1.Which is a historical play set in the confused period after the death of Ranjit Singh when the British first arrived in Punjab?
a).Larins Sahib
b).Tughlaq
c).Muktha Dhara
d).Kanthapura
2.Machine-Civilization is a concurrent word to applicable to this work.
a).Larins Sahib
b).Tughlaq
c).Muktha Dhara
d).The English Teacher
3.Which of the following novel consisted idyllic village Bilaspur, where an orphan boy is forced to move from Bilaspur?
a).Kantapura
b).The English Teacher
c).A Handful of Rice.
d).Coolie
4.‘Musings of Munoo’ is the entitle which given before it was published the novel. What is the new title at the time of publishing?
a).Coolie
b).Kantapura
c).The English Teacher
d).A Handful of Rice.
5.Who used ‘Malgudi’ a fictional place, which took the plot surrounded this fictional place?
a).Mulk Raj Anand
b).Raja Rao
c).R.K. Narayan
d).Kamala Markandaya
6.Which novel deals the idyllic, serene, ecstatic married life of Krishna and Susila?
a).Kanthapura
b).The English Teacher
c).Coolie
d).A Handful of Rice
7.This work depicts Gandhian principles, political, social and economic, and untouchability
a).Kanthapura
b).The English Teacher
c).Coolie
d).A Handful of Rice
8.Which of the following hero was being chased by a sergent at the introductory part of hero’s intro?
a).Ravi
b).Munoo
c).Moorthy
d).Krishna
9.Which of the following character works in a pickle factory?
a).Krishna
b).Ravi
c).Munoo
d).Moorthy
10.In which century the historical figure Tughlaq, ruled Delhi?
a).12th century
b).14th century
c).16th century
d).18th century
11.Why do the Muslims not approve Jizia tax?
a).It ten times increased value of previous one
b).Exempted the Hindus from the customary
c).It offers many benefits to Muslim women
d).Exempted Ministers to pay tax
12.What is the Sultan’s decision of shifting the capital at first?
a).From Daulatabad to Delhi
b).From Delhi to Daulatabad
c).Form Delhi to Rajkot
d).From Delhi to Agra
13.Who (using Brahmin name) has filed a suit against the government that his land has been confiscated by the government officials illegally?
a).Devi Prasad
b).Vishnu Prasad
c).Pandit Proshathama
d).Vishnuguru Sastri
14.Who confiscated land with the help of a back dated contract and using Brahmin name Vishnu Prasad?
a).Aziz
b).Azam
c).Kazi-i-Mumalik
d).Sheikh Imam-udin
15.Which novel deals with the theme of hunger and poverty?
a).Tughlaq
b).Kantapura
c).The English Teacher
d).A Handful of Rice
16.Who threatens Apu and forcefully enters house, demands food in ‘A Handful of Rice’?
a).Damodar
b).Nalini
c).Ravi
d).Thangam
17.What is the profession of Apu in Kamala Markandaya’s novel ‘A Handful of Rice’?
a).Engineer
b).Sweeper
c).Tailor
d).Carpenter
18. Choose the wrong match of work and character.
a).A Handful of Rice - Jayamma
b).Coolie - Daya Ram
c).Kanthapura - Singaram
d).The English Teacher - Susila
19.A Handful of Rice’s narrative technique is very unique and usual of that period which the author has used in this novel. Narrative Technique is ________.
a).First Person Narration
b).Third Person Narration
c).Sthalapurana Narration
d).Verse narration
20.In Raja Rao’s novel ‘Kanthapura’, the title Kanthapura is
a).Name of a river
b).Name of temple
c).Name of village
d).Name of a woman
21.In which district was Kanthapura – a village situated?
a).Dandi
b).Kara
c).Tippur
d).Santur
22.Which of the following Alan Paton’s novel shows the brutality of apartheid, but despite its unflinching portrayal of darkness and despair in South Africa?
a).Kantapura
b).Ned Kelly
c).Things Fall Apart
d).Cry, the Beloved Country
23.Who is the narrator of the novel ‘Kanthapura’?
a).Achakka
b).Moorthy
c).Rangamma
d).Kenchamma
24.Who is the principal of Albert Mission College of Malgudi in ‘The English Teacher’?
a).Brown
b).Gajapathy
c).Rangappa
d).Krishna
25.Where did Krishna and Susila choose a house, and Krishna selects the place because that is convenient to him and not far away from his college?
a).Lawley Extension
b).Ellammann Street
c).Rangoon
d).Vellore
26. What fever did the doctor diagnose for Susila?
a).Dengue
b).Cholera
c).Malaria
d).No of the above
27.‘The price seemed reasonable, location indifferent.’ is the opening line of ________.
a).The Telephone conversation
b).The Lion and the Jewel
c).The Novelist as Teacher
d).None of the above
28.Who accepts ‘it is part of his business as a writer to teach’?
