Indian Writers PYQs

2nd Grade 2011-I

125. Who are known as the trio of Indian English novelists ?

(1) Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan and Raja Rao (2) Anita Desai, Mulk Raj Anand and Kiran Desai (3) Anita Desai, Kiran Desai and Kamla Das (4) R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao and Kamla Markandaya

126. Rabindranath Tagore’s most famous poem is

(1) Gitanjali (2) Savitri (3) Untouchable (4) Coolie

127. Who wrote ‘Kanthapura’ ?

(1) Raja Rao (2) Mulk Raj Anand (3) R. K. Narayan (4) V. S. Naipaul

2nd Grade 2011-II

128. Which one of the following does not match correctly ?

(1) Mulk Raj Anand - A Horse and Two Goats (2) Raja Rao - The Cow of the Barricades (3) R K Narayan - Gods, Demons and Others (4) Khuswant Singh - The Mark of Vishnu

129. Which one of the following doesn’t match correctly ?

(1) Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children (2) Anita Desai - Clear Light of Day (3) Vikram Seth - A suitable boy (4) Chetan Bhagat - Narcopolis

130. Which one of the following is not the main Booker Prize Winner ?

(1) Arvind Adiga (2) Kiran Desai (3) Arundhati Roy (4) Amitav Ghosh

2nd Grade 2013

27. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize ______ literature.

(1) for (2) in (3) of (4) on

119. Who among the following has won the ‘Booker Prize’ for his/her writing ?

(1) Sarojini Naidu (2) Anita Desai (3) Arundati Roy (4) Jumpa Lahiri

122. Which is the ‘odd’ one out ?

(1) Kamala Das (2) Toru Dutt (3) Kiran Desai (4) Imtiaz Dharkar

123. Which one of the following does not match correctly ?

(1) Raja Rao - The Serpant and the Rope (2) Anita Desai - Fire on the Mountain (3) Mulk Raj Anand - Man Eaters of Malgudi (4) Jumpa Lahiri - The Interpreter of Maladies

124. ‘In the Bazzars of Hyderabad’ is a poem composed by

(1) Gita Mehta (2) Ismat Chugtai (3) Sarojini Naidu (4) Chitra Devi Karuni

2nd Grade 2015-18

127. rabindranath tagore was awarded the nobel prize for

(1) gora (2) home and the world (3) the wreck (4) gitanjali

128. ‘obituary’ is a poem written by

(1) taru dutt (2) a. k. ramanujan (3) nissim ezekiel (4) kamala das

129. the fictitious locale created by r k narayan in his novel is :

(1) kanthapura (2) jhumntalaiya (3) malgudi (4) wessex

130. Cry the Peacock and Voices in the City are novels written by

(1) shashi deshpande (2) anita desai (3) rama mehta (4) kamala markandya

2nd Grade ST-22

68. For which collection of his poems was Nissim Ezekiel awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, 1983?

(1) Hymns in Darkness (2) Latter-Day Psalms (3) Discovery of India (4) Time to Change

69. ‘Savitri’, ‘Lakshman’, ‘Dhruva’, ‘Prahlad’ are -

(1) Poems written by Sarojini Naidu (2) Short stories written by R. K. Narayan (3) Poems written by Toru Dutt (4) Short stories written by R. N. Tagore

71. The first novel of Ruskin Bond was-

(1) Tales of Fosterganj (2) Room on the Roof (3) Delhi Is Not Far (4) Vagrants in the Valley

72. Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri, a collection of 31 poems won the -

(1) The Booker Prize in 1999 (2) Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Citation in 2004 (3) The Sahitya Akademi Award in 2003 (4) Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1977

73. The television serial based on Manju Kapur’s novel ‘The Immigrant’ is -

(1) Yeh Hai Mohabbatein (2) Pranayam (3) Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil (4) Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai

75. In which of the following novels of Mulk Raj Anand, Bakha appears as the protagonist?

(1) Across Black Waters (2) Untouchable (3) Coolie (4) Two Leaves and a Bud

79. Toru Dutt’s poem ‘The Lotus’ is in the form of -

(1) a Petrarchan Sonnet (2) a Ballad (3) an Elegy (4) an Ode

80. Which poet discusses the rites and rituals of Orissa in his poems?

(1) Jayanta Mahapatra (2) Mulk Raj Anand (3) Amitav Ghosh (4) Nissim Ezekiel

81. Mini, Bimla, Binodini, Kadambini are important and memorable characters created by -

(1) R. K. Narayan (2) Amitav Ghosh (3) Rabindranath Tagore (4) Shashi Deshpande

83. Virmati, Shakuntala and Swarna choose not to conform to societal standards. Name the novel and the writer.

(1) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (2) That Long Silence – Shashi Deshpande (3) Difficult Daughters – Manju Kapur (4) A Married-Woman – Manju Kapur

