Telugu Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A speaker wants to say “we” while explicitly including the person being addressed. Which Telugu pronoun best expresses that meaning?
మేము (mēmu), “we” excluding the listener
మీరు (mīru), “you”
మనం (manaṁ), “we” including the listener
వారు (vāru), “they”
2. Who wrote the influential Telugu play “Kanyasulkam”?
Kandukuri Veeresalingam
Gurajada Apparao
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Srirangam Srinivasa Rao, known as Sri Sri
3. A Telugu family is celebrating the traditional New Year according to a lunisolar calendar. Which festival are they most likely observing?
Vijayadashami
Makar Sankranti
Ugadi
Deepavali
4. A learner wants to arrange the elements “Ravi,” “the book,” and “read” in the neutral word order commonly used in Telugu. Which sequence fits best?
Read — Ravi — the book
Ravi — the book — read
The book — read — Ravi
Ravi — read — the book
5. A traveler visits Hyderabad’s Charminar while exploring Telugu-speaking regions. In which present-day state is the monument located?
Telangana
Karnataka
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
6. In which direction is modern Telugu normally written?
Right to left
Left to right
Top to bottom
In alternating directions on each line
7. Telugu belongs to which major language family?
Dravidian
Indo-Aryan
Austroasiatic
Tibeto-Burman
8. You are addressing one elder respectfully in Telugu. Which pronoun is generally the appropriate choice?
నేను (nēnu), meaning “I”
నువ్వు (nuvvu), a familiar singular form of “you”
వారు (vāru), commonly meaning “they” or a respectful third-person form
మీరు (mīru), a respectful form of “you”
9. Who is traditionally honored as the Ādi Kavi, or first poet, of Telugu literature?
Pothana
Tikkana
Errana
Nannaya
10. A cultural program is described as representing the classical dance tradition named Kuchipudi. Which origin best matches that tradition?
A royal court tradition originating in present-day Rajasthan
A temple tradition originating in present-day Kerala
A monastic tradition originating in present-day Bihar
A performance tradition associated with Kuchipudi village in present-day Andhra Pradesh
11. Which writing system is used for standard written Telugu?
The Bengali script
The Devanagari script
The Telugu script
The Perso-Arabic script
12. Which group forms the Kavitrayam, the celebrated trio connected with the Telugu Mahabharatam?
Pothana, Annamacharya, and Vemana
Gurajada, Sri Sri, and Jashuva
Nannaya, Tikkana, and Errana
Tyagaraja, Ramadasu, and Kshetrayya
13. Telugu is often described as an agglutinative language. What does that imply when interpreting a long Telugu word?
Its meaning depends mainly on changes in pitch
It must have been borrowed unchanged from another language
It cannot contain grammatical information
It may combine a base with several suffixes expressing grammatical relationships
14. In which pair of Indian states is Telugu an official state language?
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
Karnataka and Kerala
Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra
Odisha and Chhattisgarh
15. The Telugu poetry collection “Mahaprasthanam” is most closely associated with which writer?
Pothana
Sri Sri
Gurram Jashuva
Annamacharya
16. A learner sees a Telugu consonant letter written without an added vowel mark or vowel-suppressing sign. What should the learner generally expect?
The consonant normally carries an inherent vowel unless it is modified or suppressed
The consonant must be read with no vowel in every context
The missing vowel must be supplied only from punctuation
The character represents a complete word