WorksheetsHINDUISM
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
"Sanantana Dharma," the formal name of Hinduism, means__________
Divine Light
Eternal Religion
Way of Truth
Holy Religion
Belief in the incarnations of a deity in different manifestations and personalities is called _______.
Bhakti`
Yogi
Avatara
Reincarnation
The ______ scripture is "that which is heard."
Darshan
Smriti
Sruti
Yoga
The highest god in the Hindu pantheon and one of the Trimuty is _______.
Brahma
Lakshmi
Siva
Brahman
The Shudras caste was renamed _____ by Mahatma Gandhi in protest of the injustice.
Prasad
Harijans
Puja
Jati
The first receivers of Vedic knowledge who supposedly heard them from the gods were the ______.
Sadhus
Prophets
Brahmins
Rishis
The three most powerful gods in Hinduism are called the ______.
Vedas
Moksha
Kali
Trimurthi
A type of yoga that encourages a worshiper to offer love and devotion to a god/goddess is ________.
Atharva Yoga
Bhakti Yoga
Karma Yoga
Jnana Yoga
The highest and purest of all castes is the _______ caste.
Shudra
Kshatriya
Brahmin
Vaishya
The Hindu Festival of Light is called ________.
Holi
Lohari
Kumbha Mela
Divali/Diwali
Liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is called ______.
Moksha
Yoga
Puranas
Karma
______ is worshipped as the "Mother Goddess" by most Hindus.
Kali
Lakshmi
Sarasvati
Parvati
The text _______ is called the "Fifth Vedas" because of its comprehensiveness.
Mahabharata
Bahagavad Gita
Puranas
Atharva Veda
The school in Hindu thought that is most concerned with logic and establishment of proof is the _______school.
Nyaya
Vedanta
Samkhya
Yoga
An offering given by a devotee to a god/goddess is called ______
Love
Samsara
Bhakti
Puja
The Smriti scriptures is considered secondary to Sruti scriptures because _______.
they are human origin
they were written later than the Sruti scriptures
they are longer
both A and B
"Bhagavad Gita" means ________.
Song of the Enlightened one
Song of Joy
Song of Thanksgiving
Song of the Lord
The last book to be written before the closing of the Vedic and Brahamanical Period is the _______.
Upanishads
Yajur Veda
Rig Veda
Atharva Veda
Mahatma Gandhi's embracing of nonviolence is founded on the Hindu concept of ________.
Sanyasa
Ahimsa
Vedanta
Puja
The _______ school establishes the foundations of interpreting Vedic texts that has been employed by other schools of thought.
Vedanta
Vaisheshika
Mimamsa
Samkhya
