Unit-IV Part-VII

1.      Identify a writer who is NOT grouped under Transcendentalists :
                        a.  Emerson
                        b. Thoreau
                        c. Whitman    
                        d. Hemingway

2.      “Because I could not stop for Death; He kindly stopped for me –” Identify the poet of these lines :
                        a.  Sylvia Plath  
                        b. Emily Dickinson  
                        c. Toni Morrison
                        d. Margaret Atwood

3.      ‘Beloved’ and ‘Sula’ are the novels of :
                        a. Ellison      
                        b. Alice walker    
                        c. Melville  
                        d. Toni Morrison

4.      Tagore’s ‘Chandalika’ is a :
                        a.  Novel          
                        b. Long poem      
                        c. Drama         
                        d. Non-fiction

5.      Who wrote the ‘Walden’?
                        a.  Thoreau     
                        b. Emerson     
                        c. Mark Twain   
                        d. Melville

6.      The Nobel Prize for Literature(2017) is for :
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro  
                        b. Gunter Grass
                        c. Doris Lessing  
                        d. Herta Mueller

7.      Which novel of Salman Rushdie was banned in India?
                        a.  The Moor’s Last Sigh
                        b. Grimus
                        c. Imaginary Homelands 
                        d. The Satanic Verses

8.      Which work of Emerson is described as ‘A Declaration of American Intellectual Independence’?
                        a.  The American Scholar 
                        b. The Oversoul
                        c. Nature   
                        d. Journals

9.      H.D. Thoreau’s Walden is otherwise known as :
                        a.  Life in the Forest 
                        b. Life in the Woods
                        c. Man in the Woods
                       d. Man in the Forest

10.   Which work of Nathaniel Hawthorne seeks ‘to expunge the whipping of the Quaker woman ordered by Judge William through the writing of his story’?
                        a.  The Scarlet Letter     
                        b. The House of the Seven Gables
                        c.  The Blithedale Romance                        
                        d. The Gentle Boy

11.   Captain Peleg, Captain Bildad, Captain Ahab are characters in the novels of :
                        a.  Herman Melville
                        b. William Faulkner   
                        c. Henry James      
                        d. D.H. Lawrence

12.   ‘When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed’ is an elegy written on the death of :
                        a.  George Washington
                        b. Abraham Lincoln
                        c. Thomas Jefferson
                        d. None of these

13.   Mark Twain’s Huckleburry Finn is a sequel to :
                        a.  Tom Sawyer  
                        b. Those Extraordinary Twins
                        c.  Pudd’nhead Wilson
                        d. The Stolen White Elephant

14.   Name the author of My Story :
                        a. Anitha Nair   
                        b. Anita Desai 
                        c. Nayantara Sahgal
                        d. Kamala Das

15.   V.S. Naipaul the author of A House for Mr. Biswas, has his roots in :
                        a. India 
                        b. Africa    
                        c. Europe    
                        d. Carribean Isles

16.   A Dance of the Forests, a play which satirizes pre-colonial African regimes is written by :
                        a.  Wole Soyinka   
                        b. Ted Hughes   
                        c. Chinua Achebe 
                        d. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

17.   What is the ‘extended and inclusive notion of feminism’ that Tony Morrison evolved and developed in her works?
                        a.  Black Feminism     
                        b. Ladyism     
                        c. Womanism  
                        d. Damselism

18.   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. Radhakrishnan 
                        c. Sarojini Naidu   
                        d. Edward Thompson

19.   Name the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature :
                        a.  Ngugi wa Thiong’O 
                        b. Chinua Achebe
                        c. Dennis Brutus   
                        d. Wole Soyinka

20.   Achebe has derived the title of one of his novels from Yeats’s “The Second Coming”. Which is the novel?
                        a.  Arrow of God  
                        b. Things Fall Apart
                        c. No Longer at Ease
                        d. Anthills of the Savannah

21.   Which of these works by V S Naipaul is semi-autobiographical?
                        a. The Mimic Men
                        b. A Bend in the River
                        c. A House for Mr Biswas
                        d. The Mystic Masseur

