This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > India > English In India History, Evaluation And Features – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English In India History, Evaluation And Features Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... is the responsible for suffering and rebirth. A) Religion. B) Action. C) Karma. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karma. 2. In this literature, text were produced about 16th century BC by people known as Aryans. A) SANSKRIT LITERATURE. B) MEDIEVAL LITERATURE. C) CLASSICAL LITERATURE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SANSKRIT LITERATURE. 3. Where do warriors and kings belong to? A) Vaishya. B) Kshatriya. C) Brahmin. D) Shudra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kshatriya. 4. Who is the author of the poetry "Look to this day" ? A) Dr. T.N.R. B) K.G.Seshadri. C) K.J. Saunders. D) Kalidasa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kalidasa. 5. One of the world's oldest and richest literature. A) SINGAPOREAN LITERATURE. B) CHINESE LITERATURE. C) INDIAN LITERATURE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) INDIAN LITERATURE. 6. Ruskin Bond was born in ..... A) Kasauli. B) Delhi. C) Dehradun. D) Shimla. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kasauli. 7. It is a collection of stories and hymns to Gods. A) Sanskrit. B) Panchatantra. C) Vedas. D) Shakuntala. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vedas. 8. It is India's greatest and national epic. A) Shakuntala. B) Ramanaya. C) Upanishads. D) Mahabharata. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mahabharata. 9. According to Hindu scriptures, the law of Karma is ..... A) Personal. B) Based of Action. C) Universal. D) Based on Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Universal. 10. Who is the father of Sita in the epic Ramayana? A) Lakshman. B) Bharat. C) Janak. D) Dasa-Ratha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Janak. 11. She is regarded by the women of India as the perfect symbol of wifely devotion and self-sacrifice for the beloved. A) Raksha. B) Kausalya. C) Sita. D) Kaikeyi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sita. 12. She is the mother of Rama. A) Kaikeyi. B) Raksha. C) Sita. D) Kausalya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kausalya. 13. ..... 's Nobel Prize was stolen. A) Amartya Sen. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. D) Mother Teresa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rabindranath Tagore. 14. He became the first non-European writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature. A) Rasaq Malik. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Haruki Murakami. D) Juan Gelman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rabindranath Tagore. 15. This poem was a tribute to the contribution of Indian soldiers in World War I. A) THE GIFT OF INDIA. B) THE GIFT OF HINDU. C) THE GIFT OF NAIDU. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THE GIFT OF INDIA. 16. It is the epic that tells the rivals between two bands of brothers. A) Shakuntala. B) Panchatantra. C) Mahabharata. D) Rayamana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mahabharata. 17. He was also known as the Father of Hindi Literature. A) RABINDRANATH TAGORE. B) BHARTENDU HARISHCHANDRA. C) SARAJINI NAIDU. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BHARTENDU HARISHCHANDRA. 18. What is the dawn means in this poem? A) Evening. B) Midday. C) Morning. D) Sunrise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sunrise. 19. The Karma was created by ..... A) Others. B) God. C) Fate. D) Ourself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ourself. 20. Language of ancient India A) Aryan. B) Persian. C) Nepalese. D) Sanskrit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sanskrit. 21. He is mainly know for these four collections:These Errors Are Correct, English, Apocalypso and Gemini. A) Suketu Mehta. B) Jeet Thayil. C) Durjoy Datta. D) Ravinder Singh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jeet Thayil. 22. She was famously known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India). A) SHUKADRA. B) SARAJINI NAIDU. C) RABINDRANATH TAGORE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SARAJINI NAIDU. 23. Tells the story of the hero Rama, prince of Ayodhya and incarnation of the God Vishnu. A) BRAHMANAS. B) JATAKAS. C) RAMAYANA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) RAMAYANA. 24. What is the most dominant religion in India? A) Hinduism. B) Jainism. C) Sikhism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 25. "The Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty ". A) TIPITKA. B) MAHABHARATA. C) JATAKAS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) MAHABHARATA. 26. "The Way of Rama" , tells the story of the hero Rama, prince of Ayodhya and incarnation of the god Vishnu. A) MAHABHARATA. B) BHARATA. C) RAMAYANA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) RAMAYANA. 27. Kalidasa's work influenced late ..... and ..... century European Literature. A) 19th, 20th. B) 6th, 7th. C) 4th, 5th. D) 18th, 19th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 18th, 19th. 28. It is the epic that tells the reincarnation of the god Vishnu through the person named Krishna. A) Mahabharata. B) Panchatantra. C) Shakuntala. D) Ramayana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahabharata. 29. How did Indian literature affect our understanding of the world? A) It made us think more highly of ancient cultures. B) It made us think less highly of ancient cultures. C) It didn't have an impact on our viewpoint. D) I am still answering randomly, just to get the most points, beta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It made us think more highly of ancient cultures. 30. The following are the brothers of Rama EXCEPT one. A) Satrughna. B) Lakshman. C) Bharat. D) Dasa-Ratha. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dasa-Ratha. 