Assignment for Indian Writing in English

Teacher Bhaskar Gogoi

GROUP A
History of Indian Writing in English

Multiple Choice Questions -

1) My country, in thy days of glory past.

A beauteous halo circled round thy brow.
These lines appear in the poem of -
a) Madhusudan Dutt
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Henry. L. V. Derozio

2) Whose father was Govin Chunder, a good linguist and a cultured man, who
converted to Christianity in 1862?
a) Romesh Chunder Dutt
b) Toru Dutt
c) Manmohan Ghosh

3) Which novel of Romesh Chunder Dutt portrays 17 th Century Agra?

a) Todar Mull
b) The Lake of Palms
c) The Slave Girl

4) Whose lines are these? Into that heaven of Freedom my father let my country
awake.
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Kamala Markandaya
c) Sri Aurobindo

5) Which work of Sri Aurobindo is a translation of Kalidasas Vikramorvasiya?

a) Urvasie
b) Love and Death
c) The Hero and the Nymph

6) Sarojini Naidus second volume of poems The Bird of Time came out in
a) 1915
b) 1912
c) 1910

7) No, not only prophets / Walk on water . These lines are taken from which of
Ramanujans poem?
a) The Striders
b) Obituary
c) Beaded Fish

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8) Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is a critique of the man woman relationship in
modern society?
a) Poet , Lover , Birdwatcher
b) Woman and Child
c) Island

9) Which writer has won the PENs Asian Poetry Prize?

a) A. K. Ramanujan
b) Shiv K. Kumar
c) Kamala Das

10) My Story is the autobiography of

a) Swami Vivekananda
b) Kamala Das
c) Anita Desai

11) Which is the latest book of verse of Shiv K. Kumar?

a) Woolgathering
b) Woodpeckers
c) Cobwebs in the Sun

12) Which poet has described his poetry as a totally impressionistic recording of
subjective responses?
a) Adil Jussawalla
b) Keki. N. Daruwalla
c) A. K. Ramanujan

13) To live in Tamil Nadu is to be conscious everyday of an importance. This line

appears in which poem of R. Parthasarthy?
a) Homecoming
b) Delhi
c) The Mountain

14) Who among the following poets was a Parsi educated at Anglian School in
Bombay?
a) Jayanta Mahapatra
b) Arun Kolatkar
c) Adil Jussawalla

15) Which work of Jayanta Mahapatra won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in
1981?
a) Relationship
b) The False Start
c) Waiting

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16) his wife has dismissed/ the waves like a queen/ a band of oiled acrobats.
These lines have been composed by
a) K. N. Daruwalla
b) Mamta Kalia
c) Arun Kolatkar

17) The play entitled Nala and Damayanti has been written by
a) Sri Aurobindo
b) P.A. Krishnaswamy
c) Vasudeva Rao

18) Which play of Tagore has Prakriti, the untouchable girl as the central
character?
a) Chandalika
b) The Ascetic
c) Scarifice

19) The play Naga Mandala has been written by

a) Vijay Tendulkar
b) Girish Karnad
c) Rabindranath Tagore

20) Which novel of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee gave the Indians their national
anthem Vande Mataram?
a) Durgesh Nandini
b) Anand Math
c) Rajmohans Wife

21) You have no caste, you make no distinctions and have no hatred you are
the only image of our welfare. These lines appear in Tagores work
a) Gora
b) The Wreck
c) Chitra

22) Which of the following is not a work of R.K Narayan?

a) The Guide
b) The Bachelor of Arts
c) The Post Office

23) Which is the first novel of Mulk Raj Anand?

a) Two Leaves and a Bud
b) Untouchable
c) Coolie

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24) Which novel of Bhabani Bhattacharya is described as a modern fable of India

at the time of Independence?
a) Music for Mohini
b) So Many Hungers
c) A Goddess Named Gold

25) The collection of short stories titled Games at Twilight and Other Stories has
been written by
a) Shashi Deshpande
b) Anita Desai
c) Rama Mehta

26) Selective Memory is the autobiography of

a) Nayantara Sahgal
b) Kamala Das
c) Shobha De

27) Who is the first Asian writer to win an individual Pulitzer Prize, Americas
ultimate literary accolade?
a) Pearl S. Buck
b) Jhumpa Lahiri
c) Nayantara Sahgal

28) Which novel of Salman Rushdie has won the Booker Prize as well as the James
Tait Black Memorial Prize?
a) The Moor Last Sigh
b) Grimus
c) Midnights Children

29) Amitav Ghoshs novel The Shadow Lines tell the story of three generations of
the narratorsfamily spread over
a) Calcutta, Dhaka and London
b) Delhi, Dhaka and London
c) Calcutta, Dhaka and Delhi

30) The Great Indian Novel has been written by

a) Shashi Tharoor
b) Ruskin Bond
c) Upamanyu Chatterjee