English Exam Helper (MCQ)

1.      Which Indian poet is called “the Nightingale of India”?
a. Sarojini Naidu
  b. Toru Dutt
  c. Kamala Das
  d. Amrita Pritam

2.      Who wrote the introduction to Mulk Raj Anand’s The Untouchable?
a. W.B. Yeats
  b. T.S. Eliot
  c. W.H. Auden
  d. E.M. Forster

3.      Which novel by Raja Rao gives a vivid portrayal of Gandhian struggle?
a. Comrade Kirilov
  b. Kanthapura
  c. The Chessmaster and His Moves
  d. The Cat and Shakespeare

4.      Which novelist has been hailed as India’s Charles Dickens?
a. R.K. Narayan
  b. Raja Rao
  c. Mulk Raj Anand
  d. None of these

5. Which of the following books form the trilogy of R.K. Narayan?

i. The English Teacher ii. The Financial Expert

iii. Swami and Friends iv. The Bachelor of Arts v. The Vendor of Sweets

a. i-iii-v

b. iii-ii-iv

c. ii-iii-v

d. iii-iv-i

6.      Which of his novels did Raja Rao call a ‘philosophical comedy’?
a. The Serpent and the Rope
  b. Kanthapura
  c. The Cat and Shakespeare
  d. The Cow of the Barricades

7.      Train to Pakistan, a novel written against the background of the partition of India, is by :
a. V.S. Naipaul
  b. Manohar Malgaonkar
  c. R.K. Narayan
  d. Khushwant Singh

8.      The poem A River by A.K. Ramanujan is an evocation of the river :
a. Ganga
  b. Kaveri
  c. Narmada
  d. Vaikai

9.      “Home is where we have to gather grace” is the last line of a famous poem by :
a. Kamala Das
  b. R. Parthasarathy
  c. Nissim Ezekiel
d. Jayanta Mahapatra

10.   The Captive Lady is a narrative poem by ………………., who was deeply inspired by Byron’s life and works.
a. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
  b. Arvind Krishna Mehrota
  c. Jayanta Mahapatra
d. Keki Daruwalla

11.   What is the name of the boat that rescues Ishmael in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick?
a. Pequod
  b. Rachel
  c. Hagar
  d. Sphinx

12.   Which of the following is NOT Jacques Derrida’s work?
a. Of Spirit : Heidegger and the Question
  b. The Transcendence of the Ego
c. Of Grammatology
  d. The Work of Mourning

13.   Which novel of Toni Morrison tells the wrenching story of a protagonist who murders her child rather than to allow him/her to live as a slave?
a. Sula
  b. Tar Baby
  c. Song of Solomon
  d. Beloved

14.   The Bhasmasura myth is used in R.K. Narayan’s _________.
a. The Man-Eater of Malgudi
                        b. The Financial Expert
c. The English Teacher
  d. The World of Nagaraj

15. During the Middle English period, many words were borrowed from two languages :

I. Celtic II. Latin III. French IV. Old Norse

The right combination according to the code is :

a. I and II

b. II and III

c. II and IV

d. III and IV

16.   In the opening stanza of “Song of Myself”, Whitman begins his spiritual awakening at the age of ______.
a. 37
  b. 15
  c. 24
  d. 61

17. Which pair of novels by Anita Desai take as their subject the suppression and oppression of Indian women?

I. Where Shall We Go This Summer? II. The Zigzag Way

III. Cry, the Peacock IV. Baumgartner’s Bombay

The right combination according to the code is :

a. I and II

b. I and III

c. II and III

d. III and IV

18. From among the following identify the two Indian English authors who received appreciation and encouragement from their British counterparts :

I. R.K. Narayan, Graham Greene II. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Evelyn Waugh

III. Mulk Raj Anand, E.M. Forster IV. Raja Rao, Iris Murdoch

The right combination according to the code is :

a. I and II

b. II and IV

c. I and III

d. III and IV

19.   Emily Dickinson’s use of “open form” or “free verse” is comparable to her contemporary American poet :
a. Anne Bradstreet
  b. Robert Lowell
  c. Walt Whitman
  d. Sylvia Plath

20.   Which of the following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri, written by Arun Kolatkar?
a. “Yeshwant Rao”
  b. “Chaitanya”
  c. “The Priest”
  d. “An Old Man”

21.   What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with them the roots of modern English?
a. The Danes, Saxons and Celts
  b. The Celts, Jutes and Saxons
c. The Saxons, Danes and Angles
  d. The Jutes, Angles and Saxons

22.   Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to _________.
a. Swahili
  b. Yoruba
  c. Xhosa
  d. Gikuyu

