Dr. Usha Rani Jain and Amitabh Ranjan Solutions for Chapter: Language and Literature, Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions

Consider the following statements

I. Punjabi is one of the 22 languages with official status in India.

II. It is the first official language of Punjab and Union Territory of Chandigarh.

III. It is the 2nd official language of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Delhi.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements

I. Punjabi language is the 11 the most popular language of the world.

II. Punjabi and Urdu is the official language of the state.

III. Punjabi language has gained no official status in Pakistan.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Who among the following Punjabi Sufi poet put the Saraiki language culture into the Punjabi language?

Consider the following statements which is/are correct?

I. Punjabi emerged as an independent language from the Sauraseni Apabhramas.

II. Guru Gobind Singh Ji Guru Gobind Singh Ji Started the literary tradition in Punjabi.

III. Punjabi is a second language of Haryana.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements

I. An era of classical poetry started with Baba Farid and ended with Waris Shah and Bulleh Shah.

II. Punjabi language had no script of its own and was written in Mahajani script derived from Sanskrit.

Ill. The second Guru, Angad Dev Ji did a great service for the Punjabi language by inventing a new script called 'Gurmukhi'.

IV. The Muslim poets wrote their Punjabi writings in Persian script and was called 'Shahmukhi' script.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Who among the following is not a Punjabi Sufi poet?

Which of the following is also called Shakespeare of the Punjabi language because of his great poetic story 'Heer Ranjha'?

Which of the following gave Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of Sikhs, its final form as a scriptural authority for the people to follow?