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Amitay Ghose was born in

1 Who are known as the pioneers of 3.

(1) Odisha
Indian English Poetry?
(2) Delhi
(1) Tagore, Aurobindo and AK
(3) Calcutta

Ramanujan (4) Punjab

4. Why do the flames assemble in the
(2) Bankim Chandra Chattopad
ruined temple?

hyay, Ramesh Chandra Dutt

(1) To pray

and Manmohan Ghose (2) To gossip

43) To Tell stories

(3) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio,
(4) None of these

Kashiprasad Ghose and Michael 5. Which ordeal proves the chastity of

Rani?
Madhusudan Dutt
(1) Snake ordeal
(4) None of the above (2) Fire ordeal

2. Which was the first novel by Amitav (3) Hot-iron ordeal

(4) None of these

Ghose?
6. Ancient Ballads and legends of

(1) Gitanjali Hindustan is a work by:

(2) Bay of Bengal ife (1) Toru Dutt

(2) Kamala Das

(3) The Circle of Reason
(3) Tagore
(4) Life of a Pia
(4) AK Ramanujan
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7 What is the characteristic of Toru 9. How mnany Acts are there in the

Dutt's poetry? final solutions?

(1) Her poems are based on (1) Two

mythological stories of ancient
(2) Three
India

(3) Four
(2) Her poetry is excellent in char
acter portrayal (4) None of these

(3) There is beautiful description of 10. Which of the following is not a work
nature in her poetry
by Dattani?
(4) All of the above
(1) Tara
8. "Like a huge python, winding round
(2)) Dance like a Man
and round the rugged trunk, indented

deep with scars. Up to its verY (3) On a Muggy night in Mumbai

summit near the stars, A creeper (4) Naga Mandala

climbs, in whose embraces bound 11. Which character in the play Final
No other tree could live" These lines
Solutions malntains a diarv?
have taken from which poem?
(1) Noor Jahan
(1) Jogadhya Uma

(2) Lakshman (2) Zarina

(3) Our Casuarina Tree (3) Javed

(4) Savitri (4) Daksha (Hardika)

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12. The Casuarina Tree reminds Toru 15. Which of the following is true to The

Dutt of her. Serpent and the Rope7

(1) He childhood days with her sib (1) It is a novel by Raja Rao

lings (2) It was first published in 1960

(2) Her friend Mary Martin (3) It deals with the East-West

(3) Her life in France encounter

(4) None of the above (4) All of these

13. Which one is not a collection of 16. The Serpent and the Rope i s .

poems by Nissim Ezekiel? (1) A philosophical novel

(1) Timeto Change (2) Autobiographical novel

(2) The Unfinished Man (3) Here inner conflict is more

(3) The Exact Name important

(4) The Parrot's Death (4) All of thesse

14. Hymns in Darkness was published in 17. Nissim Ezekiel is preferably known

as a:
the year.

(1) 1976 (1) Nature poet

(2) Urban poet

(2) 1982
(3) Rural poet
(3) 1965

(4) None of the above

(4) 1960
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Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher is
22.
18. Who is of a Jewish origin?
poetic collection
the finest poems of
(1) Adil Jussawala
entitled.
(2) Keki N. Daruwala
(1) Hymns in Darkness
(3) Nissim Ezekiel
(2) The Exact Name
(4) Meena Alexander
(3) A Time to Change
19. How many acts are included in Naga
(4) The Unfinished Man
Mandala?
23. "To force the pace and never to be
(1) One
still
(2) Two
Is not the way of those who study
(3) Three
birds or women."
(4) Five
These lines are from the poem
20. Who is called the father of Modernity
(1) A Night of Scorpion
in Indian English poetry?
(2) Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
(1) Ezekiel
(3) Two Nights of Love
(2)) Ramanujan
(4) Background casually
(3) Dom Mores
24. Whose poetry is most unorthodox and
(4) Arun Kolatkar
almost revolutionary as
21. Whom does Appanna visit most compared to
the environment and
days? atmosphere in
which she grew up?
(1) Naga
(1) Kamala Das
(2) Rani's parents
(2) Sarojini Naidu
(3) His Concubine
(3) Toru Dutt
(4) Chief in the village
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25. What was Bobby's real name? 29. Raja Rao introduces Medeleine as a

beautiful lady of years at the

(1) Bablu

(2) Bunty outset of the novel.

