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UNIT-II TEST

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“The Vindication of the Rights of Women” is a milestone in the history of-----

a)

Neo- Classicism

b)

Feminism

c)

Logism

d)

Romanticism

2.

“The story of My Experiments with Truth”, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi published in-----

a)

1924

b)

1925

c)

1926

d)

1927

3.

Who is the author of “A Passage to England?”

a)

Khushwant Singh

b)

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

c)

R.K. Narayan

d)

Mahatma Gandhi

4.

Which was the first book of Nirad C. Chaudhuri?

a)

A Passage to England

b)

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

c)

The Continent of Circe

d)

None

5.

Which book of Chaudhuri is described as ‘an essay on the peoples of India’?

a)

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

b)

The Continent of Circe

c)

A Passage to England

d)

To Live or Not to Live

6.

Kamala Satthianadhan has written the first collection of short stories-----

a)

Love and Life Behind Purdah

b)

Stories of Indian Christian Life

c)

Sunbabies: Studies in the Child Life of India

d)

None

7.

Which author has written the short stories related to famine-stricken Bengal?

a)

Sunity Devi

b)

Cornelia Sorabji

c)

Ela Sen

d)

C.T. Ramabai

8.

Who has written the story “Who Cares”?

a)

Attiah Hosain

b)

Santha Rama Rau

c)

Cornelia Sorabji

d)

Ela Sen

9.

Which author is a gifted story teller with a touch of humour?

a)

Diana Mehta

b)

Sujata bala

c)

Malathi rao

d)

Shashi Deshpande

10.

The recent collection of stories “A Bride for the Sahib” has been written by-----

a)

Mulk raj Anand

b)

R.K.Narayan

c)

Khushwant Singh

d)

Raja Rao

11.

In which story Basavaraj Naikar has tried to bring in the Oedipus myth with the slight twist?

a)

She Wanted a Child

b)

The Anonymous Letter

c)

Mother’s Husband

d)

Fulfillment

12.

Whose story are typically journalistic?

a)

Bharathi Mukherjee

b)

Shashi Deshpande

c)

Anita Desai

d)

Nergis Dalal

13.

Which story of Lahiri has Indo- Pak war of 1971 and the birth of Bangladesh as it’s backdrop?

a)

The Third and Final Continent

b)

A Real Durwan

c)

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

d)

A Temporary matter

14.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpretor of Maladies” has how many stories?

a)

8

b)

9

c)

10

d)

11

15.

Who has written the collection of short stories came for a Coffee Please?

a)

Malathi Rao

b)

Margaret Chatterji

c)

Juliette Banerjee

d)

Vasantha Ravindran

16.

In which work of Defoe the horrors of a frightful plague are minutely recorded?

a)

Memoirs of a Cavalier

b)

Journal of the Plague Year

c)

Captain Singleton

d)

None

17.

Epistolary novel is a novel-----

a)

Which is written in the form of letters

b)

Which is based on a letter written by a great man

c)

Which is based on fanciful stories of ghosts

d)

Which is a science fiction

18.

Fielding’s “Shamela” seems to be the parody of----

a)

Pamela

b)

Clarissa

c)

Robinson Crusoe

d)

Moll Flanders

19.

Who is regarded as the father of the Gothic novels?

a)

Walpole

b)

Burke

c)

Boswell

d)

None

20.

Who is the author of “Castle of Otranto”?

a)

Walpole

b)

Clara Reeve

c)

M.G.Lewis

d)

Radcliffe

21.

Harriet Smith is a character in the novel----

a)

Mansfield Park

b)

Hard Times

c)

Emma

d)

Pamela

22.

“The Authoritative Life of Charles Dickens” was written by-----

a)

Thackeray

b)

Disraeli

c)

John Forster

d)

Anthony Trollope

23.

Who is the author of “The Pickwick Papers”?

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Thackeray

c)

Anthony Trollope

d)

George Eliot

24.

Uriah Heep is the character in-----

a)

Hard Times

b)

The Pickwick Papers

c)

David Copperfield

d)

Oliver Twist

25.

