1-Name the first novel of Mulk Raj

Anand which carried a preface by

E.M.Forster that won him world wide
recognition:
a)coollie b) untouchable
c)two leaves and a bud d) The village
2-Which novel of Mulk Raj Anand
,written in 1936,got Shahitya Akademi
Award?
a)The Sword and the Sickle b)
untouchable
c) coolie
d) The Big Heart
3-which is known as a a total novel of
human experience written by Mulk Raj
Anand?
a)The Big
Heart b) Morning Face
c) across the Black Waters d) Coolie
4-Which novel of Mulk Raj Anand
shows a disintegration of a poor
peasant family?
a)two leaves and a Bud b) the village
c) across the black waters d) The
private Life of an Indian Prince
5-Toru Dutt,Romesh Chander Dutt and
Aurobindo ,all wrote on one common
theme taken out from
Mahabharata.identify it:
a)Karan and Kunti b) Nala
&Damayanti
c)
Gandhari d) Savitri
6-Which of the following is Bankim
Chandra Chatterjees epoch & making
first historical romance?
a)Kapalakundla
B)Krishan Kants
Will
c) The Two
Rings d) Durgeshnandint
7-what is the full title of Aurobindos
Savitri?
a)Savitri b) Savitri
An Epic c) Savitri-A Legend and a

Symbol
cantos

d) Savitri-A poem in Three

8-The most obvious feature of kamala

Das poetry is her uninhibited
frankness of:
a)Love b) Human relations
c) Sex d) Belief in God
9-Which poetry collection of Kamala
Das was published in 1965?
A)Summer in Calcutta b) The
Descendants
c) A
Dozen Poems d) The old Playhouse
and other Poems
10-Kamala Das was greatly influenced
by the dramatic quality of:
a)John Galsworthy b)Robert Browning
c)William Shakespeare d)Bernard
Shaw
11-My Story is an autobiography of:
a)Mulk Raj Anand b) Raja Rao
c)Kamala Das d)Bharathi Sarabhai
12-Identify the short story collection
by Anita Desai:
A]Fire on the Mountain b) Clear Light
of day
c) Games at twilight d)
Village by the sea
13- which of the following is not a
work of Anita Desai?
A0Village by the sea b) Games at
twilight
c) voices
in the city d) clear Light of the day
14-Who among the following was
highly influenced by French
Romanticism ,French language and
literature:
a)Toru Dutt b) Romesh Chandra Dutt
c) Michael Madhusudan Dutt d)Govind
Dutt

15-How many poems do you find in

the anthology ^A Sheasf Gleaned in
French Field?
a)123
b)133 c)153 d)173
16-Who wrote our Casuarina Tree,a
splendid Keatsian poem?
a)Romesh Chandra Dutt b)Swami
Vivekananda c) Sri Aurbindo d) Toru
Dutt
17-Ezekiel spent his life in highly
westernished circles in the
cosmopolitan city of:
a)New Delhi b)Mumbai c)Kolkata
d)Chennai
18-which language does Ezekiel
consider as his lost mother tongue?
a)sindhi b)gujrati c)Marathi d)
Hebrew
19-In which novel does R.k.Narayan
focus on family planning?
a)The Guide b) Mr.Sampath
c) Bachlor of arts d) The Painter of
signs
20-In R.K.Narayan novel the Guidewe
come across a dancer. What is her
name?
a)Daisy b)
Bharati c)Rosie d) Savitri
21-Who wrote the Glimpses of world
History?
a)S.Radhakrishnan
b)Mahatma Gandhi
c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Jawaharlal
Nehru
22-A.K.Ramanujan worked as a
professor of Dravidian studies and
inguistics at the:
a)Texas university b) Chicago
university c)Princeton university

