Indian Writing in English

Quiz
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English
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University
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Hard
+11
Standards-aligned
Rukmini Dolley
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10 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 2 pts
Who wrote Twilight in Delhi?
Ahmed Ali
R.K Narayan
Mulk Raj Anand
Salman Rushdie
Answer explanation
Twilight in Delhi is Ahmed Ali's first novel, originally published in English by the Hogarth Press in Britain in 1940.
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CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
2.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
30 sec • 2 pts
Fill in the blanks:
The peasants came like ____________
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil One.
Reference: Nissim Ezekiels' "Night of the Scorpion"
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CCSS.RL.11-12.11
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 2 pts
Which of the following are the works of R.K Narayan?
1. Swami and Friends
2. Untouchable
3. The Guide
4. Malgudi Days
5. Kanthapura
1,2,3
1,3,4
2,4,5
1 and 5 only
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 2 pts
Identify this famous writer.
Sashi Tharoor
Ruskin Bond
Salman Rushdie
Amitav Ghosh
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 2 pts
Arundhathi Roy was the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 for which of her work?
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The God of Small Things
My Seditious Heart
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
CCSS.RL.K.6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 2 pts
Karukku is a book authored by-
Baby Kamble
Gogu Shyamala
Bama
Urmila Pawar
Tags
CCSS.RI.11-12.9
CCSS.RI.9-10.9
CCSS.RI.K.6
CCSS.RL.11-12.9
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 2 pts
Is Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children a national allegory?
TRUE
False
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CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.5.7
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.6.9
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