23.   The part-novel, part-play The Requiem for a Nun was written by :
a. Arthur Miller
  b. Edgar Allan Poe
  c. Saul Bellow
  d. William Faulkner

24.   Blanche DuBois, a relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski, a rising member of the industrial, urban working class, are characters in a play by :
a. Arthur Mille
  b. Eugene O’Neill
  c. Tennessee Williams
  d. Edward Albee

25.   The collection of poems called Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman offer his reflections on :
a. Transcendentalism
  b. Romanticism
  c. Slavery
  d. The Civil War

26.   Old Age Echoes is a collection of poems by ………., which appeared posthumously.
a. Emerson
  b. Melville
  c. Twain
  d. Whitman

27.   Whom does Whitman call, “powerful western fallen star”?
a. Emerson
  b. Europe
  c. America
  d. Lincoln

28.   The alternate title for Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death” is :
a. ‘The Chariot’
  b. ‘The Carriage’
  c. ‘The Rider’
  d. ‘The Journey’

29.   Which writer is called “an embarrassed Peacock, quite unused to its plumes”?
a. Sarojini Naidu
  b. Toru Dutt
  c. Emily Dickinson
  d. Emily Bronte

30.   “Parting is all we know of heaven, / And all we need of hell” – This is a line from the poem :
a. Sarojini Naidu
  b. Toru Dutt
  c. Emily Dickinson
  d. Emily Bronte

31.   Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of :
a. Horse racing
  b. Rock fishing
  c. Bungee jumping
  d. Bull fighting

32.   In Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons, the ‘sons’ refers to :
a. Pilots
  b. Fisherman
  c. Farmers
  d. Soldiers

33.   Who wrote these lines, “My life has been the poem I would have writ, / But I could not both live and utter it”?
a. Robert Frost
  b. Emily Dickinson
  c. Walt Whitman
  d. Henry David Thoreau

34.   “pity this busy monster, man unkind” This is a line written by :
a. William Carlos Williams
b. e.e. cummings
  c. Edgar Allan Poe
  d. None of these

35.   Robert Lowell’s poem “Skunk Hour” is modelled on “The Armadillo” written by :
a. Elizabeth Bishop
b. Elizabeth Jennings
  c. Gertrude stein
  d. Amy Lowell

36.   “The glory that was Greece and the grandeur was Rome.” This off-quoted line appears in the Edgar Allan Poe’s poem :
a. Brahma
  b. To Helen
  c. Pioneers O Pioneers
d. There is Another Sky

37.   Rabindranath Tagore’s spiritual and devotional work, Gitanjali, is a collection of ……….. poems.
a. 55
  b. 98
  c. 104
  d. 112

38.   How long did Thoreau stay at the Walden pond?
a. 5 years, 5 months and 5 days
  b. 3 years, 3 months and 3 days
c. 2 years, 2 months and 2 days
  d. None of these

39.   Which of Saul Bellow’s novels is picaresque fiction, and a bildungsroman set during the Great Depression?
a. Henderson and the Rain King
  b. Herzog
  c. The Adventures of Augie March
  d. Humboldt’s Gift

40.   Which of Saul Bellow’s novels is a roman a clef, and explores the changing relationship of art and power in a materialist America?
a. Henderson and the Rain King
  b. Herzog
c. Mr. Sammler’s Planet
  d. Humboldt’s Gift

41.   Which of the characters created by Saul Bellow hears an inner voice saying “I want, I want, I want” and goes to Africa with the hope of discovering what the voice wants?
a. Arthur Sammler
  b. Eugene Henderson
c. Von Humboldt Fleisher
  d. Herzog

42.   Who of the following is internationally known as a critic of Mulk Raj Anand?
a. Coomi Vevaina
  b. Saros Cowasjee
  c. Arun Prabha Mukherjee
  d. Gail Omvedt

43.   Who of the following wrote The Eye of the Storm, the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the powerful matriarch of her family, who still maintains a destructive iron grip on those who come to farewell her in her final moments upon her deathbed?
a. Peter Carey
  b. Patrick White
  c. Thomas Keneally
  d. David Malouf

44.   Which of the following writers wrote novels depicting the fictional town of 'Sarsaparilla'?
a. Peter Carey
  b. Patrick White
  c. Thomas Keneally
  d. David Malouf

45.   When Emily Dickinson travelled with Death, who else was in the carriage with them?
a. Sin
  b. Night
  c. Immortality
  d. Eternity

46.   Of Mice and Men, the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California, was written by :
a. Arthur Miller
  b. William Faulkner
  c. John Steinbeck
  d. Eugene O’Neill

