Asian Literature Quiz 8 (20 MCQs)

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1. The Book of History (Shu King), A selection of three hundred and five odes.
2. Along the banks of what river did the earliest Indian civilization begin?
3. What language is most widely spoken in Asia?
4. He is considered as one of the brightest students of Confucius who asked the question: "Is there a single saying that one may put into practice all one's life?"
5. Hasidism and the Lubbavicher are different sects of Judaism
6. The ..... is awarded to any person who has rendered valuable public service to the people of Singapore.
7. The term refers to a philosophy that is all-encompassing way of thinking and living that entails ancestor reverence and a profound human-centered religiousness.
8. Who is considered one of the earliest and greatest poets in Japanese literature, known for composing many haikus in the 8th century CE?
9. -Third Largest Ethnic Group
10. Based on the historical journey of a Buddhist to India
11. Israel is the name given by God to Jacob.
12. What is court literature?
13. Wrote "The Three Body Problem" , the first book in the trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past
14. Which of the following is considered the oldest novels in the world written by Murasaki Shikibu?
15. "The mere hum of it has a lancinating quality of tone which foretells the quality of the pain about to come" -the narrator
16. What is the dominant religion in North Africa?
17. Asian folktales, proverbs, riddles, songs, legends and myths are within the genre of
18. Jews did NOT believe in the Tenakh, which corresponds to the Christian Old Testament.
19. It is an Arabic prose consisting of a succession of pairs of short rhyming expression where there is a rhetorical and antithetical balance of sense between the pairs of expressions with a certain loose rhythmical balance not bound by strict meter.
20. Development of Chinese Writing. It is also the 1st dynasty.