Afro-Asian Literature (Multiple-Choice Type) Quiz.

This test covers various topics

and literary works from Hindu (Indian) and Hebrew Literature (African and Asian
Literature). Answers are currently unavailable.

It was the name given to present-day India during the medieval times.
Hind
Bharat Varsha
Bharat
Indus
Which of these religions was not given birth in India?
Jainism
Buddhism
Hinduism
Taoism
Mahatma Gandhi assumed leadership of protest campaigns and gradually developed his
techniques and tenets of nonviolent resistance known as:
Grocer
Satyagraha
Harijans
Non-participation
India’s foremost Sanskrit dramatist and poet, Kalidasa flourished around A.D. 400
during the reign of Chandragupta II. Which of these is not his play?
Shakuntala
Malavikagnimitra
Vikramorvasiya
The Toy Clay Cart
What charitable institution did Rabindranath Tagore establish in 1901 which later
became an international university with a wide-ranging curriculum?
Santiniketan
Missionaries of Charity
Gitanjali
Manasi
Taken from book six of the Indian epic Mahabharata, it is one of the most widely
studied sacred writings in Hinduism. It fictionally and poetically depicts
Krishna’s response to questions posed by Arjuna concerning his responsibility in
good and evil as he is about to go into battle.
Gitanjali
Maghaduta
Savitri
Bhagavad Gita
It is a collection of imaginative legends concerning the 550 births of Buddha and
his early life, supposedly related to himself.
Panchatantra
Jatakas
Hitopdesa
Sukasaptati
It concerns Rama (an incarnation of Vishnu) and his wife Sita; Rama’s exile; Sita’s
faithfulness when tempted by Ravana, an evil spirit; and Rama’s eventual
destruction of Ravana.
Mhabharata
Vedas
Ramayana
Gora
Tagore was also an accomplished composer, musician, and singer, as well as a
painter and an actor. Which of these is one of his experimental dramas that deal
with social and religious issues?
Shyama
Post Office
A Flight of Swans
Chitra
A canonical collection of Vedas that contains hymns, spells, incarnations, and
notions about demonology and witchcraft.
Rig-Veda
Sama-Veda
Yajur-Veda
Atharva-Veda
He is considered as the Hindu Shakespeare.
Kalidasa
Tagore
Javadeva
Bezbarua
The nucleus of this epic concerns the battle between two rival bands of brothers,
both descendants of a common grandfather who came to war over their heritage.
Mahabharata
Ramayana
Savitri
Bhagavad Gita
Indian Parliament consists of two-houses, the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and
the ___________ (House of the People)
Lok Sabha
Urdu Sabha
Atman Sabha
Ashram Sabha
It means absorption into the universal soul.
Maya
Nirvana
Bapu
Jiva
Which of these is not true about Indian Caste system?
Marriage occurs only within the caste (endogamy).
Caste allows social mobility.
It is fixed by birth.
In Caste, there is order and rank of humanity by innate spiritual purity.
It is the lowest of the four varnas which consists of laborers, artisans and
servants.
Vaishyas
Shudras
Kshatriyas
Bhramins
What social process allows a jati to increase its status through wealth and power,
avoiding low or unclean work, and by adopting priestly ways such as vegetarianism?
Teetotalism
Mobilization
Sankritisation
Exogamy
It is defined by Hindu tradition as the natural process of birth, death, and
rebirth.
Immortalization
Rajas
Reincarnation
Tamaskarmas
Which of these does not comprise the reasons provided by Hindus why the jiva (soul)
takes on various physical bodies?
To complete one’s unfinished sadhana
To escape from the fruits of one’s karma
To fulfill a debt
To attain moksha
Which of these statements is NOT true in Hinduism?
When a jiva is indebted to another jiva, it gets a human birth to fulfill its debt
and receive what is owed to it.
The unending craving to satisfy one’s desires causes the jiva to assume new
physical bodies.
When the cycle of rebirth thus comes to an end, a person is said to have attained
liberation (moksha).
There is permanent heaven and hell in Hinduism.
Which of these names does not attach to Buddha?
Siddhartha Gautama
The Awakened One
Supreme Buddha
Great Soul
What is the nation anthem of India?
Jana, Gana, Mana
Amar Shonar Bangla
Kassaman
Yumi, Yumi, Yumi
She is known as the Nightingale of India for her beautiful English poems.
Sarojini Naidu Subrahmanyam
Bharti
Vallathol
Tagore
What South-Asian country was separated from India after Indian independence in
1948?
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Bhutan
Indians respectfully call him Gurudev.
Rabindranath Tagore
Siddhartha Gautama
Gandhi
Nehru
Who wrote Mahabharata?
Valmiki
Lord Ganesh
Veda Vyasa
Rig Veda
In Mahabharata, she is the “emerged” daughter of King Drupada of Panchala and the
wife of five Pandavas.
Arjuna
Adi Parva
Draupadi
Krishna
Son of Dhritarastra from vaishya maid, who fights for Pandavas in Mahabharat war;
he is installed as a king of Indraprastha by Yudhisthir.
Vaishampayan
Sukracharya
Yuyutsu
Shantanu
Great Poet and creator of Ramayana; Sage who helps Sita and her two sons Lava-Kush
stay at her ashram:
Vanara
Vasistha
Valmiki
Urmila
In Ramayana, she is the wife of sage Gautama, who turns into a stone and later
becomes free from curse by the touch of Rama.
Bharat
Kausalya
Ahalya
Sita
What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
West Bengal
Calcutta
Bombay
This book (of Bible) deals with Hebrew’s escape from Egypt and their journey back
to Palestine under the able leadership of Moses.
Leviticus
Exodus
Genesis
Deuteronomy
Which of these books does not comprise the Pentateuch?
Genesis
Joshua
Exodus
Leviticus
A short story (in the Bible) which contains a tactful protest against the
forbidding of racial intermarriage.
Jonah
Ruth
Daniel
Esther
A widely misunderstood tale about an early Jewish missionary who rebels when sent
to Nineveh, who repents and carries out his mission, but who rebels a second time
when God forgives Nineveh.
Daniel
Jonah
Ruth
Esther
Wrongly ascribed to Solomon, this is a series of heretical essays of profound
pessimism, fatalism, and skepticism. The tone is that of a disillusioned old man
who has found existence to be futile and meaningless.
Job
Ecclesiastes
Daniel
Ezekiel
The Bible is divided into three parts: The Old Testament, The New Testament, and
_______________.
The Apocrypha
The Revelations
The Apocalypse
History
A fictitious story of a God-fearing Jewess, who, when her native Bethulia is
besieged by Nebuchadnezzar’s men, makes her way (by means of her beauty and wisdom)
into the tent of Holofernes and succeeds in beheading him in his drunken slumber.
Judith
Esther
Ruth
Susanna
This is a collection of fourteen books (of Bible) which were included in the
Septuagint of the Vulgate versions of the Old Testament.
The Apocrypha
The Revelations
The Apocalypse
Deuteronomy
This is a personal memoir by the political leader of the Hebrews on their return
from exile in Babylon. It tells the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, and of
the religious reforms.
Amos
Hosea
Nehemiah
Judges