Unit-IV Part-VIII

1.      Identify the author and the work:

                 i.          The Famished Road                                -              (a)Athol Fugard

                ii.          The Island                                               -              (b)Ben Okri

               iii.          America, Their America                        -              (c)Ngugi wa Thiong’o

               iv.          The River Between                                 -              (d)J.P. Clark

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

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

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

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

2.      Ralph Singh is a character in Naipaul’s :
                        a.  A House for Mr. Biswas
                        b. Mimic Men  
                        c. Miguel Street 
                        d. An Area of Darkness

3.      Identify the Canadian novel that contains the following quote: “The statue to Hagar’s mother was built in pride to mark her bones and proclaim his [her father’s] dynasty, as he fancied, forever and a day":
                        a.  As for Me and My House
                        b. Tin Flute
                        c. Badlands 
                        d. Stone Angel

4.      Name the writer who wrote a response to Shakespeare’s The Tempest and a discourse on colonialism :
                        a. Frantz Fanon    
                        b. Aime Cesaire
                        c. Du Bois   
                        d. CLR James

5.      Name the novel that revised the historical details of Japanese Canadians :
                        a.  Obasan     
                        b. Itsuka
                        c. The Rain Ascends
                        d. Naomi’s Tree

6.      Identify whose poem begins with these lines: “The paper tigers roar at noon; /The sun is hot, the sun is high”.
                        a.  Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers     
                        b. Blake’s Tyger
                        c.  A. D. Hope’s Tiger 
                        d. Hilaire Belloc’s The Tiger

7.      'My Place' is an autobiographical work of ------
                        a.  Sally Morgan   
                        b. David Malouf    
                        c. David Williamson  
                        d. Judith Wright

8.      Who among these is a poet from Singapore?
                        a.  Alamgiri Hashmi
                        b. Taslima Nusreen    
                        c. Romesh Gunasekara    
                        d. Edwin Thumboo

9.      -------- was one of the founding fathers of Transcendentalism.
                        a.  Herman Melville 
                        b. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
                        c. Henry James  
                        d. Henry David Thoreau

10.   One of Walt Whitman’s poems about Abraham Lincoln is titled ------
                        a.  Song of Myself   
                        b. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
                        c.  When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed 
                        d. Song of the Open Road

11.   Match the following:

                 i.          In a Station of the Metro                                     -              (a) Robert Lowell

                ii.          Buffalo Bill                                                          -              (b) Wallace Stevens

               iii.          Sunday Morning                                                 -              (c) e e cummings

               iv.          For the Union Dead                                            -              (d) Ezra Pound

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

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

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

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

12.   Match the following:

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

                ii.          Billy Bud                                                               -              (b) Nathaniel Hawthorne

               iii.          Huckleberry Finn                                                 -              (c) Henry James

               iv.          The Ambassadors                                                 -              (d) Herman Melville

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

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

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

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

13.   'Light in August' is a novel by -------
                        a.  Saul Bellow  
                        b. Ernest Hemingway 
                        c. John Steinbeck    
                        d. William Faulkner

14.   The romantic period in America is also known as :
                        a.  Puritanism   
                        b. Harlem Renaissance
                        c. Transcendentalism    
                        d. Utilitarianism

15.   From 1852-1865 Baudelaire published extensive translations of this American poet. He was referred to as a French writer rather than an American writer by Simone de Beauvoir during her tour of US. Identify the author :
                        a.  Edgar Allan Poe 
                        b. Walt Whitman
                        c. Emily Dickinson
                        d. Thoreau

16.   Explain what the word ‘slovenly’ (It made the slovenly wilderness) refers to in Wallace Stevens’ poem, ‘Anecdote of a Jar’ :
                        a.  Careless   
                        b. Uncultivated  
                        c. Cultured  
                        d. Dirty

17.   Match the following:

                 i.          Invisible Man                                                           -              (a) Alice Walker

                ii.          Color Purple                                                            -              (b) Lorraine Hansberry

               iii.          A Raisin’ in the Sun                                               -              (c) Amiri Baraka

               iv.          The Dutchman                                                        -              (d) Ralph Ellison

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

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

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

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

18.   -------- wrote the long poem 'Savitri'.
                        a.  Michael Madhusudhan Dutt   
                        b. Toru Dutt   
                        c. Henry Derozio     
                        d. Shri Aurobindo