47.   Who of the following poets recited his poem at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961?
a. Robert Frost
  b. William Carlos Williams
  c. Wallace Stevens
  d. Robert Lowell

48.   “Valley Candle”, “Anecdote of the Jar”, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”, and “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” are poems by the American Modernist poet :
a. e.e. cummings
  b. Gertrude Stein
  c. Ezra Pound
  d. Wallace Stevens

49.   Who wrote a poem which begins “I celebrate myself”?
a. Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. Edgar Allan Poe
  c. Sylvia Plath
  d. Walt Whitman

50.   “Can’t a man speak of his own child he’s lost?” This is a line from a famous poem by:
a. Sylvia Plath
  b. Wallace Stevens
  c. Robert Frost
  d. Robert Lowell

51.   Robert Frost’ poem “Mowing” is :
a. a sonnet
  b. an elegy
  c. a villanelle
  d. a dramatic monologue

52.   Which of the following novels can be called “a total novel of human experience”?
a. Kanthapura
  b. The Man-Eater of Malgudi
  c. The Guide
  d. Coolie

53.   The question raised in Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice is :
a. How the world began?
  b. How the world would end?
c. What the future of mankind would be?
  d. Whether there is God?

54.   “The Lost Child” is a popular short story by :
a. R.K. Narayan
  b. Bharati Mukherjee
  c. Raja Rao
  d. Mulk Raj Anand

55.   Which novel of Achebe presents an indictment of military regiments which become leader-centric and oppressive?
a. Things Fall Apart
  b. Anthills of the Savannah
  c. A Man of the People
  d. No Longer At Ease

56.   Which of the plays of John Pepper Clark tells a Greek story where the central character is under an ancestral curse?
a. Song of a Goat
  b. The Masquerade
  c. The Raft
  d. None of these

57.   Who among the following writers never won a Nobel Prize?
a. Toni Morrison
  b. Chinua Achebe
  c. Nadine Gordimer
  d. Wole Soyinka

58.   Which Australian writer won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973?
a. Alexander Sutherland
  b. Thomas Keneally
  c. Patrick White
  d. Peter Carey

59.   Who of the following is a Canadian prairie writer?
a. Carol Shields
  b. Robert Kroetsch
  c. Margaret Laurence
  d. All of these

60.   Who of the following wrote the famous essay Discourse on Colonialism      as well as a postcolonial adaptation of The Tempest with Caliban as a heroic rebel against colonial rule?
a. Leopold Sedar Senghor
  b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
  c. Aime Cesaire
  d. John Pepper Clark

61.   The Captive Lady is a narrative poem by :
a. Michael Madhusudan Dutt
  b. Henry Derozio
  c. Toru Dutt
  d. Eunice De Souza

62.   Who said this : “ That government is best which governs least”?
a. Emerson
  b. Thoreau
  c. Thomas Paine
d. Rousseau

63.   Aurobindo’s Savitri consists of ………….. books.
a. 5
  b. 10
  c. 12
  d. 15

64.   Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe is a :
a. Novel
  b. Play
  c. Prose poem
  d. None of these

65.   Patrick White is a writer from :
a. New Zealand
  b. The Caribbean
  c. Australia
  d. Zimbabwe

66.   Which of the following is incorrectly matched?
a. The Vendor of Sweets – Jagan
  b. The English Teacher – Krishna
c. The Financial Expert – Chandran
  d. The Man-Eater of Malgudi - Nataraj

67.   Which of the following is NOT a work by Patrick White?
a. The Vivisector
  b. The Tree of Man
  c. Voss
                d. The Great World

68. Match the following :

i. The House of Seven Gables - (a)Mark Twain

ii. Cabbages and Kings - (b)Herman Melville

iii. The Prince and the Pauper - (c)O. Henry

iv. Billy Budd - (d)Nathaniel Hawthorne

a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

b. (i)-d, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-c

c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b

d. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a

69.   Which character in Midnight’s Children is a witch?
a. Alia
  b. Amina
  c. Parvati
  d. The Rani of Cooch Naheen

70.   Which of the following is NOT a play by Asif Currimbhoy?
a. Doldrummers
  b. The Refugee
  c. Inquilab
  d. None of these

71.   What did Aristotle highlight as the two natural causes from which action springs?
a. Good and Bad actions
  b. Noble man and his flaw
  c. Plot and Character
  d. None of these

72.   Which of the following poets has written about Nature (God) as the ideal refuge for birds of all types, where the poet would also take refuge, being a bird with a broken wing?
a. Sarojini Naidu
  b. Toru Dutt
  c. Kamala Das
  d. Meena Alexander

