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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) , Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) .
1. |
Which work made SarankumarLimbale famous in literature? |
A. | akkarmashi |
B. | towards an aesthetics of dalit literature |
C. | black dance |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. towards an aesthetics of dalit literature |
2. |
Which is the autobiographical novel of Sarankumar Limbale? |
A. | akkarmashi |
B. | jootan |
C. | aamen |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. akkarmashi |
3. |
What is the meaning of ‘Akkarmashi ‘? |
A. | dalit |
B. | hungry |
C. | out caste |
D. | upper caste |
Answer» C. out caste |
4. |
What makes Dalit Literature different from the mainstream literature? |
A. | style |
B. | vibrant expression |
C. | content |
D. | all of them |
Answer» D. all of them |
5. |
Which of the following features forms a reason for the suppression of Dalit? |
A. | caste |
B. | class |
C. | occupation |
D. | all of them |
Answer» D. all of them |
6. |
Which character is considered as the forefather of dalits? |
A. | rama |
B. | ekalavya |
C. | sita |
D. | brahma |
Answer» B. ekalavya |
7. |
What is the aim of Dalit literature? |
A. | submission |
B. | agreement |
C. | observation |
D. | protest |
Answer» D. protest |
8. |
To which community Limbale belonged? |
A. | mahar |
B. | chuhra |
C. | pulaya |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. mahar |
9. |
Who is the author of ‘Kandathi’? |
A. | hirabansode |
B. | k k s das |
C. | raghavanatholi |
D. | c. ayyappan |
Answer» C. raghavanatholi |
10. |
Where does the hungry woman wait? |
A. | at home |
B. | before the garbage |
C. | in the road |
D. | at the beach |
Answer» B. before the garbage |
11. |
How is the face of the parting day? |
A. | beautiful |
B. | tired |
C. | hungry |
D. | swollen |
Answer» D. swollen |
12. |
Where does Kandathi live? |
A. | in the street |
B. | at the river bank |
C. | in the pitch black hut |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. in the pitch black hut |
13. |
What is guarded by Kandathi? |
A. | a fresh meal |
B. | a cold meal |
C. | money |
D. | gold |
Answer» B. a cold meal |
14. |
What was broken by the hands of Kandathi? |
A. | the caste system |
B. | hypocrisy |
C. | stones |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. stones |
15. |
How do the people water the seeds in the fields? |
A. | from the river |
B. | with tears |
C. | from the ponds |
D. | using machines |
Answer» A. from the river |
16. |
What was vanished in the wild? |
A. | team |
B. | sons |
C. | carts |
D. | clans |
Answer» D. clans |
17. |
Which word shows the poverty of the working class people in Kandathi? |
A. | empty hovels |
B. | groaned |
C. | treacherous |
D. | full barns |
Answer» A. empty hovels |
18. |
Kandathi had shrunken in to an old ……. |
A. | sickle |
B. | crone |
C. | metal |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. crone |
19. |
What/who nursed the child? |
A. | mother |
B. | nature |
C. | tears |
D. | whole community |
Answer» C. tears |
20. |
To which thing, life of the out caste is compared with? |
A. | coconut tree |
B. | coconut shell |
C. | coconut husk |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. coconut husk |
21. |
What was crushed by the rushing feet? |
A. | child |
B. | handful of rice |
C. | tear drops |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. handful of rice |
22. |
What was the reason behind the battle? |
A. | water |
B. | rice |
C. | food |
D. | garments |
Answer» A. water |
23. |
What does the mother want? |
A. | rice |
B. | water |
C. | coins |
D. | a piece of land |
Answer» D. a piece of land |
24. |
According to Raj Gowthaman, any one who is ……….. dalit can produce dalit literature. |
A. | inborn as |
B. | brought up as |
C. | ideologically |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. ideologically |
25. |
Who provided the current position to the Dalits? |
A. | writers |
B. | dominant society |
C. | cultural issues |
D. | brahmins |
Answer» B. dominant society |
26. |
Where do the problems take place over the dalits? |
A. | over their body |
