Indian Literature Quiz

 


Q 1: Panchatantra : Vishnu Sharma :: Hitopdesha : .................
Kusumagraj
Narayan Pandit
Subhash Chadram

Q 2:Gathasaptashati (700 verses) by Hala (300 A.D.), the best example of erotic literature is in which language ?

Pali
Prakrit
Sanskrit

Q 3:Tolkappiyam is a treatise on ................grammar
Malyalam
Telugu
Tamil

Q 4:Pampa’s great court epics were composed in ................ in the 10th century.
Tamil
Kannada
Pali

Q 5:................. is a legendary devotional poet in Oriya who wrote Bhagavat (the story of Krishna), which has spiritually united all the people of Orissa and created a living consciousness.
Jayadev
Jagannath Das
Nand Kishore Bal

Q 6:Shah Latif, the famous Sindhi Muslim poet (1689 A.D.) in his sacred work ............... explained Sufi mystic love as the divine truth.
Shams e Tabrizi
Barzakh
Risalo

Q 7:.............. the greatest poet that Urdu had produced, second only to Ghalib, went through initially a romantic-cum-nationalistic phase in his poetry. His best collection of Urdu poems is Bang-i-Dara (1924).
Kalim Urfi
Muhammad Iqbal
Futuh al Ghayb

Q 8:Satyajit Ray directed the film 'Sonar Kella'. Who wrote the book?
Pramath Kumar Das
Satyajit Ray
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay

Q 9:As a true Gandhian, he believed in the idealistic theory of ‘a change of heart’ in the exploiters. But, in his magnum opus, Godan (1936), he becomes a realist and records the suffering and struggle of the Indian rural poor.Who is he ?
V.S. Khandekar
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Premchand

Q 10:Who wrote the famous novel 'Devdas', which is made into movies in many Indian Languages?
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Rabindranath Tagore