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Saturday, 28 October 2023

MCQs- INDIAN LITERATURE

INDIAN LITERATURE 


MCQs- INDIAN LITERATURE -SET 1

1. The children of violence is a series of five novels written by

 A. Doris Lessing          B. Iris Murdoch                      

C Wintersm                 D. Kazuo Ishiguro.

 

2. The Dyer's Hand is a critical work written by

A. Dylan Thomas        B. WH Auden             

C. Robert frost            D. E.M.Foster

 

3. Which of the following is not a work by Graham Greene.

A. The Power and the Glory   B. Heart of the matter. 

C. Our man in Havana             D. The Talking Turkeys.

 

4. Padma is the central character in the novel

A. Shame         B. Satanic Verses       

C. Grimus        D. Midnight's children

 

5. Who said, "I like to make controlled meaningful Statements avoiding extremes of thought and expression"

 A. Kamala Das            B. R.K. Narayan                      

C. Nissim Ezekiel         D. J. Mahapatra

 

6. The Young Spanish Maiden, a well-known novel has been written by

A. Teru Dutt    B. P. Mehta   

C. Tagore         D.G.K. Gokhale

 

7. Life is a prism of My light- / And Death the shadow of My face – are lines by

A. Toru Dutt                B. Aurobindo 

C. Sarojini Naidu         D. Tagore

 

8.Sohini is the character from Mulk Raj Anand's

A. Two leaves and a bud        B. Coolie        

C. Untouchable                      D. The village

 

9. Which of the following is not written by Anita Desai

A. Five on the Mountain        B. Voices in the city

C. Handful of rice.       D. Cry the peacock

 

10. Jaya is the principal character in Shashidesh Pande's

A. Roots and shadows             B. That long Silence   

C. The Legacy              D. The Dark Holds No Terrors.

 

11. “The Thousand faces of Night" novel by

 A. Gita Hari Haran     B Nayantara Sahgal  

C. Anita Nair              D. Shobha De

 

12. Name the author of ‘Train to Pakistan’.

A. Raja Rao                  B. RK Narayan

C. Mulk Raj Anand      D. Khushwant Singh

 

 13. The Great Indian novel has been written by

A. Shashi Tharoor       B. Arun Joshi  

C. Amitav Ghosh         D. Tagore.

 

14. Which novel of Amitav Ghosh takes up the issue of Malaria.

 A. The Calcutta chromosome. B. The Count down  

C. The circle of Reason           D. Shadow lines

 

15. Who is credited as the founding father of Dalit Literature

A. Arun Kamble           B. Annabhau Sathe    

C. Daya Pawar             D Laxman Mane

 

16. Klara in Ishiguro's 2021 novel is an AF, or:

 A. Artificial friend       B. Alternate future    

c. Android function.   D. Algebraic formula

 

17. Azaro, the spirit child, is a character created by

A. Ben okri      B. Pepper clank                      

C. Kafka           D. Frantz Fanon.

 

18. Identify the author of ‘Black skin, white Masks’

 A. Edward Said                       B. Frantz Fanon.

C. Amie Cesaire           D. Ashcroft

 

19. ‘A far cry from Africa’ is work by

 A. George Lamming               B. Derek Walcott.      

C. Eduard Brathwaite             D.Chinua Achebe       

 

20 ‘The English patient’ and ‘Coming through Slaughter’ are by

 A. Cyrus Mistry           B. Michael Ondaatje  

C. Rohinton Mistry     D. J.M. Coetzee

 

21.Who is the author of the novel "Train to Pakistan," which explores the partition of India in 1947?

a) Khushwant Singh    b) Chetan Bhagat       

c) Salman Rushdie      d) R.K. Narayan

 

22.Which Indian English poet is known for his collection "The Ballad of Puran Bhagat" and "The Jungle Book"?

a) Kamala Das             b) Sarojini Naidu        

c) Rudyard Kipling      d) Arun Kolatkar

 

23.Who is the author of the novel "The White Tiger," which won the Man Booker Prize in 2008?