84. R. K. Narayan’s mentor and friend was -

(1) Graham Greene (2) Krishnaswami (3) R. K. Laxman (4) Ramchandra

85. “Like a huge Python, winding round and round

The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars up to its very summit near the stars A creeper climbs, in …” These lines are taken from - (1) Bianca, or the Young Spanish Maiden (2) Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (3) The Diary of Mademoiselle D’ Arvers (4) Our Casuarina Tree

87. Which of the following is not true about Manju Kapur?

(1) She does not ever address any socio-political issues in the country. (2) Her novel ‘A Married Woman’ was called ‘fluent and witty’ in the ‘Independent’. (3) She touches bases social themes like marriage, girl education; dowry, religion etc. in her novels. (4) She won the Commonwealth Prize for first novels for ‘Difficult Daughters’.

92. His works focus on the flora and fauna in and around the Himalayas. He loves nature and spends time in idyllic surroundings. He is -

(1) R. N. Tagore (2) Nissim Ezekiel (3) Arun Kolatkar (4) Ruskin Bond

94. Which taboo topic does Shashi Deshpande highlight is her short story ‘The Intrusion’?

(1) Male Chauvinism (2) Homosexuality (3) Infanticide (4) Marital rape

96. What among these is a non-fiction work by Arundhati Roy?

(1) The God of Small Things (2) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (3) In Custody (4) An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire

101. In ‘That Long Silence’ by Shashi Deshpande, the protagonist Jaya wants to become -

(1) a Writer (2) a Musician (3) a Doctor (4) a Psychotherapist

102. The novel talks about the plight of the indentured labourers the “Girmitiyas” to use Gyanendra Pandey’s terminology. Identify the novel from the list given below -

(1) Sea of Poppies (2) The Hungry Tide (3) The Shadow Lines (4) River of Smoke

103. Estha and Rahel are characters in which famous novel of Arundhati Roy?

(1) Azadi (2) The God of Small Things (3) The End of Imagination (4) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

104. She wrote poems and she was a freedom fighter. Her famous works include‘The Sceptred Flute’ and ‘The Feather of the Dawn’, she is -

(1) Arundhati Roy (2) Toru Dutt (3) Kamala Das (4) Sarojini Naidu

106. Nissim Ezekiel mostly wrote about-

(1) Indian contemporaray scene (2) Modern urban life (3) Spiritual values (4) All of the above

109. Who among the following Indian poets became the first ever writer in English language to win Sahitya Akademi Award and in which year?

(1) Arun Kolatkar in 1976 (2) Jayanta Mahapatra in 1981 (3) Sarojini Naidu in 1948 (4) Toru Dutt in 1889

112. Name the author of the collection of short stories titled ‘Padmavati, the Harlot and other stories’.

(1) Anita Desai (2) Arundhati Roy (3) Kamala Das (4) Shashi Deshpande

114. Which religion did Kamala Das embrace is 1999 and what did she rename herself?

(1) Buddhism, Kamala Chakma (2) Christianity, Camela Dass (3) Zoroastrianism, Cameila Naaz (4) Islam, Kamala Surayya

115. To which genre do Ruskin Bond’s works ‘Roads to Mussoorie’ and ‘Landour Days’, belong?

(1) History (2) Memoirs (3) Protest writing (4) Biographies

116. ‘The Grandmother’s Tale’ is written by -

(1) Amitav Ghosh (2) Jayant Mahapatra (3) Mulk Raj Anand (4) R. K. Narayan

118. He is acclaimed for his depiction of societal behaviour towards people belonging to the poor and unprivileged class and caste of India. He is none other than -

(1) Mulk Raj Anand (2) R. K. Narayan (3) Jayanta Mahapatra (4) Arun Kolatkar

119. Which of Anita Desai’s novels was adapted into an English film and what award was given to the film?

(1) In Custody, President of India Gold Medal for best picture (2) Baumgartner’s Bombay, Grammy Award (3) Bye-bye Blackbird, the Dada Saheb Phalke award (4) Cry, the Peacock, Academy Award