19.   Match the following:

                 i.          A River                                                                    -              (a) Nissim Ezekiel

                ii.          Dance of the Eunuchs                                           -              (b) A K Ramanujan

               iii.          The Night of the Scorpion                                    -              (c) Arun Kolatkar

               iv.          Heart of Ruin                                                         -              (d) Kamala Das

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

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

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

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

20.   The following is NOT a novel by Mulk Raj Anand :
                        a.  Seven Summers 
                        b. The Dark Room
                        c. Two Leaves and a Bud
                        d. Untouchable

21.   Which of the following authors has NOT won the Booker Prize?
                        a. Salman Rushdie 
                        b. Arundhati Roy  
                        c. Jhumpa Lahiri   
                        d. Kiran Desai

22.   'Spartacus' is a play by -------
                        a.  Asif Currimbhoy    
                        b. Badal Sircar 
                        c. Manjula Padmanabhan  
                        d. Girish Karnad

23.   Match the following:

                 i.          Christopher Okigbo                                               -              (a) The Road

                ii.          Wole Soyinka                                                          -              (b) Anthills of the Savannahs

               iii.          Chinua Achebe                                                       -              (c) Decolonizing the Mind

               iv.          NgugiWaThiong’o                                                  -              (d) Silences

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

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

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

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

24.   Athol Fugard is a -------.
                        a.  Nigerian poet   
                        b. South African playwright and director
                        c.  Senegalese fictionist  
                        d. Zambian critic

25.   The Caribbean writer ------- is of Indian origin.
                        a.  V S Naipual 
                        b. George Lamming   
                        c. Derek Walcott       
                        d. Edward Brathwaite

26.   Match the following:

                 i.          Sinclair Ross                                                           -              (a) Rez Sisters

                ii.          Tomson Highway                                                   -              (b) The Stone Angel

               iii.          Margaret Lawrence                                              -              (c) As for Me and My House

               iv.          E J Pratt                                                                 -              (d) The Witches’ Brew

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

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

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

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

27.   'Such a Long Journey' is a novel by -------
                        a.  Michael Ondatje   
                        b. Rohinton Mistry    
                        c. Claire Harris    
                        d. Joy Kogawa

28.   Which of the following is NOT a ‘Bush Poet’?
                        a.  Judith Wright     
                        b. Les Murray 
                        c. David Campbell      
                        d. A D Hope

29.   'Voss' is a novel by ------
                        a.  David Malouf     
                        b. Sally Morgan   
                        c. Patrick White 
                        d. David Williamson

30.   Arrange these novels of Mark Twain chronologically :

I. Life on the Mississippi                II. The Innocents Abroad                III. Roughing It            IV. Puddn’head Wilson

                  a.  I, III, II, IV    

                  b. II, III, IV, I     

                  c. I, II, III, IV    

                  d. II, III, I, IV

31.   Name the novel that begins thus: I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

a.      Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

b.      Jack London’s The Call of the Wild

c.      Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

d.      Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Auggie March

32.   Match the following :

                 i.          LakdasaWickramasinghe                                       -              (a) Reef

                ii.          Maki Kureishi                                                          -              (b) Lajja

               iii.          Romesh Gunasekhara                                            -              (c) Pakistani poet

               iv.          Taslima Nasreen                                                      -              (d) Sri Lankan bilingual poet

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

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

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

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

33.   Harlem Renaissance in American literary history refers to ------

a.      Political-social impact of Civil War on African Americans

b.      The growth of a new romanticism among colored people

c.      Cultural, social and artistic explosion among African Americans

d.      Innovative dance practices of the African Americans

34.   Match the novel and the writer :

                 i.          Gora                                                                          -              (a) Toru Dutt

                ii.          Life Divine                                                                -              (b) Rabindranath Tagore

               iii.          The Golden Threshold                                            -              (c) Sri Aurobindo

               iv.          Bianca                                                                       -              (d) Sarojini Naidu

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

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

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

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

35.   Match the poet and the poem :

                 i.          Keki Daruwalla                                                        -              (a) Rendezvous

                ii.          Gieve Patel                                                               -              (b) Fish

               iii.          ArunKolatkar                                                          -              (c) From Bombay Central

               iv.          Dom Moraes                                                            -              (d) An Old Woman