a) Vikram Seth             b) Aravind Adiga        

c) Jhumpa Lahiri         d) Kiran Desai

 

24.Which Indian English author wrote "The Inheritance of Loss," which also won the Man Booker Prize in 2006?

a) Aravind Adiga         b) Kiran Desai            

c) Salman Rushdie      d) Jhumpa Lahiri

 

25.Who is the author of the novel "English, August," which portrays the life of a young civil servant posted in a rural Indian town?

a) Vikram Seth                         b) Aravind Adiga        

c) Upamanyu Chatterjee        d) Arundhati Roy

 

26.Which Indian English novelist is known for works like "The Immortals of Meluha" and "The Secret of the Nagas"?

a) R.K. Narayan           b) Chetan Bhagat       

c) Amish Tripathi        d) Ruskin Bond

 

27.Who wrote the novel "A Fine Balance," which depicts the lives of four characters in post-independence India?

a) Aravind Adiga         b) Kiran Desai            

c) Rohinton Mistry     d) Salman Rushdie

 

28.Which Indian English writer is known for his collection of short stories "Interpreter of Maladies"?

a) Chetan Bhagat        b) Vikram Seth

c) Jhumpa Lahiri         d) R.K. Narayan

 

29.Who is the author of the novel "The Lowland," which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013?

a) Aravind Adiga         b) Kiran Desai            

c) Salman Rushdie      d) Jhumpa Lahiri

 

30.Which Indian English poet is known for his modernist and experimental poetry, including works like "Jejuri"?

a) Kamala Das                         b) Agha Shahid Ali     

c) Rabindranath Tagore          d) Arun Kolatkar

Answer:

1.A

2.B

3.D

4.D

5.C

6.A

7.C

8.C

9.C

10.B

11.A

12.D

13.A

14.A

15.B

16.A

17.A

18.B

19.B

20.B

21.A

22.C

23.B

24.D

25.C

26.C

27.C

28.C

29.D

30.D

 


MCQs- INDIAN LITERATURE -SET 2

1 Girish Karnad's play that is mainly attack on male chauvinism.

A. Tughlaq                  B. Nagamandala        

C. Hayavadana            D. Yayati

 

2. Ancient Indian wisdom is 100%. correct, I should in his say even 200% correct, written by

A. Gieve Patel: Old Man's Death       

B. Dom Moreas: Absences

C. Nissim Ezekiel: The Patriot            

D. Arun Kolatkar: An Old Woman

 

3. The first poet to win the Sahitya Akademy award for English poetry.

A Rabindranath Tagore          B. Nissim Ezekiel

C. A K. Ramanujan                  D. Jayanta Mahapatra.

 

4. Which Indian novelist and short story writer is often known as "the mouth piece of the underdog”?

A. Nirad C Chaudari                B. Anita Desai            

C. Jayanta Mahapatra            D. Mulk Raj Anand.

 

5 "I speak three languages, write in two, dream in one. Identify the speaker.

A. Raja Rao                  B. R.K. Narayan          

C. Meena Alexander   D. Kamala Das.

 

6. The author of The Buddha of Suburbia.

A Vikram Seth             B. Vikram Chandra    

C. Khaleed Hossini      D. Hanif Kureishi

 

7. Staying Alive (1988) is a work by

A. Arundati Roy          B. Vandana shiva       

C. Shoba De                 D. Medha Patkar.

 

8. The Golden Threshold, written by Sarojini Naidu in 1905 with an introduction by

A. Toru Dutt                B. Sri Aurobindo        

C. Tagore                     D. Arthur Symons.

 

9. “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017)” is a novel by

A. George Orwell        B. Shashi Tharoor      

C. Arundati Roy          D. Amitav Ghosh.

 

10. Identify the novel that is not written by Nayantara Sehgal

A Rich Like Us             B The Day in Shadow 

C. Lesser Breeds         D. Small Remedies

 

11. Savitri, a long poem was written by

A. Henry Derozio        B. Toru Dutt               

c. Shri Aurobindo       D. Jayanta Mahapatra

 

