Unit-IV Part-X

1.      Match the following :

                 i.          The Sage of Concord                               -              (a) Emily Dickinson

                ii.          The Nun of Amherst                                -              (b) R.W. Emerson

               iii.          Mark Twain                                              -              (c) T.S. Eliot

               iv.          Old Possum                                             -              (d) Samuel L. Clemens

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

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

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

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

2.      Which is the correct sequence of the novels of V.S. Naipaul?

a. The Mystic Masseur–Miguel Street–The Suffrage of Elvira –A House for Mr. Biswas.

b. Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas – The Suffrage of Elvira.

c. The Suffrage of Elvira –Miguel Street – The Mystic Masseur – A House for Mr. Biswas.

d. The Mystic Masseur – The Suffrage of Elvira, Miguel Street – A House for Mr. Biswas.

3.      Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was inspired of …………….
                        a.  Abraham Lincoln       
                        b. Herman Melville      
                        c. Ralph Waldo Emerson 
                        d. Henry David Thoreau

4.      Eugene O’Neill is known for having introduced the techniques of ………… to American drama.
                        a.  Realism                   
                        b. Expressionism          
                        c. Romanticism          
                        d. Modernism

5.      Which novel begins, “I was born in the city of Bombay”?
                        a.  The Ice Candy Man   
                        b. Such a Long Journey    
                        c. An Equal Music       
                        d. Midnight’s Children

6.      In which year was Things Fall Apart published?
                        a.  1949                
                        b. 1952                
                        c. 1956                     
                        d. 1958

7.      Who said a woman writer should killing the “Angel in the House”?
                        a.  Mary Wollstonecraft      
                        b. Virginia Woolf       
                        c. Simone de Beauvoir   
                        d. Elaine Showalter

8.      The novel Rich Like Us, set in New Delhi in the turbulent time between the 1930s and 70s, which follows the lives of Rose and Sonali, was written by ……………
                        a.  Nayantara Sahgal         
                        b. Upamanyu Chatterjee 
                        c. Vikram Seth            
                        d. Anita Desai

9.      Ngugi wa Thiongo’s A Grain of Wheat is set in …………… during the country’s struggle for independence.
                        a.  Nigeria                    
                        b. Kenya                    
                        c. South Africa                        
                        d. Chile

10.   Which is the sequel of 'Things Fall Apart'?
                        a.  No Longer at Ease        
                        b. Arrow of God     
                        c. The Man of the People     
                        d. The Anthills of Savannah

11.   The Famished Road is a Booker Prize winning novel by the Nigerian novelist :
                        a.  Ben Okri                
                        b. Chinua Achebe         
                        c. Gabriel Okara            
                        d. Christopher Okigbo

12.   The novel Magic Seeds,  a sequel of Half a Life, is by the Nobel Laureate :
                        a.  Salman Rushdie         
                        b. V.S. Naipaul          
                        c. J.M. Coetzee         
                        d. Saul Bellow

13.   The Wars of the Roses took place during the period :
                        a.  1380-1455             
                        b. 1455-1485           
                        c. 1425-1485          
                        d. 1425-1455

14.   Who among the following theorists holds that metaphor and metonymy are the two fundamental structures of language?
                        a.  Ferdinand de Saussure    
                        b. J.L. Austin             
                        c. Roman Jakobson       
                        d. Victor Shklovsky

15.   Poe’s “The Raven” mourns the death of Poe’s :
                        a.  lost Lenore                
                        b. lost Abigail           
                        c. pet animal              
                        d. lost heritage

16.   Which novel by Patrick White is based on the story of Ludwig Leichhardt, the Prussian naturalist who explored Australia in the mid-1840s, in which White’s fictional hero says when asked about navigation – “The Map? I will first make it”?
                        a.  The Tree of Man       
                        b. Voss           
                        c. Riders in the Chariot           
                        d. The Solid Mandala

17.   William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying contains one of the shortest chapters in literary history. Which of these sentences is the chapter in its entirety?
                        a.  “For the love of God, where is my hat?”                  
                        b. “My mother is a fish.”
                        c.  “Addie Bundren was dead, to begin with.”                
                        d. “Apricot jam is the worst sort of jam.”

