Answer key of MCQs on Amarnath, Important MCQ with Answer on Amarnath, Amarnath MCQ

Answer key of MCQs on Amarnath 

Answer key of MCQs on Amarnath, Important MCQ with Answer on Amarnath, Amarnath MCQ

1. Where did the Swami announce his decision to go to Amarnath? (a) Srinagar (b) Achhabal (c) Islamabad (d) Pahlgam ✅ Answer: (b) Achhabal

2. Who did the Swami say he would take with him on the pilgrimage? (a) His disciple (b) His brother (c) His daughter (d) His teacher

 ✅ Answer: (c) His daughter

3. What was the general reaction within their group to Swami’s announcement? (a) Anger (b) Sadness (c) Joyful congratulations (d) Indifference 

✅ Answer: (c) Joyful congratulations

4. From which place did they return to Islamabad for final arrangements? (a) Amarnath (b) Kashmir (c) Achhabal (d) Pawan 

✅ Answer: (c) Achhabal

5. What was seen everywhere during those weeks in Kashmir? (a) Tourists (b) Pilgrims (c) Soldiers (d) Police 

✅ Answer: (b) Pilgrims

6. What trace did the pilgrims leave behind in the field? (a) Tents (b) Ashes of cooking-fires (c) Food (d) Garbage 

✅ Answer: (b) Ashes of cooking-fires

7. What did the pilgrims carry with them? (a) Religious books (b) Bazaar (c) Banners (d) Weapons 

✅ Answer: (b) Bazaar

8. What commonly happened at each halting place? (a) Construction (b) Fights (c) Pitching tents and opening shops (d) Cleaning

 ✅ Answer: (c) Pitching tents and opening shops

9. What ran through the middle of one part of the camp? (a) A river (b) A broad street (c) A railway line (d) A wall

 ✅ Answer: (b) A broad street

10. What items could be bought at the camp? (a) Vegetables and meat (b) Milk, dahls, rice, dried fruits (c) Gold and jewels (d) Clothes

 ✅ Answer: (b) Milk, dahls, rice, dried fruits

11. Where was the Swami’s tent usually placed? (a) Near the river (b) In the middle of the forest (c) Beside the Tehsildar’s tent (d) Next to the shops 

✅ Answer: (c) Beside the Tehsildar’s tent

12. What color were the monks' tents generally? (a) White (b) Red (c) Blue (d) Gerrua

 ✅ Answer: (d) Gerrua

13. What was the size of some monks’ tents compared to? (a) A blanket (b) An umbrella (c) A house (d) A small car

 ✅ Answer: (b) An umbrella

14. What kind of people gathered around the Swami at each halting place? (a) Tourists (b) Traders (c) Learned monks (d) Farmers 

✅ Answer: (c) Learned monks

15. What was the topic of the monks’ conversation with the Swami? (a) Politics (b) Lord Siva (c) Business (d) Nature

 ✅ Answer: (b) Lord Siva

16. What did the monks urge the Swami not to do? (a) Eat with them (b) Speak in English (c) Talk about the world (d) Fast ✅ Answer: (c) Talk about the world

17. What distinction did they not want the Swami to make? (a) Between young and old (b) Between rich and poor (c) Between Swadesh and Bidesh (d) Between Hindus and Sikhs

 ✅ Answer: (c) Between Swadesh and Bidesh

18. What could many monks not understand about the Swami? (a) His dislike for fasting (b) His love for nature (c) His respect for Mohammedanism (d) His silence

 ✅ Answer: (c) His respect for Mohammedanism

19. What region’s soil did the monks say was drenched in blood for the faith? (a) Kashmir (b) Bengal (c) Punjab (d) Gujarat

 ✅ Answer: (c) Punjab

20. What did the Swami do to express love for his brethren? (a) Kept quiet (b) Made practical concessions (c) Left the group (d) Started arguing 

✅ Answer: (b) Made practical concessions

21. Who were many officers and servants of the pilgrimage? (a) Hindus (b) Christians (c) Buddhists (d) Mussulmans ✅ Answer: (d) Mussulmans

22. Who came to be accepted as disciples by the Swami later? (a) Monks (b) Foreigners (c) The Tehsildar and friends (d) Policemen