Heathcliff appears in the novel of-----

a)

Charlotte Bronte

b)

Anne

c)

Emily Bronte

d)

Patrick Bronte

26.

The influence of Scott is felt in Thackeray’s -----

a)

Esmond

b)

Pendennis

c)

The Newcomes

d)

The Four Georges

27.

Becky Sharp is a character in Thackeray’s-----

a)

Vanity Fair

b)

Pendennis

c)

Esmond

d)

None

28.

“Erewhon” is a well known novel written by----

a)

Samuel Butler

b)

George Gissing

c)

Arnold Bennett

d)

None

29.

Hardy’s first successful novel was----

a)

The Woodlanders

b)

The Mayor of Casterbridge

c)

Far From the Madding Crowd

d)

Jude, the Obscure

30.

Mr. Kurtz is a character in Conrad’s----

a)

Lord Jim

b)

Heart of Darkness

c)

Nostromo

d)

Under Western Eyes

31.

George Orwell firmly believed ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’. This is quotation from

a)

George Orwell

b)

Lord Acton

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

None

32.

“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” may be called-----

a)

A political novel

b)

A historical novel

c)

An autobiographical novel

d)

A picaresque novel

33.

Leopard Bloom is the protagonist in which of the following novels of Joyce?

a)

Finnegans wake

b)

Dubliners

c)

Ulysses

d)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

34.

Which was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?

a)

The Voyage Out

b)

Night and Day

c)

Jacob’s Room

d)

Mrs. Dalloway

35.

Samuel Clemens was Mark Twains------

a)

Father

b)

Brother

c)

Son

d)

Original Name

36.

. In “Tom Sawyer”, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Life on the Mississippi”, Twain wrote about-------

a)

Love

b)

Religion

c)

Town

d)

Nature

37.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is a writer of -----

a)

Prose

b)

Fiction

c)

Plays

d)

Short Stories

38.

There are traces of Dickens in Herman Melville’s-----

a)

Moby Dick

b)

Bertleby the Scrivener

c)

Typee

d)

Mardi

39.

Which book of Melville reflects Shakespearean Soliloquies?

a)

Omoo

b)

Typee

c)

Moby dick

d)

Pierre

40.

Which of Fitzgerald’s works was left unfinished?

a)

The Last Tycoon

b)

The Crack-up

c)

Tender is the Night

d)

The Great Gatsby

41.

Steinbeck’s which novel is the most sensationally impressive book in American literature?

a)

The Grapes of Wrath

b)

The Dubious Battle

c)

Of Mice and Men

d)

The Pastures of Heaven

42.

William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize in ------

a)

1920

b)

1925

c)

1950

d)

1960

43.

Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury was published in -----

a)

1919

b)

1921

c)

1929

d)

1930

44.

Which novel of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee gave the Indians their national anthem ‘Vande

Mataram?

a)

Rajmohan’s Wife

b)

Durgesh Nandini

c)

Anand Math

d)

None

45.

In his novels Mulk Raj Anand deals with -----

a)

Upper class

b)

Upper middle class

c)

Middle class

d)

Lower class

46.

‘I Regard untouchability as the greatest blot on Hinduism’ these lines occur in

a)

Coolie

b)

Untouchable

c)

The Village

d)

Two Leaves and a Bud

47.

Which work of Raja Rao has been called ‘a metaphysical comedy?’

a)

The Serpent and the Rope

b)

The Cat and the Shakespeare

c)

Kanthapura

d)

The Cow of the Barricades

48.

One of the following collections of short stories is not of Raja Rao. Identify it.

a)

The Cat and the Shakespeare

b)

The Cow of the Barricades

c)

The Policeman and the Rose

d)

On the Ganga Ghat

49.

Kanthapura is described to be a/an----

a)

Purana

b)

Upanishad

c)

Epic

d)

History

50.

Which novel is described as ‘a modern fable of India at the time of Independence?

a)

Music for Mohini

b)

So Many Hungers

c)

A Goddess Named Gold

d)

None

51.