(3) Babban (1) Twenty-one

(4) Javed
(2) Twenty-three
26. The major themes of Final Solutions
(3) Twenty-six
is/are:
(4) Twenty-nine
(1) Social aspects of society
30. Which one is not a poetic collection of
(2) Political aspects of society
Kamala Das?
(3) Hindu-Muslim conflicts

(1) Summer in Calcutta

(4) All of the above

27. The pld Playhouse and,other poems (2) The Descendants

published In the year. (3) The Old Playhouse and other

(1) 1967 poems

(2) 1965
(4) The Exact name

(3) 1973
31. What was/were the subjects of
(4) 1975
research of Ramaswamy?
28. What is the theme of Kamala Das's
(4) Albigensian Heresy
poetry?
(2) Evolution of mankind
(1) Love and sexual relationship

(2) Treatment of nature (3) Glimpses of the past

(3) Religion (4) The East-West Ecounter-A

(4) None of these Comparative Study

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35. "I
32. My story is the autobiography of:
whose line is this and
Malabar
(1) Nissim Ezekiel
in which poem?

(2) Tagore
(1) Kamala Das is An Introduction

(3) Kamala Das

(2) Toru Dutt in Savitri

(4) Ramanujan
(3) Sarojini Naidu in Indian Dancers
33. In which anthology of Kamala Das the (4) None of these

poem An Introduction appeared 36. A. K. Ramanujan was born in the

(1) Summer in Calcutta year:

(2) The Old Playhouse and other (1) 1929

(2) 1936
Poems

(3) 1960
(3) The Descendants
(4) 1972
(4) None of these
37. Who among the
following was a Ful
34. Ramaswamy is:
bright Scholar at Indiana
University,
(1) The protagonist of the novel U.S.A.?

(1) A. K.
(2) Narrator of the novel Ramanujan
(2) Nissim Ezekiel
(3) Lecturer of history
(3) Humayun Kabir
(4) All of the above
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38. Ramaswamy conducts the last rites 42. A. K. Ramanujan was awarded with
of his father in,
Sahitya Academy Award in the year.
(1) Banaras
(2) Haridwar (1) 1997

(3) Rameswaram
(2) 1998
(4) Elsewhere

39, The Circle of Reason was published (3) 1996

in (4) 1999

(1) 1985
43. The Striders and Relations are
(2) 1987
famous poetic volumes of:
(3) 1986

(4) 1990 (1) Shiv K. Kumar

40. Wht is the theme of The Circle of
(2) Jayant Mahapatra
Reason?
(3) A. K. Ramanujan
(1) Migration and exile

(2) Cultural displacement (4) None of these

(3) Examination of postcolonial
44, Small-Scale Reflections on a Great
rationality
(4) All of the above House signifies.
41, Amitav Ghose won Award in
(1) Family traditions
2018.

(1) Jnanpith (Gyan pith) (2) Personal life of the poet

(2) Paramveer
(3) Great Indian cutture
(3) Padma Shri

(4) Krishi Samman (4) None of these

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 Rani
Who gets
ensnarled towards
48.
45. What is the most important theme of
power of roots?
Ramanujan's poetry? with the magical

(1) Family and Hindu heritage (1) King Cobra

(2) Patriotism (2) Kappanna

(3) Love and friendship (3) Appanna

(4) All of these

(4) All of them

46. What does Kurudavva gift Rani?

49. Final Solutions is a play by
(1) Bangle
(1) Girish Karnd
(2) Mystical roots
(2) Badal Sarkar
(3) Fruits
(3) Mahesh Dattani
(4) None of these

47. Who is the first playwright in Indian (4) Khushwant Singh

S0. What the play Final Solutions is

English to be awarded the Sahltya

Academy Award? about?