22.   Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe were associated with the ---------- movement.
                        a.  Absurdist    
                        b. Symbolist   
                        c. Naturalist  
                        d. Realist

23.   Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is dedicated to the 19th century American writer-----------.
                        a.  Mark Twain    
                        b. Emerson     
                        c. Edgar Allan Poe 
                        d. Hawthorne

24.   Who among the following was NOT a Transcendentalist?
                        a.  R W Emerson   
                        b. H D Thoreau    
                        c. Margaret Fuller
                        d. Walt Whitman

25.   Rich Like Us is a Sahitya Academy Award winning novel by :
                        a.  Anitha Desai     
                        b. Nayanthara  Sahgal
                        c. Kamala Markandaya
                        d. Leela Dey

26.   Which of the following novels was NOT written by William Faulkner?
                        a.  Absalom, Absalom!  
                        b. Light in August   
                        c. As I Lay Dying 
                        d. The Secret Agent

27.   Who among the following is NOT a Booker Prize winner?
                        a. Kiran Desai   
                        b. Aravind Adiga 
                        c. Arundhati Roy      
                        d. Anita Desai

28.   Match the authors with the works :

                 i.          Dr. B.R.Ambedkar                                   -              (a)The Renaissance in India

                ii.          Mahatma Gandhi                                    -              (b)The Discovery of India

               iii.          Jawaharlal Nehru                                    -              (c)Chandilya

               iv.          Shri Aurobindo                                        -              (d)Buddha and his Dhamma

      -                (e)Hind Swaraj 

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

29.   Vacanas of Basava and Akkamahadevi are translated as Speaking of Shiva by :
                        a. Shiv K. Kumar   
                        b. Arun Kolatkar
                        c. A.K. Ramanujan    
                        d. Arvind Mehrotra

30.   The concept of ‘Third Theatre’ was introduced in Indian drama by :
                        a.  Girish Karnad 
                        b. Vijay Tendulkar 
                        c. Badal Sircar  
                        d. Satyajit Ray

31.   Nissim Ezekiel’s essay “Naipaul’s India and Mine” is a reaction against which work of Naipaul?
                        a.  Area of Darkness          
                        b. India : A Wounded Civilization
                        c.  India : A Million Mutinies Now       
                        d. Beyond Belief

32.   Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography is translated into English by :
                        a.  Mahesh Desai  
                        b. Rakesh Verma    
                        c. Ramdas Gandhi
                        d. Mahadev Desai

33.   Which novel in English won the first Sahitya Akademi Award in the year 1960?
                        a.  The Guide 
                        b. The Serpent and The Rope  
                        c. Kanthapura 
                        d. Cat and Shakespeare

34.   Which American poet wrote the poem Brahma?
                        a.  Emerson      
                        b. Walt Whitman 
                        c. Allen Ginsberg 
                        d. Thoreau

35.   The classic epic poem Savitri by Sri Aurobindo deals with the theme of :
                        a.  Love and Death    
                        b. Life and Death
                        c. Sin and Death 
                        d. All of these

36.   In Moby Dick captain Ahab falls for his :
                        a.  ignorance
                        b. pride          
                        c. courage     
                        d. drunkenness

37.   Match the following :

                      i.     Richard Wright                                         -              (a)Beloved

                     ii.     Ralph Ellison                                            -              (b)Native Son

                    iii.     Toni Morrison                                          -              (c)A Raisin in the Sun

                    iv.     Lorraine Hansberry                                 -              (d)Invisible Man

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

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

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

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

38.   What is the full name of Voss in Patrick White’s Voss?
                        a.  Le Mesurier Voss
                        b. Travelyan Laura Voss
                        c. Johan Ulrich Voss
                        d. Edmund Voss

39.   Which river has significance in the writings of Mark Twain?
                        a.  Missouri      
                        b. Ohio    
                        c. Mississippi       
                        d. Amazon

40.   Laura and Tom are characters in Tennessee William’s play :
                        a.  The Rose Tattoo    
                        b. The Glass Menagerie
                        c.  A Streetcar Named Desire   
                        d. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

