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1. |
Who wrote “the story of an hour”? |
A. | Sharankumar Limbale |
B. | Lee Mokobe |
C. | Mr. Richard |
D. | Kate Chopin |
Answer» D. Kate Chopin |
2. |
Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with ____________ |
A. | Cancer |
B. | TB |
C. | heart trouble |
D. | Jaundice |
Answer» C. heart trouble |
3. |
Who is Josephine in the short story “ The story of an hour”? |
A. | Mrs. Mallard's cousin |
B. | Mrs. Mallard's sister |
C. | Mrs. Mallard's daughter |
D. | Mrs. Mallard's mother |
Answer» B. Mrs. Mallard's sister |
4. |
What is Mr. Mallard's friend name in the short story “The story of an hour”? |
A. | Mr. Joseph |
B. | Mr. Richard |
C. | Mr. Raphael |
D. | Mr. John |
Answer» B. Mr. Richard |
5. |
Where did Mrs. Mallard went, when she heard the news of her husband's death? |
A. | To her Room |
B. | to bath room |
C. | to prayer-room |
D. | to kitchen |
Answer» A. To her Room |
6. |
Kate Chopin's first novel? |
A. | The awakening |
B. | The dragon seed |
C. | At Fault |
D. | The slave |
Answer» C. At Fault |
7. |
Kate chopin's At Fault published in ___________. |
A. | 1984 |
B. | 1989 |
C. | 1979 |
D. | 1980 |
Answer» D. 1980 |
8. |
In which magazine “The story of an hour” first published? |
A. | The Common Woman |
B. | Vogue |
C. | The New Yorker |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Vogue |
9. |
“The story of an hour” first published as ________________ |
A. | The Dream of an hour |
B. | The Story of Dream |
C. | An Hour of Dream |
D. | The Story in an Hour |
Answer» A. The Dream of an hour |
10. |
Who is the protagonist of the short story “The story of an hour”? |
A. | Josephine |
B. | Mr. Mallard |
C. | Mr. Richard |
D. | Lousie |
Answer» D. Lousie |
11. |
Who told the news of Mr. Mallard's death to his wife? |
A. | Mr. Richard |
B. | Josephine |
C. | Mr. Mallard |
D. | Lousie |
Answer» B. Josephine |
12. |
Who told the news of Mr. Mallard's death to Josephine? |
A. | Mr. Richard |
B. | Mr. Mallard |
C. | Lousie |
D. | Josephine |
Answer» A. Mr. Richard |
13. |
Richard had been in the ____________ office when intelligence of the rail road disaster was received? |
A. | Police station |
B. | Post office |
C. | Bus stop |
D. | Newspaper office |
Answer» D. Newspaper office |
14. |
In the short story “The story of an hour” the open window is a symbol of__________. |
A. | Peace |
B. | Agony |
C. | Freedom |
D. | Sorrow |
Answer» C. Freedom |
15. |
who is the author of the poem “ What it's like to be Transgender”? |
A. | Adrienne Rich |
B. | Kate Chopin |
C. | W. H. Auden |
D. | Lee Mokobe |
Answer» D. Lee Mokobe |
16. |
Name of the poem which is about extreme right wing politics of Donald Trump? |
A. | Refugee Blue |
B. | The not yet burning country |
C. | What it's like to be Transgender |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. The not yet burning country |
17. |
“What it's like to be Transgender” is a/an __________________ poem. |
A. | Elegy |
B. | Love poem |
C. | Autobiographical poem |
D. | Sonnet |
Answer» C. Autobiographical poem |
18. |
In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” What does the poet ask to the Jesus? |
A. | to make him popular |
B. | To fix him |
C. | To give him wealth |
D. | To grand him money |
Answer» B. To fix him |
19. |
In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” what was Jesus's response to the poets prayer? |
A. | Granted him all |
B. | fixed him |
C. | Silence |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. Silence |
20. |
Who reminds the poet that he could not bring a husband to his home? |
A. | His friend |
B. | His Aunt |
C. | His mother |
D. | His Uncle |
Answer» B. His Aunt |
