1.
Hymns
for the Drowning is a
work written by :
a. Keki Daruwalla
b.
A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Gieve Patel
d. Arun Kolatkar
2.
The essay 'Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation' is
by :
a. Keki Daruwalla
b.
A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Gieve Patel
d. Arun Kolatkar
3.
First Indian poet to get Sahitya Academi Award
for English poetry :
a. Dom Moraes
b.
A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Gieve Patel
d. Jayanta Mahapatra
4.
The poem ‘Indian Summer’ is written by :
a. Keki Daruwalla
b.
A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Jayanta Mahapatra
d. Arun
Kolatkar
5.
Which is one of the following is a poem of
Jayanta Mahapatra?
a. The Keeper of the Dead
b. Hunger
c. Night of the Scorpion
d.
Natural Causes
6.
‘Summer in Calcutta’ is written by :
a. Dom Moraes
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Kamala Das
d. Jayanta Mahapatra
7.
‘The Kept Woman and Other Stories’ is
written by :
a. Dom Moraes
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Kamala Das
d. Jayanta Mahapatra
8.
Which one is the famous autobiographical book of
Kamala Das which follow’s Aami’s life?
a. My Story
b. Aami
c.
Her Story
d. Aami and me
9.
Dom Moraes’s ‘Heiress to Destiny’ is a
biography of :
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Indira Gandhi
c.
Queen Elizebeth
d. Princess
Diana
10.
‘A Beginning’ is a book of poems by :
a. Dom Moraes
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Kamala Das
d. Jayanta Mahapatra
11.
‘Mr Behram’ is a play written by :
a. Keki Daruwalla
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Gieve Patel
d. Arun Kolatkar
12.
‘How Do You Withstand, Body’ is a poem by
:
a. Keki Daruwalla
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Gieve Patel
d. Arun Kolatkar
13.
‘Jejuri’ is a collection of 31 poems written by
:
a. Keki Daruwalla
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Gieve Patel
d. Arun Kolatkar
14.
The Marathi verse collection ‘Bhijki Vahi’
is written by :
a. Keki Daruwalla
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Gieve Patel
d. Arun Kolatkar
15.
Relationship is a Sahitya Akademi award winning long
poem written by :
a. Dom Moraes
b.
A.K. Ramanujan
c.
Kamala Das
d. Jayanta Mahapatra
16.
Padmavati
the Harlot and Other Stories is written by :
b. A.K. Ramanujan
c. Kamala Das
d. Jayanta Mahapatra
17.
Match the following works with their author:
i.
My
Mother At Sixty-six - (a)Gieve
Patel
ii.
On Killing a Tree - (b)Kamala Das
iii.
Kala Ghoda - (c)Jayanta Mahapatra
iv.
Close
the Sky Ten by Ten - (d)Arun
Kolatkar
a. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
b. (i)-c,
(ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
c.
(i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
d. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
18.
Whose semi-autobiographical novel is The
Serpent and the Rope?
a. Anita Desai
b.
Raja Rao
c.
R.K.Narayan
d. Salman Rushdie
19.
Which is a novel of Raja Rao?
a. Kanthapura
b.
The Chessmaster and His Moves
c. The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tale of India
d.
All of the above
20.
Whose semi-autobiographical trilogy is Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher?
a. Anita Desai
b. Raja Rao
c.
R.K.Narayan
d. Salman Rushdie
21.
The fictional town of Malgudi was first
introduced in R.K Narayan’s work :
a. Swami and Friends
b. The Guide
c. The
financial Expert
d. The
English Teacher
22.
India’s Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand’s famous
autobiography is :
a. Coolie
b. Two Leaves
and a Bud
c. Morning face
d. Untouchable
23.
‘Untouchable’ is a novel written by :
a. Anita Desai
b. Raja Rao
c.
Mulk Raj Anand
d. Salman
Rushdie
24.
Khushwant Singh’s autobiography is :
a. Out of Place
b. Desire: A Memoir
c. Morning
Face
d. Truth, Love
and a little Malice
25.
‘Train to Pakistan’ is a famous novel by :
a. Khushwant Singh
b.
Mulk Raj Anand
c. Salman Rushdie
d. Anita Desai
26.
Which among the following novel of Raja Rao was an account of the impact of Gandhi's teaching on nonviolent resistance against the British?
a. Cat and Shakespeare
b.
The Cow of the Barricades
c. Kanthapura
d.
The Serpent and the Rope
27.
The
Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi is a biography of Gandhiji written by :
a. Anita Desai
b.
Raja Rao
c. Mulk
Raj Anand
d. Salman Rushdie
28.
Match the following works with the author :
i. Comrade Kirillov - (a)Khushwant Singh
ii. Waiting
for the Mahatma - (b)Raja Rao
iii. The
Sword and the Sickle - (c)R.K. Narayan
iv. The
Company of Women - (d)Mulk Raj Anand
a. (i)-b, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
b. (i)-b,
(ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-a
c.
