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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