Afro-Asian Literature
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What is the modern form of poetry in Malaysia?
- Syair
- Quoc Ngu
- Tanka
- Sajak Correct
What is the most famous type of elegies in Arabian Literature?
- Quasida
- Al-Hamasa
- Al-Mu-Allkat
- Kansa Correct
What is the national theater of Japan?
- Haiku
- Puppet Play
- Kabuki Play
- Noh Play Correct
What is the oldest collection of poetry in Japan that was compiled in 800 AD?
- Kana
- Joruri
- Kabuki
- Man'yoshu Correct
What is the only Christian country in Southeast Asia?
- Philippines Correct
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Malaysia
What is the other name of Confucius?
- Mang
- Li King
- Mencius
- Kung Fu-tzu Correct
What is the second popular nation of the world that is very rich in cultures?
- India Correct
- China
- Egypt
- Iran
What kind of poetry that has 17 syllables and arranged in lines with 5, 7, 5 syllable?
- Haiku Correct
- Naga-ula
- Tanka
- Tanaka
What kind of teaching founded by Lao Tzu?
- Taoism Correct
- Christians
- Confucianism
- Hinduism
What kind of teaching was founded by Lao Tzu?
- Hinduism
- Taoism Correct
- Christians
- Confucianism
What kind of Veda contains of chants?
- Yajur Veda
- Sama Veda Correct
- Rig Veda
- Atharva Veda
What kind of Veda contains of spells of blessings and curses?
- Sama Veda
- Yajur Veda
- Rig Veda
- Atharva Veda Correct
What kind of Veda contains prayer - formulae and litanies?
- Atharva Veda
- Yajur Veda Correct
- Sama Veda
- Rig Veda
What kind of Veda that is made up of hymns of praise which has a resemblance to Psalm of Old Testament?
- Atharva Veda
- Rig Veda
- Sama Veda Correct
- Yajur Veda
What literary work produced the Sanskrit grammar?
- Bengali
- Prakrits
- Marathi
- Panini Correct
What literary work that tells commentaries on the Vedic Hymns?
- Bhagavat - Gita
- The Sutras
- Upanishad
- Brahmanas Correct
What literary works attributed to King Sundra?
- Ramayana
- Mahabharata
- Sakuntala
- The Toy Clay Cart Correct
What literature has its origin in oral tradition that produced Vedic Holy Text?
- Egyptian Literature
- Persian Literature
- Sanskrit Literature Correct
- Chinese Literature
What period in Egyptian literature that shows non-literary and highly poetic spells?
- Middle Kingdom
- New Kingdom Correct
- Late Period
- Old Kingdom
What period is considered as the continuation of the Biblical Period?
- Nationalism
- The Middle Ages
- The Post Biblical Period Correct
- Enlightenment Period
What period is named after Shogun or Military Government?
- Enlighten Period
- Tokugawa Period Correct
- Modern Period
- Ancient Period
What play in Japan that shows reality and play for the masses?
- Noh
- Kana
- Kabuki Correct
- Jurori
What play in Japan used to use puppet?
- Kana
- Noh
- Kabuki
- Joruri Correct
When did the classical period began?
- Yuan Dynasty
- Tang Dynasty
- Han Dynasty
- Chou Dynasty Correct
When was the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry?
- Chou Dynasty
- Yuan Dynasty
- Han Dynasty
- Tang Dynasty Correct
Which of the following Chinese Classics contained 305 odes written between 1000-600 BC?
- Book of Rites
- Book of Poetry Correct
- Book of History
- Spring and Autumn Annals
Who introduced the Amre the artificial type of prose influenced by Arabs?
- Hamid Al Din Correct
- Balami
- Saadi
- Nizami
Who is a Chinese painter and a poet?
- Lao Tzu
- Wang Wei Correct
- Mencius
- Tu Fu
Who is a Chinese poet and a government official and influenced by Tu Fu?
- PoChu-I Correct
- Mencius
- Wang Wei
- Tu Fu
Who is a Chinese poet who loved to paint and most of the theme of his works was about nature?
- Li Po
- Tufu
- Wang Wei Correct
- Mencius
Who is a Chinese poet who regarded by many as the greatest Chinese poet?
- PoChu-I
- Tu Fu Correct
- Mencius
- Wang Wei
Who is a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer and famous for his work "Rubaiyat"?
- Omar Khayyam Correct
- Chinua Achebe
- Wole Soyinka
- Rabindranath Tagore
Who is a young famous author who wrote "A Wild Sheep Chase"?
- Ihara Saikaku
- YoshidoKenko
- Haruki Murakami Correct
- Lady Nijo
Who is considered as the greatest prophet and who said that a Messiah will born and save the human from sin?
- Abraham
- David
- Isaiah Correct
- Saul
Who is considered as the greatest prophet, who said that a Messiah will be born and save mankind from sin?
- Isaiah Correct
- David
- Abraham
- Saul
Who is the author of "Essays in Idleness"?
- ChikamatsuMonzaemon
- Lady Nijo
- Ihara Saikaku
- Yoshido Kenko Correct
Who is the author of "The Prophet"?
- Confucius
- Omar Khayyam
- Kahlil Gibran Correct
- Mahatma Gandhi
Who is the author of Gitanjali?
- Kahlil Gibran
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Omar Khayyam
- Rabindranath Tagore Correct
Who is the Chinese poet known as "Mang"?
- Lao Tzu
- Mencius
- Wang Wei Correct
- Confucius
Who is the Ernest Hemingway of Japan?
- Shosetsu Shinzui
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Yasunari Kawabata
- Yukio Mishima Correct
Who is the favorite heroine of the Hebrews who is god-fearing?
- Esther
- Susanna
- Ruth
- Judith Correct
Who is the first female who performed Kabuki Dances in 1603?
- Lady Komachi
- SakatTojuro
- Ichikawa Danjuro
- Okuni Correct
Who is the first great mystical poet of Persian Literature?
- Sanai Correct
- Jalad Uldin
- Hafiz
- Rumi
Who is the first ruler of Kingdom of Israel?
- David
- Saul Correct
- Isaiah
- Abraham
Who is the founder of Taoism?
- Mencius
- Confucius
- Lao Tzu Correct
- Tu Fu
Who is the Indian writer who won the Nobel Prize in 9?
- Khutbah
- Rabindranath Tagore Correct
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Kansa
Who is the most important poet in Thailand literature?
- Sajak
- Nick Joaquin
- Sunthorn Phu Correct
- Tanukhi
Who is the Noble Prize winner in 1994?
- Oe Kenzaburo Correct
- Natsume Soseki
- Tanizaki Junichiro
- Kawabata Yasumari
Who killed Goliath?
- David Correct
- Isaiah
- Abraham
- Saul
Who published an abridged translation of the Annals of Tabari?
- Balami Correct
- Saadi
- Hamid Al Din
- Nizami
Who was the China's greatest teacher and philosopher who introduced Confucian thought?
- Lao Tzu
- Tu Fu
- Mencius
- Confucius Correct
Written works of Africa is also known as orature
- True
- False Correct
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