INDIAN LITERATURE

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is the oldest known literature in India particularly in Hinduism religion.?
a. Vedas
b. Hindu Literature
c. Aryan Vedas
d. Indo Vedas

2. How many hymns does the book of Vedas have?

a. 1820 hymns
b. 1208 hymns
c. 1028 hymns
d. 1280 hymns

3. What is the first Indian epic that composed for about 6500 years?
a. Mahabharata
b. An Era of darkness
c. Ramayana
d. Freedom of Midnight

4. These are the characters of the Indian Literature, which is not?

a. Literature is based on piety during the earliest period in India.
b. Indian literary masterpieces are written in epic form in corresponds to their culture.
c. Indian Literature was rooted from Rigveda and Upanishads
d. Indian Literature was written in epic form to emphasis the history of India.

5. What is the oldest and most diverse forms of literature in the world?
a. Epic
b. Poetry
c. Prose
d. Essay

6. What form of Literature that uses words in creative and rhythmic ways of expressing feelings, idea, and
images?
a. Poetry
b. Epic
c. Essay
d. Prose

7. Indian Poetry was written in a variety of Indian language, which language does not belong to the
group?
a. Telugu, Kannada, Bengali
b. Oriya, Sanskrit, Telugu
c. Tamil, Urnu, Hindi
d. Oriya, Sanskrit, Bengali

8. What are the themes of Indian Poetry, which is not?

a. Social issues
b. Spiritual divine love
c. Nature
d. Struggles

9. What literary form of literature that reflects the Indian culture and traditions from the past 4000
decades?
a. Indian Literature
b. Indian Poetry
c. Indian Epic
d. Indian Short stories

10. What form did Indian Sanskrit short stories originated?

a. It was formed through gods and goddesses.
b. It originated from the form of fire rituals.
c. It originated from the form of animals.
d. It originated from their nature.

11. When was the remarkable year for Indian English short stories?
a. 1898
 b. 1989
c. 1889
d. 1899

12. What is the first short stories published by Kamala Sathianadan?

a. Stories from Indian Christian Life
b. Stories from Indian Religious way of Life
c. Stories from Indian History
d. Stories from Ramayana and Mahabharata

13. Who wrote the “The children of Kaveri”?

a. Amartya Sen
b. Nathala H. Joshi
c. Shankar Ram
d. Salman Rushdie

14. Who wrote the Non-fiction entitled “Step Across This Line”?
a. Amartya Sen
b. S. Jaishankar
c. Shashi Tharoor
d. Salman Rushdie

15. What is the remarkable story of Shankar Ram written in the year 1933?
a. The Children of Kaveri
b. Creature of All show
c. The wonder that was India
d. India After Gandhi

16. Who invaded and contributed to the development of Indian Literature during 19th century?
a. Aryans
b. Britons
c. Europeans
d. Angles

17. What is the main language used during the earliest Indian Literature?
a. Sanskrit
b. Bengali
c. Urdu
d. Kannada

18. What is the prose commentary use to comprehend the Indian Literature?
a. Rigveda
b. Upanishads
c. Bengali
d. Atharva Veda

19. What particular form of Indian literature that records stories using Hindi text such as Vedic Literature
and the Puranas?
a. Indian Poetry
b. Indian Myths
c. Indian Short stories
d. Indian Epics

20. What is the oldest book from Vedas that consist of Hymns about mythology?
a. Sama Veda
b. Yajur Veda
c. Atharva Veda
d. Rig Veda

ANSWER KEY.
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. D
9. B
10. C
11. A
12. A
13. C
14. D
15. B
16. B
17. A
18. B
19. B
20. D