18.   Foucault believes that the facts of history will protect us from :
                        a.  repeating mistakes       
                        b. totalitarianism         
                        c. deconstructionism    
                        d. historicism

19.   Who among the following Greek Philosophers has a bearing on the composition of Shelley’s “Adonais”?
                        a.  Miletus          
                        b. Socrates                 
                        c. Plato                      
                        d. Aristotle

20.   Which of the following poems uses the refrain “Nevermore”?
                        a.  The Raven              
                        b. The Lay of the Last Minstrel          
                        c. Christabel      
                        d. Lamios

21.   Who is the author of “Song of Myself”?
                        a.  Abraham Cowely        
                        b. John Dos Passos       
                        c. Robert Southey         
                        d. Walt Whitman

22.   Which Nobel Laureate was praised by the Swedish Academy for his affinity with Joseph Conrad?
                        a.  Saul Bellow              
                        b. Jose Saramago        
                        c. V.S. Naipaul         
                        d. William Golding

23.   …………… is a novel by Rohinton Mistry set in Mumbai during the Emergency.
                        a.  Such a Long Journey     
                        b. Family Matters       
                        c. Tales from Firozsha Baag        
                        d. A Fine Balance

24.   The Sahitya Academy award winning poem Relationship  was written by :
                        a. Nissim Ezekiel         
                        b. Gieve Patel            
                        c. Jayanta Mahapatra   
                        d. A.K. Ramanujan

25.   The Sleepwalkers is a one-act farce by :
                        a.  Dom Moraes           
                        b. Mahesh Dattani   
                        c. Uma Parameswaran   
                        d. Nissim Ezekiel

26.   H.W. Longfellow and J.R. Lowell are called the :
                        a.  Vagabound Poets       
                        b. Revolutionary Poets 
                        c. Brahmin Poets         
                        d. Sage Poets

27.   Who among the following writers is from Kenya?
                        a.  Chinua Achebe         
                        b. Gabriel Okara 
                        c. Nadine Gordimer        
                        d. Ngugi wa Thiong’o

28.   The play A Dance of the Forests is a half-satirical celebration of Nigerian Independence written by :
                        a.  Wole Soyinka         
                        b. Chinua Achebe        
                        c. Olive Schreiner          
                        d. J.P Clark

29.   In which novel by Anita Desai is Maya the central character?
                        a.  Bye, Bye Blackbird    
                        b. Voices in the city    
                        c. Cry, the Peacock        
                        d. Fire on the Mountain

30.   Which of the following is NOT a short story by Edgar Allan Poe?
                        a.  The Black Cat        
                        b. The Purloined Letter 
                        c. The Mezzotint           
                        d. The Tell Tale Heart

31.   Aurobindo’s epic, Savitri is in which stanzaic form?
                        a.  Blank verse             
                        b. Terza Rima           
                        c. Free verse       
                        d. Spenserian stanza

32.   The official magazine of the American Transcendental Movement is :
                        a.  The Bee          
                        b. The Germ             
                        c. The Dial           
                        d. The Liberal

33.   Which of the following is an elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln?
                        a.  I Hear America Singing                     
                        b. Stopping by Woods
                        c.  O Captain! My Captain                             
                        d. Because I Could not Stop for Death

34.   Which American playwright’s debut work is No Villain?
                        a.  Tennessee Williams     
                        b. Eugene o’Neill       
                        c. Harold Pinter          
                        d. Arthur Miller

35.   Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is dedicated to :
                        a.  Christopher Columbus   
                        b. Nathanial Hawthorne        
                        c. Walt Whitman        
                        d. Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.   The revolutionary play A Raisin in the Sun, which defuses idealistic views of race and gender relations, was written by :
                        a.  Lorraine Hansberry     
                        b. Zora Neale Hurston    
                        c. Langston Hughes        
                        d. Toni Morrison

37.   …………. Is set in Mumbai during the Emergency and follows the lives of Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck Kohlah?
                        a.  Family Matters       
                        b. Such a Long Journey 
                        c. A Fine Balance   
                        d. Tales from Firozsha Baag

38.   In which of the following novels is Moraes Zogoiby the narrator?
                        a.  The Moor’s Last Sigh  
                        b. Shame         
                        c. The Ground Beneath Her Feet        
                        d. Shalimar, the Clown

