UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT

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V Semester

BA ENGLISH

CORE COURSE

INDIAN WRITINGS IN ENGLISH

ENG5 B01

SECTION I POETRY

Gitanjali and TheGardener

1. What is the meaning of the word ? a) Mantra chanting b) c) Romantic songs d) spiritual quest

2. Rabindranath Tagore was awarded with Nobel prize in a) 1914 b)1913 c) 1915 d)1920

3. Who is known as the Bard of Bengal? a) Satyajith Ray b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Aurobindo Gosh d) M.M.Dutta

4. Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali? a) Jibananda Das b) Nehru c) W.B.Yeats d) T.S.Eliot

5. Who was the first non-European to win Nobel Prize for literature? a) Arundathi Roy b) Kamala Das c) Tagore d) Aurobindo Gosh

6. Which of the following country’s national anthem was written by Tagore other than India’s? School of Distance Education

a) Iran b) Bengladesh c) Kuwait d) Pakistan

7. Which of the following is not included in ? a) Chitrangada b) Shyama c) Dak Ghar d) Chandalika

8. Tagore’s Dak Ghar andChandalika are included in which of the following genre? a) short story b) poem c) drama d) essay

9. Gitanjali by Tagore was published in Bengali in 1910. Its English translation got published in a) 1911 b)1913 c) 1914 d)1912

10. Which of the work has the motto ‘I am here to sing theesongs’? a) The Gardener b) Gitanjali c) Stary birds d)The Golden Boat

11.Who is addressed in the poem Where the mind is without fear a) God b) poet’s lover c) a stranger d) nature

12. Tireless striving stretches its arms towards a) freedom b) perfection c) truth d) none of these

13. According to the poet life is like a) dewdrop on lotus b) starry night c) a song d) stage play

14. which of the following month is mentioned in the poem Verse 46 The Gardener? a) April b) May c) March d) February

15. Which line is repeated in the poem Verse 46 The Gardener a) For time is short. b) My loves, you know we are mortals. c) You come, and you, and you also! d) none of these

Coromandel fishers Sarojini Naidu 16. Who attributed the title Bharat kokila/ the nightingale of India to Sarojini Naidu? a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Rabindranatha Tagore c) Mulk raj Anand d)R.K.Narayan

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17. Who was the first Indian woman to become the president of INC? a) Toru Dutt b) AaruDutt c) Captain Lakshmi d) Sarojini Naidu

18. Which of the following collection by Sarojini Naidu comes first while arranging in chronological manner? a) The Bird of Time b) The Golden Threshold c) The Feather of Dawn d) The Broken Wing

19. Who among the following was the first woman to become the governor of an Indian state? a) Sarojini Naidu b) Savithri Phule c) Captain Lakshmi d) AkkammaCheriyan

20. The poem Coromandel Fishers was included in which of the following collection? a) The Bird of the Time b) The Golden Threshold c) The Feather of the Dawn d) The Broken Wing

21. The collection The Golden Threshold was published in a) 1961 b)1905 c) 1912 d) 1917

22.Which of the following collection by Sarojini Naidu was posthumously published by her daughter Padmaja Naidu? a) The Bird of the Time b) The Golden Threshold c) The Feather of the Dawn d) The Broken Wing

23. Inthe poem "Coromandel Fishers" whom the poet address? a) The workers b) the farmers c)the fisher men d) the women folk

24. Whom does the poet address the king of the sea? a) the fisher men b) the fish c) the mermaids d) all the above

25. What is sweet according to the poet? a) shade of coconut glade b) scent of mango groove c) sands at full moon d) all of these

26. “No looser delay, let us hasten away in the track of the seagull’s call”. Here ‘seagull’ is a) a bird b) a shark c) a fish d) a sea plant

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27. The fishermen consider the sea as their a) comrade b) brother c) sister d) mother

28. Who holds the storm by the hair? a) the cloud b) the sea-god c) the fishermen d) the seagull

29. ‘The leaping wealth of the tide’ refers to a) the waves b) the seagull c) the storm d) the fish

30. The poet describes many things as sweet. Among them, which is considered to be sweeter? a) shade of the coconut grove b) the scent of the mango grove c) kiss of the spray d) sands on a full moon day

An Introduction KamalaDas 30. Kamala Das was nominated for Nobel prize in which year? a) 1985 b)1984 c)1980 d) 1990

31. An Introduction was first included in a) Summer in Culcutta b) The Descendants c) The Stranger Time d) The Sirens

32. Alphabet of Lust by Kamala Das was a a) poetry collection b) novel c) play d) short story

33. Madhavikutty was died in a) 2002 b) 2010 c) 2009 d) 2011

34. Name the autobiography of Kamala Das a) My Story b) My Life b) An Autobiography d) Introduction

35.An Introduction can be categorised as a a) devotional poem b) confessional poem c) philosophical poem d) all of these.

