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Emergence of New Cultures

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or false

Marathi is the official language of the Republic of India and is spoken by most of the country's 1.3 billion people.

a)
True
b)
False
2.

In growth of Malayalam, The earliest extant literary work is _________ (late 12th or early 13th century).

a)
Panchatantra
b)
Bhagavad Gita
c)
Ramacharitam
d)
Mahabharatam
3.

What script was used in the Indo-Aryan language related to other languages such as Sanskrit and Punjabi??

a)
Cyrillic
b)
Arabic
c)
Latin
d)
Devanagari
4.

Identify the wrong word
The period of Chhatrapati Shivaji's rule in the sixteenth century is considered to be the golden age of Telugu literature

a)
golden
b)

Chhatrapati
Shivaji

c)
sixteenth
d)
age
5.

Kuchipudi is a dance-drama performance, with its roots in the ancient Hindu Sanskrit text of ______

a)
Natya Shastra
b)
Ramayana
c)
Mahabharata
d)
Bhagavad Gita
6.

Luna is learning about the indian dance form called Bharatanatyam. She is saying that

Bharatanatyam is evolved dance form originated from Odisha. Is she correct??

a)

No

b)

Yes

7.

What type of dance form is it?

a)

kathak

b)
Hip-hop
c)

Odissi

8.

From the fourth-third century BCE, business ties started to grow between Bengal and Mughal.
Is this sentence correct or not and Why?

a)

Yes

b)

No because it was in Bengal and Magadha

9.

The earliest known examples of Hindi date back to the ___ century and are found in the Khari Boli dialect, which is the basis for Modern Standard Hindi

a)
7th
b)
15th
c)
10th
d)
5th
10.

Vote your answer
Marathi gained prominence with the rise of the Maratha Empire beginning with the reign of

a)

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

b)

Manipravalam

c)

Natya-shastra.

11.

Name any free form folksy India dance traditions form given below

a)
Kathakali and Odissi
b)
Bhangra and Garba
12.

True or false

Early Bengali literature was majorly divided into two categories. One was dependent on Sanskrit, and the other was not.

a)
Partially true
b)
True
c)
False
d)
Not enough information provided
13.

Odissi, also referred to as Orissi in old literature, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the temples of

(a)  

14.

Identify the wrong word
Kathak is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. It is the classical dance form from Assam

a)
Kathak
b)
Assam
c)
eight
d)
major
15.

True or false

Yakshagana is a free form folksy dance traditions

a)

False, Yakshagana is a classical dance form

b)

True

c)
Yakshagana is a martial art form