(1) Girish Karnad (1) Communal hatred

(2) Mahesh Dattani

(2) Gujrat Riot
(3) Amitav Ghose
(3) Both (1) and (2)

(4) Khushwant Singh

(4) None of these
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51. In which
language Hind Swaraj was 54 To teach children reading, writing
originally written?
and arith metic is called
(1) Hindi
(1) Nigher Education

(2) Telugu (2) Secondary Education

(3) Primary Education

(3) Gujarati
(4) None of the above
(4) English
55. Education does

52. Who was responsible for worsening (1) Make us man

the condition of India, according to (2) Enable us to do our duty

Mahatma Gandhi?
(3) Both of the above

(4) None of the above

(1) Terror
56. In his book Hind Swaraj Gandhi ji

(2) Modern Civilizatlon

expresses his views on `waraj. To
(3) English him it means:

(1) Freedom from foreign rule

(4) None of these
(2) Acquisition of political power by
53. Modern civilization is based on
the sons of the soil
(1) Devotion to God
(3) Moral and spiritual awakening

(2) Luxury and physical pleasures of the people

(3) Modernity (4) Ability of the people to resist

(4) None of these authority when abused

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 57. Which of the following is a book writ 60. For which book Nirad C. Chaudhri

ten by Nirad C. Chaudhari? got Sahitya Akademi award?

(1) The Autobiography of an (1) Biography of Max Muller, Scholar

unknown Indian
Extraordinary
(2) A Suitable Boy (2) The Autobiography of an Un

(3) A Train to Pakistan known Indian

(4) Discovery of India (3) A Passage to England

58. Which book was written by Nirad (4) To Live or not to Live

C. Chaudhari on his first visit to 61. Nirad C. Chaudhari had visited

England? England in:

(1) Scholar Extraordinary (1) 1955

(2) Hinduism (2) 1956

(3) The Continent of Circe (3) 1957

(4) A Passage to (4) 1958

England
59 A Passage to England was 62. Hind Swaraí or Indian Home
published Rule
in was published in:

(1) 1951 (1) 1909

(2) 1959 (2) 1910

(3) 1966
(3) 1911
(4) 1967
(4) 1908
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63. The Sea Beach mentioned in the 67. Who are compared to the lying

poem Dawn at Puri is.

in the poem Dawn at Puri?
(1) Digha Beach
(1) Fish
(2) Goa Sea Beach

(3) Puri Sea Beach (2) Nets

(4) Western Beach

(3) Solitary pyre
64. The Skull in the sand indicated the
(4) Widows
(1) Rich county
68 "A mass of crouched faces"- the
(2) Hungry and poor country

(3) Religious country excerption is said about

(4) Mappy country (1) Lying shels

65. The pyre makes the poet remember
(2) Dead persons
of
(1) Widow women (3) Widows
(2) Poet's mother
(4) Fishes in net

(3) Skull
69. The widows are waiting to enter
(4) Relatives

66. The poet could see in Inner-eyes (1) Jagannath temple

(1) The temple
(2) Shiva temple
(2) The blazing pyre of his mother
(3) Nataraj temple
(3) The widows

(4) The fish in net (4) Home

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 A Mandala Poem is written
73. Kashi:
70. In the poem Dawn at Puri what was
the last wish of Poet's mother? by

(1) To visit Puri Sea beach

(1) Shiv. K. Kumar
(2) To visit Jagannath temple
(2) Jayant Mahapatra
(3) To be cremated on Puri beach

(4) To make a country trip (3) Ravindranath Tagore

71. Prof. Charu Sheel Singh was

(4) C. S. Singh
profesSor in

(1) Banaras Hindu

74. Ekalavya was published as a part of
University,

Varanasi poetic collection entitled

(2) Delhi University, Delhi

(1) Tapascharnam
(3) Mahatma Gandhi Kashi

Vidyapith, Varanasi (2) Tapascharnam: Sukdev ki Pida

(4) Sampurnanand Sanskrit (3) The Indian Hero

University, Varanasi
(4) Scripture on Stone
72. Which of the following theory was
propounded by Prof. Charu Sheel 75. Scripture on Stone was published
Singh?
(1) 2004
(1) Impersonality theory

(2) Mandala theary (2) 2005

(3) Rasa theory (3) 2006

(4) Dhvani theory

(4) 2007
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