21. |
In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” What does the kids at school called him? |
A. | Lesbian |
B. | silly boy |
C. | smuggler |
D. | thief |
Answer» A. Lesbian |
22. |
In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” the poet treat his body like a ___________. |
A. | workshop |
B. | church |
C. | House |
D. | Ideal place |
Answer» C. House |
23. |
In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” where did the speaker make his first prayer? |
A. | In the garden |
B. | From the school |
C. | In his house |
D. | In a glass stain cathedral |
Answer» D. In a glass stain cathedral |
24. |
Who is the Olympic Gold winner athlete in decathlon in the 1976 Montreal Olympics mentioned in the poem “What it's like to be Transgender”? |
A. | Mya Hall |
B. | Leelah Alcorn |
C. | Bruce Jenner |
D. | Blake Brockington |
Answer» C. Bruce Jenner |
25. |
Who called the speaker “Lesbian” in the poem “What it's like to be Transgender”? |
A. | Kid |
B. | Teachers |
C. | Parents |
D. | Principal |
Answer» A. Kid |
26. |
Identify the figure of speech in the line 'My tiny body dropping like a question mark all over the wooden pew.' |
A. | Metaphor |
B. | Simile |
C. | Hyperbole |
D. | Alliteration |
Answer» B. Simile |
27. |
Who is the founder of Vocal revolutionaries? |
A. | Lee Mokobe |
B. | W. H. Auden |
C. | Nadine Gordimer |
D. | Gieve Patel |
Answer» A. Lee Mokobe |
28. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues” people were living in. |
A. | Place |
B. | Mansions and Holes |
C. | Hut |
D. | Big Hotels |
Answer» B. Mansions and Holes |
29. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues” What does the old yew do every spring? |
A. | It blossom |
B. | It dries |
C. | It |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. It blossom |
30. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues” What was the refugee offered by the committee? |
A. | a new passport |
B. | a gift |
C. | a cup of tea |
D. | a chair |
Answer» D. a chair |
31. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues”Which animal was let into an opened door? |
A. | a dog |
B. | a squirrel |
C. | a cat |
D. | a puppy |
Answer» C. a cat |
32. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the narrator see at the harbour? |
A. | crow |
B. | ship |
C. | Fish |
D. | person |
Answer» C. Fish |
33. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the refugee see in the woods? |
A. | Cheetah |
B. | Birds |
C. | Spider |
D. | Monkey |
Answer» B. Birds |
34. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the refugee see in his dream? |
A. | heaven |
B. | a thousands of building |
C. | a beautiful fairy |
D. | an old man |
Answer» B. a thousands of building |
35. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues”Who is looking for the refugees? |
A. | Parent |
B. | Cousins |
C. | Soldiers |
D. | Colleagues |
Answer» C. Soldiers |
36. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues” you are ‘officially dead’ if you haven’t got a ________________. |
A. | Birth certificate |
B. | Driver’s license |
C. | Passport |
D. | Country |
Answer» C. Passport |
37. |
In the poem “Refugee Blues” the speaker at the public meeting worried that the refugees will steal? |
A. | Money |
B. | Wealth |
C. | Daily bread |
D. | House |
Answer» C. Daily bread |
38. |
The speech entitled “Calming an Education” is first printed in the magazine __________ |
A. | Time |
B. | Vogue |
C. | The New Yorker |
D. | The Common Woman |
Answer» D. The Common Woman |
39. |
Who was the author of “Jane Eyre”? |
A. | Charlotte Bronte |
B. | Emily Bronte |
C. | Jane Austen |
D. | Nadine Gordimer |
Answer» A. Charlotte Bronte |
40. |