12. The writer who developed the aesthetics of Dalit Literature. 

A. Ambedkar               B. Namdeo Dhasal     

C. Bama                       D. Sharatkumar Limbale.

 

13. ‘Lights out(2000)’ is a play by....,,,,,,,. which is based on a real incident of gang rape in Mumbai

A. Asif Currimbhoy     B. Badal Sircar            

C. Girish Karnad          D. Manjula Padmanabhan.

 

14. Which of the following books written by Rushdie is not a novel

A. Shame                     B. Midnight's children           

C. The Satanic Verses  D. Imaginary Homelands

 

15. The author of the poem Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher'.

A. Sarojini Naidu         B. Kamala Das            

C. A.K. Ramanujan      D. Nissim Ezekiel.

 

16. Which of the following novels uses magic realism in a broader way

A. Invisible Man                      B. Tar Baby                 

C. For whom the Bell Tolls     D. Midnight's children.

 

17. Tagore's Binodhini, generally regarded as the first modern novel by an Indian author, was translated into English by his biographer.

A. Krishna Kripalani                B. S. Radha Krishnan 

C. Edward Thompson.            D. Sarojini Naidu

 

18. Tagore's Chandalika is a

A. Long poem             B. Novel                     

C. Drama                     D. Non-fiction.

 

19. ‘Joothan' which encapsulates the pain, humiliation and poverty of a community is the Omprakash Valmiki's.

A. Biography               B. Autobiography      

C. play                         D. Poem

 

20. ‘Truth, Love and a Little Malice’ is the autobiography of

A. Nissim Ezekiel         B. Gieve Patel            

C. Nirad C Chaudari    D. Khushwanth Singh.

 

21. Who is often regarded as the father of Indian English literature?

a) R.K. Narayan           b) Rabindranath Tagore

c) Salman Rushdie      d) Arundhati Roy

 

22.Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for his novel "Midnight's Children"?

a) R.K. Narayan           b) Salman Rushdie     

c) Arundhati Roy        d) Vikram Seth

 

23.Who wrote the novel "The God of Small Things"?

a) R.K. Narayan           b) Salman Rushdie     

c) Arundhati Roy        d) Vikram Seth

 

24.Which Indian poet is often referred to as the "Nightingale of India"?

a) Kamala Das             b) Sarojini Naidu        

c) Agha Shahid Ali       d) Arun Kolatkar

 

25.Whose autobiographical work, "My Experiments with Truth," is a significant contribution to Indian English literature?

a) R.K. Narayan           b) Rabindranath Tagore

c) Salman Rushdie      d) Mahatma Gandhi

 

26.Which Indian English poet is known for his poems on nature and spirituality, such as "Gitanjali"?

a) Kamala Das                         b) Agha Shahid Ali     

c) Rabindranath Tagore          d) Arun Kolatkar

 

27.Who wrote the novel "The Namesake," which was later adapted into a film directed by Mira Nair?

a) Jhumpa Lahiri         b) Kiran Desai            

c) Chetan Bhagat        d) Anita Desai

 

28.Which Indian English author is known for her feminist writings and novels like "The Palace of Illusions"?

a) Jhumpa Lahiri         b) Kiran Desai            

c) Chetan Bhagat        d) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

 

29.Who authored the novel "A Suitable Boy," which is one of the longest single-volume novels ever published in English?

a) Arundhati Roy        b) Vikram Seth           

c) R.K. Narayan           d) Salman Rushdie

 

30.Which Indian English writer is famous for his detective novels featuring the character Detective Byomkesh Bakshi?

a) R.K. Narayan                                   b) Ruskin Bond          

c) Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay           d Arundhati Roy

Answers:

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.D

5.D

6.D

7.B

8.D

9.C

10.D

11.C

12.D

13.D

14.D

15.D

16.D

17.A

18.C

19.B

20.D

21.B

22.B

23.C

24.B

25.D

26.C

27.A

28.D

29.B

30.C

 

 

 

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