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Influence of Veda and Geeta on key American Ideals.

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who has been called the 'mind of the America'?

a)

Christopher Isherwood

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Swami Prabhavananda

d)

None of the above, someone else.

2.

What went from the West to India?

a)

Industry

b)

Technology

c)

Industry and Technology

d)

Sanatana Dharma

3.

Whose seminal memoir, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI, turned millions of seekers toward India and continues to do so today?

a)

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

b)

Ravi Shankar

c)

Paramahansa Yogananda

d)

Sadguru jaggi Vasudev

4.

Who introduced meditation as a type of way to relieve stress and being a good medicine in the years 1967 and 1968?

a)

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

b)

Muktananda

c)

Vishnudevananda

d)

A. C. Bhaktivedanta

5.

Which of the following crossed over from doctor to public philospher?

a)

Abraham Maslow

b)

Deepak Chopra

c)

Dean Omish

d)

mehmet Oz

6.

What was Richard Alpert also known as?

a)

Ram Dass

b)

Gopal Das

c)

Laxman Kumar

d)

Yogesh Das

7.

Westerners never ever changed/appropriated the teachings when spreading the teachings in the west.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The inner experience of one’s own divine nature through methods of one’s own choosing has replaced _____and _____with a religious tradition as the main driver of spirituality.

a)

Identification, Belief

b)

Faith, Identification

c)

Belief, Faith

d)

Spirituality, Faith

9.

Pluralism has overtaken ________

a)

Tradition

b)

exclusivism

c)

Belief

10.

No religious tradition is the ______

a)

One extreme way

b)

One false way

c)

One true way

11.

What did Arnold Toynbee write in 1969 which turned out to be correct?

a)

“a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race.”

b)

“a chapter which had an Indian beginning will have to have a Western ending if it is not to end in the self-destruction of the human race.”

12.

Who is this article written by?

a)

Abraham Maslow

b)

Philip Goldberg

c)

Aldous Huxley

d)

Herman Hesse