This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > Indian > Indian Literature – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Indian Literature Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word Radha is saying repeatedly in poem 'Song of Radha'? A) Govinda. B) Krishna. C) Kanhaiyya. D) Throw it away. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Govinda. 2. Which book of Salman Rushdie wins the Booker Prize? A) The Satanic Verses. B) Midnight's Children. C) The Moor's Last Sigh. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Midnight's Children. 3. Who accompanies Shakuntala to the capital? A) It explodes. B) Restrained. C) Gautami. D) Karabhaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gautami. 4. What does Dushyanta gift Shakuntala? A) An anklet. B) A necklace. C) A ring. D) A bracelet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A ring. 5. What do we call the reincarnations of Vishnu? A) Rama. B) Avatar. C) God. D) Brahma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Avatar. 6. Who is Mishrakeshi? A) Fairy. B) Mermaid. C) Goblin. D) Nymph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nymph. 7. ..... is our official language. A) Tamil. B) Urdu. C) Sanskrit. D) Hindi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hindi. 8. India's National Bird A) Dove. B) Falcon. C) Peacock. D) Eagle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peacock. 9. Kalidasa emphasizes Shakuntala's love for what? A) Squirrels. B) Sparrows. C) Deers. D) Doves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deers. 10. In which year the Jnanpith Award was first awarded? A) 1972. B) 1955. C) 1975. D) 1965. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1965. 11. ..... was considered as the mother of Indian languages. A) Tamil. B) Hindi. C) Sanskrit. D) Punjabi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sanskrit. 12. Oldest known literature in India A) The Vedas. B) The Epic of Gilgamesh. C) Mahabharata and Ramayana. D) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Vedas. 13. Bhasa was the greatest Indian writer of all time in India. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 14. Who is the author of the book 'winning like sourav think & succeed like ganguly'? A) (a) Kuldeeep Mishra. B) (or) Abhirup Bhattacharya. C) (c) Subodh Bhattacharya. D) (d) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) (or) Abhirup Bhattacharya. 15. Who is the Indian Shakespeare? A) Mahatma Ghandi. B) Vyasa. C) Kalidasa. D) Rabindranat Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalidasa. 16. Who is the present Director of National Book Trust? A) Geeta Anand. B) Rita Chowdhury. C) Jhumpa Lahiri. D) Lt Col Yuvraj Malik. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lt Col Yuvraj Malik. 17. The teachings given by Lord Krishna to Arjuna were compiled in ..... A) Bible. B) Panchatantra. C) Bhagavad Gita. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bhagavad Gita. 18. What was Purusha's role in the Hindu Creation Story? A) He cut up the universe to smaller pieces and formed the world we live in. B) He was frequently fighting the gods and so they trapped him in the core. C) He was sacrificed and his body parts serve as different parts of the world. D) He was the papa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was sacrificed and his body parts serve as different parts of the world. 19. Kalidasa was known as the Father of Indian Drama. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 20. Rik-shamhita is the collection of religious songs in India. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 21. Panchatantra is a collection of ..... A) Nature Fables. B) Animal Fables. C) King Fables. D) Village Fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Animal Fables. 22. Which of the following was NOT written during the Vedic Period? A) Ramayana. B) Mahabharata. C) Vegas. D) Upanishads. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vegas. 23. In what continent is India part of? A) Australia. B) America. C) Asia. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asia. 24. Who is Anasuya in the play? A) Shakuntala's aunt. B) Shakuntala's neighbor. C) Shakuntala's god mother. D) Shakuntala's friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakuntala's friend. 25. King Dusyanta is the king of ..... A) Hastinapur. B) Hindupur. C) Open. D) Hakipur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hastinapur. 26. What is the name of God Indra's charioteer? A) Represent it. B) Meena. C) Oil. D) Marica. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Represent it. 27. India's National Fruit A) Strawberry. B) Mango. C) Grapes. D) Lemon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mango. 28. In which year National Book Trust was founded? A) 1 August 1957. B) 15 August 1957. C) 15 August 1963. D) 1 August 1963. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 August 1957. 29. The basic tenets of Hinduism are found in the religious literature of ancient India called by what name? A) Sutras. B) Buddha's biography. C) Scrolls of Hinuism. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vedas. 