123. Who, in ‘The God of Small Things’ discovered that the ‘secret of the great stories is that they have no secrets’?

(1) Velutha (2) Baby Kochamma (3) Chacko (4) Kathakali dancer

124. Which among the following is not true about ‘Jungle Nama’ written by Amitav Ghosh?

(1) It is a graphic verse novel (2) Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Jungle Nama (3) It is adaptation of the medieval Bengali tale about the Sunderbans Forest Goddess, Bon Bibi (4) The story of Jungle Nama explores themes of greed and ecological misadventure

129. ‘The Boatride’ was written by -

(1) Toru Dutt (2) Nissim Ezekiel (3) Sarojini Naidu (4) Arun Kolatkar

2nd Grade ST-81

129. Which one is odd one out?

(1) Nissim Ezekiel (2) Sarojini Naidu (3) Kiran Desai (4) Dom Moraes

138. Which one of the following is not ‘The Man Booker Prize’ winner?

(1) V.S. Naipaul (2) Kiran Desai (3) Anita Desai (4) Aravind Adiga

147. Which one of the following does not match correctly?

(1) Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy (2) Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children (3) Arundhati Roy - The God of small things (4) Amitav Ghosh - The White Tiger

2nd Grade STS-32

86. The only novel written by Kamala Das is:

(1) My Story (2) The Stranger Time (3) Alphabet of Lust (4) Yaa Allah

87. Arun Kolatkar’s Sarpa Satra or Snake Sacrifice is a retelling of the epic :

(1) Ramayan (2) Mahabharat (3) Iliad (4) Aeniad

88. Match the characters with the novels of R.K. Narayan in which they figure :

A. Raju B. Krishna C. Jagan D. Marayya

E. The Financial Expert F. The Vendor of Sweets G. The English Teacher H. The Guide

Codes:

	A	B	C	D
(1)	H	G	F	E
(2)	E	F	G	H
(3)	G	F	E	H
(4)	F	G	H	E

89. ‘Alu’ is a character who figures in Amitav Ghosh’s novel :

(1) The Glass Palace (2) Calcutta Chromosomes (3) The Shadow Lines (4) Circle of Reason

90. Which one of the following is not a book written by Mulk Raj Anand ?

(1) Two Leaves and a Bud (2) Across Black Waters (3) Nectar in a Sieve (4) A Pair of Mustachios

91. Jejuri is a literary work written by :

(1) Kamala Das (2) Arun Kolatkar (3) Toru Dutt (4) Sarojini Naidu

92. “Beneath it we have played ; though years may roll,

O, sweet companions, loved with love intense, For your sakes shall the tree be ever dear.” These lines have taken from the poem; (1) The Lotus (2) Our Casuariana Tree (3) Lakshman (4) Papers

93. The Dark Holds No Terror is a novel written by :

(1) Anita Desai (2) Shashi Deshpande (3) Kamala Das (4) V.S. Naipaul

2nd Grade STS-91

81. Who is the writer who created the fictional locale of “Malgudi” ?

(1) Raja Rao (2) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (3) Anita Desai (4) R.K. Narayan

82. The final installment of the Ibis trilogy by Amitav Ghosh is called -

(1) Flood of Fire (2) Sea of Poppies (3) River of Smoke (4) The Circle of Reason

83. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a novel written by –

(1) Salman Rushdie (2) Jhumpa Lahiri (3) Arundhati Roy (4) Vikram Seth

84. Which writer of Indian origin died on 11th August, 2018 ?

(1) Agha Shahid Ali (2) Nissim Ezekiel (3) V.S. Naipaul (4) Dom Moraes

2nd Grade STSP-91

82. The Final Solutions is a famous play by

(1) Mahesh Dattane (2) Asif Currimbhoy (3) Gurcharan Das (4) Nissim Ezekiel

83. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s latest book published in 2019 is :

(1) The Palace of Illusions (2) The Forest of Enchantments (3) The Mistress of Spices (4) Before We Visit the Goddess

84. Who amongst the following is not an Indian Diaspora Writer ?

(1) Shashi Deshpande (2) Sujata Bhatt (3) Meena Alexander (4) Jhumpa Lahiri

90. The Great Indian Novel is written by

(1) Vikram Seth (2) Shashi Tharoor (3) V.S. Naipaul (4) Salman Rushdie

2nd Grade STSP-91

98. “Where the mind is without fear

And the head is held high where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken into fragments by narrow domestic walls” The above lines are from (1) Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar (2) Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (3) Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate (4) Jayant Mahapatra’s Life Signs

