sri Lanka?

20. The ideal of causing no harm to anything that can suffer is

21. The modern Indian who used nonviolent means to help lead India to independence in 1947 was

22. The religious practice of ordinary Hindus is primarily

23. The law of moral cause-and-effect is called the law of

24. A Hindu social class, sanctioned by religion, is called a

25. Raja yoga is the yoga of

26. A brahmin is a

27. This god is associated with destruction and rebirth.

28. A major city of the pre-Vedic culture of the Indus River Valley was

29. Om is a well-known example of a

30. What deity is often shown with dark blue skin?

31. A guru is a

32. An important symbol of Shiva is the

33. In Hinduism, dharma refers to

34. The absolute or divine reality is known as

35. A sannyasin is a

36. The river that lies northwest of India is

37. Hinduism is the majority religion of

38. The goal of ultimate liberation from egotism and from rebirth is called

39. Puja is

40. Krishna is considered an incarnation of

41. Krishna is often portrayed holding a

42.The elephant-headed god who is a symbol of abundance is

43. The goddess of good luck is

44. Transcendentalism is the name for

45. Facts lending support to the “Aryan invasion theory” include

46. Critics of the “Aryan invasion theory” and “Aryan migration theory” often maintain that these are

47. Archeological discoveries showing Harappa civilization was not destroyed by outsiders led to

48. The yoga path that involves striving to do all useful work unselfishly without a desire for reward is

49. The yoga path focused on meditation is

50. The yoga path focused on doing various stretching postures and balancing is