(i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a, (iv)-b
d. (i)-c, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
29.
Arrange the work of R.K. Narayan in
chronological order :
a.
Swami and Friends –The Guide – The Man-Eater
of Malgudi – A Tiger for Malgudi
b.
The Guide - Swami and Friends– The Man-Eater
of Malgudi – A Tiger for Malgudi
c.
A Tiger for Malgudi - Swami and Friends – The
Man-Eater of Malgudi – The Guide
d.
The Man-Eater of Malgudi - The Guide – A
Tiger for Malgudi - Swami and Friends
30.
R.K Narayan’s fictional town of Malgudi is
situated on the shore of the river :
a. Ganga
b.
Sarayu
c.
Yamuna
d. Saraswati
31.
The novel Untouchable depicts a day in
the life of a young sweeper named :
a. Raju
b.
Vivek
c.
Bakha
d. Kali
32.
The literary magazine Marg was founded by
:
a. Anita Desai
b.
Raja Rao
c. Mulk Raj
Anand
d. Salman Rushdie
33.
‘Rich Like Us’ is a Sahithya Academy
Award winning novel of :
a. Anita Desai
b.
Nayantara Sehgal
c. Arundhati Roy
d.
Shashi Deshpande
34.
Which of the following novels of Nayantara
Sehgal follows the lives of two female protagonists, Rose and Sonali, and their
fight to live?
a. Sunlight Surrounds You
b. Rich Like Us
c. A Situation in New
Delhi
d. Plans for
Departure
35.
‘Fire on the Mountain’ is a Sahithya
Academy Award winning novel of :
a. Anita Desai
b. Nayantara Sehgal
c. Arundhati Roy
d.
Shashi Deshpande
36.
The novel of Anita Desai shortlisted for Booker
Prize which tells about an Urdu poet in his declining days is :
a. Clear Light of Day
b. In Custody
c. Fasting, Feasting
d. The Village by the Sea
37.
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
38.
Salman Rushdie’s autobiography about his life in
the wake of the controversy over the novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ is
written in third person. What is his name?
a. Joseph Alex
b. Joseph Anton
c. Samuel John
d. Alan Yentob
39.
Name the Booker Prize winning novel of Salman
Rushdie, which is considered as an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism :
a. Shalimar the Clown
b. Grimus
c. Midnight's Children
d. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
40.
Which novel of Salman Rushdie depicts the
political turmoil in Pakistan, basing his characters on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq?
a. Shame
b. Luka and the Fire of Life
c. Midnight's Children
d. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
41.
Which Salman Rushdie’s novel presents an alternative history of modern rock music?
a. Step Across This Line
b. Shalimar the Clown
c. The Ground Beneath Her Feet
d.
Fury
42.
Which of the following is NOT a work of Jhumpa
Lahiri?
a. Interpreter of Maladies
b. The Lowland
c. Unaccustomed Earth
d.
Shame
43.
Which novel of Arundhati Roy tells about fraternal twins Rahel and Esthappen in Ayemenem?
a. The God of Small Things
b. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
c. The Cost of Living
d.
The Greater Common Good
44.
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
45.
Nilanjana Sudeshna is better known as :
a. Nayantara Sehgal
b.
Jhumpa Lahiri
c. Anita Desai
d. Shashi Deshpande
46.
Which of the following works of Jhumpa Lahiri
have ‘Gogol’ as the protagonist?
a. The Namesake
b.
Brotherly Love
c.
The Lowland
d. Unaccustomed Earth
47.
‘Siddhartha, Man of Peace’ is a play
written by the younger brother of Sarojini Naidu. Who is he?
a. Harindranath Chattopadhyay
b. Jayanta Mahapatra
c. Arun Kolatkar
d. Toru Dutt
48.
Rail Gaadi is a poem written by :
a. Harindranath Chattopadhyay
b. Jayanta Mahapatra
c. Arun Kolatkar
d. Toru Dutt
49.
His contribution to Kannada theatrical comedy earned him the title Prahasana Prapitamaha, "the
father of humorous plays". Who is he?
a. T. Paramasiva Iyer
b. T.P Kailasam
c. Chidambaranath
d.
Kuvempu
50.
Who wrote the work ‘The Brahmin's Curse’?
a. T. Paramasiva Iyer
b. T.P Kailasam
c. Chidambaranath
d.
Kuvempu
1. B
ReplyDelete2. B
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. A
11. C
12. C
13. D
14. D
15. D
16. C
17. A
18. B
19. D
20. C
21. A
22. C
23. C
24. D
25. A
26. C
27. B
28. B
29. A
30. B
31. C
32. C
33. B
34. B
35. A
36. B
37. D
38. B
39. C
40. A
41. C
42. D
43. A
44. C
45. B
46. A
47. A
48. A
49. B
50. B