“Calming an Education”, the convocation speech delivered to ____________ college. |
A. | Edinburg |
B. | Douglass |
C. | Abbey |
D. | Bishop Burton |
Answer» B. Douglass |
41. |
“Calming an Education” the convocation speech delivered to whom? |
A. | Graduating women student |
B. | public |
C. | all women |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. Graduating women student |
42. |
A tendency to look to a style, activity or interest for a very short span of time is called_________. |
A. | Faddism |
B. | Grappling |
C. | Slapdash |
D. | Drifting |
Answer» A. Faddism |
43. |
Adrienne Rich won Yale series of younger poets award for her book named _________. |
A. | The Diamond Cutter |
B. | A Change Of World |
C. | Diving into Wreck |
D. | Ruins |
Answer» B. A Change Of World |
44. |
Adrienne Rich won National Book Award for __________. |
A. | The Diamond Cutter |
B. | A Change Of World |
C. | Ruins |
D. | Diving into the Wreck |
Answer» D. Diving into the Wreck |
45. |
Adrienne Rich's second collection of poetry is _______________. |
A. | The Diamond Cutter |
B. | A Change Of World |
C. | Diving into Wreck |
D. | Ruins |
Answer» A. The Diamond Cutter |
46. |
Who was headed the Jury for giving the Yale series of younger poet's award to Adrienne Rich? |
A. | William Blake |
B. | P. B. Shelley |
C. | W. H. Auden |
D. | Robert Frost |
Answer» C. W. H. Auden |
47. |
Adrienne Rich's work ' Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law' published in _________ year. |
A. | 1963 |
B. | 1965 |
C. | 1983 |
D. | 1985 |
Answer» A. 1963 |
48. |
Who is the author of “An Atlas of the Early World”? |
A. | W. H. Auden |
B. | Adrienne Rich |
C. | P. B. Shelley |
D. | Robert Frost |
Answer» B. Adrienne Rich |
49. |
According to Adrienne Rich, intelligent woman, who denies her intelligence in order to seem more _________. |
A. | Feminine |
B. | energetic |
C. | strong |
D. | polite |
Answer» A. Feminine |
50. |
Adrienne Rich planned to separate her remarks in her speech “claiming an education” into how many parts? |
A. | Three |
B. | Five |
C. | Four |
D. | Two |
Answer» D. Two |
51. |
According to Adrienne Rich, university education implies an ethical and intellectual contract between whom? |
A. | Parents and teacher |
B. | Parents and children |
C. | Teachers and students |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. Teachers and students |
52. |
According to Adrienne Rich, many male professors still feel that teaching in a women's college is a __________ career. |
A. | First- rate |
B. | Main- rate |
C. | Second- rate |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. Second- rate |
53. |
Adrienne Rich refused to accept the ________________ award in1997. |
A. | National Booker Award |
B. | National Medal for the Arts |
C. | The Yale series of younger poet's award |
D. | Booker Prize |
Answer» B. National Medal for the Arts |
54. |
How many volume of prose Adrienne Rich published? |
A. | 3 |
B. | 4 |
C. | 5 |
D. | 6 |
Answer» C. 5 |
55. |
Adrienne Rich refused to accept the National Medal for the Arts award from whom? |
A. | President |
B. | President Clinton |
C. | President Trump |
D. | President |
Answer» B. President Clinton |
56. |
Whose convocation speech is “Calming an Education”? |
A. | Adrienne Rich |
B. | Nadine Gordimer |
C. | Lee Mokobe |
D. | Gieve Patel |
Answer» A. Adrienne Rich |
57. |
According to Adrienne Rich, ultimately the women students and their teachers are ____________. |
A. | Invisible |
B. | Indivisible |
C. | divisible |
D. | none of these |
Answer» B. Indivisible |
58. |
How many honorary doctorates has been awarded to Nadine Gordimer in literature from various universities. |
A. | 7 |
B. | 10 |
C. | 8 |
D. | 9 |
Answer» B. 10 |
