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| 1. |
Who does the word ‘you’ in the poem Still I Rise refer to? |
| A. | The White |
| B. | The Black |
| C. | A Woman |
| D. | Maya Angelou |
| Answer» A. The White | |
| 2. |
Maya Angelou is a/an …………… poet? |
| A. | Black American |
| B. | Canadian |
| C. | British |
| D. | Irish |
| Answer» A. Black American | |
| 3. |
Maya Angelou was born in…….? |
| A. | 1920 |
| B. | 1921 |
| C. | 1925 |
| D. | 1928 |
| Answer» D. 1928 | |
| 4. |
Which publication made Angelou famous all over the world? |
| A. | The Heart of a Woman. |
| B. | Gather Together in My Name |
| C. | A Song Flung Up to Heaven |
| D. | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Answer» D. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | |
| 5. |
With who’s certainty, Maya Angelou compares the certainty of the Blacks? |
| A. | Moon |
| B. | Sun |
| C. | Tides |
| D. | Hopes |
| Answer» C. Tides | |
| 6. |
What does Angelou suggest by ‘the past rooted in pain’? |
| A. | Slavery |
| B. | Sufferings |
| C. | Cultural issues |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 7. |
Which identity is realized by Angelou when she mentions her pleasure like that of getting diamonds? |
| A. | Black |
| B. | Woman |
| C. | White |
| D. | Human |
| Answer» B. Woman | |
| 8. |
Where does the past of the blacks rooted in? |
| A. | Ocean |
| B. | Dust |
| C. | Pain |
| D. | Dream |
| Answer» C. Pain | |
| 9. |
Who wrote the history of the Blacks? |
| A. | Red Indian |
| B. | Blacks |
| C. | Whites |
| D. | Indians |
| Answer» C. Whites | |
| 10. |
‘That I laugh like I’ve got gold mines’ This line suggests Angelou’s identification as a ………. |
| A. | Woman |
| B. | Black |
| C. | Revolutionary |
| D. | Poet |
| Answer» B. Black | |
| 11. |
What is the gift of the ancestors? |
| A. | Tradition |
| B. | Slavery |
| C. | Gold mines |
| D. | Tear drops |
| Answer» A. Tradition | |
| 12. |
‘I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide’ means: |
| A. | Deep black tradition |
| B. | Painful past |
| C. | Both 1&2 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Deep black tradition | |
| 13. |
According to Angelou, the White people gifted a ……. history to the black? |
| A. | Attractive |
| B. | Colourful |
| C. | Shameful |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Shameful | |
| 14. |
Angelou tells that the Whites can cut the black with: |
| A. | Word |
| B. | Eyes |
| C. | Hatefulness |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» B. Eyes | |
| 15. |
Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto is known as: |
| A. | Jan Neruda |
| B. | Cesar Vallejo |
| C. | Pablo Neruda |
| D. | Carl Marx |
| Answer» C. Pablo Neruda | |
| 16. |
Who is the writer of the poem- The Portrait in the Rock? |
| A. | Maya Angelou |
| B. | Pablo Neruda |
| C. | Kamala Das |
| D. | Sylvia Plath |
| Answer» B. Pablo Neruda | |
| 17. |
In the early periods of writing, Neruda wrote………. poems |
| A. | Revolutionary |
| B. | Realistic |
| C. | Post colonial |
| D. | Love |
| Answer» D. Love | |
| 18. |
Who is the poet suggested in this poem? |
| A. | Gibran |
| B. | Vallejo |
| C. | Blake |
| D. | Wordsworth |
| Answer» B. Vallejo | |
| 19. |
What does the use of the names of different countries imply? |
| A. | Spreading of the idea |
| B. | War |
| C. | International relations |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» A. Spreading of the idea | |
| 20. |
Which phrase denote the well-read nature of Vallejo? |
| A. | Golden and stony substance |
| B. | Some half opened books |
| C. | His profound silence |
| D. | Changed into stone |
| Answer» B. Some half opened books | |
| 21. |
Among the following, which is not written by Neruda? |
| A. | Hundred Love Song |
| B. | Canto General |
| C. | Book of Questions |
| D. | The Heart of a Woman |
| Answer» D. The Heart of a Woman | |
| 22. |
Neruda left Chile with the banning of ………? |
| A. | Socialism |
| B. | Terrorism |
| C. | Communism |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» C. Communism | |
| 23. |
Cesar Vallejo is a/an ………. Poet |
| A. | Indian |
| B. | American |
| C. | Australian |
| D. | Peruvian |
| Answer» D. Peruvian | |
| 24. |
‘They called him at the door’- Who? |
| A. | Friend |
| B. | Leaders |
| C. | Policemen |
| D. | Government employees |
| Answer» C. Policemen | |
| 25. |
What is the poem The Portrait in the Rock about? |
