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1. |
Who was the first woman president of Indian National Congress? |
A. | amrita pritam |
B. | sarojini naidu |
C. | annie besant |
D. | vijayalaxmi pandit |
Answer» B. sarojini naidu |
2. |
Who is known as Bharat Kokila ( the nightingale of India)? |
A. | lata mangeshkar |
B. | toru dutt |
C. | sarojini naidu |
D. | kamala das |
Answer» C. sarojini naidu |
3. |
Who endowed Sarojini Naidu the title ‘The Nightingale of India? |
A. | mahatma gandhi |
B. | jawaharlal nehru |
C. | gopalakrishna gokhale |
D. | rabindranath tagore |
Answer» D. rabindranath tagore |
4. |
The narrator is in the search for her ……..? |
A. | friend |
B. | lover |
C. | child |
D. | mother |
Answer» B. lover |
5. |
Who is referred as Kanhaya in the poem? |
A. | krishna |
B. | rama |
C. | radha |
D. | shepherd |
Answer» A. krishna |
6. |
In the evening, she asked ……….. about her flute player. (a. Wind b. woods c. forest d. gray coloured tide) 7. With the help of a beautiful simile, to which thing she compares her heart? |
A. | boat |
B. | chalice |
C. | bubble |
D. | leaf |
Answer» D. leaf |
7. |
Where does Krishna take rest? |
A. | boat |
B. | forest |
C. | home |
D. | sea shore |
Answer» B. forest |
8. |
What made the honey to ooze in to Radha’s heart? |
A. | krishna’s words |
B. | krishna’s jocks |
C. | krishna’s tricks |
D. | krishna’s beauty |
Answer» C. krishna’s tricks |
9. |
According to Krishna, where can Radha find Krishna? |
A. | forest’s shade |
B. | sea shore |
C. | river bank |
D. | heart’s mirror |
Answer» D. heart’s mirror |
10. |
What is the rhyming pattern of the poem? |
A. | abab cdcd |
B. | aabb ccdd |
C. | abcd abcd |
D. | abab cdcd efef gg |
Answer» B. aabb ccdd |
11. |
Which pair among the following is known as the symbol of love? |
A. | siva-parvati |
B. | brahma-saraswati |
C. | nala-damayanti |
D. | radha-krishna |
Answer» D. radha-krishna |
12. |
The poem is about ……… |
A. | friendship |
B. | love |
C. | companionship |
D. | household affairs |
Answer» B. love |
13. |
What is the expression Naidu uses to explain the blind nature of Radha’s love? |
A. | tricks |
B. | gray coloured |
C. | foolish |
D. | rocked |
Answer» C. foolish |
14. |
Which kind of love is portrayed in TheQuest? |
A. | carnal |
B. | platonic |
C. | flirting |
D. | insulting |
Answer» B. platonic |
15. |
Which is the first non-European work that had won the Nobel Prize for literature? |
A. | midnight’s children |
B. | bayen |
C. | chitra |
D. | gitanjali |
Answer» D. gitanjali |
16. |
Who wrote the national anthem of India? |
A. | tagore |
B. | bankin chandra chatterji |
C. | sarat chandra chatterji |
D. | mohammed iqbal |
Answer» A. tagore |
17. |
The poem Breezy April is addressed to………….. |
A. | wind |
B. | rain |
C. | april |
D. | summer |
Answer» C. april |
18. |
Which peculiarity of April rocks the poet? |
A. | hotness |
B. | rain |
C. | burning |
D. | music |
Answer» D. music |
19. |
What makes the poet thrilled? |
A. | aprils touch |
B. | april’s beauty |
C. | wind’s sound |
D. | bird’s twittering |
Answer» A. aprils touch |
20. |
……… awakens the poet from his sleep. |
A. | music |
B. | river’s sound |
C. | birds |
D. | breeze |
Answer» D. breeze |
21. |
Slumber means? |
A. | game |
B. | sleep |
C. | tricks |
D. | care |
Answer» B. sleep |
22. |
What type of a poem is Breezy April? |
A. | sonnet |
B. | dramatic monologue |
C. | ode |
D. | lyric |
Answer» C. ode |
23. |
The wind and leaves communicate through …….. . |
A. | music |
B. | movement |
C. | dance |
D. | leafy language |
Answer» D. leafy language |
24. |
What makes the poet surrender in front of the breeze of April? |
A. | its kisses |
B. | its sweetness |
C. | its softness |
D. | its nature |
Answer» A. its kisses |
25. |
Breezy April is written in …….. style? |
A. | neoclassic |
B. | romantic |
C. | modern |
D. | pre-raphaelite |
Answer» B. romantic |
26. |
How many quatrains are there in Breezy April? |
A. | one |
B. | two |
C. | three |
D. | four |
Answer» D. four |
27. |
What/who teases the poet? |
A. | breeze |
B. | wind |
C. | lover |
D. | friend |
Answer» A. breeze |
28. |
Name the first Indian to win Nobel Prize for literature? |