59. |
Whose work is “The Conservationist”? |
A. | Nadine Gordimer |
B. | Lee Mokobe |
C. | Gieve Patel |
D. | Nadine Gordimer |
Answer» D. Nadine Gordimer |
60. |
“Amnesty”, a short story originally published in ____________ in 1991. |
A. | Vogue |
B. | The New Yorker |
C. | The Common Woman |
D. | Times |
Answer» B. The New Yorker |
61. |
In the short story “Amnesty” the narrator's life partner work in a ___________ . |
A. | Industry |
B. | Construction company |
C. | Farm |
D. | Shop |
Answer» B. Construction company |
62. |
In the short story “Amnesty” by time of the trail of narrator's potential husband she had just passed her __________standard |
A. | Tenth |
B. | Sixth |
C. | Eighth |
D. | Fifth |
Answer» C. Eighth |
63. |
In the short story “Amnesty” how many brothers does the narrator have? |
A. | Two |
B. | Three |
C. | Four |
D. | One |
Answer» B. Three |
64. |
In the short story “Amnesty”what did the the prisoners give the narrator as a present for the new born baby? |
A. | Doll |
B. | Money |
C. | Gift |
D. | Dress |
Answer» B. Money |
65. |
In the short story “Amnesty” the policeman didn't allow them to the island because? |
A. | they didn’t have passport |
B. | they didn't have a prior permit |
C. | they didn't took ticket |
D. | none of the above |
Answer» B. they didn't have a prior permit |
66. |
Sharankumar Limbale is best known for his novel ___________. |
A. | Akkarmashi |
B. | Joothan |
C. | Face to Face |
D. | The pickup |
Answer» A. Akkarmashi |
67. |
Sharankumar Limbale's novel Akkarmashi is published in _________. |
A. | 1981 |
B. | 1984 |
C. | 1987 |
D. | 1982 |
Answer» B. 1984 |
68. |
Who translated Sharankumar Limbale's novel Akkarmashi into English? |
A. | Radhika P. Menon |
B. | Anitha Nair |
C. | Santosh Thooval |
D. | Santosh Bhoomkar |
Answer» D. Santosh Bhoomkar |
69. |
Sharankumar Limbale's novel 'Akkarmashi' originally written in __________ language. |
A. | Tamil |
B. | Malayalam |
C. | Hindi |
D. | Marathi |
Answer» D. Marathi |
70. |
In the extract “the outcaste” who pulled Parshya from the picnic row? |
A. | Mallya |
B. | Harya |
C. | Bhiwarabai |
D. | Parsya |
Answer» C. Bhiwarabai |
71. |
In the extract “the outcaste” who looked restless along the bank of the stream? |
A. | Parsya |
B. | Bhiwarabai |
C. | Harya |
D. | Umbrya |
Answer» C. Harya |
72. |
In the extract “the outcaste” The Wani and Brahmin boys played _________. |
A. | Football |
B. | Cricket |
C. | Kabbadi |
D. | Touch and Go |
Answer» C. Kabbadi |
73. |
In the extract “the outcaste” Mahar boys and girls played _____________. |
A. | Touch and Go |
B. | Kabbadi |
C. | Football |
D. | Cricket |
Answer» A. Touch and Go |
74. |
In the extract “the outcaste” what did the high caste ones do before eating? |
A. | sit quietly |
B. | look here and there |
C. | nothing |
D. | pray |
Answer» D. pray |
75. |
In the extract “the outcaste” what did the Mahar caste brought for the picnic? |
A. | rice and curry |
B. | bread and butter |
C. | Jowar bhakari and chutney |
D. | nothing |
Answer» C. Jowar bhakari and chutney |
76. |
In the extract “the outcaste” what did the high caste girls offered the Mahar caste? |
A. | gift |
B. | their leftover food |
C. | books |
D. | cloths |
Answer» B. their leftover food |
77. |
In the extract “the outcaste” the mother of the narrator looks the leftover food as___________. |
A. | Nectar |
B. | Waste |
C. | Gift |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. Nectar |
78. |
In the extract “the outcaste” What did the teacher ask the students to do the day after the picnic? |
A. | to write a summary |
B. | to write an essay |
C. | to write a letter |
D. | to write an experience |
Answer» B. to write an essay |
