Paper 7
Other Literatures
(Cultural and Literary Contexts: Indian Literature in English )
1. Identify the author from the following, who has written ‘The Devil’s Wind’ which depicts the events of India’s First War of Independence, (1857) Mutiny . a) K Subba Rao b) Manohar Malgaonkar c) K S Venkataramani d) None of these
Ans : Manohar Malgaonkar
2. Which of the following is not a work done by Vikram Seth ? a) A Suitable Boy b) Miguel Street c) The golden Gate d) All You Who Sleep Tonight
Ans : Miguel Street
3. Which of the following is the full title of Aurobindo’s –Savitri ? a) Savitri-an Epic b) Savitri c) Savitri – A Poem in Three parts d) Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol
Ans : Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol
4. Untouchable is a creation of … a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee c) Mulk Raj Anand d) Prem Chand
Ans : Mulk Raj Anand
5. I shall not hear the Nightingale was published in a) 1959 b) 1943 c) 1976 d) 1974
Ans : 1959
6. Which of the following is not written by Khuswant Singh? a) Sex, Scotch and Scholarship b) Truth, Love and Little Malice c) The Sunset Club d) A Rain of Rites
Ans : A Rain of Rites
7. Who has written ‘Our Casurina Tree’, a splendid Keatsian Poem ? a) Aurobindo Ghosh b) Toru Dutt c) R. K. Narayan d) Swami Vivekananda
Ans : Toru Dutt
8. Whose autobiography is entitled ‘My Father’s Son’? a) V S Naipaul b) R K Narayan c) Dom Moraes d) None of these Ans : None of these
9. “Would readily take them as the work of an English poet trained in the classical tradition “. Identify the poet about whom George Sampson said these lines? a) Michael Madhusudan Dutt b) Henry Derozio c) Romesh Chander Dutt d) Manmohan Ghose
Ans : Manmohan Ghose
10. 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’
Ans : Night of the Scorpion
11. The Angel of Misfortune is a poem of about 5000 lines, written by Nagesh Vishwanath Pai. Whose story is narrated in this book? a) Saturn, the Dark Angel b) King Arthur of the Holy Grail c) King Vikramaditya d) Kamadeva
Ans : King Vikramaditya
12. Identify the novel in which R K Narayan focus on family planning? a) Mr. Sampath b) The Painter of Signs c) The Guide d) None of these Ans : The Painter of Signs
13. In The Guide , we come across a dancer. The name of the dancer is a) Rosie b) Bharti c) Savitri d) None of these
Ans : Rosie
14. Which of the following poets wrote the essay ‘Naipaul’s India and Mine’? a) Kamala Das b) R Parthasarathy c) A K Ramanujan d) Nissim Ezekiel
Ans : Nissim Ezekiel
15. Silence ! The Court is in Session is a ______play translated into English. a) Gujarati b) Bengali c) Marathi d) Kannada
Ans : Marathi
16. Woman is the Earth, air, ether, sound, woman is the Microcosm of the mind. These lines were written by a) Anita Desai b) Dom Moraes c) Arun Joshi d) Raja Rao
Ans : Raja Rao 17. Identify the poet, who has written ‘Sita –speak’ indicating the society for the injustice meted out to women down the ages. a) Sarojini Naidu b) Toru Dutt c) Bina Agarwal d) Kamala Das
Ans : Bina Agarwal
18. In which play do we see a reworking of E M Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’ as a cameo? a) The Birthday Party b) A Resounding Tinkle c) Indian Ink d) Amadeus
Ans : Indian Ink
19. Who wrote the poem ‘The Fakeer of Jhungherra’? a) Govind Dutt b) R K Narayan c) Henry Derozio d) None of these
Ans : Henry Derozio
20. Which among the following is not a work by Anita Desai? a) Cry the Peacock b) God of Small Things c) Fire on the Mountain d) Clear Light of Day
Ans : God of Small Things
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