99. In the Guide by R.K. Narayan, we come across a dancer. What is her name ?

(1) Daisy (2) Bharati (3) Rosie (4) Savitri

100. Who was the first recipient of the Sahitya Academi Award for English literature ?

(1) Mulk Raj Anand (2) Nayantara Sehgal (3) R.K. Narayan (4) Raja Rao

101. Which among the following is not authored by Mulk Raj Anand ?

(1) Untouchable (2) Apology for Heroism A Brief Autobiography of Ideas (3) Two leaves of a Bud (4) The Bachelor of Arts

102. Which among the following is not authored by Jhumpa Lahiri ?

(1) The Namesake (2) Unaccustomed Earth (3) The Lowland (4) Summer in Calcutta

2nd Grade TSS-24

9. Match the following Writers with the Languages in which they have written:

(A) Kamala Das (B) Jayant Mahapatra (C) Arun Kolatkar (D) A.K. Ramanujan

(i) Oriya (ii) Marathi (iii) Kannada (iv) Malayalam

(1) (A)-(iv), (B)-(i), (C)-(ii), (D)-(iii) (2) (A)-(iv), (B)-(i), (C)-(ii), (D)-(iii) (3) (A)-(iii), (B)-(ii), (C)-(i), (D)-(iv) (4) (A)-(iii), (B)-(i), (C)-(iv), (D)-(i) (5) Question not attempted

30. Match the Years of Publication of the following Poetic Collections of Sarojini Naidu:

(1) The Golden Threshold (2) The Bird of Time (3) The Sceptred Flute (4) The Feather of the Dawn

Choose the correct option: (1) (1)-(a), (2)-(b), (3)-(c), (4)-(d) (2) (1)-(d), (2)-(b), (3)-(c), (4)-(a) (3) (1)-(c), (2)-(d), (3)-(b), (4)-(a) (4) (1)-(b), (2)-(a), (3)-(d), (4)-(c) (5) Question not attempted

73. Chandalika, play written by R.N. Tagore, is basically -

(1) an allegory of the destructive nature of hate (2) a story of the power of black magic (3) a psychological drama of intense spiritual conflict (4) the story of a wicked, lustful girl (5) Question not attempted

80. Who among these poets is said to have indigenized English to the rhythms and flavours of Bombay?

(1) Nissim Ezekiel (2) Amitav Ghosh (3) Arun Kolatkar (4) Manju Kapoor (5) Question not attempted

101. Which of the following statements about the poem, “Night of the Scorpion”, is true? The poem is essentially about -

(1) Mother’s love for her children (2) Suffering of women (3) Rationalism and Scepticism of the mother (4) The purification of sins of previous birth (5) Question not attempted

109. Match the following Authors with their Books -

(i) R.K. Narayan (ii) Mulk Raj Anand (iii) Shashi Deshpande (iv) Amitav Ghosh

(A) Two Leaves and a Bud (B) The Circle of Reason (C) The Financial Expert (D) Roots and Shadows

Answer - (1) (i)-(A), (ii)-(C), (iii)-(B), (iv)-(D) (2) (i)-(C), (ii)-(D), (iii)-(A), (iv)-(B) (3) (i)-(C), (ii)-(A), (iii)-(D), (iv)-(B) (4) (i)-(B), (ii)-(D), (iii)-(C), (iv)-(A) (5) Question not attempted

110. Who was the mentor of R.K. Narayan?

(1) Joseph Conrad (2) V.S. Naipaul (3) Graham Greene (4) Ford Madox Ford (5) Question not attempted

116. “Your own divided face in the pair of glasses

on an oldman’s nose is all the countryside you get to see.” The above lines occur in the poem - (1) ‘Grandfather’ by Jayanta Mahapatra (2) ‘The Bus’ by Arun Kolatkar (3) ‘Philosophy’ by Nissim Ezekiel (4) ‘The Old Playhouse’ by Kamala Das (5) Question not attempted

117. Match the following R.K. Narayan’s Novels with their Characters -

(a) The Guide (b) The Painter of Signs (c) The Vendor of Sweets (d) A Tiger for Malgudi

(1) Rita (2) Grace (3) Daisy (4) Rosie

Choose the correct option - (1) (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(1), (d)-(2) (2) (a)-(4), (b)-(3), (c)-(2), (d)-(1) (3) (a)-(1), (b)-(2), (c)-(3), (d)-(4) (4) (a)-(3), (b)-(4), (c)-(1), (d)-(2) (5) Question not attempted

140. I have read Godan by Premchand.

(1) Does you read Godan by Premchand ? (2) Who has written Godan ? (3) When did you read Godan by Premchand ? (4) Have you read Godan by Premchand ?