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

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

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

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

36.   Match the character and the novel :

                 i.          Kanthapura                                                            -              (a) Juggat Singh

                ii.          Untouchable                                                           -              (b) Raju               

               iii.          The Guide                                                               -              (c) Bakha

               iv.          Train to Pakistan                                                    -              (d) Moorthy

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

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

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

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

37.   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

38.   Match the play and the playwright :

                 i.          Badal Sircar                                                             -              (a) Doledrummers

                ii.          Girish Karnad                                                         -              (b) Hayavadana

               iii.          Asif Currimbhoy                                                     -              (c) Purpose

               iv.          T.P. Kailasam                                                           -              (d) Evam Indrajit

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

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

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

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

39.   Identify the two writers who were associated with the journals, Presence Africaine and Transition respectively :
                        a.  Chinua Achebe and Ben Okri     
                        b. Leopold Senghor and Christopher Okigbo
                        c.  Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe     
                        d. Du Bois and Leopold Senghor

40.   This novel was written in Gikuyu and English languages and was written secretively on a toilet paper. It has been written in an allegorical form. Identify the novel and the novelist :
                        a.  Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ waThiong'o   
                        b. The Captain’s Tiger by Athol Fugard
                        c.  Dangerous Love by Ben Okri     
                        d. Ozidi by John Pepper Clark

41.   Identify the novel of CLR James :
                        a.  World Revolution    
                        b. Minty Alley      
                        c. Notes on Dialectics
                        d. Cricket

42.   Which of these writers were awarded the Nobel Prize?

I. V.S. Naipaul                    II. George Lamming                        III. Derek Walcott                            IV. Edward Braithwaite

                  a.  I and II only     

                  b. II and III only  

                  c. I and III only    

                  d. III and IV only

43.   Match the character and the novelist who created him/her :

                 i.          Philip Bentley                                                          -              (a) E.J. Pratt

                ii.          Hagar Shipley                                                         -              (b) Tomson Highway

               iii.          Brebeuf                                                                    -              (c) Sinclair Ross

               iv.          Champion Okimasis                                               -              (d) Margaret Laurence

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

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

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

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

44.   Match the terms with the concept :

                 i.          Multiculturalism                                                     -              (a) existence of a variety of cultural groups

                ii.          Diaspora                                                                  -              (b) state of belonging to a common social group

               iii.          Cultural Diversity                                                  -              (c) dispersal and spread of people

               iv.          Ethnicity                                                                  -              (d) Inclusive Citizenship

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

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

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

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

45.   Which of these statements describes Bush poetry?

a.      Poetry with good rhyme and rhythm about Australia/ Australians /the Australian way of life.

b.      Poetry of the aboriginals in Australia and New Zealand

c.      Poetry of enslaved groups

d.      Poetry concerning nature and environment in New Zealand.

46.   Brilliant Lies, Face to Face and Emerald City are films based on the plays of -------
                        a.  Sally Morgan       
                        b. David William 
                        c. David Malouf     
                        d. Peter Carey

47.   Reef and Monkfish Moon are novels by -------
                        a.  Lakdasa Wikramsimha 
                        b. Alamgir Hashmi    
                        c. Romesh Gunasekara   
                        d. Edwin Thumboo

48.   Which of the following American writers exerted tremendous influence on Mahatma Gandhi?
                        a.  Emerson       
                        b. Thoreau       
                        c. Melville   
                        d. Hemingway

49.   Whose 157th birth anniversary come in this year?
                        a.  Tagore     
                        b. Sarojini Naidu 
                        c. Toru Dutt     
                        d. Kamala Das

50.   Salman Rushdie’s Midnights Children won the :
                        a.  Nobel Prize   
                        b. Booker Prize 
                        c. Sahitya Academy Award
                        d. Pulitzer Prize

51.   Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is :
                        a. A novel        
                        b. A play     
                        c. A collection of stories    
                        d. A travelogue

52.   Womanism is a woman’s liberative concept that runs through the works of :
                        a.  Tony Morrison    
                        b. Emily Dickinson   
                        c. William Faulkner   
                        d. Silvia Plath