a).Chinua Achebe
b).W B Yeats
c).Walt Whitman
d).Wole Soyinka
29.one of the protagonists of the novel, has tried to reuniting the family and he/she rogued to find family in this novel.
a).Kantapura
b).Ned Kelly
c).Things Fall Apart
d).Cry, the Beloved Country
30.Who is the protagonist of the novel ‘Coolie’?
a).Jas Singh
b).Bishan
c).Nathoo Ram
d).Munoo
31.When was the novel Coolie published?
a).1922
b).1936
c).1942
d).1951
32.How many acts are there in the play ‘Mukta Dhara’?
a).1
b).2
c).3
d).4
33.Choose from following option, where does Mukta Dhara irrigates the plains ?
a).Shiva-tarai
b).SIkari
c).Balegpur
d).Vamalu Darai
34.Who (Engineer) has been given the task of building a dam over the river Mukta Dhara?
a).Abhijit
b).Bibhuti
c).Dhananjaya
d).Sanjaya
35.Who says ‘The character of Dhananjoy Vairagi has been seen as a representation of the nonviolent spirit of Gandhi and the play had been read as Tagore’s nationalist critique of colonial exploitation’.
a).Krishna Kripalini
b).Mahatma Gandhi
c).Mulkraj Anand
d).R K Narayan
36.Which of the following novel tells the story of Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo?
a).Kantapura
b).Ned Kelly
c).Things Fall Apart
d).Cry, the Beloved Country
37.Which is the cosmic representation of all forms of energy and movements in nature and cosmos?
a).The Dance of Shiva
b).Poems of Sarojini Naidu
c).Poem: River
d).Our Casuarina Tree
38.A great motif in religion or art, any great symbol becomes all things to all men, is to included with the dance and represents as the world’s dance.
a).The dance of Murugan
b).The dance of Vinayagar
c).The dance of Shiva
d).None of the above
39.Which belongs to Shiva’s tamasic aspect as Bhairava or Vira-bhadra?
a).Tandava
b).Nadanta dance
c).Katha Sarit Sagara
d).Koyil Puranam
40.Which dance is in origin that of a pre-Aryan divinity, half-god, half-demon, who holds his midnight revels in the burning ground.
a).Tandava
b).Nadanta dance
c).Sabha
d).Dance of Forest
41.Which of these works described in detail the complex of relationships between writers and readers?
a).The Telephone conversation
b).The Lion and the Jewel
c).The Novelist as Teacher
d).None of the above
42.Kamala Das was a bilingual writer, born in 1934 and lives in Bombay some years. What are the two languages which bilingually she delivered her works?
a).English and Bengali
b).English and Tamil
c).English and Malayalam
d).English and Hindi
43.Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay, which of the work is not written by him?
a).Night of the Scorpion
b).My Grandmother’s House
c).Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S
d).Poem of the Separation
44.The central idea of the poem is the transformation of the self-brought about as a result of the as¬cent of consciousness to the supramental level.
a).Thought the, Paraclete
b).Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S
c).Poem of the Separation
d).Homecomig
45. Who was awarded the Ulkaa Poetry Prize of Poetry India in 1966?
a).Kamala Das
b).Nissim Ezekiel
c).AK Ramanujan
d).Rajagopal Parthasarathy
46.‘In Madurai, city of temples and poets who sang of cities and temples’ who wrote this lines?
a).Kamala Das
b).Nissim Ezekiel
c).AK Ramanujan
d).Rajagopal Parthasarathy
47.Whose play is a fascinating reconstruction of the rise to power and influence in the Punjab in the years 1846-7 of Henry Lawrence, who was appointed Agent of the East India Company to the Sikh Kingdom?
a).Larins Sahib
b).Tughlaq
c).Muktha Dhara
d).Kanthapura
48.The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of ____ English poems
a).100
b).103
c).104
d).108
49.When did Rabindranath Tagore receive the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.’
a).1910
b).1912
c).1913
d).1919
50.Who wrote the introduction for Tagore’s Gitanjali: Song Offerings of English versions?
a).T.S. Eliot
b).Ezra Pound
c).W B Yeats
d).Walt Whitman
51.According to Aurobindo who is the mediator between matter and spirit?
a).Man
b).God
c).Feelings
d).Emotion
52.Who wrote the novel Cry, the Beloved Country, is published in 1948?
a).Douglas Stewart
b).Alan Paten
c).Judith Wright
d).Abioseh Nicoll
53.Who told Kumalo about Gertude and her condition, how she turned her dignity with some incidents?
a).Absalom Kumalo
b).Arthur Jarvis
c).Mrs. Lithebe
d).Theophilus Msimangu
54.Chinua Achebe taken the title from this lines ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre,The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;’ whose line is this?
a).Chinua Achebe
b).W B Yeats
c).Walt Whitman
d).Wole Soyinka
55.Who is the boy is sacrificed in Umuofia ?