41.   The writer associated with expressionism is :
                        a.  Edward Albee  
                        b. Tennessee Williams 
                        c. Arthur Miller    
                        d. Eugene O’NeillIn

42.   Which poem of A.D. Hope do these lines occur?

“And the great earth, with neither grief nor malice, Receives the tiny burden of her death.”

                  a.  Australia   

                  b. Inscription for a war 

                  c. Standardization    

                  d. Death of the Bird

43.   The fictional character ‘Willy Loman’ in Arthur Miller’s classic play is a/an :
                        a.  baseball player   
                        b. insurance agent  
                        c. salesman     
                        d. school teacher

44.   Match the following books with the authors :

                      i.     The Zoo Story                                           -              (a)Gunter Grass

                     ii.     Tin Drum                                                   -              (b)Patrick White

                    iii.      An Area of Darkness                              -              (c)Edward Albee

                    iv.     The Vivisector                                          -              (d)V.S. Naipaul

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

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

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

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

45.   Which of the following novels does NOT deal with the life of diaspora?
                        a.  Jasmine      
                        b. Namesake    
                        c. The Hungry Tide  
                        d. The Mistress of Spices

46.   Identify the novel in which Paul D, Sixo and Denver figure as characters :
                        a. Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God
                        b. Toni Morrison’s Beloved
                        c. Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
                        d. Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

47.   Who, among the following, has written a biography of V.S. Naipaul?
                        a.  Patrick French   
                        b. David Lodge   
                        c. Martin Amis    
                        d. Peter Ackroyd

48.   Identify the play of Girish Karnad that has affinities with a work of Thomas Mann :
                        a.  Tughlaq     
                        b. Nagamandala  
                        c. Hayavadana  
                        d. The Fire and the Rain

49.   The Ancient Legends of Hindustan was written by :
                        a. Sarojini Naidu   
                        b. Aurobindo Ghosh 
                        c. Rabindranath Tagore
                        d. Toru Dutt

50.   Ramaswamy is a protagonist of Raja Rao’s novel :
                        a.  Kanthapura 
                        b. The Serpant and the Rope
                        c. Comrade Kirillov
                        d. The Cat and Shakespeare

51.   Match the authors with his works :

                      i.     Ngugi                                           -              (a)The Wretched of the Earth

                     ii.     Soyinka                                       -              (b)Weep Not Child

                    iii.     Fanon                                         -              (c)No Longer at Ease

                    iv.     Achebe                                       -              (d)A Dance of Forests

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

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

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

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

52.   Who among the following is a playwright and poet?
                        a.  Derek Walcott    
                        b. Wilson Harris    
                        c. V.S. Naipaul  
                        d. George Lamming

53.   Identify the poem by Robert Frost in which the following lines occur :

“My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree toward heaven still ……………..”

                  a.  “After Apple Picking”  

                  b. “Mending Wall”

                  c.  “The Road Not Taken”  

                  d. “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”

54.   “I knowed he was white inside.” This line appears in which novel?
                        a.  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  
                        b. Light in August    
                        c. Moby Dick    
                        d. Old Man and the Sea

55.   Name the author of The Scarlet Letter :
                        a.  Emerson       
                        b. Dreiser     
                        c. Hawthorne  
                        d. Hemingway

56.   The central theme of The Diviners by Margaret Laurence is :
                        a.  A woman’s quest for individuality     
                        b. Struggle for survival
                        c.  Search for history                                      
                        d. Multiculturalism

57.   The Bluest Eye is written by :
                        a. Toni Morrison    
                        b. Alice Walker   
                        c. Ralph Ellison   
                        d. Gloria Naylor

58.   Half a Life is a novel by :
                        a. Caryll Philips  
                        b. V.S. Naipaul  
                        c. Martin Amis  
                        d. Shiva Naipaul

59.   Identify the novel which does NOT deal with the partition of India?
                        a.  Azadi       
                        b. Train to Pakistan 
                        c. Shadow Lines 
                        d. The Serpent and the Rope