53.   ‘Man may be destroyed but he cannot be defeated’ is the theme of Hemingway’s novel :
                        a.  The Old Man and the Sea   
                        b. A Farewell to Arms
                        c.  For Whom the Bell Tolls    
                        d. None of the above

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

55.   Match the following :

                 i.          Irony as a Principle of Structure                                         -              (a) Empson

                ii.          The Golden Bough                                                               -              (b) Cleanth Brooks

               iii.          Seven Types of Ambiguity                                                   -              (c) Northrop Frye

               iv.          The Archetypes of Literature                                               -              (d) Frazer

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

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

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

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

56.   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

57.   The Empire Writes Back has been jointly authored by :

(i) Helen Tiffin                    (ii) Bill Ashcroft                                 (iii) Helen Gardner                           (iv) Garreth Griffiths

                  a.  (i) (ii) (iv)     

                  b. (ii) (iii) (iv)

                  c. (ii) (i) (iii)  

                  d. (i) (iii) (iv)

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

59.   A Vindication of the Rights of Women was written by :
                        a.  Mary Shelley   
                        b. Jane Austen     
                        c. William Godwin     
                        d. Mary Wollstonecraft

60.   Name the novel in which the river figures prominently :
                        a.  The Scarlet Letter     
                        b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
                        c.  The Old Man and the Sea       
                        d. Moby Dick

61.   Okonkwo is a character in :
                        a.  Things Fall Apart    
                        b. Man of the People    
                        c. The Road     
                        d. The Dance of the Forest

62.   Savitri by Sri Aurobindo is :
                        a.  a romance    
                        b. an epic
                        c. a satire  
                        d. a tragedy

63.   Which of the following is NOT a linguistic approach to literature :
                        a.  Russian formalism    
                        b. Structuralism
                        c. Reader’s response theory
                        d. Biographical approach

64.   Longinus is a ………………… critic.
                        a.  Classical     
                        b. Romantic    
                        c. Romantic and classical  
                        d. Neo-classical

65.   In Walden Thoreau criticizes :
                        a.  The materialistic approach to life   
                        b. The spiritual approach to life
                        c.  The intellectual approach to life     
                        d. None of these

66.   In The Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman sings songs of :
                        a.  Autocracy      
                        b. Democracy    
                        c. Mobocracy   
                        d. Anarchy

67.   ‘Hyster Pranne’ is a character from :
                        a.  The House of the Seven Gables      
                        b. The Blithedale Romance
                        c.  The Scarlet Letter                      
                        d. The Marble Faun

68.    The Fall of the House of Usher is by :
                        a.  Hemingway      
                        b. Henry James    
                        c. William Faulkner  
                        d. Edgar Allen Poe

69.   The narrative style of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight Children shows the influence of :
                        a.  Magic realism     
                        b. Social realism 
                        c. Orientalism         
                        d. Stream of Consciousness

70.   Which of the following novels is by Rohinton Mistry :
                        a.  Such a Long Journey    
                        b. A Memory of Elephants   
                        c. A Suitable Boy  
                        d. The English Patient

71.   Gitanjali was selected for the Nobel Prize for literature in the year :
                        a.  1931        
                        b. 1935      
                        c. 1913           
                        d. 1930

72.   The Duke and the Dauphin are characters in :
                        a.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn       
                        b. The Scarlet Letter
                        c.  Moby Dick                           
                        d. The Hazard of New Fortunes

73.   What does Emily Dickinson critique in her poems?
                        a.  Immigrants       
                        b. Patriarchy         
                        c. Christianity       
                        d. The frontier myth

74.   Wole Soyinka hails from :
                        a.  Ghana       
                        b. Nigeria          
                        c. Kenya          
                        d. South Africa

75.   Which is NOT a work by V.S. Naipaul?
                        a.  India : A Wounded Civilization         
                        b. India : A million Mutinies Now
                        c.  An Area of Darkness         
                        d. The Continent of Circe

76.   Who has won the Best of the Booker Award?
                        a.  Vikram Seth      
                        b. V.S. Naipaul     
                        c. Arundhati Roy 
                        d. Salman Rushdie

77.   Who is the author of Things Fall Apart?
                        a.  Toni Morrison     
                        b. William Golding   
                        c. Chinua Achebe    
                        d. Salman Rushdie