A. | jawaharlal nehru |
B. | r k narayan |
C. | rabindranath tagore |
D. | raja rao |
Answer» C. rabindranath tagore |
29. |
In which year, Tagore received Nobel Prize? |
A. | 1910 |
B. | 1911 |
C. | 1912 |
D. | 1913 |
Answer» D. 1913 |
30. |
Find out the pen-name of Kamala Das from the following. |
A. | balamani |
B. | sugathakumari |
C. | aysha |
D. | madhavikkutti |
Answer» D. madhavikkutti |
31. |
Kamala Das became iconoclast among her contemporaries due to her open expression of ……… |
A. | household affairs |
B. | love |
C. | female sexuality |
D. | contemporary issues |
Answer» C. female sexuality |
32. |
Which among the listed do not constitute the theme of In Love? |
A. | desperation |
B. | female sexuality |
C. | man-woman relationship |
D. | none of these |
Answer» D. none of these |
33. |
……….. reminds her of her lover. (a. Burning sun b. jigsaw c. crow d. none of these) 35. To which thing Kamala Das compares the limbs of her lover? |
A. | jigsaw |
B. | carnivorous plant |
C. | plant |
D. | trunk |
Answer» A. jigsaw |
34. |
According to the narrator, the meeting of both of them is ………. |
A. | full of love |
B. | full of lust |
C. | mechanical |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. mechanical |
35. |
When the man succeeds over her, she turns………. |
A. | violent |
B. | gloomy |
C. | happy |
D. | silent |
Answer» D. silent |
36. |
Who utter ‘Bol Hari Bol’ in the night? |
A. | porters |
B. | corpse carriers |
C. | vendors |
D. | merchants |
Answer» B. corpse carriers |
37. |
What does the poet mean by ‘skin-communicated thing? |
A. | lust |
B. | unending love |
C. | conversation |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. lust |
38. |
The use of ‘carnivorous plant’ in the poem is an example of ……… |
A. | metaphor |
B. | personification |
C. | simile |
D. | alliteration |
Answer» C. simile |
39. |
Where is the narrator settled in the poem? |
A. | in a village |
B. | in a town |
C. | in the precincts |
D. | near a river |
Answer» B. in a town |
40. |
According to the narrator, what is filled in the wings of the crows? |
A. | honey |
B. | water |
C. | poison |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. poison |
41. |
To which thing narrator compares his embrace? |
A. | plant |
B. | crow |
C. | ghost |
D. | jigsaw |
Answer» D. jigsaw |
42. |
‘Finished jigsaw’ is an example of ……….. |
A. | metaphor |
B. | alliteration |
C. | simile |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. metaphor |
43. |
Which kind of love is portrayed in this poem? |
A. | eternal love |
B. | carnal love |
C. | platonic love |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. carnal love |
44. |
Among the following, which is the first book of Ezekiel? |
A. | hymns in darkness |
B. | a time to change |
C. | the exact time |
D. | the bad day |
Answer» D. the bad day |
45. |
Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is mostly used as the study material of Indian English Poetry? |
A. | goodbye party for miss pushpa t s |
B. | the night of the scorpion |
C. | a time to change |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. the night of the scorpion |
46. |
Whose poems were translated by Ezekiel along with Vrinda Nabar? |
A. | gandhiji |
B. | gokhale |
C. | nehru |
D. | iqbal |
Answer» C. nehru |
47. |
Ezekiel was awarded Padmashri in……….. |
A. | 1998 |
B. | 1988 |
C. | 1987 |
D. | 1978 |
Answer» B. 1988 |
48. |
Which locality of Indian English users is mentioned in this poem? |
A. | kerala |
B. | maharashtra |
C. | rajasthan |
D. | gujarat |
Answer» D. gujarat |
49. |
In whose name the party is arranged? |
A. | poet |
B. | narrator |
C. | miss pushpa |
D. | a stranger |
Answer» C. miss pushpa |
50. |
Which kind of narration is used in this poem? |
A. | third person |
B. | second person |
C. | first person |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. first person |
51. |
What kind of personality is Miss Pushpa according to the speaker? |
A. | sweet |
B. | harsh |
C. | dull |
D. | rare |
Answer» A. sweet |
52. |
What was the profession of Miss Pushpa’s father? |
A. | doctor |
B. | advocate |
C. | teacher |
D. | clerk |
Answer» B. advocate |
53. |