30. Who curses Shakuntala? A) Doorkeeper. B) Dushyant. C) Durvasa. D) Daksha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Durvasa. 31. What was considered the most sacred Hindu text? A) Vedas. B) Torah. C) Old Testament. D) Quran. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vedas. 32. The ..... of India are an ancient collection of sacred verses, hymns, prayers, and teachings. A) Vedas. B) Bhagavad Gita. C) Torah. D) Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vedas. 33. What were the scientific major contributions of India? A) Philosophy and Religion. B) Scientific bent. C) Trigonometry, grammar books, phonetics, and chess. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trigonometry, grammar books, phonetics, and chess. 34. Indian literary masterpieces are written in a form of epics. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 35. What is the dominant theme of the play Abhijnana Shakuntalam? A) Love. B) Memory. C) Separation. D) Curse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love. 36. Where does Dushyanta meet Shakuntala? A) Karbhaka's Ashram. B) Kanava's Ashram. C) Raja's ashram. D) Chaturika's Ashram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kanava's Ashram. 37. India is the ..... th largest country in the world. A) 8th. B) Cat. C) Item. D) 7th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7th. 38. Panchatantra has been translated into ..... languages. A) 57. B) 77. C) 97. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 57. 39. There are..... different Hindu deities. A) 33. B) 3 million. C) 3, 000. D) 330 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 330 million. 40. How many chapters are in Bhagavad Gita? A) 18. B) 20. C) 50. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 18. 41. It is considered to be the greatest epic that tells a story of a civil war that might have taken place in the early years of Aryan occupation of India and the rival bands of brothers. A) Ramayana. B) Mahabharata. C) Shakuntala. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahabharata. 42. New Delhi is capital of what country? A) Saudi Arabia. B) Africa. C) Persia. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) India. 43. What are wall paintings called? A) Frescoes. B) Drawings. C) Graffiti. D) Sketches. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frescoes. 44. Who is this poetess? A) Kamala Das. B) Take. C) Not in the alley. D) Arundhati Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not in the alley. 45. It is the reincarnation of the creator god, Vishnu, in the person of a hero epic, Rama. A) Ramayana. B) Mahabharata. C) Shakuntala. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ramayana. 46. What are the main colors that you see in different Indian images? A) Red, blue, yellow. B) Black, orange, blue. C) Red, pink, blue. D) Black, white, yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red, blue, yellow. 47. India's National Animal A) Lion. B) Tiger. C) Elephant. D) Pig. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tiger. 48. The Jatakas describe around ..... concerning the previous lives of Buddha. A) 500 fables. B) 550 fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 550 fables. 49. The Hindus worship only one god, Brahma. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 50. It is impossible to understand Indian literature without understanding ..... A) Catholicism. B) Islam. C) Judaism. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hinduism. 51. Matali pretends to threaten the life of whom? A) Vaikhanas. B) Priyamvada. C) Middle age. D) Anasya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Middle age. 52. ..... was written by Ved Vyasa. A) Mahabharata. B) Ramayana. C) Panchatantra. D) Jataka Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahabharata. 53. The ..... are amongst the earliest Buddhist literature A) Mahabharata. B) Jataka Tales. C) Ramayana. D) Panchatantra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jataka Tales. 54. People living in cities and town wear A) Modern dresses. B) Traditional dresses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Modern dresses. 55. Ram was the prince of which Kingdom A) South. B) Lanka. C) Making the Kingdom. D) Assam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making the Kingdom. 56. The two known epics in India are Ramayana and ..... A) Mahabharata. B) Look to This Day. C) Tamil. D) Kalidasa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahabharata. 57. The highest position in caste system. A) Vaishyasya. B) Brahmins. C) Sudras. D) Kshatriyas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kshatriyas. 58. What is Bhagavad Gita? A) Fairytale. B) Poem. C) Novel. D) Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 59. Jataka Tales belongs to which literature? A) Buddhist. B) Cathelic. C) Jainism. D) Hindi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jainism. 60. It is the reincarnation of the creator god, Vishnu, as Krishna. A) Ramayana. B) Mahabharata. C) Shakuntala. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mahabharata. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesIndian Literature Quiz 1Indian Literature Quiz 3 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books