78.   Which novel begins with this opening line : “I was born in the city of Bombay ……………. Once upon a time.”

a.      Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra

b.      A Strange and Sublime Address    by Amit Chaudhuri

c.      Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

d.      Maximum City by Suketu Mehta

79.   The concept of the Third Theatre was propounded by :
                        a.  Vijay Tendulkar     
                        b. Mahesh Dattani  
                        c. Girish Karnad       
                        d. Badal Sircar

80.   Nayantara Sahgal’s memoir on the Indian Independence is known as :
                        a.  Meatless Days       
                        b. Prison and Chocolate Cake                             
                        c.  A Wounded Civilization             
                        d. Sunlight on a Broken Column

81.   Whose lines are these : “Into that heaven of freedom, my father,

Let my country awake!”

a.  Sri Aurobindo    
b. Sarojini Naidu
c. Rabindranath Tagore     
d. Mahadevi Verma

82.   “When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” is an elegy written by Walt Whitman on the death of :
                        a.  John F. Kennedy 
                        b. Janes A. Garfield
                        c. Abraham Lincoln    
                        d. William McKinley

83.   “Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it is broken. I’m always in a race with the Junkyard.” Which character in Death of a Salesman says this?
                        a.  Biff Loman      
                        b. Happy Loman 
                        c. Willy Loman       
                        d. Linda Loman

84.   Which of the following is NOT a non-fictional work by V.S. Naipaul?
                        a.  An Area of Darkness     
                        b. India : A Wounded Civilization          
                        c.  Among the Believers        
                        d. A house for Biswas

85.   Karnad’s Hayavadana is a play based on :
                        a.  Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot      
                        b. Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads­
                        c.  Albert Camus’s The Outsider           
                        d. Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author

86.   Summer in Calcutta is a volume of poems by :
                        a.  Nissim Ezekiel  
                        b. Kamala Das      
                        c. R. Parthsarathy    
                        d. Agha Shahid Ali

87.   Which of the following novels is by Patrick White?
                        a.  Voss     
                        b. The Famished Road    
                        c. Oscar and Lucinola   
                        d. Possession

88.   Arundhati Roy’s  The God of Small Things is set in the part of Kerala called :
                        a.  Ayemenem      
                        b. Cochin       
                        c. Alleppy        
                        d. Trivandrum

89.   Where does The Glass Managerie take place?
                        a.  Mississippi      
                        b. St. Louis        
                        c. Columbus       
                        d. Ohio

90.   The narrative in The Bluest Eye is divided into 4 parts. Each part is named after a :
                        a.  Season          
                        b. Flower             
                        c. Month            
                        d. Tree

91.   Identify the autobiographical play of Eugene O’Neill :
                        a.  Emperor Jones        
                        b. Desire Under the Elms
                        c.  Long Day’s Journey into the Night            
                        d. The Hairy Ape

92.   He wrote an essay called ‘Conrad’s Darkness’ where he praises the earlier writer for offering him a vision of the world’s “half-made societies.” Identify the writer :
                        a.  Chinua Achebe     
                        b. V.S. Naipaul     
                        c. Salman Rushdie      
                        d. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

93.   The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel of a citizen of :

a.      The United Kingdom

b.      The British Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland

c.      The United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth

d.      The United Kingdom or the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland

94.   An important poet and playwright who led the Black Arts Movement in the spirit of negritude, posited a Black Aesthetic is :
                        a.  Henry Louis Gates Jr.  
                        b. Amiri Baraka    
                        c. Ishmael Reed   
                        d. Bell Hooks

95.   R.K. Narayan wrote his novel  The Guide  in :
                        a.  Madras          
                        b. Mysore          
                        c. United States of America       
                        d. United Kingdom

96.   Which of the following is NOT an attribute of Gothic fiction?
                        a.  Supernaturalism 
                        b. Horror            
                        c. Realism        
                        d. Isolated Locales

97.   Who among the following is NOT a Nigerian writer?
                        a. Ben Okri         
                        b. Ama Ata Aidoo     
                        c. Chimananda Ngozi Adichi 
                        d. Wole Soyinka

98.   Derek Walcott comes from which place in the West Indies :
                        a.  Trinidad and Tobago    
                        b. Saint Lucia      
                        c. Saint Helena        
                        d. Jamaica