| A. | Socialism |
| B. | Violation of freedom of expression |
| C. | Women |
| D. | Nazism |
| Answer» B. Violation of freedom of expression | |
| 26. |
‘You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep the spring from coming’ Who said this? |
| A. | Hitler |
| B. | Soldier |
| C. | al- Rubaish |
| D. | Neruda |
| Answer» B. Soldier | |
| 27. |
Golden and stony substance refers to ………,? |
| A. | Ornament |
| B. | Poetry |
| C. | Carved face in the rock |
| D. | Equipment |
| Answer» B. Poetry | |
| 28. |
The word used in the poem to show how the people are restricted from having the freedom of expression is ………? |
| A. | Defied |
| B. | Profound |
| C. | Muffling |
| D. | Exile |
| Answer» C. Muffling | |
| 29. |
‘Changed into stone, he lives in his own country’. What does the line suggest? |
| A. | He lives in the hearts of the people |
| B. | He returned to the country |
| C. | He is still struggling with the autocrats |
| D. | He was released from exile |
| Answer» A. He lives in the hearts of the people | |
| 30. |
What is the meaning of ‘The night of storms’? |
| A. | A turbulent night of fear |
| B. | A night where there was storm |
| C. | A gloomy night |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. A turbulent night of fear | |
| 31. |
Neruda was born in ………..? |
| A. | Peru |
| B. | Canada |
| C. | Chile |
| D. | France |
| Answer» C. Chile | |
| 32. |
Who is the author of Another Woman? |
| A. | Sylvia Plath |
| B. | Kamala Das |
| C. | Imtiaz Dharker |
| D. | Mahaswetha Debi |
| Answer» C. Imtiaz Dharker | |
| 33. |
Which vegetable attracts the woman in the market? |
| A. | Methi |
| B. | Raddish |
| C. | Carrot |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Raddish | |
| 34. |
Whom does the mother-in-law curse for darkening their doors? |
| A. | The woman |
| B. | The woman’s husband |
| C. | The woman’s parents |
| D. | The woman’s brother |
| Answer» C. The woman’s parents | |
| 35. |
“The future she had been born into” suggests: |
| A. | A girl’s own house |
| B. | The house of the husband |
| C. | Profession of a woman |
| D. | Education of a woman |
| Answer» B. The house of the husband | |
| 36. |
‘A brilliant spark’ means? |
| A. | Recovery |
| B. | Patience |
| C. | Escape |
| D. | Struggle |
| Answer» C. Escape | |
| 37. |
In the end, Imtiaz Dharker points her finger against the attitude of the ………? |
| A. | Society |
| B. | In-laws |
| C. | Husband |
| D. | Woman |
| Answer» A. Society | |
| 38. |
What was the only choice left in front of the woman? |
| A. | Escape from the house |
| B. | Commit suicide |
| C. | Go back to her home |
| D. | Quarrel with in-law |
| Answer» B. Commit suicide | |
| 39. |
Imtiaz Dharker was born in…..? |
| A. | India |
| B. | Srilanka |
| C. | Pakistan |
| D. | Nepal |
| Answer» C. Pakistan | |
| 40. |
The poem Another Woman is about………? |
| A. | Violation of human right |
| B. | Socialism |
| C. | Marxism |
| D. | Domestic violence |
| Answer» D. Domestic violence | |
| 41. |
Out of the given points, which is not a matter of Dharker’s poetry? |
| A. | Gender politic |
| B. | Cultural displacement |
| C. | Communal conflicts |
| D. | Terrorism |
| Answer» D. Terrorism | |
| 42. |
The gender issue raised in Another Woman is: |
| A. | Dowry death |
| B. | Poverty |
| C. | Malnutrition |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» D. All the above | |
| 43. |
Imtiaz Dharker was brought up in? |
| A. | India |
| B. | Pakistan |
| C. | South Africa |
| D. | USA |
| Answer» A. India | |
| 44. |
At her in-law’s house, the woman lacks: |
| A. | Voice |
| B. | Choice |
| C. | Proper food |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 45. |
Darken the doors means: |
| A. | Make the door dark |
| B. | Bring misfortune |
| C. | Put fire |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Bring misfortune | |
| 46. |
The Dowry Prohibition Act was implemented in……..? |
| A. | 1972 |
| B. | 1963 |
| C. | 1974 |
| D. | 1961 |
| Answer» D. 1961 | |
| 47. |
Who among the following is not a post-independence poet? |
| A. | Sujatha Bhatt |
| B. | Imtiaz Dharker |
| C. | Kamala Das |
| D. | None of These |
| Answer» D. None of These | |
| 48. |
Poems from Guantanamo is a collection of poems written by: |
| A. | American poet |
| B. | Cuban prisoners |
| C. | Suspected terrorists |
| D. | English poets |
| Answer» C. Suspected terrorists | |
