There are many candidates applying of the entrance exams for the literature colleges and jobs. For them, here we present a question bank on Indian Literature. Indian Literature is one of the important topic for the competitive exams. Indians have won number of awards for literature.
Objective Type Questions and Answers are available in this article. Through the present questions and answers you will be able to know much about the different writers, authors, poets and different books. You can also use this article for your practice session. So, lets start.
Indian Literature Quiz
Answers are in BOLD
#1. Wings of Fire is an autobiography of
Pranab Mukherjee
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Mahatma Gandhi
Rabindranath Tagore
#2. Where is the head office of Sahitya akademi located?
Mumbai
Kolkata
Lucknow
New Delhi
#3. Who wrote the “Panchatantra”?
Chanakya
Kālidāsa
Vishnu Sharma
None of these
#4. Who is the author of book “Hitopadesha”?
Vishnu Sharma
Narayan Pandit
Chanakya
Kālidāsa
#5. In which year National Book Trust was founded?
15 August 1957
1 August 1963
1 August 1953
1 August 1957
#6. Who is the present Director of National Book Trust?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Rita Chowdhury
Geeta Anand
Nita Ambani
#7. Who has written the Sanskrit book meghdoot?
Tulsidas
Chanakya
Kalidasa
Valmiki
#8. Who was the poet of kadambari?
Bhavabhuti
Tulsidas
Kalidas
Rabindranath Tagore
#9. Who wrote the famous novel ‘Anandamath’?
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Kalidas
Rabindranath Tagore
#10. How many chapters are in Bhagavad Gita?
16
17
18
20
#11. Which book of Salman Rushdie wins the Booker Prize?
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Midnight’s Children
The Satanic Verses
None of these
#12. For Which book did VS Naipaul got Nobel Prize?
Miguel Street
A House for Mr Biswas
Wings of Fire
In a Free State
#13. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’?
Arundhati Roy
Mark Twain
Kiran Desai
Amitav Ghosh
#14. Which one is the longest Indian novels ever published in a single volume in the English language
A Suitable Boy
Revolution 2020
The God of Small Things
Train to Pakistan
#15. Who is the first women to received Jnanpith Award
Mahasweta Devi
Mahadevi Varma
Amrita Pritam
Ashapurna Devi
#16. Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for the book
Last Orders
The Inheritance of Loss
Life of Pi
The White Tiger
#17. Who is the writer of the book ‘Devdas’
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Satyajit Ray
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Mahasweta Devi
#18. The Jataka stories are related to the previous lives of whom
Guru Nanak
Mahabir
Budha
Krishna
#19. From which year Jaipur Literature Festival started
2008
2005
2002
2006
#20. In 2011 who wins the Pulitzer Prize for the book ‘The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer’
Jhumpa Lahiri
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Gobind Behari Lal
Geeta Anand
#21. Which indian wins the first Pulitzer Prize
Geeta Anand
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Jhumpa Lahiri
Gobind Behari Lal
#22. ‘The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian’ is an autobiography of
Jawaharlal Nehru
Inder Kumar Gujral
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Mahatma Gandhi
Article last re-published on August 13, 2020.