36. Who is called a nympho? a) a woman with very strong sexual desires b) a woman with suicidal tendency

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c) a woman with strong mental conflicts d) all the above

37. what is the poem An Introduction is about? a) patriarchy and woman b) life in general c) philosophy of nature d) both a and c

38. I speak three languages, write in two and ------in one. Fill in the blanks a) thought b) dream c) imagine d)paint

39. Which of the following is mentioned as the birth place of the poetic persona in An Introduction a) Bombay b) Malabar c) Calcutta d) Travancore

40. Which politician is mentioned in the beginning of the poem AnIntroduction a) Nehru b) Gandhiji c) Indira Gandhi d) Bhagat Sigh

41. “I was a child, and later they told me I grew…” who are they referred here? a) society b) other poets c) her parents d) critics

42. For writing in which language the speaker has been opposed by relatives and friends? a) Tamil b) English c) Hindi d) Urdu

43. The poet met a man and what was his name? a) Das b) Ram c) Krishna d) he has no name

44. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem An Introduction? a) aabb b) abcb c) aabc d) it has no rhyme scheme

45. When she asked for love a youth of which age was drawn into her bed room? a)15 b)16 c)17 d)20

An Old Woman Arun Kolatkar 46. Which of the following collection by Arun Kolatkar won Commonwealth Poetry Prize?

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a) Jejuri b) A Low Temple c) Kala Ghoda poems d) Strangertime

47. Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar wrote both in English and ----- a) Kannada b) Tamil c) Marathi d) French

48.What does the old woman expect for her service? a) forty paisa b) fifty paisa c) one rupee c) seventy paisa

49. The old woman’s eyes are compared to a) bullet holes b) ocean c) pits d) burning fire

Country without Post office Agha Shahid Ali 50. Agha Shahid Ali is a a) Kashmiri-American poet b) West Indies poet c) Indo-Pak poet d) Bengali poet

51. Which of the following is not a work by Agha Shahid Ali? a) The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems b) Rooms Are Never Finished c) The Half-Inch Himalayas d) The Striders

52. In which colour The Jhelum appears in front of the poet? a) light green b) light blue c) deep blue d) deep green

53. Which is the home land of the poet? a) Kashmir b) Pakistan c) Meghalaya d) Malabar

54. Which expression provides a visual effect to the poem? a) postcard b) shrinked d) overexposed d) ultramarine

55. What is the size of the post card? a) four by four inch b) four by six inch c) four by five inches d) none of these

56. What is the background of the poem The Country Without Post office?

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a) Kashmir issue b) World war c) cold war d) none of these

57. For what the speaker brought money? a) to buy jewels b) to buy stamps c) to gift his friend d) none of these

58. what is the mood of the poem The Country Without Post office? a) sad b) melancholic c) philosophic d) nostalgic

59. What was the quality that was admired by the poet? a) neatness b) beauty c) love d) making happy

60. Which book of Agha Shahid Ali was finalistfor the National Book Award in 2001? a) The Half-Inch Himalayas b) The Country Without a Post Office c) A Nostalgist's Map of America d) Rooms Are Never Finished

SECTION II PROSE and FICTION

Speech at Mahad Dr.B.R.Ambedkar

61. Ambedkar formed which of the following organisation? a) BahishkritHitkarni Sabha b) Independent Labour Party c) All – India Schedule Caste Federation d) all of these

62. Which among the following is not a periodical by Ambedkar? a) Mooknayak b) Prabhutbharat c) Janata d) Harijan

63. Dr.Ambedkar was born in a) Madhyapradesh b) Maharashtra c) Delhi d) West Bengal

64. Which of the following Indians participated in all three round table conferences? a) Ambedkar b) Gandhiji c) Madhan Mohan Malavya d) Nehru

65. Mahad or Chavdar Tale Satyagraha was a satyagraha led by B. R. Ambedkar?

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a) 20 March 1927 b) 23 April 1923 c) 22 May 1928 d) 21 March 1925

66. The place Mahad is located at a) Madhyapradesh b) Maharashtra c) Tamil nadu d) Assam

Imaginary Homeland Salman Rushdie 67. Salman Rushdie's “Imaginary Homelands” is a a) a discussion of imperialist assumptions. b) an essay that propounds an anti essentialist view of place c) an existential lament on triumphant colonialism. d) none of these

68. Which of Rushdie's novels was banned in India, and forced him to live in secrecy for nine years? a) Satanic Verses b) Midnight Children c) Grimus d) Imaginary homelands

69. Imaginary homelands the collection includes how many sections? a) six b) seven c) five d) eight

70. Who is the unreliable narrator in the novel Midnight Children? a) Saleem Sinayi b) Ahmed Kabeer c) Noorjahan d) Jahangir

The Fortune Teller R.K.Narayan 71. Which town is recurrently used in R.K.Narayan’s stories? a) Chennai b) Malgudy c) Mysore d) Delhi

72. Which of the following English author was R.K.Narayan’s friend and mentor ? a) T.S.Eliot b) Ezra Pound c) Graham Greene d) None of these

73. What is the stranger’s name a) Guru Nayak. b) Guru Wala c) Guru Nayak d) Guru Patnayik

74. The astrologer warned the stranger never to travel in which of the following direction.

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a) southern b) northern c) western d) Eastern

75. The stranger gave the astrologer a) twelve annas b) twelve annas and a half c) one rupee d) five rupees

Laburnum of My Head TemsulaAo 76. TemsulaAo received the Sahitya Akademi Award for her short story collection a) Ao-Naga Oral Tradition b) Laburnum of My Head c) These Hills Called Home: Stories from the War Zone d) Henry James'Quest for an Ideal Heroine.