60.   Who is the author of The Tree of Man?
                        a.  Doris Lessing   
                        b. Judith Wright   
                        c. Patrick White   
                        d. A.D. Hope

61.   ‘124 Bluestone Road’ is the locale of which novel?
                        a.  Beloved     
                        b. Moby Dick 
                        c. The Woman of Brewster Place
                        d. Go Tell it on the Mountains

62.   ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ is a play by :
                        a.  Edward Albee  
                        b. Eugene O’Neill    
                        c. Arthur Miller   
                        d. Agatha Christie

63.   The journal which the Transcendalists published was :
                        a.  The Quarterly  
                        b. The Criterion   
                        c. The Dial     
                        d. Opportunity

64.   The ‘chutneyfication’ of the English language is attributed to :
                        a. Salman Rushdie 
                        b. Amitav Ghosh 
                        c. Shashi Tharoor 
                        d. Suniti Namjoshi

65.   ‘Ayemenam’ is the name of a place in :
                        a.  The God of Small things      
                        b. Small Remedies
                        c.  Storm in Chandigarh   
                        d. Fire on the Mountain

66.   The statement “All modern American literature come from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is made by:
                        a.  Ernest Hemingway 
                        b. William Faulkner  
                        c. Henry James    
                        d. Herman Melville

67.   The novel Things Fall Apart is written by :
                        a.  Chinua Achebe   
                        b. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o  
                        c. Doris Lessing 
                        d. John Masters

68.   Which of the following is NOT written by V.S Naipaul?
                        a.  The Financial Expert
                        b. The Mimic Men 
                        c. The Mystic Masseur   
                        d. The Area of Darkness

69.   Toni Morrison’s first novel was -----------
                        a.  Sula  
                        b. Song of Solomon 
                        c. The Bluest Eye
                        d. Tar Baby

70.   Which of the following is NOT written by Chinua Achebe?
                        a.  A Dance of the Forests
                        b. Things Fall Apart 
                        c. The Flute and the Drum    
                        d. Arrow of Gold

71.   One of the following books was written by V.S. Naipaul :
                        a.  The Mimic Men 
                        b. Black and White
                        c. A Hot Country
                        d. Beyond the Dragon’s Mouth

72.   One of the following books written by Rushdie is NOT a novel :
                        a.  Shame    
                        b. The Satanic Verses
                        c. Imaginary Homelands    
                        d. Midnight’s Children

73.   The name of the ship in Melville’s Moby Dick is ----------
                        a.  The Whale   
                        b. Pequod    
                        c. Ishmael     
                        d. Ahab

74.   ---------- is Whitman’s elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln.
                        a.  Goodbye My Fancy       
                        b. November Boughs
                        c.  When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d   
                        d. Sands at Seventy

75.   Who is the protagonist in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye?
                        a.  Pecola Breedlove
                        b. Sula Peace    
                        c. Nel Wright   
                        d. Milkmann Dead

76.   Who wrote the poem Where the Mind is Without Fear?
                        a.  Robert Frost    
                        b. Langston Hughes
                        c. Maya Angelou  
                        d. Rabindranath Tagore

77.   In which poem has Kamala Das said:“I speak three languages, write in two, dream in one.” :
                        a.  My Grandmother’s House          
                        b. An Introduction
                        c.  Summer in Calcutta                               
                        d. The Old Playhouse

78.   The protagonist in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel is ---------
                        a.  Hagar Shipley    
                        b. Morag Gunn    
                        c. Rachel Cameron    
                        d. Stacey Cameron

79.   Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is better known by his pen name -------.
                        a.  Mark Twain     
                        b. Melville  
                        c. Hemingway    
                        d. Emerson

80.   Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for --------.
                        a.  Beloved     
                        b. The Bluest Eye  
                        c. Sula     
                        d. Song of Solomon

81.   The Road Not Taken is a poem by Robert Frost, published in 1916, as the first poem in the collection ------.
                        a.  Mountain Interval
                        b. A Boy's Will 
                        c. West-Running Brook   
                        d. From Snow to Snow

