Indian Literature - Quiz I
(a) Geeta Mehta
(b) Rama Mehta
(c) Shobha De
(d) Nargis Dalai
2. Dominique Lapierre wrote an appealing ac¬count of the sordid squalor of an Indian city. Identify the city.
(a) Calcutta
(b) Bombay
(c) Udaipur
(d) Delhi
3. Who is the author of following poems?
"The Gift of India", "Bangle-seller",
"The Anthem of Love", "Palanquin Bearers"
(a) Kamala Das
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Toru Dutt
(d) Nissim Ezekiel4
4. Who wrote the hard-hitting poem "Sita Speak" indicating the society for the injustice meted out to women down the ages
(a) Bina Agarwal
(b) Kamala Das
(c) P. Lai
(d) Sarojini Naidu
5. In which of the following poems of Ezekiel do we get a moving picture of a mother's suffering ?
(a) 'The Couple'
(b) 'Night of the Scorpion'
(c) 'The Visitor'
(d) 'Philosophy'
6. Who is the author of Two Virgins?
(a) Kamala Markandaya
(b) Kamala Das
(c) Anita Desai
(d) Shastri Deshpande
7. Name the Indo-English novelist who wrote A Suitable Boy.
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Amitav Ghose
(c) Upamanyu Chatterjee
(d) Anita Desai
8. Two Indian writers living abroad created furor - one was Vikram Seth who got an unprec¬edented amount as an advance for his novel, the other who came under 'fatwa', for one of his controversial novels, issued by Muslim countries, was
(a) Amitav Ghose
(b) Bharati Mukherjee
(c) Anita Desai
(d) Salman Rushdie
9. Name Salman Rushdie's latest Novel.
(a) The Moor's Last Sigh
(b) Fury
(c) The Ground beneath Her Feet
(d) Satanic Verses
10. Of the following novels one does not portray the Gandhian Age and the impact of Gandhi. Which one?
(a) K.A. Abbas's Inquilab
(b) Venu Chitale's In Transit
(c) R.K. Narayan's The Dark Room
(d) K. Nagarajan's Chronicles of Kedaram
11. Who is the author of the following books: The Foreigner, The Apprentice, The Last Labyrinth, The City and the River?
(a) Ruth P. Jhabvala
(b) Amitav Ghose
(c) Dom Moraes
(d) Arun Joshi
12. Whose collections of poems are these: A Time to Change, Sixty Poems, The Third, The Unfinished Man?
(a) P. Lai
(b) Nissim Ezekiel
(c) Kamala Das
(d) Bina Aggarwal
13. Listed below are the works of Bhabani Bhattacharya of which only one is his col¬lection of short stories. Identify it.
(a) So Many Hungers
(b) A Dream in Hawaii
(c) Sea Hawk
(d) Shadow from Ladakh
14. Baumgartner's Bombay is a novel about a German Jew who remains an outsider all his life, in his country because he is a Jew and in India, where he is a firangi. Who wrote this moving novel?
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Anita Desai
(c) Nayantara Sehgal
(d) Ruth P. Jhabvala
15. In which novel does R.K. Narayan focus on family planning?
(a) The Guide
(b) Mr. Sampath
(c) Bachelor of Arts
(d) The Painter of Signs
16. In the Guide we come across a dancer. What is her name?
(a) Daisy
(b) Bharati
(c) Rosie
(d) Savitri
17. Who wrote these lines?
"Woman is the earth, air, ether, sound; woman is the microcosm of the mind "?
(a) Raja Rao
(b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Kamala Markandaya
(d) Kamala Das
18. Arthur Symons wrote about this person, "All the life of the tiny figure seemed to concen¬trate itself in the eyes: they turned towards beauty as the sunflower turns towards the sun." Who is the person referred to?
(a) Toru Dutt
(b) Aru Dutt
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Rabindra Nath Tagore.
19. H.A.L. Fisher wrote about this person,".... this child of the green valley of the Ganges has by sheer force of native genius earned for herself the right to be enrolled in the great fellowship of English poets." Who is the poet?
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Toru Dutt
(c) Michael Madhusudan
(d) Manmohan Ghose
20. An Indo-English poet once remarked that his disciplines (i.e., linguistics and anthropol¬ogy) and his education give him his "Outer" form, whereas his Indian origin, first thirty years in India and knowledge of Kannada and Tamil give him his "inner" form. Who said this?
(a) A.K. Ramanujan
(b) Kamala Das
(c) Gieve Patel
(d) Raja Gopal Parthasarathy
21. Who wrote Jejurithe Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner work?
(a) Shiv K. Kumar
(b) Arun Kolatkar
(c) Keki N. Daruwala
(d) Jayant Mahapatra
22. In which of Anita Desai's novel an insane wife kills her husband?
(a) Voices in The City
(b) In Custody
(c) Cry, The Peacock
(d) Baumgartner's Bombay
23. In which novel does the hero sing the re¬frain?
"This is the machine age, sons
This is the machine age
We are the men who will master it"?
(a) The Big Heart
(b) The Sword and The Sickle
(c) Two Leaves and a Bud
(d) The Road
24. Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Academi Award for English literature?
