What
is “Forster Collection”?
1
Memorabilia and documents related to the Scottish War of Independence
(1296-1328) housed in Glasgow Museum
2
The special collection of E. M. Forster effects housed in King’s College,
Cambridge
3
The largest collection of Charles Dickens manuscripts and proofs curated by
John Forster
4The
collection of political and military documents named after the liberal M. P.,
W. E. Forster reputed for the Forster Education Act
Ans:3
An
Indian English poet once remarked that his discipline and education gave him
his “outer” whereas his Indian origin gave him “inner” form. Reflecting a part
of this claim is a famous essay he called __________ .
A.
“Is
There a Native Way of Thinking?”
B.
“Can
the Subaltern Speak?”
C.
“Where
Do We Go from Here: Some Speculations”
D.
“Is
There an Indian Way of Thinking?”
Ans:B
56. Who is the author of Raj?
(a) Geeta Mehta
(b) Rama Mehta
(c) Shobha De
(d) Nargis Dalai
Ans:A
57. Dominique Lapierre wrote an
appealing account of the sordid squalor of an Indian city. Identify the city.
(a) Calcutta
(b) Bombay
(c) Udaipur
(d) Delhi
Ans:A
58. Who is the author of
following poems?
"The Gift of
India", "Bangle-seller",
"The Anthem of
Love", "Palanquin Bearers"
(a) Kamala Das
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Toru Dutt
(d) Nissim Ezekiel
Ans:b
59. Who wrote the hard-hitting
poem "Sita
Speak" indicating
the society for the injustice meted out to women down the ages
(a) Bina Agarwal
(b) Kamala Das
(c) P. Lai
(d) Sarojini Naidu
Ans:A
60. In which of the following
poems of Ezekiel do we get a moving picture of a mother's suffering ?
(a) 'The Couple'
(b) 'Night of the
Scorpion'
(c) 'The Visitor'
(d) 'Philosophy'
61. Who is the author of Two
Virgins?
(a) Kamala Markandaya
(b) Kamala Das
(c) Anita Desai
(d) Shastri Deshpande
Ans:A
62. Name the Indo-English
novelist who wrote A Suitable Boy.
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Amitav Ghose
(c) Upamanyu Chatterjee
(d) Anita Desai
Ans:A
63. Two Indian writers living
abroad created furor - one was Vikram Seth who got an unprecedented amount as
an advance for his novel, the other who came under 'fatwa', for one of his
controversial novels, issued by Muslim countries, was
(a) Amitav Ghose
(b) Bharati Mukherjee
(c) Anita Desai
(d) Salman Rushdie
64. Name Salman Rushdie's latest Novel.
(a) The Moor's Last Sigh
(b) Fury
(c) The Ground beneath
Her Feet
(d) Satanic Verses
Ans: (b) Fury
65. Of the following novels one does not portray the Gandhian Age and
the impact of Gandhi. Which one?
(a) K.A. Abbas's Inquilab
(b) Venu Chitale's In
Transit
(c) R.K. Narayan's The
Dark Room
(d) K. Nagarajan's
Chronicles of Kedaram
66. Who is the author of the following books: The Foreigner, The
Apprentice, The Last Labyrinth, The City and the River?
(a) Ruth P. Jhabvala
(b) Amitav Ghose
(c) Dom Moraes
(d) Arun Joshi
65. Of the following novels one does not portray the Gandhian Age and
the impact of Gandhi. Which one?
(a) K.A. Abbas's Inquilab
(b) Venu Chitale's In
Transit
(c) R.K. Narayan's The
Dark Room
(d) K. Nagarajan's
Chronicles of Kedaram
Ans:D
67. Whose collections of poems are these: A Time to Change, Sixty
Poems, The Third, The Unfinished Man?
(a) P. Lai
(b) Nissim Ezekiel
(c) Kamala Das
(d) Bina Aggarwal
Ans:B
68. Listed below are the works of Bhabani Bhattacharya of which only
one is his collection of short stories. Identify it.
(a) So Many Hungers
(b) A Dream in Hawaii
(c) Sea Hawk
(d) Shadow from Ladakh
Ans:c
69. Baumgartner's Bombay is a novel about a German Jew who remains an
outsider all his life, in his country because he is a Jew and in India, where
he is a firangi. Who wrote this moving novel?
(a) Vikram Seth
(b) Anita Desai
(c) Nayantara Sehgal
(d) Ruth P. Jhabvala
Ans:B
70. In which novel does R.K. Narayan focus on family planning?
(a) The Guide
(b) Mr. Sampath
(c) Bachelor of Arts
(d) The Painter of Signs
71. In the Guide we come across a dancer. What is her name?
(a) Daisy
(b) Bharati
(c) Rosie
(d) Savitri
Ans:C
72. Who wrote these lines?
"Woman is the earth, air,
ether, sound; woman is the microcosm of the mind "?
(a) Raja Rao
(b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Kamala Markandaya
(d) Kamala Das
Ans:A
73. Arthur Symons wrote about this person, "All the life of the
tiny figure seemed to concentrate itself in the eyes: they turned towards
beauty as the sunflower turns towards the sun." Who is the person referred
to?
(a) Toru Dutt
(b) Aru Dutt
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Ans:C
74. H.A.L. Fisher wrote about this person,".... this child of the
green valley of the Ganges has by sheer force of native genius earned for
herself the right to be enrolled in the great fellowship of English
poets." Who is the poet?
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Toru Dutt
(c) Michael Madhusudan
(d) Manmohan Ghose
Ans:B
75. An Indo-English poet once remarked that his disciplines (i.e.,
linguistics and anthropology) and his education give him his "Outer"
form, whereas his Indian origin, first thirty years in India and knowledge of
Kannada and Tamil give him his "inner" form. Who said this?
(a) A.K. Ramanujan
(b) Kamala Das
(c) Gieve Patel
(d) Raja Gopal
Parthasarathy
76. Who wrote Jejuri the Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner work?
(a) Shiv K. Kumar
(b) Arun Kolatkar
(c) Keki N. Daruwala
(d) Jayant Mahapatra
77. In which of Anita Desai's novel an insane wife kills her husband?
(a) Voices in The City
(b) In Custody
(c) Cry, The Peacock
(d) Baumgartner's Bombay
Ans:c
(a) Voices in The City
(b) In Custody
(c) Cry, The Peacock
(d) Baumgartner's Bombay
Ans:c
78. In which novel does the hero sing the refrain?
"This is the machine
age, sons
This is the machine age
We are the men who will
master it"?
(a) The Big Heart
(b) The Sword and The
Sickle
(c) Two Leaves and a Bud
(d) The Road
Ans:A
79. Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Academi Award for
English literature?
(a) Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Nayantara Sehgal
(c) R.K. Narayan
(d) Raja Rao
Ans:C
80. Following novels except one, describe the condition of Westners
living in India. Mark the one which does not.
(a) Heat and Dust
(b) The Princess
(c) Coffer Dam
(d) A Passage to India
81. Which of the following novels focuses on the question of rape?
(a) The Bending Vine
(b) Voices in The City
(c) Some Inner Fury
(d) A Time to Be Happy
Ans:A
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