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 AMITAV GHOSH (B-1956)

1⃣- Which one of the following awards was NOT conferred on Amitav Ghosh?

A) Jnanpith Award

B) Ananda Puraskar

C) Dan David Prize

D) Padma Vibhusan

ANS-1⃣: -D ✅

• The Ananda Puraskar (literally Ananda Award) is an award for Bengali literature
awarded annually by the ABP Group to writers using Bengali, usually from West
Bengal, India. ✅
• The Dan David Prize is awarded for innovative and interdisciplinary research.
Prize laureates donate 10 percent of their prize money to doctoral scholarships for
outstanding Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholarships for outstanding
researchers in their own field from around the world.✅

2⃣ Which one of the following is a debut novel written by Amitav Ghosh?

A) The Shadow Lines

B) The Circle of Reason

C) The Glass Palace

D) The Calcutta Chromosome

ANS-2⃣:- B✅

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's
first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or
failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future.✅

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3⃣ Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT about Ghose's novel
"The Circle of Reason"?

A) The central character of the story is an eight year old boy, Alu

B) The book is divided into three sections namely, "Satva", "Rajas" & "Tamas"

C) It is a picaresque tale

D) It was published in 1987

� ANS-3⃣:- D ✅

It was published in 1986. ✅

4⃣ Q & A is a novel by____

A) Navtej Saran

B) Amitav Ghosh

C) Vikas Swarup

D) Shashi Tharoor

� ANS-4:- C ✅

5⃣ Amitav Ghosh has won the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel ___

A) The Circle of Reason

B) The Shadow Lines

C) The Calcutta Chromosome

D) Antique Land

� ANS-5⃣:- B ✅

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6⃣ In "The Shadow Lines", what triggered the riots in 1964?

A) Theft at Hazratbal Mosque in Srinagar

B) Theft at Khulna in East Pakistan

C) Hindu-Muslim enmity in Calcutta

D) Hindu-Muslim enmity in Dhaka

� ANS-6:- A ✅

The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events like the Swadeshi movement,

Second World War, Partition of India and Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and

Calcutta. ✅

7⃣ Amitav Ghosh's novel "The Shadow Lines" was translated into Gujarati by
Shalini Topiwala under the title_____

A) Prakash Rekhao

B) Chhaya Rekhao

C) Aabhasi Rekhao

D) Jankhi Rekhao

ANS-7⃣:- B ✅

8⃣ Which one of the following statements about "The Shadow Lines" is incorrect?

A) The Shadow Lines won Anand Puraskar

B) It is Split into two parts 'Going Away' & 'Coming Home'

C) The novel's protagonist, Tridib, dies at the end of the novel

D) The narrator gets married with Ila

� Ans-8⃣:- D✅

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� Ila is the narrator's cousin who lives in Stockwell, London. The narrator is in love with
her, but she marries Nick.✅

� Tridib is in love with May and sacrificed his life to rescue her from mobs in the
communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka. ✅

9⃣ "Why do you always speak for that whore?"~ This line is said by____

A) Tridib

B) Tha'mma

C) Mayadebi

D) Jethamoshai

� ANS-9⃣:- B ✅

� Tha'mma does not like Ila; she continually asks the narrator "Why do you always speak
for that whore?" ✅

1⃣0 Amitav Ghosh won the Jnanpith Award in the year____.

A) 1989

B) 2009

C) 2016

D) 2018

� ANS-1⃣0 :-D ✅

1⃣1 Which one of the following works opens with the beginning line, "The Slave of
Ms.H. 6 first stepped upon the stage of modern history in 1942"?

A) The Calcutta Chromosome

B) The Glass Palace

C) The Hungry Tide

D) In an Antique Land

� ANS-1⃣1 -D ✅
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1⃣2 Ghose's novel, "The Calcutta Chromosome" is set in____.

A) Calcutta & Dhakka

B) Calcutta & Bombay

C) Calcutta & New York

D) London & Paris

� ANS-1⃣2 -C ✅

� It is set in 1990s Calcutta and New York City at some unspecified time in the future. ✅

1⃣3 Which one of the following novels does NOT belong to the category of science
fiction?

A) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

B) Frankenstein

C) Under the Net

D) The Calcutta Chromosome

� ANS-1⃣3 C ✅

� Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is written by Jules Verne ✅

� 'Under the Net' is a picaresque novel written by Irish Murdoch. ✅

1⃣4 Which one of the following statements about 'The Calcutta Chromosome' is
incorrect?

A) The novel is based on Sir Ronald Ross' memoirs

B) The novel was the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke award

C) Silencer is a recurring theme in the novel

D) The tale of Ronald Rose is narrated by Antar

� ANS-1⃣4 D✅
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Sir Ronald Rose, the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who found out that malaria is spread
through mosquitoes. Much of his research is spoken about. He conducted his experiments
on a man called 'Lutchman.' His tale is narrated by Murugan. ✅

1⃣5 What is Antar investigating in the novel?

A) The cause of malaria

B) The research on Ronald Rose

C) The disappearance of Murugan

D) He conducted his experiments on a man called 'Lutchman.'

� ANS-1⃣5 -C ✅

1⃣6 Ghose's novel, 'The Glass Palace' is divided into____parts.

A) Two

B) Three

C) Seven

D) Nine

� ANS-1⃣6 C ✅

� SEVEN PARTS �

1) Mandalay

2) Ratnagiri

3) The Money Tree

4) The Wedding

5) Morning side

6) The Front

7) The Glass Palace

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1⃣7 Which one of the following statements is NOT correct about 'The Glass
Palace'?

A) It is a science fiction.

B) It is published in 2000.

C) The novel is set in Burma, Bengal, India, and Malaya.

D) It was translated into 25 languages.

� ANS-1⃣7 A ✅

� It is a Historical novel. ✅

� It explores the various facets of the colonial period, including the economic fall of
Burma, the rise of timber and rubber plantations, the moral dilemmas faced by Indians
serving the British army, and the devastating effects of World War II. �

1⃣8 The novel "The Glass Palace" starts with an 11-year-old boy called Rajkumar
running through the city of Mandalay to find a woman called___

A) Jaya

B) Manju

C) Ma Cho

D) Alison

� ANS-1⃣8 -C ✅

1⃣9 Rajkumar falls in love with____.

A) Jaya

B) Manju

C) Ma Cho

D) Dolly

� ANS-19:- D ✅

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2⃣0 The Morichjhanpi massacre incident of 1978-79 forms a background for some
parts of the novel.

Identify this novel.

A) In an Antique Land

B) The Hungry Tide

C) River of Smoke

D) The Glass Palace

� ANS-2⃣0 B ✅

2⃣1 Which one of the following novels is NOT a part of the Ibish Triology?

A) The Hungry Tide

B) Sea of Poppies

C) River of Smoke

D) Flood of Fire

� ANS-2⃣1 A ✅

2⃣2 'Sea of Poppies' is set prior to the First Opium War, on the banks of the holy
river___

A) Ganges

B) Nile

C) Kshipra

D) Narmada

� ANS-2⃣2 -A ✅

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2⃣3 What happens on the wedding night of Deeti?

A) She elopes with another boy

B) She was drugged with opium by her mother-in-law

C) She comes to know that his husband is opium addicted

D) She gets a dream that she will die the day after her marriage

� ANS-2⃣3 B✅

� Married to Hukam Singh, a crippled worker in the Ghazipur Opium Factory, the
unfortunate Deeti figures out that on her wedding night, she was drugged with opium by
her mother-in-law, so that her brother-in-law could rape her and consummate the
marriage in place of her impotent husband. ✅

2⃣4 In 'Sea of Poppies' when Deeti is forced to consider 'Sati' ritual, who comes to
rescue her?

A) Mr. Burnham

B) Zachary Reid

C) Serang Ali

D) Kalua

� ANS-2⃣4 -D ✅

2⃣5 Which one of the following is a non-fiction by Amitav Ghosh?

A) River of Smoke

B) In an Antique Land

C) The Glass Palace

D) The Shadow Lines

�ANS-2⃣5 B✅

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