(a) Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Nayantara Sehgal
(c) R.K. Narayan
(d) Raja Rao
25. Following novels except one, describe the condition of Westners living in India. Mark the one which does not.
(a) Heat and Dust
(b) The Princess
(c) Coffer Dam
(d) A Passage to India
Answers:
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. a
7. a
8. d
9. b
10. c
11. d
12. b
13. c
14. b
15. d
16. c
17. a
18. c
19. b
20. a
21. b
22. c
23. a
24. c
25. b
(b) Rama Mehta
(c) Shobha De
(d) Nargis Dalai
2. Dominique Lapierre wrote an appealing ac¬count of the sordid squalor of an Indian city. Identify the city.
(a) Calcutta
(b) Bombay
(c) Udaipur
(d) Delhi
3. Who is the author of following poems?
"The Gift of India", "Bangle-seller",
"The Anthem of Love", "Palanquin Bearers"
(a) Kamala Das
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Toru Dutt
(d) Nissim Ezekiel4
4. Who wrote the hard-hitting poem "Sita Speak" indicating the society for the injustice meted out to women down the ages
(a) Bina Agarwal
(b) Kamala Das
(c) P. Lai
(d) Sarojini Naidu
5. In which of the following poems of Ezekiel do we get a moving picture of a mother's suffering ?
(a) 'The Couple'
(b) 'Night of the Scorpion'
(c) 'The Visitor'
(d) 'Philosophy'
6. Who is the author of Two Virgins?
(a) Kamala Markandaya
(b) Kamala Das
(c) Anita Desai
(d) Shastri Deshpande
7. Name the Indo-English novelist who wrote A Suitable Boy.
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Amitav Ghose
(c) Upamanyu Chatterjee
(d) Anita Desai
8. Two Indian writers living abroad created furor - one was Vikram Seth who got an unprec¬edented amount as an advance for his novel, the other who came under 'fatwa', for one of his controversial novels, issued by Muslim countries, was
(a) Amitav Ghose
(b) Bharati Mukherjee
(c) Anita Desai
(d) Salman Rushdie
9. Name Salman Rushdie's latest Novel.
(a) The Moor's Last Sigh
(b) Fury
(c) The Ground beneath Her Feet
(d) Satanic Verses
10. Of the following novels one does not portray the Gandhian Age and the impact of Gandhi. Which one?
(a) K.A. Abbas's Inquilab
(b) Venu Chitale's In Transit
(c) R.K. Narayan's The Dark Room
(d) K. Nagarajan's Chronicles of Kedaram
11. Who is the author of the following books: The Foreigner, The Apprentice, The Last Labyrinth, The City and the River?
(a) Ruth P. Jhabvala
(b) Amitav Ghose
(c) Dom Moraes
(d) Arun Joshi
12. Whose collections of poems are these: A Time to Change, Sixty Poems, The Third, The Unfinished Man?
(a) P. Lai
(b) Nissim Ezekiel
(c) Kamala Das
(d) Bina Aggarwal
13. Listed below are the works of Bhabani Bhattacharya of which only one is his col¬lection of short stories. Identify it.
(a) So Many Hungers
(b) A Dream in Hawaii
(c) Sea Hawk
(d) Shadow from Ladakh
14. Baumgartner's Bombay is a novel about a German Jew who remains an outsider all his life, in his country because he is a Jew and in India, where he is a firangi. Who wrote this moving novel?
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Anita Desai
(c) Nayantara Sehgal
(d) Ruth P. Jhabvala
15. In which novel does R.K. Narayan focus on family planning?
(a) The Guide
(b) Mr. Sampath
(c) Bachelor of Arts
(d) The Painter of Signs
16. In the Guide we come across a dancer. What is her name?
(a) Daisy
(b) Bharati
(c) Rosie
(d) Savitri
17. Who wrote these lines?
"Woman is the earth, air, ether, sound; woman is the microcosm of the mind "?
(a) Raja Rao
(b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Kamala Markandaya
(d) Kamala Das
18. Arthur Symons wrote about this person, "All the life of the tiny figure seemed to concen¬trate itself in the eyes: they turned towards beauty as the sunflower turns towards the sun." Who is the person referred to?
(a) Toru Dutt
(b) Aru Dutt
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Rabindra Nath Tagore.
19. H.A.L. Fisher wrote about this person,".... this child of the green valley of the Ganges has by sheer force of native genius earned for herself the right to be enrolled in the great fellowship of English poets." Who is the poet?
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Toru Dutt
(c) Michael Madhusudan
(d) Manmohan Ghose
20. An Indo-English poet once remarked that his disciplines (i.e., linguistics and anthropol¬ogy) and his education give him his "Outer" form, whereas his Indian origin, first thirty years in India and knowledge of Kannada and Tamil give him his "inner" form. Who said this?
(a) A.K. Ramanujan
(b) Kamala Das
(c) Gieve Patel
(d) Raja Gopal Parthasarathy
21. Who wrote Jejurithe Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner work?
(a) Shiv K. Kumar
(b) Arun Kolatkar
(c) Keki N. Daruwala
(d) Jayant Mahapatra
22. In which of Anita Desai's novel an insane wife kills her husband?
(a) Voices in The City
(b) In Custody
(c) Cry, The Peacock
(d) Baumgartner's Bombay
23. In which novel does the hero sing the re¬frain?
"This is the machine age, sons
This is the machine age
We are the men who will master it"?
(a) The Big Heart
(b) The Sword and The Sickle
(c) Two Leaves and a Bud
(d) The Road
24. Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Academi Award for English literature?
(a) Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Nayantara Sehgal
(c) R.K. Narayan
(d) Raja Rao
25. Following novels except one, describe the condition of Westners living in India. Mark the one which does not.
(a) Heat and Dust
(b) The Princess
(c) Coffer Dam
(d) A Passage to India
Answers:
1. a
2. a
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. a
7. a
8. d
9. b
10. c
11. d
12. b
13. c
14. b
15. d
16. c
17. a
18. c
19. b
20. a
21. b
22. c
23. a
24. c
25. b
