Indian Literature Quiz 6 (20 MCQs)

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1. King Dusyanta is the king of .....

Correct Answer: C) Hastinapur.

2. What is the name of God Indra's charioteer?

Correct Answer: B) Represent it.

3. India's National Fruit

Correct Answer: D) Mango.

4. In which year National Book Trust was founded?

Correct Answer: A) 1 August 1957.

5. The basic tenets of Hinduism are found in the religious literature of ancient India called by what name?

Correct Answer: A) Vedas.

6. Who curses Shakuntala?

Correct Answer: B) Durvasa.

7. What was considered the most sacred Hindu text?

Correct Answer: C) Vedas.

8. The ..... of India are an ancient collection of sacred verses, hymns, prayers, and teachings.

Correct Answer: D) Vedas.

9. What were the scientific major contributions of India?

Correct Answer: C) Trigonometry, grammar books, phonetics, and chess.

10. Indian literary masterpieces are written in a form of epics.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

11. What is the dominant theme of the play Abhijnana Shakuntalam?

Correct Answer: B) Love.

12. Where does Dushyanta meet Shakuntala?

Correct Answer: D) Kanava's Ashram.

13. Merchant of Venice is a .....

Correct Answer: B) Comedy.

14. India is the ..... th largest country in the world.

Correct Answer: B) 7th.

15. In this literature, text were produced about 16th century BC by people known as Aryans.

Correct Answer: A) SANSKRIT LITERATURE.

16. It was also called as the "Book of Knowledge" .

Correct Answer: C) VEDAS.

17. Panchatantra has been translated into ..... languages.

Correct Answer: A) 57.

18. A genre of mythological narratives.

Correct Answer: B) PURANAS.

19. There are..... different Hindu deities.

Correct Answer: D) 330 million.

20. He was also known as the Father of Hindi Literature.

Correct Answer: B) Bharatendu Harishchandra.