82.   -------- is a 1982 epistolary novel by the American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
                        a.  To Hell With Dying 
                        b. The Temple of My Familiar
                        c. Colour Purple 
                        d. Finding the Green Stone

83.   Who is the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature?
                        a.  Wole Soyinka   
                        b. Chinua Achebe   
                        c. NgugiwaThiong’ O 
                        d. Nadine Gordimer

84.   “Sheets of white blossoms new-garnered, to perfume the sleep of the dead” ---these lines are taken from Sarojini Naidu’s --------.
                        a.  In The Bazaars of Hyderabad  
                        b. Palanquin Bearers
                        c. The Snake-Charmer   
                        d. Song of a Dream

85.   “Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, commands all light, all influence, all fate;” these lines that appear as an epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune also appear as an epigraph to -----.
                        a.  Self- reliance  
                        b. Civil Disobedience 
                        c. Unto this Last 
                        d. The Divine Self

86.   Kamala Das' first book of poetry is titled -------.
                        a.  Summer in Calcutta 
                        b. The Descendants   
                        c. The Looking Glass
                        d. Song of Love

87.   Which is the first novel written by Chinua Achebe?
                        a.  Things Fall Apart   
                        b. No Longer at Ease 
                        c. Arrow of God  
                        d. A Man of the People

88.   The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence is set in the fictitious town of ------.
                        a.  Manawaka     
                        b. Isola   
                        c. Opar          
                        d. Mariposa

89.   “I am invisible; understand, simply because people refuse to see me”: these lines are taken from a novel written by the American novelist -------.
                        a.  Ralph Ellison     
                        b. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
                        c. Richard Wright    
                        d. James Baldwin

90.   What is the scarlet letter in Hawthorne’s novel of the same name?
                        a.  A badge
                        b. The Letter A   
                        c. A picture   
                        d. Scarlet handkerchief

91.   Match the lines and the poems :

                      i.     I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself                              -              (a) Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

                     ii.     Inebriate of air – am I –                                                        -              (b) Raven

                    iii.     Once upon a midnight dreary, …                                        -              (c) Song of Myself

                    iv.     Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face                       -              (d) I taste a liquor never brewed

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

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

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

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

92.   Match the characters and the novels:

                      i.     Tom Canty                                                -              (a)Moby Dick

                     ii.     Captain Ahab                                           -              (b)The Prince and the Pauper

                    iii.     Eliza                                                          -              (c)Absalom Absalom

                    iv.     Thomas Sutpen                                       -              (d)Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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

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

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

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

93.   Which one of these is NOT a novel of Leslie Mormon Silko?
                        a. Ceremony  
                        b. Almanac of the Dead 
                        c. Gardens in the Dunes 
                        d. Love Medicine

94.   In 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature was given to :
                        a.  Arthur Miller  
                        b. Sam Shepard   
                        c. Eugene O’Neill     
                        d. Tennessee Williams

95.   ‘Meghnadh Badh Kabya’ is an epic poem by :
                        a.  Sarojini Naidu  
                        b. Madhusudan Dutt  
                        c. Toru Dutt   
                        d. Rabindranath Tagore

96.   Which Indian poet has penned these lines: I am Indian, very brown, born in/Malabar, I speak three languages, write in/Two, dream in one :
                        a.  Kamala Das   
                        b. Keki Daruwalla   
                        c. Arun Kolatkar    
                        d. Mamta Kalia

97.   Identify the correct chronology :
                        a. The English Teacher, Mr. Sampath, The Financial Expert, The Dark Room
                        b. The English Teacher, The Financial Expert , Mr. Sampath, The Dark Room
                        c. The Dark Room,The English Teacher , Mr. Sampath, The Financial Expert
                        d. Mr. Sampath, The English Teacher, The Financial Expert, The Dark Room

98.   Match the characters and the novels of Shashi Deshpande :

                      i.     Bim                                              -              (a)Roots and Shadows

                     ii.     Jaya                                             -              (b)Binding Vine

                    iii.     Urmi                                            -              (c)Clear Light of Day

                    iv.     Indhu                                          -              (d)That Long Silence

