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1. |
An Essay is a__________. |
A. | Short Composition in Poem |
B. | Short Composition in prose |
C. | Short Composition |
D. | All of the above |
Answer» B. Short Composition in prose |
2. |
______ said "An Essay is a Short Composition in Prose". |
A. | Charles Lamb |
B. | Francis Bacon |
C. | Montaigne |
D. | Voltaire |
Answer» A. Charles Lamb |
3. |
The word 'essay' is derived from________ word. |
A. | Latin |
B. | French |
C. | Greek |
D. | Chinese |
Answer» A. Latin |
4. |
_______is the father of English Essays. |
A. | Charles Lamb |
B. | Francis Bacon |
C. | Montaigne |
D. | Voltaire |
Answer» B. Francis Bacon |
5. |
Personal essay is called________. |
A. | subjective |
B. | objective |
C. | autobiographical |
D. | None |
Answer» A. subjective |
6. |
Of Studies' is a famous essay of _________. |
A. | Hazlitt |
B. | Montaigne |
C. | Charles Lamb |
D. | Francis Bacon |
Answer» D. Francis Bacon |
7. |
_______is the father of Essays. |
A. | Voltaire |
B. | Francis Bacon |
C. | Montaigne |
D. | Hazlitt |
Answer» C. Montaigne |
8. |
The Ideal length of writing short story is ________. |
A. | 2000-6000 Words |
B. | 50000 words |
C. | 15000 words |
D. | 1000-20000 words |
Answer» D. 1000-20000 words |
9. |
The main idea of short story is called___________. |
A. | Plot |
B. | Theme |
C. | Story |
D. | Setting |
Answer» A. Plot |
10. |
___________is not short story writer. |
A. | Rudyard Kipling |
B. | Edgar Poe |
C. | Henry James |
D. | Charles Lamb |
Answer» D. Charles Lamb |
11. |
The Necklace' is famous short story of____________. |
A. | D.H.Lawrence |
B. | Maupassant |
C. | Henry James |
D. | R.K Narayan |
Answer» B. Maupassant |
12. |
________said "Short story is a work of prose fiction". |
A. | H.G. Wells |
B. | M.H.Abram |
C. | Henry James |
D. | Oxford Dictionary |
Answer» D. Oxford Dictionary |
13. |
The setting of the short story is __________. |
A. | Single |
B. | Double |
C. | Multiple |
D. | Mixed |
Answer» A. Single |
14. |
Shkespeare's sister is an essay by_______. |
A. | Shakespeare |
B. | Tagore |
C. | Virginia Woolf |
D. | R.K Narayan |
Answer» C. Virginia Woolf |
15. |
Virginia's short essay 'Shakespeare's sister' is published in___. |
A. | 1928 |
B. | 1828 |
C. | 1935 |
D. | 1929 |
Answer» D. 1929 |
16. |
_________is the narrator of the essay 'Shakespeare's sister'. |
A. | Woolf |
B. | Mary Beton |
C. | Mary Shelley |
D. | Shakespeare |
Answer» B. Mary Beton |
17. |
The Religion of the Forest' is an essay by_________. |
A. | Sarojini Naidu |
B. | M.K Gandhi |
C. | Tagore |
D. | Mulk Raj |
Answer» C. Tagore |
18. |
The Religion of the Forest' is originally written in__________. |
A. | Bengali |
B. | English |
C. | Gujarati |
D. | Hindi |
Answer» A. Bengali |
19. |
The founder of Shantiniketan was____________. |
A. | Arbindo Ghosh |
B. | Tagore |
C. | Raja Rao |
D. | M.K Gandhi |
Answer» B. Tagore |
20. |
_________translated 'The Religion of the Forest' into English. |
A. | Khushwant Singh |
B. | Priya Adarkar |
C. | Mohit K Roy |
D. | Tagore |
Answer» C. Mohit K Roy |
21. |
Tagore was given Nobel prize in_____. |
A. | 1912 |
B. | 1913 |
C. | 1911 |
D. | 1910 |
Answer» B. 1913 |
22. |
According to Tagore,_________is the symbol of unity. |
A. | water |
B. | air |
C. | river |
D. | forest |
Answer» D. forest |
23. |
The Two Lady Rams' is a short story by__________. |
A. | Raja Rao |
B. | Mulk Raj Anand |
C. | R.K Narayan |
D. | Tagore |
Answer» B. Mulk Raj Anand |
24. |
_____________is not a character of 'The Two Lady Rams'. |
A. | Sukhiram |
B. | Shakutanla |
C. | Lalla Jinda Ram |
D. | Chhotu Ram |
Answer» D. Chhotu Ram |
25. |
Lalla Jinda Ram is __________. |
A. | farmer |
B. | teacher |
C. | contractor |
D. | doctor |
Answer» C. contractor |
26. |
Lalla Jinda Ram was awarded___________________. |
