UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION V Semester BA ENGLISH CORE COURSE INDIAN WRITINGS IN ENGLISH ENG5 B01 SECTION I POETRY Gitanjali and TheGardener Rabindranath Tagore 1. What is the meaning of the word Gitanjali? a) Mantra chanting b) Song offerings 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 Rabindra Nritya Natya? 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 Indian Writing in English Page 2 School of Distance Education 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 Indian Writing in English Page 3 School of Distance Education 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 Indian Writing in English Page 4 School of Distance Education 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? Indian Writing in English Page 5 School of Distance Education 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? Indian Writing in English Page 6 School of Distance Education 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.