TNPSC Important History Questions with Answers - 8

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1. ‘Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’.who said?

a)Swami Vivekananda
b) Sri Ramakrishna
c) Chandra Sekhar Deb
d) Sri Narayana Guru
Answer: a

2. The Theosophical Society is an organization formed in _______ to advance the spiritual

principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy.

a) 1842
b) 1843
c) 1845
d) 1875
Answer: d

3. Who started the journal ‘New India’?

a) C.W.Leadbeater

b) Annie Besant

c) Ram Mohun Roy

d) Keshub Chandra Sen

Answer: b

4. Who founded the Ramakrishna Mission?

a) Derozio
b) Satkari Datta
c) SwamiVivekananda
d) Sri Ramakrishna Parama Hamsar
Answer: c

5. Swami Vivekananda attended the World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in _______

a) 1863
b) 1876
c) 1893
d) 1897
Answer: c

6. In India, the Wahabi movement was started by_______

a) Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly
b) ViIayet Ali

c) Mohammad Ali
d) Jahan Dad Khan
Answer: a

7. Swami Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as_______

a) Narendra Nath Datta
b) Vishwanath Datta

c) Upendranath Datta
d) Vasava Datta
Answer: a

8.After a few years Olcott and Blavatsky moved to India and established the International

Headquarters at Adyar, in_______

a) New Zealand
b) Canada
c) Australia
d) Madras
Answer: d

9. Swami Vivekananda was born in an affluent family in _______ on 12 January 1863.

a) Bombay
b) Ajmer
c) Kolkata
d) Orrisa

Answer: c

10. ’A Study in Consciousness’ was written by _______

a) Annie Besant
b) Mrinal Gore
c) Prasanna Kumar Tagore
d) Rajkamal Sen
Answer: a

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