73.   …………. is Tagore’s only English poem written originally in the language.
a. Broken Song
  b. The Child
  c. Death
  d. Face to Face

74.   Evam Indrajit is a play by :
a. Kiran Nagarkar
  b. Mahesh Dattani
  c. Badal Sircar
  d. Girish Karnad

75.   Who of the following has written a sarcastic poem about the kind of people he lives with in the society?
a. Nissim Ezekiel
  b. A.K. Ramanujan
  c. Keki N. Daruwalla
  d. R. Parthasarathy

76.   In Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana, who is Padmini’s husband?
a. Brahmadatta
  b. Devadatta
  c. Apanna
  d. Kapila

77.   At the beginning of Karnad’s play Hayavadana, who is described as “the destroyer of incompleteness”?
a. Shiva
  b. Indra
  c. Ganesha
  d. Vishnu

78.   The subplot of Hayavadana concerns :
a. The man with the horse’s head
  b. The dolls
  c. The love-triangle
  d. The Bhagavata

79.   What according to Ramanujan, “loses colour under another sky”?
a. His writing
  b. His dreams
  c. Poetry
  d. Language

80.   In Girish Karnad’s play, Hayavadana ultimately becomes :
  a. A horse
  b. A man
  c. The narrator
  d. A sculpture

81.   Who are the fraternal twins in Arundhati Roy’s A God of Small Things?
a. Ammu and Sophie
  b. Rahel and Estha
  c. Rahel and Sophie
  d. None of these

82.   Which of the following plays by Rabindranath Tagore is modeled on an untouchable?
a. Vasavadatta
  b. Chandalika
  c. Muktadhara
  d. Achalayatam

83.   Transformation by Aurobindo is a :
a. Verse play
  b. Sonnet
  c. Narrative poem
  d. Ode

84.   The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997 is edited by :
a. Amit Chaudhuri
  b. Adil Jussawala and Margaret Drabble
c. Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West
  d. David Davidar

85.   Which of these poets has written a poem which reminiscences his father’s death, and the merit and meaning in the speaker’s family-life?
a. R. Parthasarathy
  b. Humayun Kabir
  c. A.K. Ramanujan
  d. Gieve Patel

86.   In which of the following poems does Nissim Ezekiel mock Indianisms in English?
a. The Professor
  b. Poster Prayers
  c. Latter-Day Psalms
  d. None of these

87.   Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana is based on the rendering of an Indian fable by :
a. Franz Kafka
  b. Samuel Beckett
  c. Thomas Mann
  d. T.S. Eliot

88.   Which Indian poet gives importance to broad landscape imagery in his poetry, a collection of which is called Landscapes?
a. Jayanta Mahapatra
  b. Keki N Daruwalla
  c. Adil Jussawala
  d. Meena Alexander

89.   Which poem by Nissim Ezekiel depicts a pilgrimage that represents life itself?
a. Enterprise
  b. The Railway Clerk
  c. Time to Change
  d. Background, Casually

90.   Who of the following writers attempted to “catch something of the Upanishadic and Kalidasian movements” in his work?
a. Rabindranath Tagore
b. Jawaharlal Nehru
c. Raja Rao
                d. Aurobindo

91.   Who of the following has written a novel on Krishna, a teacher who leads a happy bachelor’s life, then gets married and enjoys the bliss of family life, and when his wife dies of typhoid, is able to communicate with her spirit and achieves enlightenment?
a. Mulk Raj Anand
  b. Khushwant Singh
  c. Raja Rao
  d. R.K. Narayan

92.   Which of the following poets has written a poem on a tree in their garden house at Baugmaree?
a. Sarojini Naidu
  b. Toru Dutt
  c. Meena Alexander
  d. Kamala Das

93.   In which of the following novels does a three-storeyed house represent the three stages of consciousness- Jagritha, Swapna and Sushupthi?
a. The Serpent and the Rope
  b. The Cat and Shakespeare
c. Kanthapura
  d. On the Ganga Ghat

94.   Who of the following wrote the novel Two Leaves and a Bud which depicts the story of a Punjabi labourer Gangu in an Assam tea plantation who tries to protect his daughter from a British soldier, and is eventually killed by him?
a. Mulk Raj Anand
  b. Khushwant Singh
  c. Manohar Malgaonkar
  d. Shashi Deshpande

95.   The paradoxical statement “A man withdrawn into himself // Maybe a man moving forward” is from the poem The Happening. Who wrote it?
a. Gieve Patel
  b. Nissim Ezekiel
  c. Shiv K. Kumar
  d. A.K. Ramanujan