99.   Which of the following awards is NOT given to Indian-English writers?
                        a.  The Booker Prize    
                        b. The Sahitya Academy Award     
                        c. The Gnanpith     
                        d. Witbread Prize

100.   Who is the author of ‘Life Divine’?
             a.  M.K. Gandhi      
             b. S. Radhakrishnan
             c. Sri Aurobindo  
             d. Rabindranath Tagore

101.   Here is a list of Partition novels which have ‘violence on the woman’s body’ as a significant theme. Pick the odd one out :
             a.  The Pakistani Bride     
             b. What the Body Remembers  
             c. Train to Pakistan     
             d. The Ice-Candy Man

102.   The idea of ‘Vishva Sahitya’ was presented in a lecture by :
             a.  Bharatendu Harischandra  
             b. Rabindranath Tagore   
             c. Anand Coomarswamy    
             d. Sri Aurobindo

103.   Who among these Indian English writers did NOT receive the Booker Prize?
             a.  Arundhati Roy    
             b. Kiran Desai     
             c. Arvind Adiga    
             d. Amitav Ghosh

104.  Match the following lines to its authors :

               i.          “Because I could not stop for death ……”                          -              (a)Robert Frost

              ii.          “O Captain ! My Captain !”                                                  -              (b)William Carlos William

            iii.          “Two roads diverged in a wood ………….”                         -              (c)Emily Dickinson

            iv.          So much depends upon                                                         -              (d)Walt Whitman

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

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

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

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

105.   …………… stressed the doctrine of foreordination.
              a.  Lutheranism      
              b. Puritanism   
              c. Calvinism         
              d. Methodism

106.  ‘The Diviners’ is a novel written by :
             a.  Margaret Laurence      
             b. Edward Brathwaite   
             c. Sinclair Ross        
             d. Derek Walcott

107.  Joy Kogawa’s Obasan is adapted into children’s book :
             a.  The Spintered Moon    
             b. Naomi's Road 
             c. Naomi's Tree     
             d. Itsuka

108.  Match the following writers with their country of origin :

                           i.          V.S. Naipaul                                                     -              (a)Canada

                          ii.          George Lamming                                            -              (b)Nigeria

                         iii.          E.J. Pratt                                                          -              (c)Trinidad and Tobago

                         iv.          Ben Okri                                                           -              (d)Barbados

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

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

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

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

109.   ‘The Pilgrim Fathers’ were early European settlers of :
             a.  Connecticut colony   
             b. Saybrook colony
             c. Plymouth colony 
             d. Massachusetts Bay Colony

110.   Edgar Allan Poe’s Politian is a :
             a.  Novel     
             b. Essay            
             c. Play         
             d. Poem

111.   Which among the following is a travelogue written by ee Cummings?
             a.  EIMI          
             b. Tulips and Chimneys        
             c. Xaipe      
             d. HIM

112.   Harmonium is a poem written by :
             a.  Ezra Pound        
             b. Robert Frost     
             c. Wallace Stevens  
             d. Anne Sexton

113.  Life on the Mississippi is a memoir written by :
             a.  Robert Lowell       
             b. Ezra Pound      
             c. Mark Twain       
             d. Anne Sexton

114.  Which among the following is a novel written by Henry James?
             a.  The Portrait of a Lady  
             b. The Ambassadors      
             c. The Wings of the Dove
             d. All of them

115.  ‘The Color Purple’ is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by :
             a.  John Steinback
             b. Ralph Ellison      
             c. Alice Walker       
             d. William Faulkner

116.  Amitrakshar chhanda (Blank Verse) in Bengali literature is pioneered by :
              a.  Sarojini Naidu      
              b. Tagore  
              c. Madhusudan Dutt   
              d. Toru Dutt

117.  The Indian Weavers is a work written by :
              a.  Sarojini Naidu      
              b. Tagore        
              c. Madhusudan Dutt     
              d. Toru Dutt

118.  ‘Summer in Calcutta’ is written by :
              a. Dom Moraes         
              b. A.K. Ramanujan      
              c. Kamala Das      
              d. Jayanta Mahapatra

119.  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

120.  ‘Fire on the Mountain’ is a Sahithya Academy Award winning novel of :
              a.  Anita Desai     
              b. Nayantara Sehgal    
              c. Arundhati Roy        
              d. Shashi Deshpande