Frotesque praises the constitution of his country in---

a)

De Natura Lagis Naturae

b)

The Governance of England

c)

De Laudibus Legum Anliae

d)

None

52.

Which was the first printed English book?

a)

The Boke of Historyes of Jason

b)

The Recuyell of the Historye of Troye

c)

Morte d” Arthur

d)

The Foure Sonnes of Aymon

53.

“Praise of Folly” is a famous piece of satire written by ----

a)

Desiderius Erasmus

b)

Roger Ascham

c)

Sir Thomas More

d)

William Tyndale

54.

“The Schoolmaster” is a well known work written by-----

a)

Roger Ascham

b)

William Tyndale

c)

Sir Thomas More

d)

Erasmus

55.

Which of the following is the earliest version of Bible?

a)

William Tyndale’s “English New Testament

b)

Miles Coverdale’s “English Bible”

c)

Cromwell’s “Great Bible”

d)

King James ‘s “Authorised Version of Bible”

56.

“NewAtlantis” is Modelled on-----

a)

More’s “Utopia”

b)

Jonson’s “Epigramme”

c)

Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”

d)

None

57.

Counsels, Civil and Moral is the subtitle given to----

a)

Bacon’s essays

b)

Hooker’s pamphlet

c)

Montaigne’s essays

d)

Nashe’s novel

58.

Who said? ‘Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact

man’

a)

Bacon

b)

Deloney

c)

Montaigne

d)

Lodge

59.

“Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” is a monumental book by---

a)

Hooker

b)

Bacon

c)

Deloney

d)

Nashe

60.

The most important critical work of Elizabethan period is-----

a)

Apologie for Poetrie

b)

The School of Abuse

c)

Defence of Rhyme

d)

Arcadia

61.

During imprisonment in Tower, Walter Raleigh wrote-----

a)

History of the World

b)

Discovery of Guiana

c)

The Discoveries

d)

The Pilgrimage

62.

The most popular of Bunyan’s works is -------

a)

The Pilgrim’s Progress

b)

The Holy War

c)

The Holy City

d)

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

63.

Burton’s “The Anatomy of Melancholy” is a -------

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Metaphysics

c)

Jacobean

d)

Post-Elizabethan

64.

The masterpiece of Thomas Browne is------

a)

Hydriotaphia

b)

The Garden of Cyrus

c)

Religio Medici

d)

Vulgar Errors

65.

Coleridge and Lamb were influenced by Fuller’s-----

a)

Satire

b)

Comedy

c)

Antithetical Humour

d)

Masque

66.

Walton’s most famous work “The Complete Angler” was published in -----

a)

1603

b)

1623

c)

1633

d)

1653

67.

Which of the following voyages was undertaken by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels?

a)

Voyage to Brobdingnag

b)

Voyage to Congo

c)

Voyage to malyan Islands

d)

Voyage to Denmark

68.

. In Swift’s “The battle of the Books” who is the commander of the ancients?

a)

Dryden

b)

Milton

c)

Hobbes

d)

William Temple

69.

Steele at first signed his essays with the name of -----

a)

Issac Bickerstaff

b)

Issac Walton

c)

Issac Mount

d)

Issac Newton

70.

“The Spectator” was a joint enterprise of -----

a)

Steele and Addison

b)

Steele and Sterne

c)

Addison and Sterne

d)

Defoe and Steele

71.

Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb collaborated in-----

a)

Sonnets

b)

Tales from Shakespeare

c)

Lyrics

d)

Short Stories

72.

Hazlitt’s “The Spirit of the Age” came out in the year------

a)

1820

b)

1822

c)

1823

d)

1825

73.

In Macaulay’s “The History of England”, merits and defects of his “Essays” are----

a)

Repeated

b)

Removed

c)

Exaggerated

d)

Stressed upon

74.

The first important work of John Stuart Mill was----

a)

System of Logic

b)

Logica

c)

Utilitarianism

d)

Principles of Political Economy

75.

“The Wealth of Nations” is a prose work on economics written by----

a)

Addison

b)

Gibbon

c)

Burke

d)

Adam Smith

76.