39.   Which of the following novels by Raja Rao is semi-autobiographical and a modern rendering of the Mahabharata legend of Satyavan-Savitri?
                        a.  Cat and Shakespeare   
                        b. The Cow of the Barricades      
                        c. Comrade Kirilov    
                        d. The Serpent and the Rope

40.   In which novel do you find the character Moorthy, an idealist and supporter of ahimsa and satyagraha, who wants to cross the traditional barriers of caste?
                        a.  A tiger for Malgudi      
                        b. Coolie                  
                        c. Kanthapura            
                        d. Swami and Friends

41.   Who wrote the famous trilogy, The Village, Across the Black Waters and The Sword and the Sickle?
                        a.  Mulk Raj Anand          
                        b. Raja Rao            
                        c. R.K. Narayan          
                        d. Nirad. C. Chaudhuri

42.   R.K. Narayan uses the Bhasmasura Myth in the novel :
                        a.  A Tiger for Malgudi   
                        b. The Man Eater of Malgudi    
                        c. The Financial Expert         
                        d. Swami and Friends

43.   What is the name of the tour guide in Swami and Friends, who becomes a spiritual guide in the novel, The Guide?
                        a.  Sampath                  
                        b. Margayya              
                        c. Swaminathan         
                        d. Raju

44.   The poems of Gitanjali were translated into English by :
                        a. W.B. Yeats            
                        b. A.K. Ramanujan       
                        c. Rabindranath Tagore         
                        d. Gayatri Spivak

45.   The poet Christopher Okigbo hailed from :
                        a.  Kenya                
                        b. Nigeria             
                        c. South Africa           
                        d. Ghana

46.   Who of the following created the character ‘Arthur Sammler’?
                        a.  Saul Bellow           
                        b. J.M. Coetzee        
                        c. Vladimir Nabokov     
                        d. Michael Ondaatje

47.   Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor are associated with :
                        a.  Harlem Renaissance     
                        b. Apartheid            
                        c. Negritude              
                        d. Nigerian Civil War

48.   Who wrote the poem “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”?
                        a.  Sylvia Plath           
                        b. Wallace Stevens    
                        c. Edgar Allan Poe      
                        d. Emily Dickinson

49.   Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn appeared in :
                        a.  1851               
                        b. 1841                 
                        c. 1884                 
                        d. 1890

50.   Which of the following novels is set on the ship “Pequod”?
                        a.  Heart of Darkness       
                        b. The Old Man and the Sea   
                        c. Nostromo        
                        d. Moby Dick

51.   Whitman’s poem ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’ laments on the death of :
                        a. John. F. Kennedy       
                        b. Abraham Lincoln       
                        c. Roosevelt           
                        d. George Washington

52.   The Turn of the Skrew by Henry James is a :
                        a.  Ghost Story          
                        b. Detective Story       
                        c. Comic Story          
                        d. Love Story

53.   Nathaniel Hawthorne was a great novelist and ………………..
                        a.  Moralist               
                        b. Satirist               
                        c. Playwright        
                        d. Allegorist

54.   My Story is the autobiography of :
                        a.  Mulk Raj Anand          
                        b. M.K. Gandhi        
                        c. Kamala Das          
                        d. Nissim Ezekiel

55.   Savitri is the heroine of :
                        a.  The Dark Room        
                        b. The English Teacher   
                        c. The Painter of Signs   
                        d. Bachelor of Arts

56.   Sarojini Naidu’s The Queen’s Rival is based on :
                        a.  Indian legend          
                        b. Persian legend       
                        c. Greek legend         
                        d. Roman legend

57.   The Exact Name is a collection of poems by :
                        a.  Nissim Ezekiel       
                        b. P. Lal               
                        c. Pritish Nandy        
                        d. A.K. Ramanujan

58.   “It was the hour before the Gods awake.” This is a line from :
                        a.  Savitri                   
                        b. Brahma             
                        c. Four Quartets       
                        d. Meru

59.   ……….. is R.K. Narayan’s autobiography.
                        a.  The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian                 
                        b. Roses in December
                        c.  Seven Summers                                                    
                        d. My Dateless Diary

60.   Gora by Tagore is a :
                        a.  Play                     
                        b. Short Story           
                        c. Novel                       
                        d. Poem

61.   Who wrote the book of confessional poems, Life Studies?
                        a.  Sylvia Plath           
                        b. Robert Lowell         
                        c. Adrienne Rich 
                        d. Anne Sexton

