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INDIAN PROSE

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in

a)

1911

b)

1912

c)

1913

d)

1914

2.

Which of the following options is incorrect with relevance to the Man Booker Prize"awarded to Indian Writers and their works?

a)

V.S. Naipaul - A house for Mr. Biswas (1971)

b)

Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger (2008)

c)

Kiran Desai - The inheritance of Loss (2006)

d)

Arundhati Roy - The God of small Things (1997)

3.

Apart from RK Narayan, there are two other writers credited with creating what is the Modern Indian English Novel. Who are they?

a)

Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth

b)

Vikram Seth and Raja Rao

c)

Salman Rushdie and Mulk Raj Anand

d)

Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao

4.

Where is the head office of Sahitya Akademi located?

a)

New Delhi

b)

Lucknow

c)

Kolkata

d)

None of these

5.

Which of Mahatma Gandhi’s works is one of the imperishable classics of our time?

a)

Hind Swaraj

b)

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

c)

Young India

d)

None

6.

Who is the author of Glimpses of World History and the Discovery of India?

a)

MK Gandhi

b)

Rajgopalchari

c)

B.G Tilak

d)

Jawaharlal Nehru

7.

Which of the following works is not written by Dr. S Radhakrishnan?

a)

An Idealist view of life

b)

The Hindu View of life

c)

Kalki

d)

The Future Poetry

8.

Who are called 'Trio' in Indian writing in English?

a)

R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao

b)

R.K.Narayan, Amish Tripathi, Manohar Malgaonkar

c)

Mulk Raj Anand, Bankim Chatterjee, Chetan Bhagat

d)

Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, R.K. Narayan

9.

This book is written by

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

Radhakrishnan

c)

Jawaharlal Nehru

d)

Sardar Patel

10.

Which of these books is written by Shashi Tharoor?

a)

Midnight's Children

b)

Train to Pakistan

c)

Two Lives

d)

Why I Am a Hindu