This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > Asian Literature > Asian Literature – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Asian Literature Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Book of History (Shu King), A selection of three hundred and five odes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. Along the banks of what river did the earliest Indian civilization begin? A) Indus River. B) Ganges River. C) Yellow River. D) Yangtze. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indus River. 3. What language is most widely spoken in Asia? A) Chinese. B) Arabic. C) Russian. D) Hindi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chinese. 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?" A) Zigong. B) Zhonggong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zigong. 5. Hasidism and the Lubbavicher are different sects of Judaism A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. The ..... is awarded to any person who has rendered valuable public service to the people of Singapore. A) Jnanpith Award. B) Magsaysay Award. C) Outstanding Service Project Award. D) Community Service Star. E) . Show Answer Correct Answer: E) . 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. A) Buddhism. B) Taoism. C) Hinduism. D) Confucianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confucianism. 8. Who is considered one of the earliest and greatest poets in Japanese literature, known for composing many haikus in the 8th century CE? A) Matsuo location. B) Sex Shonagon. C) Purple Shikibu. D) Kakimoto no Hitomaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Matsuo location. 9. -Third Largest Ethnic Group A) Ilocano. B) Tagalog. C) Cebuano. D) Come on. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ilocano. 10. Based on the historical journey of a Buddhist to India A) Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. B) Dream of the Red Chamber. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. 11. Israel is the name given by God to Jacob. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. What is court literature? A) A collection of writings ascribed to its famous kings. B) A collection of historical scribes of the royal families. C) A collection of writings about the injustices of the kings. D) A collection of poems for the kings' concubines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A collection of writings ascribed to its famous kings. 13. Wrote "The Three Body Problem" , the first book in the trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past A) Boyan. B) Lux UN. C) L ICI new. D) Q i Ang Z sweet potato. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) L ICI new. 14. Which of the following is considered the oldest novels in the world written by Murasaki Shikibu? A) Tale of Heike. B) Tale of Genji. C) Hey Kojiki. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tale of Genji. 15. "The mere hum of it has a lancinating quality of tone which foretells the quality of the pain about to come" -the narrator A) Understands the nature and quality of a mosquito. B) Feels empathetic towards the mosquito. C) Is bothered by its sound and pain. D) Enjoys the company of the mosquito. E) . Show Answer Correct Answer: E) . 16. What is the dominant religion in North Africa? A) Judaism. B) Christianity. C) Islam. D) Hinduism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Islam. 17. Asian folktales, proverbs, riddles, songs, legends and myths are within the genre of A) Traditional oral literature. B) Religious narratives. C) Non-narrative poetry. D) Narrative prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional oral literature. 18. Jews did NOT believe in the Tenakh, which corresponds to the Christian Old Testament. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 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. A) You do. B) Sermon. C) Anthology. D) Quasida. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You do. 20. Development of Chinese Writing. It is also the 1st dynasty. A) Shang Dynasty (1700-1050 BC). B) Zhou Dynasty (1045-225 BC). C) Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). D) Han Dynasty (206-220 BC). E) Tang Dynasty (618-907). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shang Dynasty (1700-1050 BC). ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesAsian Literature Quiz 1Asian Literature Quiz 2Asian Literature Quiz 3Asian Literature Quiz 4Asian Literature Quiz 5Asian Literature Quiz 6Asian Literature Quiz 7Asian Literature Quiz 9Asian Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books