62.   Which two languages did Toru Dutt write in?
                        a.  English and French        
                        b. English and Bengali     
                        c. English and German     
                        d. English and Arabic

63.   Stanley Kowalski, a member of the industrial urban working class, is a character in :
                        a.  All My Sons      
                        b. Hairy Ape                
                        c. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof        
                        d. A Streetcar Named Desire

64.   Which character in Midnight’s Children plays the role of the listener in the story-telling structure of the novel?
                        a. Aadam Aziz            
                        b. Amina Sinal          
                        c. Cyrus the Great       
                        d. Padma Mangroli

65.   Who of the following wrote the influential play Dutchman? 
                        a.  Lorraine Hansberry    
                        b. Wole Soyinka   
                        c. Athol Fugard          
                        d. Amiri Baraka

66.   In the Castle of My Skin is an early postcolonial novel by :
                        a.  Willson Harris       
                        b. Derelk Walcott        
                        c. Ralph Ellison         
                        d. George Lamming

67.   Claude McKay is a writer associated with :
                        a.  Negritude            
                        b. Postmodernism         
                        c. Harlem Renaissance  
                        d. Beat Movement

68.   American Transcendentalism began in 1836 with the publication of :
                        a.  Emerson’s Nature                 
                        b. Emerson’s Self-Reliance
                        c.  Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience                    
                        d. Thoreau’s Walden

69.   “Renaissance” is a ………….. word that means ‘rebirth’.
                        a.  Greek                 
                        b. French                 
                        c. Latin             
                        d. German

70.   Which Nobel Laureate wrote a trilogy of travelogues to India, which has been criticized for its subjective and pessimistic portrayal of the country?
                        a.  Salman Rushdie        
                        b. Gao Xingjian         
                        c. Naguib Mahfouz      
                        d. V.S. Naipaul

71.   Name the subtitle of the 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe :
                        a.  The Plight of the Blacks                        
                        b. A Man against Slavery
                        c.  Life Among the Lowly                    
                        d. Story of the Downtrodden

72.   Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is dedicated to which contemporary American writer?
                        a.  Ralph Waldo Emerson    
                        b. Edgar Allan Poe        
                        c. Nathaniel Hawthorne    
                        d. James Fenimore Cooper

73.   Who called Henry James, “the Victorian of fine consciousness”?
                        a.  Matthew  Arnold       
                        b. Virginia Woolf      
                        c. Joseph Conrad      
                        d. Thomas Hardy

74.   In which year did Tagore win the Nobel Prize?
                        a.  1919                
                        b. 1920                   
                        c. 1913        
                        d. 1916

75.   Which of the following plays by Eugene O’Neill is a full exposition of Expressionistic techniques?
                        a.  Desire Under the Elms 
                        b. The Hairy Ape 
                        c. Mourning Becomes Electra     
                        d. The Iceman Cometh

76.   Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Longfellow were authors who hailed from :
                        a.  New England         
                        b. Mississippi           
                        c. New York            
                        d. Virginia

77.   ……………. is a narrative poem that depicts a young lover, lamenting the loss of his sweetheart Lenore, and slowly descending into madness.
                        a.  The Song of Hiawatha  
                        b. Evangeline           
                        c. The Raven             
                        d. Annabel Lee

78.   Who, in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, adopts Huck and attempts ‘sivilize’ him?
                        a.  Widow Douglas         
                        b. Miss Watson        
                        c. Aunt Polly            
                        d. Sally Phelps

79.   The Shelbys are characters in the world-renowned novel :
                        a.  Gone With the Wind                   
                        b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin      
                        c.  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn             
                        d. The Grapes of Wrath

80.   ………….. is the old Parsee in Moby Dick, who dies at the end.
                        a.  Fedallah                 
                        b. Queequeg           
                        c. Bildad              
                        d. Tashtego

81.   Faulkner’s novels are set in the ……………. region.
                        a.  Yoknapatawpha       
                        b. Mississippi       
                        c. New England            
                        d. Nebraska

82.   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in the ……….. region.
                        a.  Yoknapatawpha          
                        b. Mississippi            
                        c. New England       
                        d. Nebraska