79. |
Harari thinks that human happiness is the result of processes taking place in the ______. |
A. | human heart |
B. | human mind |
C. | human thought |
D. | human brain. |
Answer» D. human brain. |
80. |
From which work is the extract “Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life” taken |
A. | Joothan |
B. | ho*mo Deus |
C. | The poisoned Bread |
D. | ho*mo sapiens |
Answer» D. ho*mo sapiens |
81. |
In which subject did Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize |
A. | humanitie |
B. | language and literature |
C. | Economic Studies |
D. | medicine |
Answer» C. Economic Studies |
82. |
Prozac is lift people out of _____________ |
A. | illnes |
B. | happiness |
C. | depression |
D. | none of the these |
Answer» C. depression |
83. |
According to Harari, what is the level of happiness of a medieval French peasant versus a modern Parisian banker? |
A. | different |
B. | more than peasant |
C. | same |
D. | more than banker |
Answer» C. same |
84. |
In the extract “Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life”, Most parents declare that their children are their chief source of _____________ |
A. | blessing |
B. | happiness. |
C. | sadness |
D. | headache |
Answer» B. happiness. |
85. |
Pearl S.buck won Pulitzer prize for her novel_______. |
A. | East wind, west wind |
B. | The Good Earth |
C. | The Dragon seed |
D. | The Christmas ghost |
Answer» A. East wind, west wind |
86. |
Who said “ my life is my message? |
A. | Mahatma gandhi |
B. | Nehru |
C. | Einstein |
D. | None |
Answer» A. Mahatma gandhi |
87. |
Who is Gandhi’s murderer? |
A. | Naturam Vinayak Godse |
B. | Sardar Vallabhai Patel |
C. | V |
D. | Savarkar d. S V Gokhale |
Answer» A. Naturam Vinayak Godse |
88. |
Pearl S buck’s essay ‘Should the Assassin of Gandhi be Killed’ is a ______ |
A. | Satire |
B. | Editorial |
C. | Letter |
D. | Obituary |
Answer» D. Obituary |
89. |
Men wind confusion because they fear ____ |
A. | Violence |
B. | Truth |
C. | People |
D. | Gandhi |
Answer» B. Truth |
90. |
Who says, “No war brings peace, for violence only brings more violence .”? |
A. | Gandhi |
B. | Nehru |
C. | Pearl.S buck |
D. | Godse |
Answer» C. Pearl.S buck |
91. |
Who should take up Gandhi’s world leadership? |
A. | Nehru |
B. | People of India |
C. | Pearl S buck |
D. | All of the above |
Answer» B. People of India |
92. |
When did India adopt a new constitution? |
A. | 26th Jan 1950 |
B. | 15th August 1947 |
C. | 3 November 1947 |
D. | 20th June 1967 |
Answer» A. 26th Jan 1950 |
93. |
Drafting committee comprise of ___members |
A. | 10 |
B. | 8 |
C. | 7 |
D. | 5 |
Answer» C. 7 |
94. |
The criticism against the Constitution was that it is _____ |
A. | Not seriou |
B. | Incomplete |
C. | Nonsensical |
D. | A bag of borrowings |
Answer» D. A bag of borrowings |
95. |
The tradition of preamble began with ______ |
A. | France |
B. | Africa |
C. | America |
D. | Greece |
Answer» C. America |
96. |
Manto was an ____author. |
A. | Indian |
B. | Pakistani |
C. | Indo- Pakistani |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» C. Indo- Pakistani |
97. |
Most of his writing were originally written in _____. |
A. | Urdu |
B. | English |
C. | Regional language |
D. | Marati |
Answer» A. Urdu |
98. |
Toba means ____in Punjab. |
A. | Kind |
B. | Cruel |
C. | Mad |
D. | Pond |
Answer» D. Pond |
99. |
Which inmate of the lunatic asylum mourned over his lost love? |
A. | Bishan Singh |
B. | Mohammed Ali |
C. | A lawyer |
D. | A sweeper |
Answer» C. A lawyer |
100. |
Who were worried about eating Chapatis? |
A. | Taralal |
B. | Fazal Din |
C. | Anglo Indians |
D. | Pakistanis |
Answer» C. Anglo Indians |
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