Q:1) What story has come Sarita’s mind suddenly, that the illustration which had accompanied the story in one of her school texts?
A:) Krishna Sudama story
B:) Panchavarna Story
C:) The Ramayana
D:) Rama and Sita Story
Correct: A
Q:2) What game had Sarita played as a child?
A:) Hopscotch
B:) Kho kho
C:) Gillidanda
D:) Hide and Seek
Correct: A
Q:3) Whose picture was hanged on the wall as a faded photograph, whom she had ever seen?
A:) Mother
B:) Father
C:) Grandfather
D:) Grandmother
Correct: C
Q:4) Whose picture as a crawling infant, chubby, solemn, with a hint of a smile in the eyes?
A:) Baby
B:) Grandfather
C:) Lord Muruga
D:) Krishna
Correct: D
Q:5) Sarita was looking for all the rooms, she entered her parents room and then entered into next room that had been her own, where she found male clothes hanging on the wall, and there was no bed there now. Whose clothe are there?
A:) Baba
B:) Madhav
C:) Abhijit
D:) Manohar
Correct: B
Q:6) The protagonist, Sarita was the mother of ______ children.
A:) One
B:) Two
C:) Three
D:) Four
Correct: B
Q:7) What is the profession of Sarita in the novel ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’?
A:) Chief supervisor of the Factory
B:) The District Collector
C:) Doctor
D:) Not mentioned about her job
Correct: C
Q:8) Who was the attender of Sarita in the novel ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’?
A:) Renuka
B:) Manda
C:) Saru
D:) Nirmala
Correct: D
Q:9) Which of the following female character’s husband is a lawyer in the novel ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’?
A:) Renuka
B:) Manda
C:) Kamala
D:) Nirmala
Correct: B
Q:10) In ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’, Sarita was the wife of ________.
A:) Baba
B:) Madhav
C:) Abhijit
D:) Manohar
Correct: D
Q:11) ‘I hated all of it, the meaningless rituals, the rites, the customs. They seemed to stifle me.’ Who said ?
A:) Sarita
B:) Manohar
C:) Madhav
D:) Renuka
Correct: C
Q:12) In ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’, Who was the brother of Sarita?
A:) Manda
B:) Dhruva
C:) Suresh
D:) Madhav
Correct: B
Q:13) Dhruva has died at the age of ________.
A:) 7
B:) 10
C:) 15
D:) 21
Correct: A
Q:14) Who always wanted to plant flower, had planted the hollyhocks in garden?
A:) Renuka
B:) Nirmala
C:) Madhav
D:) Manohar
Correct: C
Q:15) Sarita was interestingly watching carom board when Madhav and Baba played. Baba was like a child when he played collecting the coins he had successfully put into the pockets with an eagerness. This reminded her of _______.
A:) brother Dhruva
B:) mother Kamala
C:) daughter Renu
D:) Son Abhi
Correct: D
Q:16) In ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’, Who will never let buy a bike for the kids because his father once kept a cycle shop?
A:) Madhav
B:) Sarita
C:) Manohar
D:) Dhurva’s father
Correct: C
Q:17) Who asked this question ‘Does your mother wear nine-yard saris?’
A:) Sarita
B:) Madhaav
C:) Smita
D:) Manohar
Correct: A
Q:18) How long was Manohar the editor of the magazine?
A:) One year
B:) Two years
C:) Three years
D:) Four years
Correct: B
Q:19) Who is Mavish in the novel ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’?
A:) Mother of Madhav
B:) Mother of Sudhir
C:) Mother of Manohar
D:) Mother of Asha
Correct: B
Q:20) Where had Manu put up his father’s photograph, when his father died?
A:) Bedroom Wall
B:) Kitchen Wall
C:) Common hall Wall
D:) Front Veranda
Correct: A
Q:21) Sarita felt terror when she was watching movie in her young age. What was the movie?
A:) Pehil Jhalak
B:) Munimji
C:) Pather Panchali
D:) Devdas
Correct: C
Q:22) Who wrote the novel ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’?
A:) Shashi Deshpande
B:) Anita Desai
C:) Kiran Desai
D:) Arundhati Roy
Correct: A
Q:23) For which book did the author of ‘The Dark Holds No Terror’ receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?
A:) The Shadow Lines
B:) The God of Small Things
C:) Morning Face
D:) That Long Silence
Correct: D
Q:24) Which of the following character called Sarita as Sarutai
A:) Baba
B:) Madhav
C:) Renuka
D:) Abhi
Correct: B
Q:25) Who served as home maid to Sarita?
A:) Prema
B:) Mavish
C:) Janakibai
D:) Kamala
Correct: C