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

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

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

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

99.    Lights Out is a play by ----- 
               a.  Girish Karnad      
               b. Manjula Padmanabhan  
               c. Asif Currimbhoy 
               d. Badal Sircar

100.  Identify the writer who was a poet, teacher, president of a nation and the proponent of negritude theory :

                a.  Leopold Senghor 

                b. Chinua Achebe     

                c. Wole Soyinka   

                d. Christopher Okigbo

101.  Which of the unities is NOT mentioned in Poetics?

                a.  The unity of time 

                b. The unity of place

                c. The unity of action 

                d. The unity of impression

102.  “A poem defamiliarises a familiar reality.” Who said it?

                a.  A Russian formalist   

                b. A structuralist 

                c. A New critic    

                d. A post-structuralist critic

103.  Who, according to Arnold, is a classic of prose?

                a.  Chaucer    

                b. Milton   

                c. Dr. Johnson     

                d. Pope

104.  Identify the figure of speech : “No, the day has wept for the full.“ :

                a.  Personification   

                b. Metaphor 

                c. Hyperbole      

                d. Simile

105.  Match the following :

                 i.     Svapnavasavadattam                                 -              (a)Bhavbhuti

                ii.     Mrikshakatikam                                          ­-              (b)kalidasa

               iii.     Malati Madhava                                          -              (c)Sudraka

               iv.     Uttarramacharitam                                     -              (d)Bhasa

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

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

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

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

106.  Who is considered as America’s first ‘poet of democracy’?

                a.  Emerson        

                b. Thoreau     

                c. Whitman   

                d. Dickinson

107.  The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the only complete novel written by :

                 a.  Hawthorn      

                 b. Edgar Allan Poe 

                 c. Mark Twain   

                 d. Robert Frost

108.   How many sections were in Ezra Pound’s incomplete poem The Cantos :

                 a.  101  

                 b. 116       

                 c. 74        

                 d. 124

109.  Match the following :

i.                 Fairy Tales                                                        -              (a)Ezra Pound

ii.                Cathay                                                               -              (b)Wallace Stevens

iii.               Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise                  -              (c)Robert Lowell

iv.               Life Studies                                                      -              (d)ee Cummings

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

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

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

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

110.  The Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath is written by :

                a.  Henry James 

                b. Earnest Hemingway 

                c. William Faulkner   

                d. John Steinbeck

111.  Who among the following is a key figure of Native American Renaissance :

                a.  John Steinback 

                b. Herman Melville  

                c. Saul Bellow      

                d. Leslie Marmon Silko

112.  Which of the following is a work of Ralph Ellison :

                a.  Juneteenth   

                b. Going to the Territory

                c. Shadow and Act   

                d. All of them

113.  ‘Tales of the Out and the Gone’ is a book written by :

                a.  Lorraine Hansberry     

                b. Amiri Baraka    

                c. Alice Walker     

                d. William Faulkner

114.  Which of the following is a work of Sarojini Naidu :

                a.  The Golden Threshold   

                b. The Bird of Time    

                c. The Broken Wing   

                d. All of them

115.  First Indian poet to get Sahitya Academi Award for English poetry :

                a. Dom Moraes    

                b. A.K. Ramanujan    

                c. Gieve Patel    

                d. Jayanta Mahapatra

116.  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

117.  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

118.   Who among these wrote the play ‘Harvest’?

                a.  Girish Karnad       

                b. T.P Kailasam   

                c. Manjula Padmanabhan    

                d. Badal Sircar

119.   ‘The Serpent Players’ is associated with which of the following writer?

                a.  J.P.Clark     

                b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o    

                c. Ben Okri           

                d. Athol Fugard

120.  Chinua Achebe’s famous novel Things Fall Apart took the title from :

                a.  W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming    

                b. Amos Tutuola’s Palm-Wine Drinkard

                c.  Cyprian Ekwensi’s People of the City

                d. Booker T Washington’s Up From Slavery