A. | Nobel prize |
B. | Knighthood |
C. | Sir Award |
D. | Businessman Award |
Answer» B. Knighthood |
27. |
The Fall of the House of Usher' is a/an__________. |
A. | essay |
B. | short story |
C. | novel |
D. | poem |
Answer» B. short story |
28. |
The story 'The Fall of the House of Usher' is published in________. |
A. | 1860 |
B. | 1802 |
C. | 1939 |
D. | 1890 |
Answer» C. 1939 |
29. |
At the End of 'The Fall of the House of Usher', Roderick Usher dies of ________. |
A. | Cancer |
B. | T.B |
C. | Corona |
D. | Fear |
Answer» D. Fear |
30. |
Godan' is a novel by_________. |
A. | Premchand |
B. | O'Henry |
C. | Tagore |
D. | Ruskin Bond |
Answer» A. Premchand |
31. |
R.K Narayan immortalized___________in his novels. |
A. | Kodinar |
B. | Malgudi |
C. | Madras |
D. | Rameshwaram |
Answer» B. Malgudi |
32. |
Swami and Friends' is a novel by________. |
A. | Raja Rao |
B. | Mulk Raj Anand |
C. | R.K Narayan |
D. | Ruskin Bond |
Answer» C. R.K Narayan |
33. |
Our Trees still Grow in Dehra' is a novel by________. |
A. | Ruskin Bond |
B. | Anton Chekov |
C. | Raja Rao |
D. | Mulk Raj Anand |
Answer» A. Ruskin Bond |
34. |
__________is the writer of 'Cherry or Chard'. |
A. | Ruskin Bond |
B. | Raja Rao |
C. | Anton Chekov |
D. | R.K Narayan |
Answer» C. Anton Chekov |
35. |
Edgar Allen Poe was a/an ____________short story writer. |
A. | British |
B. | American |
C. | Canadian |
D. | Indian |
Answer» B. American |
36. |
_______ said that “ A short story should be read in one sitting, anywhere from a half hour to two hours”. |
A. | H E Bates |
B. | Somerset Maugham |
C. | Boccacio |
D. | Edgar Allan Poe |
Answer» D. Edgar Allan Poe |
37. |
Tagore’s Eassay “The Religion of the forest” was published in English on __________ birth anniversary. |
A. | 125th |
B. | 150th |
C. | 100th |
D. | 140th |
Answer» B. 150th |
38. |
________ is called the “Father of Hindi Fiction” |
A. | R K Narayan |
B. | Munshi Premchand |
C. | Raja Rao |
D. | Ahmad Ali |
Answer» B. Munshi Premchand |
39. |
Mulk Raj Anand won Sahitya Akademi Award in _________. |
A. | 1968 |
B. | 1970 |
C. | 1971 |
D. | 1987 |
Answer» C. 1971 |
40. |
__________is the father of Short Story. |
A. | Somerset Maugham |
B. | H E Bates |
C. | Raja Rao |
D. | Edgar Allan Poe |
Answer» D. Edgar Allan Poe |
41. |
The Fall of the House of Usher' is______story. |
A. | romantic |
B. | Gothic |
C. | Moral |
D. | Didactic |
Answer» B. Gothic |
42. |
Indian Juggler' is a famous essay by ________________ |
A. | Stevension |
B. | Bacon |
C. | Lamb |
D. | Hazlitt |
Answer» D. Hazlitt |
43. |
R.L. Stevenson was_______essayist. |
A. | British |
B. | Scottish |
C. | Indian |
D. | Chinese |
Answer» B. Scottish |
44. |
Tagore said that Forest is the source of ________. |
A. | Beauty |
B. | Joy |
C. | Harmony |
D. | All of the above |
Answer» D. All of the above |
45. |
________said "An essay is an irregular, undigested piece". |
A. | Ben Johnson |
B. | Dr.Johnson |
C. | Edmund Gosse |
D. | Bacon |
Answer» B. Dr.Johnson |
46. |
The Prince of English essayists was__________. |
A. | Fancis Bacon |
B. | Charles Lamb |
C. | Hazlitt |
D. | Stevenson |
Answer» B. Charles Lamb |
47. |
The essay 'The Religion of the Forest' has ________parts. |
A. | Four |
B. | Three |
C. | Two |
D. | Seven |
Answer» A. Four |
48. |
Ruskin Bond was awarded the Padma Shri in __________. |
A. | 1996 |
B. | 1997 |
C. | 1999 |
D. | 2000 |
Answer» C. 1999 |
49. |
Anton Chekov was a _______short story writer. |
A. | Indian |
B. | Russian |
C. | Scottish |
D. | British |
Answer» B. Russian |
50. |
Charles Lamb wrote under the pseudonym of _____. |
A. | Ela |
B. | Elia |
C. | Ila |
D. | Ibla |
Answer» B. Elia |
51. |
___________ is considered as Critic's Critic. |
A. | Hazlitt |
B. | Bacon |
C. | Stevenson |
D. | Henry |
Answer» A. Hazlitt |
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