1. “sanatana Dharma,” the formal name of Hinduism, means ____.

a. Divine light
b. Eternal Religion
c. Way of Truth
d. Holy Religion
2. Belief in the incarnation of a deity in different manifestations and personalities is called ____.
a. Bhakti
b. Yogi
c. Avatara
d. Reincarnation
3. The ____ scripture is “that which is heard.”
a. Darshan
b. Smriti
c. Sruti
d. Yoga
4. The highest god in the Hindu pantheon and one of the Trimurthi is ___.
a. Brahma
b. Lakshmi
c. Siva
d. Brahman
5. The shudras caste was renamed ____ by Mahatma Gandhi in protest of the injustice of the caste system.
a. Prasad
b. Harijans
c. Puja
d. Jati
6. The first receives of Vedic knowledge who supposedly heard them from the gods were the ____.
a. Sadhus
b. Prophets
c. Brahmins
d. Rishis
7. The three most powerful gods in Hinduism is called the ___.
a. Vedas
b. Moksha
c. Kali
d. Trimurthi
8. A type of yoga that encourages a worshiper to offer love and devotion to a god/goddess is ___.
a. Atharva yoga
b. Bhakti yoga
c. Karma yoga
d. Jnana yoga
9. The highest and purest of all castes is the ___ caste
a. Shudra
b. Kshatriya
c. Brahmin
d. Vaishya
10. The Hindu Festival of Light is called ____.
a. Holi
b. Lohari
c. Kumbha Mela
d. Divali
11. Liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth is called ____
a. Moksha
b. Yoga
c. Puranas
d. Karma
12. _____ is worshipped as the “Mother Goddess” by most Hindus.
a. Kali
b. Lakshmi
c. Sarasvati
d. Parvati
13. The text ____ is called the “Fifth Vedas” because of its comprehensiveness
a. Mahabharata
b. Bahagavad Gita
c. Puranas
d. Atharva Veda
14. The school in Hindu thought that is most concerned with logic and establishment of proof is the ____
school.
a. Nyaya
b. Vedanta
c. Samkhya
d. Yoga
15. An offering given by a devotee to a god/goddess is called ____
a. Love
b. Samsara
c. Bhakti
d. Puja
16. The smriti scriptures is considered secondary to Sruti scripture because _____.
a. They are of human origin
b. They were written later than the sruti scriptures
c. They are longer
d. Both a and b
17. “Bhagavad Gita” means ______.
a. Song of the enlightened one
b. Song of joy
c. Song of thanksgiving
d. Song of the Lord
18. The last book to be written before the closing of the vedic and brahamanical period is the _____.
a. Upanishads
b. Yajur Veda
c. Rig Veda
d. Atharva Veda
19. Mahatma Gandhi’s embracing of nonviolence is founded on the Hindu concept of ______.
a. Sanyasa
b. Ahimsa
c. Vedanta
d. Puja
20. The _____ school establishes the foundations of interpreting Vedic texts that has been employed by
other schools of thought.
a. Vedanta
b. Vaisheshika
c. Mimamsa
d. Samkhya