 ✅ Answer: (c) The Tehsildar and friends

23. Where did they camp after leaving Islamabad? (a) Pahlgam (b) Achhabal (c) Pawan (d) Baltal 

✅ Answer: (c) Pawan

24. What was Pawan famous for? (a) Snow (b) Waterfalls (c) Holy springs (d) Temples

 ✅ Answer: (c) Holy springs

25. What was seen reflected in the tank’s waters? (a) Clouds (b) Stars (c) Lights (d) Birds

 ✅ Answer: (c) Lights

26. Where did the pilgrims go in small groups? (a) Tents (b) River banks (c) Shops (d) Shrines 

✅ Answer: (d) Shrines

27. What does Pahlgam/Pawan mean? (a) Place of light (b) Village of shepherds (c) Valley of peace (d) Temple town

 ✅ Answer: (b) Village of shepherds

28. Why did the camp halt at Pahlgam/Pawan? (a) For shopping (b) To keep ekadasi (c) Due to heavy rain (d) To meet others 

✅ Answer: (b) To keep ekadasi

29. What kind of scenery surrounded the place? (a) Forest (b) Desert (c) Snowfields (d) Ravines and pine trees

 ✅ Answer: (d) Ravines and pine trees

30. What was seen at sunset above the mountain head? (a) Sun (b) Moon (c) Stars (d) Clthreads

✅ Answer: (b) Moon

31. With what foreign country was the scenery compared? (a) China (b) France (c) Norway (d) Japan 

✅ Answer: (c) Norway

32. What did they see for the last time at Pahlgam? (a) A police camp (b) A town (c) Human dwellings (d) A railway

 ✅ Answer: (c) Human dwellings

33. What was left behind on a grassy knoll? (a) Weapons (b) Rest of the party (c) Food supplies (d) Shops 

✅ Answer: (b) Rest of the party

34. How many pilgrims were there in the valleys? (a) One thousand (b) Two thousand (c) Three thousand (d) Five hundred 

✅ Answer: (c) Three thousand

35. Where did they camp on the first day of ascent? (a) Beside a frozen river (b) On a snow peak (c) In a pine-wood (d) In a hut ✅ Answer: (c) In a pine-wood

36. What fuel was used for the campfire? (a) Pine (b) Coal (c) Juniper (d) Grass

 ✅ Answer: (c) Juniper

37. What made fuel collection harder as they ascended? (a) Snow (b) No trees (c) Sand (d) Rain

 ✅ Answer: (b) No trees

38. What ended at the final stretch of the journey? (a) Food supply (b) Regular pathway (c) Tent supply (d) Guides 

✅ Answer: (b) Regular pathway

39. Where was the Cave of Amarnath located? (a) On a hilltop (b) In a valley (c) In a boulder-strewn gorge (d) In a temple 

✅ Answer: (c) In a boulder-strewn gorge

40. What natural element covered the snow-peaks? (a) Rain (b) Fog (c) Newly fallen white veil (d) Clouds 

✅ Answer: (c) Newly fallen white veil

41. What shone in the Cave? (a) Gold statue (b) Fire lamp (c) Ice-lingam (d) Marble pillar 

✅ Answer: (c) Ice-lingam

42. What did the Swami do during the journey? (a) Slept (b) Avoided rituals (c) Followed all rites (d) Guided tourists 

✅ Answer: (c) Followed all rites

43. How many streams did he bathe in? (a) Three (b) Two (c) Five (d) Seven

 ✅ Answer: (c) Five

44. What emotion did Swami fear inside the Cave? (a) Sadness (b) Confusion (c) Overwhelming emotion (d) Hunger 

✅ Answer: (c) Overwhelming emotion

45. What did he claim to receive from Lord Siva? (a) Wisdom (b) Wealth (c) Amar – not to die until willed (d) Power 

✅ Answer: (c) Amar – not to die until willed

46. Where had he always thought he would die? (a) In a palace (b) In a battlefield (c) In a Siva temple in the mountains (d) In a hut 

✅ Answer: (c) In a Siva temple in the mountains

47. What was not seen outside the Cave? (a) Devotees (b) Monks (c) Brahminic exploitation (d) Natural beauty 

✅ Answer: (c) Brahminic exploitation

48. On what special day did the pilgrimage culminate? (a) Diwali (b) Holi (c) Rakhibandhan (d) Shivratri 

✅ Answer: (c) Rakhibandhan

49. What was tied around the pilgrims’ wrists? (a) Bells (b) Red and yellow threads (c) Flowers (d) White cloth

 ✅ Answer: (b) Red and yellow threads

50. What did the Swami compare the Cave discovery story to? (a) A fairytale (b) A war (c) Shepherds finding Mahadev (d) A myth from Vedas 

✅ Answer: (c) Shepherds finding Mahadev