Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Indian Books and Authors Quiz

TEST #50
This OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTION TEST contains 10 questions relating to English Literature and Linguistics. Pl. try to answer them by noting answers on a piece of paper.
IEL 491. Rose of God is a poem by:


a) Aurobindo b) Subrahmanya Bharati c) A.K. Ramanujan d) Rabindranath Tagore.


IEL 492. The first Indian English poet as per available information on date is:


a) Aurobindo b) Harindranath Chatopadhyaya c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Toru Dutt.


IEL 493. Which of the following is not a work of Rabindranath Tagore:


a) The King of the Dark Chamber b) Kabulivala c)Savitri d) Gitanjali.


IEL 494. Which English writer wrote preface to Tagore's Gitanjali?

a) George Bernard Shaw b) C.F. Andrews c) E.M. Forster d) W.B. Yeats.


IEL 495. The poetry of which of the following writers can be classified as "rebelling" and "revolting"?


a) A.K. Ramanujan b)Harindranath Chatopadhyaya c) Kamala Das d) Nissim Ezekiel.


IEL 496. Which of the following Indian English writers may be considered as writing something of personal interest and everyday subject matter instead of philosophical and abstract ideas?


a) Aurobindo b) Nissim Ezekiel c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Sarojini Naidu.

IEL 497. Which Indian English writer wrote of Bombay (Mumbai)as a :
Barbaric city sick with slums,
Deprived of seasons, blessed with rains,
Its hawkers, beggars, iron-lunged,
Processions led by frantic drums.



a) A.K. Ramanujan b) Jayanta Mahapatra c) Nissim Ezekiel d) Kamala Das.


IEL 498.
"SELF WAS LEFT, LONE,
LIMITLESS, NUDE, IMMUNE"

This loneliness of soul is expressed by:

a) Aurobindo b) Kamala Das c) Nissim Ezekiel d) A.K. Ramanujan.


IEL 499. "On the Gangaghat" is a novel by:

a) Kamala Markandeya b) Mulk Raj Anand c) R.K. Narayan d) Raja Rao.


IEL 500. Which of the following Indian English authors may be classified as, "the most leaning towards the left" ?

a) Kamala Markandeya b) Mulk Raj Anand c) R.K. Narayan d) Raja Rao.

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