Where was Miss Pushpa’s father practicing? |
A. | culcutta |
B. | bulsar |
C. | bombay |
D. | surat |
Answer» D. surat |
54. |
‘External sweetness’ means? |
A. | beautiful appearance |
B. | personality |
C. | sweet character |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. beautiful appearance |
55. |
From which language ‘Bon Voyage’ is borrowed? |
A. | latin |
B. | french |
C. | greek |
D. | italian |
Answer» B. french |
56. |
What does the speaker mean by ‘prospect’? |
A. | character |
B. | personality |
C. | potential |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. potential |
57. |
Which problem of Indian English users is mentioned in the poem? |
A. | grammatical errors |
B. | pronunciation |
C. | spelling mistakes |
D. | vocabulary |
Answer» A. grammatical errors |
58. |
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T Sis a ………… against Indian English users. |
A. | humour |
B. | criticism |
C. | sarcasm |
D. | evaluation |
Answer» C. sarcasm |
59. |
In which language A K Ramanujan used to write apart from English? |
A. | malayalam |
B. | kannada |
C. | marathi |
D. | tamil |
Answer» B. kannada |
60. |
When did Govt. of India honour A K Ramanujan with Padmashri? |
A. | 1988 |
B. | 1985 |
C. | 1984 |
D. | 1983 |
Answer» D. 1983 |
61. |
What is the age of the narrator at the beginning of the poem? |
A. | 2 or 3 |
B. | 3 or 4 |
C. | 4 or 5 |
D. | 5 or 6 |
Answer» D. 5 or 6 |
62. |
What is the relationship between the boy and the girl? |
A. | siblings |
B. | cousins |
C. | friends |
D. | neighbours |
Answer» B. cousins |
63. |
The favourite game of the children in the poem was…… |
A. | swimming |
B. | hill climbing |
C. | hide n’ seek |
D. | swinging |
Answer» D. swinging |
64. |
Which tree is mentioned in the poem? |
A. | fig tree |
B. | mango tree |
C. | pine tree |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. fig tree |
65. |
At the end of the poem, the narrator is a …….. |
A. | girl |
B. | old woman |
C. | grown-up woman |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. grown-up woman |
66. |
What is the colour of the fig leaves? |
A. | green |
B. | red |
C. | gray |
D. | yellow |
Answer» B. red |
67. |
On which tree the swing was tied? |
A. | mango tree |
B. | jack fruit tree |
C. | fig tree |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. fig tree |
68. |
What is the age of the boy in the poem? |
A. | four or five |
B. | five or six |
C. | two or three |
D. | six or seven |
Answer» D. six or seven |
69. |
Which book of Agha Shahid Ali was finalistfor the National Book Award in 2001? |
A. | the half-inch himalayas |
B. | a nostalgist's map of america |
C. | the country without a post office |
D. | rooms are never finished |
Answer» D. rooms are never finished |
70. |
What is the size of the post card? |
A. | four by four inch |
B. | four by five inch |
C. | four by six inch |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. four by six inch |
71. |
What was the quality that was admired by the poet? |
A. | love |
B. | neatness |
C. | making happy |
D. | beauty |
Answer» B. neatness |
72. |
What is the tone of the poem? |
A. | sarcastic |
B. | nostalgic |
C. | humourous |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. nostalgic |
73. |
Which river is mentioned in the poem? |
A. | the indus |
B. | the yamuna |
C. | the ganges |
D. | the jhelum |
Answer» D. the jhelum |
74. |
Which colour is referred by the term ‘ultramarine’? |
A. | green |
B. | red |
C. | blue |
D. | white |
Answer» C. blue |
75. |
In which colour The Jhelum appears in front of the poet? |
A. | light green |
B. | deep green |
C. | light blue |
D. | deep blue |
Answer» D. deep blue |
76. |
Which expression provides a visual effect to the poem? |
A. | post card |
B. | ultramarine |
C. | overexposed |
D. | shrinked |
Answer» C. overexposed |
77. |
Amrita Pritam is an Indian English writer who belongs to ……….. |
A. | gujarat |
B. | maharashtra |
C. | west bengal |
D. | punjab |
Answer» D. punjab |
78. |
In Amrita Pritam’s which novel memorable character, Puro, an epitome of violence against women, was pictured? |
A. | the weed |
B. | pinjar |
C. | kagaz te canvas |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. pinjar |