96.   Which of the following poets has written about his “ambiguous fate,” being neither Hindu nor Muslim in India?
a. Dom Moraes
  b. Nissim Ezekiel
  c. Keki N Daruwalla
  d. Gieve Patel

97.   During which war does the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls take place?
a. Spanish-American War
  b. Spanish Civil War
  c. I World War
  d. II World War

98.   In later life, what nickname did Hemingway assume to convey a sense of strength, wisdom and mastery?
a. Sensei
  b. Top Cat
  c. Papa
  d. Big Kahuna

99.   Which of the following is the most stylistic feature of Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie?
a. Female Chorus
  b. Two-decked stage
  c. On-stage screen
  d. Interrupted action

100. When the novella The Old Man and the Sea opens, how long has it been since Santiago last caught a fish?
a. 40 days
  b. 84 days
  c. 87 days
      d. 120 days

101. Who is ‘The Woman’ in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman?
a. Willy Loman’s wife
  b. Biff’s mistress
  c. Willy Loman’s mistress
  d. Charley’s wife

102. Where does The Glass Menagerie take place?
a. Cleveland
  b. New York
  c. Mississippi
  d. St. Louis

103. Where does Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman live?
a. Austin
  b. Portland
  c. Boston
  d. Brooklyn

104. What is Yank’s real name in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape?
a. John Doe
  b. Robert Smith
  c. Billy Jones
  d. James Brown

105. Who is the native chief who leads the revolt against Brutes Jones in Emperor Jones?
a. Lem
  b. Len
  c. Leon
  d. Lix

106. Which one of the following novels of Patrick White is written under the pen name "Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray"?
a. Memoirs of Many in One
              b. The Twyborn Affair
  c. The Hanging Garden
  d. The Tree of Man

107. The short story collection Every Move You Make is a work of :
a. Robert Lowell
  b. Patrick White
  c. David Malouf
  d. Sally Morgan

108. Which among the following is NOT included in David Williamson’s Jack Manning Trilogy :
a. Face to Face
  b. Conversation
  c. Charitable Intent
  d. Up for Grabs

109. Sorting Out Rachel is a comedy play written by :
a. Robert Lowell
  b. Patrick White
  c. David Williamson
  d. Sally Morgan

110. Monkfish Moon, a collection of short stories reflecting the ethnic and political tensions that have threatened Sri Lanka since independence in 1948, is written by :
a. Romesh Gunesekera
  b. Lakdasa Wikramasinha
  c. Rohinton Mistry
  d. Maki Kureishi

111. Which among the following is a work of Robert Lowell?
a. The Mills of the Kavanaughs
  b. For the Union Dead
  c. Notebook
  d. All of them

112. Which among the following is a work of William Faulkner?
a. A Fable
  b. The Reivers
  c. Light in August
  d. All of them

113. Whose war time experiences formed the basis of the novel A Farewell to Arms?
a. Henry James
  b. Earnest Hemingway
  c. William Faulkner
  d. Herman Melville

114. Which of the following is a play by Arthur Miller?
a. All My Sons
b. The Crucible
c. A View from the Bridge
d. All of them

115. Which among the following is a parody written by Lorraine Hansberry for Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot?
  a. A Raisin in the Sun
  b. The Arrival of Mr. Todog
  c. The Drinking Gourd
  d. What Use Are Flowers?

116. Which among the following is a work of Amiri Baraka?
a. Dutchman
  b. A Black Mass
  c. Blues People
  d. All of them

117. R.K Narayan’s fictional town of Malgudi is situated on the shore of the river :
a. Ganga
              b. Sarayu
  c. Yamuna
  d. Saraswati

118. Which of the following is NOT a novel of Shashi Deshpande?
a. Shadow Play
  b. That long Silence
  c. The Dark Holds No Silence
  d. Cry, The Peacock

119. Match the following works with their author:

i. Sunlight Surrounds You - (a)Anita Desai

ii. The Zigzag Way - (b)Salman Rushdie

iii. If I Die Today - (c)Nayantara Sehgal

iv. The Golden House - (d)Shashi Deshpande

a. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c

b. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-c, (iv)-a

c. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b

d. (i)-d, (ii)-b, (iii)-a, (iv)-c

120. Who among the following is known for his comic novels set in Trinidad and Tobago?
a. V.S. Naipaul
  b. C.L.R James
  c. Aime Cesaire
  d. Frantz Fanon

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Wednesday 20 March 2019

Unit-IV Part-XI

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