| 49. |
A lyric poem addressed to someone or something is called? |
| A. | Sonnet |
| B. | Ode |
| C. | Epic |
| D. | Ballad |
| Answer» B. Ode | |
| 50. |
Ibrahim al-Rubaish was born in? |
| A. | Kuwait |
| B. | Saudi Arabia |
| C. | Iran |
| D. | Afghanistan |
| Answer» B. Saudi Arabia | |
| 51. |
Ibrahim al-Rubaish’s ode is addressed to? |
| A. | Sea |
| B. | West wind |
| C. | Nightingale |
| D. | Skylark |
| Answer» A. Sea | |
| 52. |
In the poem Ode to the Sea, the narrator is longing to: |
| A. | Meet the family |
| B. | Jump in to the sea |
| C. | Kill the soldiers |
| D. | End the life |
| Answer» A. Meet the family | |
| 53. |
The poet is comparing the calmness of the sea with………? |
| A. | Life |
| B. | Protest |
| C. | Death |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Death | |
| 54. |
According to the narrator, the sea is supporting…..? |
| A. | The prisoner |
| B. | Terrorists |
| C. | The US soldiers |
| D. | Narrator |
| Answer» C. The US soldiers | |
| 55. |
What eats the patience of the narrator in Ode to the Sea ? |
| A. | Bitterness of the sea |
| B. | Bitterness of the prisoners |
| C. | Bitterness of the soldiers |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» A. Bitterness of the sea | |
| 56. |
‘Your calm is like death’ which figure of speech is used here? |
| A. | Alliteration |
| B. | Assonance |
| C. | Metaphor |
| D. | Simile |
| Answer» A. Alliteration | |
| 57. |
What has the divine power of a balm to soothe and heal the wounded hearts? |
| A. | Poetry |
| B. | Speech |
| C. | Prison |
| D. | Medicine |
| Answer» A. Poetry | |
| 58. |
Guantanamo Bay is in: |
| A. | Canada |
| B. | Cuba |
| C. | US |
| D. | UK |
| Answer» B. Cuba | |
| 59. |
Which word is used by the poet to show his anger against the sea? |
| A. | Gentle |
| B. | Mute |
| C. | Deaf |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» D. All of these | |
| 60. |
The prisoners come to the shore usually out of: |
| A. | Their wish |
| B. | Compulsion |
| C. | Both 1&2 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Compulsion | |
| 61. |
According to the narrator what was the gaining of the sea for the last three years? |
| A. | Voyage |
| B. | Dead bodies of the prisoners |
| C. | Poems on sea |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Poems on sea | |
| 62. |
The silence of the sea is compared to: |
| A. | Chain |
| B. | Captivity |
| C. | Poetry |
| D. | Death |
| Answer» D. Death | |
| 63. |
According to the narrator, the sea had colluded with whom? |
| A. | Detainee |
| B. | Faithless |
| C. | God |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» B. Faithless | |
| 64. |
The word kafir means: |
| A. | Faithful |
| B. | Faithless |
| C. | Loving |
| D. | Caring |
| Answer» A. Faithful | |
| 65. |
Ghanashyam is a …….. poem? |
| A. | Realistic |
| B. | Confessional |
| C. | Satirist |
| D. | Romantic |
| Answer» B. Confessional | |
| 66. |
The poem Ghanashyam is written by: |
| A. | Balamani Amma |
| B. | Kamala Das |
| C. | Vijayalakshmi |
| D. | Sugathakumari |
| Answer» B. Kamala Das | |
| 67. |
Kamala Das is comparing Ghanashyam to a……? |
| A. | Skylark |
| B. | Parrot |
| C. | Koel |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Koel | |
| 68. |
Ghanashyam vanishes like a/an: |
| A. | Magician |
| B. | Air |
| C. | Spectral flame |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» C. Spectral flame | |
| 69. |
Kamala Das compares life with: |
| A. | Moisture |
| B. | Drought |
| C. | Death |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» A. Moisture | |
| 70. |
She weaves raiment for Ghanashyam with……….. |
| A. | Song |
| B. | Cotton |
| C. | Silk |
| D. | Words |
| Answer» D. Words | |
| 71. |
Which poetic technique is used to show the narrator’s search for love? |
| A. | Metaphor |
| B. | Simile |
| C. | Rhyme |
| D. | Rhythm |
| Answer» B. Simile | |
| 72. |
The god referred in Ghanashyam is………? |
| A. | Lord Siva |
| B. | Brahma |
| C. | Krishna |
| D. | Indra |
| Answer» C. Krishna | |
| 73. |
With the birth of a child, what does originate? |
| A. | New connection |
| B. | New traps |
| C. | New pains |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» D. All the above | |
| 74. |
In Ghanashyam, death is compared to: |
| A. | Drought |
| B. | Evil |
| C. | Devil |
| D. | Sorrow |
| Answer» A. Drought | |
| 75. |
How does Kamala Das state her search for love? |