B. | in the street |
C. | in the fields |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. over their body |
27. |
Who is Yasodhara? |
A. | mother of buddha |
B. | wife of buddha |
C. | daughter of buddha |
D. | a poetess |
Answer» B. wife of buddha |
28. |
In the beginning of the poem, who is compared to the dream of sharp pain? |
A. | yasodhara |
B. | sangamitra |
C. | kourvaki |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. yasodhara |
29. |
Who gave the light to the entire people? |
A. | gotama |
B. | goutama buddha |
C. | patanjali |
D. | kanada |
Answer» B. goutama buddha |
30. |
Who was thrown to darkness by Buddha? |
A. | badrayana |
B. | sangamitra |
C. | yasodhara |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. yasodhara |
31. |
Which colour is used to show the emptiness of Yasodhara’s life? |
A. | white |
B. | yellow |
C. | black |
D. | blue |
Answer» D. blue |
32. |
Yasodhara had a …… life. |
A. | fragmented |
B. | lovely |
C. | beautiful |
D. | brocken |
Answer» A. fragmented |
33. |
Who is ready to provide refuge to Yasodhara? |
A. | sea |
B. | sky |
C. | earth |
D. | wind |
Answer» B. sky |
34. |
Yasodhara’s life is described as …..? |
A. | fruitless |
B. | noteworthy |
C. | empty |
D. | fruitful |
Answer» A. fruitless |
35. |
‘Matchless beauty’ means? |
A. | beauty that cannot be compared |
B. | beautiful without a companion |
C. | most beautiful |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. beautiful without a companion |
36. |
Yasodara is getting dimmed like …… |
A. | sun |
B. | moon |
C. | twilight |
D. | stars |
Answer» C. twilight |
37. |
Where does Yasodara carry the raging storm in? |
A. | heart |
B. | mind |
C. | small hands |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. small hands |
38. |
What shakes the earth? |
A. | yasodhara’s sigh |
B. | yasodhara’s life |
C. | yasodhara’s tears |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. yasodhara’s life |
39. |
What was the name of Buddha at his Grihastashrama? |
A. | rama |
B. | sidhartha |
C. | badrayana |
D. | kapila |
Answer» B. sidhartha |
40. |
Sidhartha was moving towards…… |
A. | glory |
B. | knowledge |
C. | great splendor |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. great splendor |
41. |
What did history hide? |
A. | buddha’s family |
B. | yasodhara’s sacrifice |
C. | buddha’s son |
D. | buddha’s country |
Answer» B. yasodhara’s sacrifice |
42. |
When do the people of Veerashaiva family throw coins? |
A. | in the wedding feast |
B. | in the feast of the temple |
C. | in the funeral procession |
Answer» C. in the funeral procession |
43. |
Which activity will provide redemption from the sins? |
A. | attending the funeral |
B. | throwing coins on the corpse |
C. | touching the feet of the dead |
D. | mourning in the procession |
Answer» B. throwing coins on the corpse |
44. |
The stich that was used to control the dalits were also used to control ……. |
A. | pigs and dogs |
B. | other human beings |
C. | cattle |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. pigs and dogs |
45. |
What made the dominant people of the village to compete each other in ‘Coins on the Corpse and the Wedding Feast’? |
A. | donation |
B. | alms |
C. | constructing houses |
D. | all of them |
Answer» D. all of them |
46. |
Where do the younger members hide the collected coins from the corpse? |
A. | in the pocket |
B. | in the bag |
C. | in the hole of the tree |
D. | in the secret pocket |
Answer» D. in the secret pocket |
47. |
What was the profession of Adavichonchas, Lollyars and Kunchikoravas? |
A. | burying corpses |
B. | cleaning the dirt |
C. | begging |
D. | working in the fields |
Answer» C. begging |
48. |
What was the marking made to prevent the dalits from having a second meal? |
A. | oil |
B. | colour |
C. | paint |
D. | none |
Answer» B. colour |
49. |
What helped dalits to remove the colour from the hands? |
A. | water |
B. | oil on the head |
C. | paper |
D. | cloth |
Answer» B. oil on the head |
50. |
Who is the founder of ‘Dalit Panther’? |
A. | limbale |
B. | b r ambedkar |
C. | namdeodhasal |
D. | c k janu |
Answer» C. namdeodhasal |
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