79. |
What is the name of the protagonist of ‘The Weed’? |
A. | rani |
B. | prabhati |
C. | angoori |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. angoori |
80. |
According to the superstitions, what was given to the girls in order to ensnarl them? |
A. | paan |
B. | halwa |
C. | betel |
D. | milk |
Answer» A. paan |
81. |
Who was the reason for Angoori’s sorrows? |
A. | prabhati |
B. | narrator |
C. | herself |
D. | ram tara |
Answer» D. ram tara |
82. |
Angoori believed that her desolate mood was created by …………… |
A. | love |
B. | pain |
C. | the weed |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. the weed |
83. |
Angooori can be considered as a woman with ………. nature. |
A. | feminist |
B. | patriarchal |
C. | traditional |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. feminist |
84. |
Which among the following does not belong to the theme of ‘The Weed’? |
A. | patriarchy |
B. | education of women |
C. | marriage |
D. | none of these |
Answer» D. none of these |
85. |
What was Angoori’s concept about women getting educated? |
A. | innovative |
B. | sin |
C. | improvement |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. sin |
86. |
What was the ‘weed’? |
A. | betel |
B. | a flower |
C. | marijuana |
D. | pepper |
Answer» C. marijuana |
87. |
Who is considered as the architect of Indian nation-state as a socialist, democratic republic? |
A. | b r ambedkar |
B. | mahatma gandhi |
C. | indira gandhi |
D. | jawaharlal nehru |
Answer» D. jawaharlal nehru |
88. |
Who are the ‘we’ mentioned in ‘A Tryst with Destiny’? |
A. | nehru and his family |
B. | leaders of freedom struggle |
C. | indians |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. indians |
89. |
With whom had they made the appointment? |
A. | british |
B. | destiny |
C. | mahatma gandhi |
D. | political leaders |
Answer» B. destiny |
90. |
To whom Nehru is expanding the service of newly found government of India? |
A. | india and her people |
B. | indian national congress |
C. | the whole world |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. the whole world |
91. |
According to Nehru, freedom and power are always related to ……….. |
A. | sovereignty |
B. | responsibility |
C. | supremacy |
D. | corruption |
Answer» B. responsibility |
92. |
What is the main responsibility of Nehru and the other leaders? |
A. | representing people in the assembly |
B. | providing electricity |
C. | building up new cities |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. representing people in the assembly |
93. |
Which among the following comes in the list of the problems which should be wiped out from India? |
A. | untouchability |
B. | unapproachability |
C. | malnutrition |
D. | poverty |
Answer» D. poverty |
94. |
What was the long cherished dream of Indians? |
A. | conquering britain |
B. | attaining freedom |
C. | defeating monarchs |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. attaining freedom |
95. |
How should Indians face the new responsibilities? |
A. | with care |
B. | with discipline |
C. | with passion |
D. | with arrogance |
Answer» B. with discipline |
96. |
Which town is recurrently used in R K Narayan’s stories? |
A. | madhurai |
B. | chennai |
C. | bombay |
D. | malgudi |
Answer» D. malgudi |
97. |
Who was the mentor and friend of R K Narayan who helped him to publish his earlier works? |
A. | graham greene |
B. | t s eliot |
C. | thomas hardy |
D. | william faulkner |
Answer» A. graham greene |
98. |
In compressing the story without loosing the elements, R K Narayan’s stories are often compared with the stories of ………… |
A. | william faulkner |
B. | dante |
C. | guy de maupassan |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. guy de maupassan |
99. |
Which among the following does not belong to the semi autobiographical trilogy of R K Narayan? |
A. | swami and friends |
B. | the bachelor of arts |
C. | the english teacher |
D. | the |
Answer» D. the |
100. |
Which habit made R K Narayan to fall in love with girls? |
A. | talking |
B. | roaming around |
C. | reading |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. reading |
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