UNIT_6. INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 50 MCQS by Dr Mukesh Kumar Pareek
An Objective Approach to Indian Literature in English
50 MCQS
1- Song of Radha, the Milkman is written by
A- Sarojini Naidu
B-K.P Dutt
C-R.C Dutt
D-Aru Dutt
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2- Manmohan Ghose was the elder brother of
A- Sri Aurobindo
B-ICR Ghose
C-R.G Dutt
D-S.C Dutt
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3- Name the poet who composed the Ancient Legends and Ballads of Hindustan
A- Toru Dutt
B-Sri Aurobindo
C-Sarojini Naidu
D-R.C Dutt
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4- A critic said that Toru Dutt was ”a classic writer” who placed her country and was the first to do so on the international map of letters ho was the critic?
A- Padmini Sen Gupta
B-M.K Naik
C-K.R.S Lyengar
D-Sri Aurobindo
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5- Who among the following poets was influenced by Kabir and rendered some of his verses into English?
A- R.N Tagore
B-Sri Aurobindo
C-Sarojini Naidu
D-Toru Dutt
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6- Identify the correct group of poets who were influenced by Tagore’s mysticism and poetry.
A- Harte Crane- Ezra Pound
B-Robert Frost-Wallace Stevens
C-W.H Auden
D-None
7- In 1913 Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for the English translation of
A- The Gitanjali
B-Fruit Gathering
C-Lover’s Gift
D-None
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8- Savitri an epic in blank verse was written by
A- Sri Aurobindo
B-R.N Tagore
C- Toru Dutt
D-Sarojini Naidu
9- Who is the first celebrated poet in Indian English poetry?
A-Henry Derozio
B-Nissim Ezelkiel
C-B.M Malasbari
D-None
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10- Nissim Ezekiel ”was the first Indian poet to express a modern Indian sensibility in modern idiom” Who said
A- K.N Daruwalla
B-A.K Ramanujan
C-Jayant Mahapatra
D-Dilip Citra
11-” I regard myself as an Indian poet writing in English” Who said these words about his own poetry?
A- Nissim Ezekiel
B-Dom Morals
C-K.N Daruwalla
D-Kamala Das
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12- K.N Daruwalla was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award for —–in 1984?
A- The Keeper of the Dead
B-Landscape
B-Crossing of Rivers
D-Apparition in April
13-A professor of physics turned a poet at the age of forty in 1968 Who is the poet.
A- Jayant Mahapatra
B-Shiva K Kumar
C-Nissim Ezekiel
D-None
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14- Which of Mahatma Gandhi’s works is one of the imperishable classics of our time?
A- The story of My Experiments with Truth
B- Hind Swaraj
C-Young India
D-None
15-Who is the author of Glimpses of World history and the discovery of India?
A- J.L Nehru
B- MK Gandhi
C-Rajgopalchari
D-B.G Tilak
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16-Which of the following works is not written by Dr. S Radhakrishna?
A- The Future Poetry
B-The Hindu View of life
C-Kalki
D-An Idealist view of life
17- Who wrote My Days and My Dateless Diary?
A- R.K Narayan
B-Dom Morals
C-K.M Pannikar
D-Frank Morals
18- In which year Khuswant Singh’s Truth, Love, and A little Malice appeared?
A-2002
B-1999
C-2000
D-None
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19- Who among the following novelists translated from Bangla into English The Lake of Palms and The Slave Girl of Agra?
A- R.C Dutta
B-S.B Banerjee
C-Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
D-None
20- K.S Venkatramani’s novel Kandan, The Patriot which is akin to Pearl S Buck’s The Good Earth is set against the background of
A- Civil Disobedience Movement
B-Salt Satyagrah
C-Quit India Movement
D-NONE
21- Which is the debut novel written in 1935 by Mulkraj Anand?
A- The Untouchable
B-The Road
C-Coolie
D-Two Leaves and A Bud
22- Bakha is the central character in Anand’s
A-Untouchable
B-The Road
C-The Bubble
D-Coolie
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23-Who was the winner of the first Sahitya Academy Award?
