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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) .
| 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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