77. Henry James' Quest for an Ideal Heroine by TemsulaAo is a) short story collection b) poetry collection c) literary criticism d) verse drama

78. TemsulaAo was born in a) Assam b) Manipur c) Shillong d) Rajastan

79. Laburnum of My Head is a collection of short stories about the people of a) Manipur b) Assam c) Nagaland d) Meghalaya

80. What is the name of the protagonist’s driver in the story Laburnum of My Head? a) Raju b) Babu c) Somu d) Hari

The Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 81. The Interpreter of Maladies was published in a) 1998 b) 1999 c) 2000 d) 2001

82. What is the name of the guide in the story The Interpreter of Maladies a) Mr Das b) Mr.Kapasi c) Ronny d) Bobby

83. The Interpreter of Maladies won Pulitzer Prize for fiction a) 2000 b)1999 c) 2001 d) 1998

84. Das family planned to visit which of the following tourist spot?

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a) Sun Temple b) Massoorie c) Kanyakumari d) Ajanta caves

85. What is the first name of Mrs.Das a) Tina b) Mina c) Sheena d) Sita

86. Rohnny and Bobby are ------a) sons of Das family b) servants of Das family c) tourists d) none of these

87. What is the age of Mr.Kapasi? a) 45 b) 46 c) 49 d) 40

88. Which of the following is not a work by Jhumpa Lahiri a) Namesake b) The Lowland c) Shadow Lines d) Unaccustomed Earth

SECTION IV DRAMA and FILM

Fire and Rain Girish Karnad 89. Girish Karnadreceived Jnanapith award in a) 1998 b)1999 c) 2000 d) 2001

90. Which of the following play by Karnad was based on Thomas Mann’s Transposed Heads a) Hayavadana b) Nagamandala c) Fire and Rain d) Tughlaq

91. Which of the following was the debut film of Karnad in Kannada a) Samskara b) VamshaVrisha c) Kaadu d) Godhuli

92. The play Tuglaque by Karnad is an allegory on a) Nehruvian era b) Fascist era c) Hindu muslim relation d) royal ruling

93. Who translated the works of Karnad in Kannada into English a) Karand himself b) Anant Nag c) A.K,Ramanujan d) Nissim Ezeikel

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Charulata Satyajith Ray 94. Satyjit Ray was born in a) Bombay b) Pune c) Calcutta d) Bengaluru

95. Which of the following is not included in Ray’s Appu Trilogy? a) PatherPanjali b) Aparajito c) The World of Appu d)

96. The film Charulata was based on the novel by a) Michael MadhusudanaDutt b) Aurobindo c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Anita Desai

97. In English, Charulata is also known as a) the happy girl b) the lonely wife c) the lonely man d) nature’s gift

98. Charulata was premiered in a) 1967 b) 1970 c) 1965 d) 1964

99. Who plays the role of Amal in Charulata? a) SoumitraChatterji b) Dilip Bose c) SukuMukheerjee d) Joydeb

100. Which Indian actress did the role of Charu in Charulata? a) Madhabi Mukherjee b) Hema Malini c) Jayapradha d) none of these

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Answers

1. b 2.b 3.b 4.c 5.c 6.b 7.c

8.c 9.d 10.d 11.a 12.b 13. a 14. a

15. a 16.b 17. d 18.b 19.a 20.b 21.b

22.c 23.c 24.a 25.d 26.a 27.d 28.b

29.d 30.c 31.a 32.b 33.c 34.a 35.b

36.a 37.a 38.b 39.b 40.a 41.a 42.b

43.d 44.d 45.b 46.a 47.c 48.b 49.a

50.a 51.d 52.d 53. a 54.a 55.b 56. a

57. b 58.d 59.d 60.d 61. d 62. d 63. a

64. a 65. a 66. b 67. b 68. a 69. a 70. a

71. b 72. c 73. a 74. a 75. b 76. b 77. c

78. a 79. c 80. b 81. b 82. b 83. a 84. a

85. b 86. a 87. b 88. c 89. a 90. a 91. a

92. a 93. a 94. c 95. d 96. c 97. b 98. d

99. a 100. a

Prepared by: Smt. JISHINA GOPINATH, Guest Faculty, Department of English, CKGM Govt. College, Perambra, Kozhikkode.

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