83.   The novel A I Lay Dying, centered on the death of the over-worked woman Addie Bundren, was written by :
                        a.  Ernest Hemingway       
                        b. John Steinbeck       
                        c. William Faulkner       
                        d. Nathaniel Hawthorne

84.   Who made the comment that, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”?
                        a.  Henry James         
                        b. William Faulkner      
                        c. Jack London            
                        d. Ernest Hemingway

85.   Which of the following New Critics put forward the idea of the ‘heresy of paraphrase’?
                        a.  Allen Tate             
                        b. Cleanth Brooks       
                        c. W.K. Wimsatt         
                        d. Monroe C Beardsley

86.   This Australian poet was raised in New South Wales and grew up in rural Australian landscape. In 1946 she published her first book of poems. In 1962, she became cofounder and president of the Wild Life Preservation Society of Queensland and served as its president several times thereafter. Identify the poet :
                        a.  Dorothy Hewett      
                        b. Nettie Palmer 
                        c. Judith Wright 
                        d. Amy Witting

87.   Which of the following characters in Moby Dick falls overboard and turns insane as a result?
                        a.  Pip                   
                        b. Queequeg           
                        c. Starbuck                 
                        d. Tashtego

88.   The pace of speech is called :
                        a.  syllable                  
                        b. loudness            
                        c. tempo          
                        d. pitch

89.   Match the title with the author :

                 i.          Sexual Politics                                                        -              (a) Mary Ellman

                ii.          A Literature of Their Own                                     -              (b) Elaine Showalter

               iii.          Thinking About Women                                        -              (c) Helene Cixous

               iv.          The Laugh of the Medusa                                     -              (d) Kate Millet

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

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

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

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

90.   The title of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood is derived from a poem by Derek Walcott. Identify the poem :
                        a.  “A Far Cry from Africa”     
                        b. “The Swamp”         
                        c. “Goats and Monkeys” 
                        d. “Midsummer”

91.   “A text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.” Which of the following best expresses the position stated above?

a. A text is a tissue of lies that has no referential and cultural validity.

b. A text is a communication from the Author-God with multiple meanings.

c. A text is a force field of ambiguity where meanings collapse in the face of opposition.

d. A text is a linguistic construct without any unity of meaning and is linked to multiple sources of language and culture.

92.   In a writing system the minimal unit that can cause a difference of meaning is called :
                        a.  phoneme          
                        b. grapheme       
                        c. morpheme          
                        d. jargon

93.   Match the word with definition :

                 i.          Etymon                                       -              (a) Changing from one language variety to another in discourse

                ii.          Code switching                         -              (b) Rules governing the social use of language

               iii.          Cognate                                     -              (c) Etymological source of a word

               iv.          Pragmatics                                -              (d) Words with a common ancestor

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

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

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

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

94.   Match the Novelist with the work :

                 i.          Anita Desai                                -              (a) Rich Like Us

                ii.          Nayantara Sahgal                     -              (b) The Nowhere Man

               iii.          Arun Joshi                                -              (c) In Custody

               iv.          Kamala Markandaya                -              (d) The Last Labyrinth

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

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

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

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

95.   Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?

a. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The Waste Land

b. “In my beginning is my end”, “East Coker”

c. “Human kind cannot bear very much reality”, “Burnt Norton”

d. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

96.   Identify the character who is not part of the group of three protagonists in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana :
                        a.   Padmini                  
                        b. Gautama          
                        c.  Kapila              
                        d. Devadatta

97.   Who is the author of the poem, “Our Casuarina Tree”?
                        a.  Sarojini Naidu         
                        b. Toru Dutt           
                        c. Rabindranath Tagore          
                        d. Kamala Das

98.   The translation of Geeta into English in 1784 called Bhagvit - Geeta marked, in William Jones’s opinion, an “event that made it possible for the first time to have a reliable impression of Indian Literature”. Who was the translator?
                        a.  Charles Wilkins        
                        b. H. J. Colebrooke       
                        c. Rammohan Roy        
                        d. Nathaniel Halhed

99.   In which poem does Judith Wright lament the erasure of native culture in the following lines?

“The song is gone; the dance

Is secret with the dancers in the earth,

The ritual useless, and the tribal story

Lost in an alien tale”.

      a.  “The Five Senses”         

      b. “Legend”            

      c. “Bullocky”               

      d. “Bora Ring”