| A. | Game |
| B. | Tragic game |
| C. | Pleasure |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Tragic game | |
| 76. |
The poet was led toward Ghanashyam as a/an: |
| A. | Koel |
| B. | Radha |
| C. | Devotee |
| D. | Enchanted fish |
| Answer» D. Enchanted fish | |
| 77. |
When does the wisdom must come? |
| A. | In patience |
| B. | With anger |
| C. | In silence |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» C. In silence | |
| 78. |
More than anything, the narrator loves………..? |
| A. | Her husband |
| B. | The guests |
| C. | Koel |
| D. | The disguise of Krishna |
| Answer» D. The disguise of Krishna | |
| 79. |
‘You came in strange forms’. Who? |
| A. | Husband |
| B. | Childhood friend |
| C. | Ghanashyam |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Ghanashyam | |
| 80. |
‘His ageing body’. Who is referred here? |
| A. | Ghanashyam |
| B. | Madhava Das |
| C. | Krishna |
| D. | Lover |
| Answer» B. Madhava Das | |
| 81. |
What does the narrator in Ghanashyam want to carry in her arms? |
| A. | An infant |
| B. | A child |
| C. | A friend |
| D. | Peace |
| Answer» D. Peace | |
| 82. |
Raiment means: |
| A. | Silk |
| B. | Paper |
| C. | Dress |
| D. | Water |
| Answer» C. Dress | |
| 83. |
Sylvia Plath is a …….. poet? |
| A. | Surrealist |
| B. | Post colonial |
| C. | Confessional |
| D. | Romantic |
| Answer» C. Confessional | |
| 84. |
The word achoo means: |
| A. | Dare |
| B. | Fear |
| C. | Compel |
| D. | It doesn’t have a meaning |
| Answer» D. It doesn’t have a meaning | |
| 85. |
The poem Daddy is against: |
| A. | Autocracy |
| B. | Nazism |
| C. | Terrorism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Nazism | |
| 86. |
Daddy in the poem is a representative of each…….. |
| A. | Italian |
| B. | German |
| C. | Spanish |
| D. | American |
| Answer» B. German | |
| 87. |
What does the black shoe suggest in the poem? |
| A. | Death |
| B. | Violence |
| C. | Male domination |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» C. Male domination | |
| 88. |
In the poem, gray colour denotes …….. |
| A. | Life |
| B. | Vitality |
| C. | Death |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Death | |
| 89. |
The term ‘marble- heavy means: |
| A. | Heaviness of a dead body |
| B. | A huge weight |
| C. | Heavy like marble |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» A. Heaviness of a dead body | |
| 90. |
What does the poet suggest by Freakish Atlantic? |
| A. | Atlantic sea |
| B. | Unpredictable nature of Atlantic |
| C. | Voyages |
| D. | Pirates |
| Answer» B. Unpredictable nature of Atlantic | |
| 91. |
What does ‘engine’ refer to? |
| A. | Machine |
| B. | Weapon |
| C. | German language |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. German language | |
| 92. |
‘Lived like a foot’ is a ……? |
| A. | Simile |
| B. | Metaphor |
| C. | Assimilation |
| D. | Assonance |
| Answer» A. Simile | |
| 93. |
What does the repetition of the word ‘war’ mean? |
| A. | The endless s war |
| B. | The relevance of war |
| C. | The horror of war |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. The horror of war | |
| 94. |
‘Pollack’ is the derogatory slang of…..? |
| A. | British |
| B. | American |
| C. | Polish |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Polish | |
| 95. |
Daddy is famous for the vivid use of ……….. |
| A. | Imagery |
| B. | Alliterartion |
| C. | Rhyme |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» A. Imagery | |
| 96. |
Sylvia Plath is described as a girl with ………. complex. |
| A. | Superiority |
| B. | Inferiorty |
| C. | Electra |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Electra | |
| 97. |
Which book is referred to in the poem ‘Daddy’ to show the Nazi reign? |
| A. | Das Capital |
| B. | Meinkampf |
| C. | The Paradise Lost |
| D. | Odyssey |
| Answer» B. Meinkampf | |
| 98. |
What is Belsen? |
| A. | A place |
| B. | A Nazi leader |
| C. | Name of a concentration camp |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Name of a concentration camp | |
| 99. |
Sylvia Plath was born in? |
| A. | Moscow |
| B. | Boston |
| C. | Paris |
| D. | Cambridge |
| Answer» B. Boston | |
| 100. |
The word pandemonium means--- |
| A. | A noisy place |
| B. | A calm place |
| C. | A garden |
| D. | A seashore |
| Answer» A. A noisy place | |
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