a).Ikemefuna
b).Nwoye
c).Ezinma
d).Ekwefi
56.Where does Okonkwo and his family move from Umuofia?
a).Uchendu
b).Mbanto
c).Igobinia
d).Mohihanio
57.When Okonkwo realizes that his clansmen will never go to war against the British, he knows that everything has fallen apart for him. His next action is to
a).commit suicide
b).join his clansmen in accepting the British
c).kill as many British as he can
d).move away to Mbaino
58.Who said the following: ‘My father, they have killed me!’ in Things Fall Apart?
a).Agbala
b).Ezinma
c).Ikemefuna
d).Nwoye
59.Where did Chinua Achebe present his essay ‘The Novelist as teacher’ in 1964?
a).The Commonwealth Literature conference at the University of Leeds
b).Literature Mania club at University of Nigeria
c).International Cultural Conference at Oxford University
d).Commonwealths Conference at Cambridge University
60.Which of the following writers won the Nobel Prize for Literature?
a).Abioseh Nicoll
b).Judith Wright
c).Wole Soyinka
d).EJ Pratt
61.Which of the following poem consists the negative perspective of authors view on this continent?
a).Australia
b).The Meaning of Africa
c).The Dying Eagle
d).Fire in the Murdering Hut
62.Who said Australia was a mechanical and monotonous land?
a).Abioseh Nicoll
b).Judith Wright
c).A D Hope
d).EJ Pratt
63.‘A nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey’ line appeared in
a).Australia
b).The Meaning of Africa
c).The Dying Eagle
d).Fire in the Murdering Hut
64.Which of the following option is not right one of the poem Australia?
a).Shows negative perspective of Australia
b).Author proved Australia’s positive note in this poem
c).Reflected the lack of Individualism
d).Reflected the lack spirituality of Australia
65.Which poem is a provocative interrogation of racial prejudice, misguided civility.
a).Australia
b).Telephone Conversation
c).The Dying Eagle
d).Fire in the Murdering Hut
66.Which of the following option is not correct one for Telephone Conversation?
a).Written in first person narrative
b).Has issues of racism
c).A conversation between a white lady and African Man
d).Exposed African’s freedom in America
67.‘A light had gone out from his vanquished eyes; His head was cupped within the hunch of his shoulders; His feathers were dull and bedraggled’ reflects to __________
a).Dying man in Africa
b).Dying Eagle
c).Dying sparrow
d).Dying Australia
68.EJ Pratt is _____________
a).Australian poet
b).African poet
c).Canadian poet
d).Nigerian poet
69.Who wrote ‘Fire in the Murdering Hut’?
a).E.J. Pratt
b).Judith Wright
c).Wole Soyinka
d).Abioseh Nicoll
70.‘The dried body of __________is hard to kill’ complete the line of ‘The Cedars’
a).Bird
b).Winter
c).Summer
d).Cedar
71.‘Africa, you were once just a name to me’ the objective case refers to_____.
a).Name of continent
b).Africa
c).Author
d).No objective case
72.Which of the following is written by Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol?
a).The meaning of Australia
b).Heart of Darkness
c).The Dance of the Forest
d).The Meaning of Africa
73.Where did the speaker come back to sailing down in ‘The Meaning of Africa’?
a).Guinea Coast
b).Lithunia Coast
c).Suez Canal
d).Black sea
74.Which colour of moon turns its round gladness towards the swept open space between the trees in ‘The Meaning of Africa?
a). Yellow
b).orange
c).White
d).Red
76. Where was the play first performed in Africa 1959?
the Ibadan Arts Theatre
Pros man Drama Theatre
Abbey Theatre
Royal Court Theatre
Pros man Drama Theatre
77. The Lion and the Jewel was published in book form in _____
1966
1963
1960
1957
78. The play ‘Lion and the Jewel’ is set in the village ____
Ndotsheni
Johannesburg
Umuofia
Ilunjinle
79. Who told Sidi that Baroka wants to take her for a wife?
Sadiku
The wrestler
Lakunle
Sidi’s friend
80. How old is Lakunle in the play ‘Lion and the Jewel’?
25
24
23
22
81. Which is not one of the three name according to the play ‘Lion and the Jewel’ ?
Morning
Noon
Night
Day
82. Who stated in the play Lion and the Jewel ‘I do not hate progress, only its nature / Which makes all roofs and faces look the same.’
Sidi
Sadiku
Lakunle
Baroka
83. Who said about Sidi ‘Bush-girl you are, bush girl you'll always be; Uncivilized and primitive—bush-girl!’
Sidi
Sadiku
Lakunle
Baroka
84. the Kelly gang’s hold-up in the town of ______
Jerilderie
sydney
Melbourne
Canberra
85.Which play made much of Australia as a breeding and testing ground for the heroic impulse, while also confronting its destructive consequences. !’
Kantapura
Ned Kelly
Things Fall Apart
Cry, the Beloved Country