31. India's oldest philosophical treaties and form the foundation of major schools of Hindu philosophy. A) UPANISHADS. B) SHUKADRA. C) VEDAS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) UPANISHADS. 32. What did Ravan send to temp Rama and Lakshman away from the hermitage, and in their absence, steal Sita? A) A pair of magic slippers. B) A chest of gold. C) A beautiful deer. D) A beautiful woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A beautiful deer. 33. Which among the following statement is not a characteristic of Indian Literature? A) It is based on piety. B) It corresponds to great epochs of Arabian literature. C) It is a mixture of reality and magic. D) It does not involve Indian gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It does not involve Indian gods. 34. It was a religious doctrine and the chain of good and bad action and their inevitable consequences, which result to the repeated birth and death of the soul. A) BRAHMANAS. B) JATAKAS. C) KARMA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) KARMA. 35. ..... is known for writing the book series 'The Shiva Trilogy' and 'Ram Chandra' series, which were the fastest and second-fastest selling book series in the Indian publishing history (respectively). A) Ruskin Bond. B) Aravind Adiga. C) Salman Rushdie. D) Amish Tripathi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amish Tripathi. 36. The book "Exam Warriors" is written by? A) Devdutt Pattanaik. B) Narendra Modi. C) Salman Rushdie. D) Shashi Tharoor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narendra Modi. 37. Who deposit a man's private account in each morning? A) Author. B) People. C) God. D) King. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God. 38. According to Kalidasa, today should be ..... A) Dreamed. B) Used. C) Wasted. D) Well-lived. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Well-lived. 39. The epic Ramayana includes two powerful races. What are those two races? A) Pandavas and Kauravas. B) Vishnas and Brahmas. C) Kosalas and Videhas. D) Lankas and Janaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kosalas and Videhas. 40. This is the fundamental scripture of the Hindu religio. A) Bible. B) Analects. C) Koran. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vedas. 41. Where do manual labourers belong to? A) Kshatriya. B) Brahmin. C) Shudra. D) Vaishya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shudra. 42. A collection of stories of prose and verse, which feature animals as the characters, teach lesson about human conduct. A) KALIDASA. B) SHAKUNTALA. C) PANCHATANTRA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PANCHATANTRA. 43. This heroic text tells the story of the hero Rama, prince of Ayodhya and incarnation of the god Vishnu. A) Ramayana. B) Mahabharata. C) Vishnu. D) Shakuntala. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ramayana. 44. It is a collection of stories in prose and verse, which feature animals as the characters, teach lessons about human conduct A) Kalidasa. B) Shakuntala. C) Ramayana. D) Panchatantra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Panchatantra. 45. It is the epic that recounts the adventure of Rama and his wife Sita. A) Ramayama. B) Ramayana. C) Rama and Sita. D) Mahabharata. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ramayana. 46. Author K.J. Saunder was born in ..... A) 1883. B) 1882. C) 1881. D) 1880. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1883. 47. A genre of mythological narratives. A) BURANAS. B) PURANAS. C) KURANAS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PURANAS. 48. What job(s) had Khushwant Singh experienced except Authoring? A) Diplomat. B) Lawyer. C) Politician. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 49. It is the India's language in literature used from 200 B.C up to present. A) Hindu. B) Vedas. C) Sanskrit. D) Vedic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sanskrit. 50. The major form of classical literature in Sanskrit. A) KARMA. B) UPANISHADS. C) KABYA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) KABYA. 51. He was a great Indian poet who was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. A) Kalidasa. B) Bhasa. C) Mahatma Ghandi. D) Rabindranath Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rabindranath Tagore. 52. This poem is considered as the longest epic in the world. A) Mahabharata. B) Biag ni Lam-ang. C) The Tale of Genji. D) Ramayana. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahabharata. 53. What is meant by Karma A) Action. B) Result. C) Effect. D) Consequences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Action. 54. It is an ancient Indian religion teaching a path to spiritual purity and enlightenment through disciplined nonviolence A) Jainism. B) Sikhism. C) Hinduism. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jainism. 55. Kaikeyi requested Rama to be exiled in the forest of Dandak for how many years? A) 17 years. B) 16 years. C) 15 years. D) 14 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14 years. 56. Which of these books is written by Shashi Tharoor? A) Why I Am a Hindu. B) Train to Pakistan. C) Midnight's Children. D) Two Lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Why I Am a Hindu. 57. According to Kalidasa yesterday is a ..... A) Dream. B) Vision. C) Hope. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dream. 58. The poem Karma is selected from Buddhist verse ..... A) Buddha's way of Verse. B) The Story of Buddhism. C) The Heart of Buddhism. D) Gotama Buddha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Heart of Buddhism. 59. "Book of Spells" which contains some hymns, spells, encantations and notions about demonology and witchcraft. A) Atharva-Veda. B) Sama-Veda. C) Yajur-Veda. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atharva-Veda. 60. Which of the following information about India is NOT true? A) It is the seventh-largest country by area. B) It is purely an Islam country. C) It is located in South Asia. D) It is the second-most populous country in the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is purely an Islam country. 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