100.  __________ is the subject of Asif Currimbhoy’s play, Inquilab.
              a.  The Naxalite movement                   
              b. The Freedom movement
              c.  The Non-Cooperation movement                
              d. The Khilafat movement

101.  Using a non - linear narrative, this American novel explores the psychic damage to a veteran of World War II and shows how a measure of healing is attained through his acceptance of Laguna myths and rituals. Identify the work :
              a.  Dred                 
              b. Beloved                 
              c. Ceremony          
              d. End Zone

102.  Two of the following words were borrowed from French after the Norman Conquest.

(i) mutton                             (ii) pork                (iii) sheep                            (iv) swine

The right combination according to the code is :

        a.  (i) and (ii)             

        b. (i) and (iii)          

        c. (ii) and (iv)           

        d. (iii) and (iv)

103.  The Over-Soul was an essay written by :
              a.  Ralph Waldo Emerson  
              b. Henry David Thoreau  
              c. Walt Whitman         
              d. Margaret Fuller

104.  An Area of Darkness, a deeply pessimistic and controversial travelogue on India, was written by :
              a.  V.S. Naipaul          
              b. Rudyard Kipling       
              c. Paul Theroux          
              d. Bapsi Sidhwa

105.  The ”man-eater of Malgudi”, Vasu is a :
              a.  Barber             
              b. Taxidermist            
              c. Taxi driver           
              d. Dermatologist

106.  Which among the following is a work of Edwin Thumboo?
              a.  Rib of Earth         
              b. A Third Map          
              c. Still Travelling 
              d. All of them

107.  The Oath and Amen is a poetry collection by :
             a.  Edwin Thumboo 
             b. Romesh Gunesekara    
             c. Alamgir Hashmi        
             d. Maki Kureishi

108.  Which among the following is NOT an autobiography of Taslima Nasreen?
             a.  Utal Hawa (Wild Wind)                      
             b. Ka (Speak Up)
             c.  Nirbasan (Exile)                        
             d. Lajja

109.  Match the following authors with their home country :

               i.          Taslima Nasreen                                                      -              (a)Singapore

              ii.          Romesh Gunesekera                                               -              (b)Srilanka

            iii.          Alamgir Hashmi                                                       -              (c)Bangladesh

            iv.          Edwin Thumboo                                                       -              (d)Pakistan

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

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

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

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

110.  ‘A Beginning’ is a book of poems by :
              a.  Dom Moraes           
              b. A.K. Ramanujan            
              c. Kamala Das         
              d. Jayanta Mahapatra

111.  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

112.  India’s Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand’s famous autobiography is :
              a.  Coolie                    
              b. Two Leaves and a Bud 
              c. Morning face         
              d. Untouchable

113.  Who among the following is NOT associated with ‘Negritude’?
              a.  Aime Cesaire         
              b. Leopold Senghor           
              c. Leon Damas       
              d. Ben Okri

114.  Who among the following is the founder and editor of Gikuyu-language journal Mũtĩiri?
              a.  J.P.Clark                
              b. Ngugi wa Thiong’o            
              c. Ben Okri          
              d. Athol Fugard

115. Minty Alley was the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in Britain. Who was the author?
              a.  Saul Bellow           
              b. Gieve Patel               
              c. C.L.R James        
              d. Robert Lowell

116.  George Lamming’s which novel features the character ‘G.’?
              a.  In the Castle of My Skin 
              b. The Emigrants      
              c. Of Age and Innocence       
              d. Season of Adventure

117.  Who among the following wrote and libretti for Patrick White’s Novel ‘Voss’?
              a.  Steinbeck            
              b. David Malouf          
              c. Joy Kogawa                  
              d. Frantz Fanon

118.  ‘Lajja’ is a novel written by :
              a.  Lakdasa wickramasinghe      
              b. Edwin Thumboo    
              c. Robert Lowell     
              d. Taslima Nasreen

119.  The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily Dickinson composed herself reads :
              a.  The List is done         
              b. Redemption-Brittle Lady        
              c. Judge tenderly-of Me            
              d. Called Back

120.  Which work of Ezra Pound started with the anecdote ‘The Parable of Sunfish’?
              a.  ABC of Reading         
              b. In a Station of the Metro     
              c. The Spirit of Romance                 
              d. Polite Essays