23-which award did Arundhati Roy get

for her debut novel The God of Small
Things:
A)
Sahitya Akademi Award
b) wiscnsin
prize Booker Prize d) none of the
above
24-Which was the first novel of Raja
Rao ? A]Kanthapura b) The Serpent
and the Rope
c) The Cat
and Shakespeare
d) The cow of the Barricade
25-Raja Rao got the Sahitya Akademi
Award in:
A]1964
b) 1965 c)
1966 d) 1963
26-In which year did Rabindranath
Tagore get the Nobel Prize for
Literature?
a)1911 b) 1912 c) 1913 d)1921
27-Who was the first recipient of
Sahitya Akademi Award for English?
a)Rajo Rao b)Mulk Raj anand c)
Bhabani Bhattacharya c)R.K.Narayan
28-Which is Khushwant Singhs last
novel?
a)Train to Pakistan b) Ishall not Hear
the Nightingale c)Delhi d) India
29-which of the following contains
R.K.narayan s US travel memoirs?
a)Lawley Road b) My Dateless Diary
c) An Astrologers Day and other Short
stories d)A horse and two goats
30-Khushwant Singhs History of
Sikhcontains
a]Five volumes b)
Four volumes c) Three volumes d)
Two volumes
31- Which of the following is not
written by Anita Desai?
A]Bye,Bye Blackbird b)A village by

the sea c) Cry the peacock d)

Reluctant Guru

Ezekiel c)A.K.Ramanujan d)sarojini

Naidu

32-Who is the hero of Mulk Raj

Anands Two Leaves and a Bud
a)Munoo b Gangu c) Rakkha d)
Shimroo

39-Who wrotes these lines?

I was in love with a husband who
did not love
a)Attia Hussain b)Anita Desai
c) Sarojini naidu d) Kamala das

33-Aurbindo Ghose got his early

education at a)St.Jopeshs High
School,Calcutta b) St.Annes School
Academy,Shillong c)Gabriel
Academy ,Sillguri d) Loretto Convant
School,Darjeeling
34-which novel of Bankim Chandra
Chatterjee narrates the story of Hindu
life in Bengal during the contemporary
period?
A]Anandmath b) The Two Rings c )
The Poison Tree d)Krishna Kants Will
35-which of the following is not a work
of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee?
a)Satkar b) The Deliverance
c)madhavilata d) Jatra Samalochana
36-the hero of the big heart by Mulk
Raj Anand shares the features of the
writers humnanism . he feels deeply
for suffering humanity and is keen to
ameliorate their lot. Who is that hero.
A]Ananta b) taru c)such d) kalha
37-anand describes the story os a
cruel husband and a week wife
inold Woman and the cow.Who is
the couple here?
a)Pancha and Rano b) Panchi and
Gauri
c) Bhullan and Bugli
d) Banta and Sukkho
38-Three village housesA couple of
coes Named Gopi and Brinda
a)R-oarathasarathy b)Nissim

40-Who among the following wrote

this?
I am not a
Hindu,and my background makes
me a natural outsiders
circumstances and decision relate
me to india.
A]Ruth jhabwala b)nissim ezekiel
c)K.A.Abbas d) ahmed ali
41-in village By the Sea
Anita Desai vividly captures the
a)Kolkata scenery b) Mumbai scenery
c) Cochin scenery d) Goa scenery
42-Identify Anita Desai s Sahitya
Akademy Award winning
A]Bye-Bye Black Bird b)voice I the city
d)fire on the mountain
43-Binaca or the Young Spanish
Maiden by Toru Dutt is a
a)historical novel b) Classical novel
c) Romantic novel d) picturesque
novel
44-Which novel of Raja Rao deals with
middle class family of kerala during
the period of second World War ?
a)The Serpent and the Rope
b)Kanthapura c)The cat and
Shakespeare d)none of the above
45-Name the writer of^the Painter
of Signs*

a)Raja Rao b) R.L. Narayan

c) Khushwant singh d) Ruth
P.Jhabwala
46-In one of R.K.Narayans novel the
hero dies a ruined man not because
he wants to die,but circumstances so
conspire that the only alternative
before him is to become a
martyr.which novel?
a)Mr.sampath b) Guide
c) The Dark Room d)The Bachelor of
arts
47-Name the youthful sister of Bakha
in Mulk Raj Anands Untouchable
a)Sohini b) Mohini c)Rekha d)
Champa
48-Mulk Raj Anands Father was a
A]Police constable in the british
constabulary b)Non commissioned
officer in the British Indian army

c)Non-commissioned officer in the

British Indian Air Force d)Noncomissioned officer in the British
Indian navy
49-Which of the following is not
written by Sarojini naidu?
a)The English Queens b)To my Fairy
Fancies c)If you Call me d) songs of
radha
50-Name the collection of lyrics by
Sarojini Naidu that was written in 1927
but published posthumously in 1961
The bird of time b) The golden
Threshold c) The feather of the Dawn
d) The Broken Wing