A- R.K Narayan
B-Raja Rao
C-K.S Venkatramani
D-Mulkraj Anad
24- Mulkraj Anand was awarded the Sahitya Academy award for
A- Morning Face
B-The Bubble
C-The Big Heart
D-None
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25- Who among the following novelists pioneered the regional novel in the Indian English novel?
A- R.K Narayn
B-K.S Venkatramani
C-Mulkraj Anand
D-None
26- R.K Narayan created the region known as
A- Malgudi
B-Lake District
C-Waverly
D-Wessex
27- Ramaswamy is a character in
A- Raja Rao’s serpent and the rope
B-R.K Narayan’s The Guide
C-Anand’s Associate Play
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28- Kamala Markandaya is the pseudonym of
A-Kamala Purnaiya Taylor
B-Kamala Das
C-Madhavi Kutty
D-None
30- Nathan and Rukmani are characters hi Kamala Markandya’s
A-Nectar in A Sieve
B-A Handful of Rice
C-A Silence of Desire
D-None
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31- Who is the author of Bye-bye Blackbird?
A-Anita Desai
B-Kalama Das
C-Ruth P Jhabvala
D-Kamala Markandya
32-Bianca was written by
A- Toru Dutt
B-Aru Dutt
C-R.C Dutt
D-S.C Dutt
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33-Madhavi Kutti is the maiden name of
A-Kamala Das
B-Anita Desai
C-Bharati Mukherjee
D-None
34-Salman Rushdie won the Booker of Bookers Award in 1993 for
A- Midnight Children
B-The Satanic Verses
C-Grinus
D-Shame
35-Bhabani Bhattacharya was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award for his famous novel
A-Shadow from Ladhak
B-A Goddess Named Gold
C-So Many Hungers
D-None
36- Which is the latest novel published in 2005 of Salman Rushdie?
A- Shalimar the clown
B-The Moor’s last sigh
C-The Satanic Verses
D-Fury
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37-The Company of Women and Delhi are novels written by
A- Khushwant Singh
B-Chaman Mahal
C-Manohar Malgonkar
D-Vikram Seth
38- Who among the following novelist was included by Camu, Sartre, Kierkegaard the Gita and Mahatma Gandhi
A- Arun Joshi
B-Bhanbani Chattacharya
C-Upmanyu Chatterjee
D-None
39-Vikram Seth’s famous biography two lives was published in
A-2005
B-2002
C-2004
D-2006
40-English August An Indian Story is a famous novel written by
A- Upmanyu Chatterjee
B-V.N Arora
C-Vikram Seth
D-Ranga Rao
41- David Davidar in his debut novel The House of Blue Mangoes created a fictional region know as
A- Chevathar
B-Malgudi
C-Hark Pradesh
D-Brij Bhumi
42-Name of the author of the following novels one Night at the Call center and Five points someone
A-Chetan Bhagat
B-Vikram Chandra
C-Pico Lyer
D-Anurag Mathur
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43- Attia Hossain’s only novel is the story of Laila’s revolt against the joint family system name the novel
A- Sunlight on a Broken column
B-A stronger climate
C-The Zigag way
D-None
44-Arundhati Roy’s debut novel The God of mall Things appeared in
A-1997
B-1998
C-2000
D-2001
45- G.V Desai’s Hali is
A- An autobiographical playing poetic prose
B-A political and social play
C- A Romantic play on love in verse
D-None
46- Shiva K Kumar wrote
A- Last Weddin Anniversary
B-Jakhoo Villa
C-Tiger’s Claw
D-None
47- Who among the following dramatists introduced documentary and critic technique in Indian English drama?
A-Asif Currimbhoy
B-G.V Gesani
C-J.M Billimoria
D-Nissim Ezekiel
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48-Grish Karnard’s Tughlaq and Tale Danda are
A-Historical Plays
B-Realistic Plays
C-Romantic Plays
D-None
49-Identify the plays in which Karnad uses folk tales
A-Hayavadana- Naga Mandala
B-The fire and the rain
C-Tuglaq-Tale Danda
D-nONE
50- Mahesh Dattani got the Sahitya Academy Award in 1998 for his famous play
A- Final Solutions
B-Do the Needful
C-Tara
D-None
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