Anita Desai was awarded Sahitya Akademi for which novel?

a)

Clear Light of Day

b)

Fire on the Mountain

c)

The Village by the Sea

d)

Cry, the Peacock

77.

. Jaya is the principal character in Shashi Deshpande’s novel----

a)

The Legacy

b)

That Long Silence

c)

Come Up and Be Dead

d)

None

78.

Rukmani is the central character in--------

a)

Some Inner Fury

b)

Nectar in a Sieve

c)

A Silence of Desire

d)

A Handful of Rice

79.

Who is the author of “The Sword and the Sickle”?

a)

Manohar Malgonkar

b)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

c)

Kamala Das

d)

Nayantara Sahgal

80.

“Prison and Chocolate Cake” is the autobiography of ---

a)

Nayantara Sahgal

b)

Shashi Deshpande

c)

Anita Desai

d)

Kamala Markandaya

81.

Who is the untouchable in “The God of Small Things”?

a)

Esthapan

b)

Velutha

c)

Father Mulligan

d)

Pappachi

82.

Hannah Easton is the heroine of Bharati Mukherjee’s novel------

a)

The Tiger’s Daughter

b)

The Holder of the World

c)

Wife

d)

Jasmine

83.

Which award Taslima Nasreen won in 1992?

a)

Pulitzer Prize

b)

Booker Prize

c)

The Anand Prize

d)

Jnanpith award

84.

Padma is the central character in the novel----

a)

Shame

b)

The satanic Verses

c)

Midnight’s Children

d)

Grimus

85.

Chinua Achebe weaves in his novel the concept of ----

a)

Karma

b)

Rejection of self-styled tyranny of Okonkwo

c)

Hubris

d)

Free will

86.

Taslima Nasreen’s well known novel is ----

a)

Shame

b)

Disgrace

c)

Jwala

d)

Lajja

87.

Patrick White’s Voss is----

a)

An Explorer of life and land

b)

In search for absolute truth

c)

A crazy German trying to make Australian experience worthwhile

d)

Exploring his self

88.

Nadine Gordimer is a -----

a)

South African

b)

White Nigerian

c)

Kenyan

d)

White South African

89.

Who has written “The Pleasures of Exile”?

a)

V.S.Naipaul

b)

Shiva Naipaul

c)

William Walsh

d)

George Lamming

90.

‘Diaspora’ means----

a)

Exile

b)

Going away from home

c)

Movement

d)

The movement of the people or group to a country away from their own

91.

Name the author of “Train to Pakistan”

a)

Raja Rao

b)

R.K.Narayan

c)

Khushuwant Singh

d)

Mulk Raj Anand

92.

Which is the first novel of Vikram Seth?

a)

An Equal Music

b)

A Golden Gate

c)

A Suitable Boy

d)

None

93.

Vikram Chandra’s “Love and Longing in Bombay” employs----- stories

a)

5

b)

6

c)

4

d)

7

94.

“Our Trees Still Grow at Dehradun” is the work of -----

a)

Ruskin Bond

b)

Manohar Malgonkar

c)

Chaman Nahal

d)

Sashi Tharoor

95.

Rusty is a creation of -----

a)

Ruskin Bond

b)

Arun Joshi

c)

Vikram Seth

d)

Rajendra Singh

96.

Ratan Rathor is a character in Joshi’s Novel------

a)

The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

b)

The Apprentice

c)

The Last Labyrinth

d)

The City and the River

97.

Which novel of Amitav Gosh takes up the issues of malaria?

a)

The Calcutta Chromosome

b)

The Countdown

c)

The Circle of reason

d)

None

98.

“The Great Indian Novel” has been written by -----

a)

Arun Joshi

b)

Vikram Seth

c)

Amitav Gosh

d)

Sashi Tharoor

99.

Who is the chief male character in “The Riot”?

a)

Lakshaman

b)

Rama

c)

Iqbal

d)

Bharat

100.

“Freedom Song” is the famous novel of-----

a)

Amitav Gosh

b)

Vikram Seth

c)

Upmanyu Chatterjee

d)

Amit Chaudri

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