1. Who was the first woman president of Indian National Congress?
Correct : B. sarojini naidu
2. Who is known as Bharat Kokila ( the nightingale of India)?
Correct : C. sarojini naidu
3. Who endowed Sarojini Naidu the title ‘The Nightingale of India?
Correct : D. rabindranath tagore
4. The narrator is in the search for her ……..?
Correct : B. lover
5. Who is referred as Kanhaya in the poem?
Correct : A. krishna
6. In the evening, she asked ……….. about her flute player. (a. Wind b. woods c. forest d. gray coloured tide)
7. With the help of a beautiful simile, to which thing she compares her heart?
Correct : D. leaf
7. Where does Krishna take rest?
Correct : B. forest
8. What made the honey to ooze in to Radha’s heart?
Correct : C. krishna’s tricks
9. According to Krishna, where can Radha find Krishna?
Correct : D. heart’s mirror
10. What is the rhyming pattern of the poem?
Correct : B. aabb ccdd
11. Which pair among the following is known as the symbol of love?
Correct : D. radha-krishna
12. The poem is about ………
Correct : B. love
13. What is the expression Naidu uses to explain the blind nature of Radha’s love?
Correct : C. foolish
14. Which kind of love is portrayed in TheQuest?
Correct : B. platonic
15. Which is the first non-European work that had won the Nobel Prize for literature?
Correct : D. gitanjali
16. Who wrote the national anthem of India?
Correct : A. tagore
17. The poem Breezy April is addressed to…………..
Correct : C. april
18. Which peculiarity of April rocks the poet?
Correct : D. music
19. What makes the poet thrilled?
Correct : A. aprils touch
20. ……… awakens the poet from his sleep.
Correct : D. breeze
21. Slumber means?
Correct : B. sleep
22. What type of a poem is Breezy April?
Correct : C. ode
23. The wind and leaves communicate through …….. .
Correct : D. leafy language
24. What makes the poet surrender in front of the breeze of April?
Correct : A. its kisses
25. Breezy April is written in …….. style?
Correct : B. romantic
26. How many quatrains are there in Breezy April?
Correct : D. four
27. What/who teases the poet?
Correct : A. breeze
28. Name the first Indian to win Nobel Prize for literature?
Correct : C. rabindranath tagore
29. In which year, Tagore received Nobel Prize?
Correct : D. 1913
30. Find out the pen-name of Kamala Das from the following.
Correct : D. madhavikkutti
31. Kamala Das became iconoclast among her contemporaries due to her open expression of ………
Correct : C. female sexuality
32. Which among the listed do not constitute the theme of In Love?
Correct : D. none of these
33. ……….. reminds her of her lover. (a. Burning sun b. jigsaw c. crow d. none of these)
35. To which thing Kamala Das compares the limbs of her lover?
Correct : A. jigsaw
34. According to the narrator, the meeting of both of them is ……….
Correct : C. mechanical
35. When the man succeeds over her, she turns……….
Correct : D. silent
36. Who utter ‘Bol Hari Bol’ in the night?
Correct : B. corpse carriers
37. What does the poet mean by ‘skin-communicated thing?
Correct : A. lust
38. The use of ‘carnivorous plant’ in the poem is an example of ………
Correct : C. simile
39. Where is the narrator settled in the poem?
Correct : B. in a town
40. According to the narrator, what is filled in the wings of the crows?
Correct : C. poison
41. To which thing narrator compares his embrace?
Correct : D. jigsaw
42. ‘Finished jigsaw’ is an example of ………..
Correct : A. metaphor
43. Which kind of love is portrayed in this poem?
Correct : B. carnal love
44. Among the following, which is the first book of Ezekiel?
Correct : D. the bad day
45. Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is mostly used as the study material of Indian English Poetry?
Correct : B. the night of the scorpion
46. Whose poems were translated by Ezekiel along with Vrinda Nabar?
Correct : C. nehru
47. Ezekiel was awarded Padmashri in………..
Correct : B. 1988
48. Which locality of Indian English users is mentioned in this poem?
Correct : D. gujarat
49. In whose name the party is arranged?
Correct : C. miss pushpa
50. Which kind of narration is used in this poem?
Correct : C. first person
51. What kind of personality is Miss Pushpa according to the speaker?
Correct : A. sweet
52. What was the profession of Miss Pushpa’s father?
Correct : B. advocate
53. Where was Miss Pushpa’s father practicing?
Correct : D. surat
54. ‘External sweetness’ means?
Correct : A. beautiful appearance
55. From which language ‘Bon Voyage’ is borrowed?
Correct : B. french
56. What does the speaker mean by ‘prospect’?
Correct : C. potential
57. Which problem of Indian English users is mentioned in the poem?
Correct : A. grammatical errors
58. Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T Sis a ………… against Indian English users.
Correct : C. sarcasm
59. In which language A K Ramanujan used to write apart from English?
Correct : B. kannada
60. When did Govt. of India honour A K Ramanujan with Padmashri?
Correct : D. 1983
61. What is the age of the narrator at the beginning of the poem?
Correct : D. 5 or 6
62. What is the relationship between the boy and the girl?
Correct : B. cousins
63. The favourite game of the children in the poem was……
Correct : D. swinging
64. Which tree is mentioned in the poem?
Correct : A. fig tree
65. At the end of the poem, the narrator is a ……..
Correct : C. grown-up woman
66. What is the colour of the fig leaves?
Correct : B. red
67. On which tree the swing was tied?
Correct : C. fig tree
68. What is the age of the boy in the poem?
Correct : D. six or seven
69. Which book of Agha Shahid Ali was finalistfor the National Book Award in 2001?
Correct : D. rooms are never finished
70. What is the size of the post card?
Correct : C. four by six inch
71. What was the quality that was admired by the poet?
Correct : B. neatness
72. What is the tone of the poem?
Correct : B. nostalgic
73. Which river is mentioned in the poem?
Correct : D. the jhelum
74. Which colour is referred by the term ‘ultramarine’?
Correct : C. blue
75. In which colour The Jhelum appears in front of the poet?
Correct : D. deep blue
76. Which expression provides a visual effect to the poem?
Correct : C. overexposed
77. Amrita Pritam is an Indian English writer who belongs to ………..
Correct : D. punjab
78. In Amrita Pritam’s which novel memorable character, Puro, an epitome of violence against women, was pictured?
Correct : B. pinjar
79. What is the name of the protagonist of ‘The Weed’?
Correct : C. angoori
80. According to the superstitions, what was given to the girls in order to ensnarl them?
Correct : A. paan
81. Who was the reason for Angoori’s sorrows?
Correct : D. ram tara
82. Angoori believed that her desolate mood was created by ……………
Correct : C. the weed
83. Angooori can be considered as a woman with ………. nature.
Correct : A. feminist
84. Which among the following does not belong to the theme of ‘The Weed’?
Correct : D. none of these
85. What was Angoori’s concept about women getting educated?
Correct : B. sin
86. What was the ‘weed’?
Correct : C. marijuana
87. Who is considered as the architect of Indian nation-state as a socialist, democratic republic?
Correct : D. jawaharlal nehru
88. Who are the ‘we’ mentioned in ‘A Tryst with Destiny’?
Correct : C. indians
89. With whom had they made the appointment?
Correct : B. destiny
90. To whom Nehru is expanding the service of newly found government of India?
Correct : C. the whole world
91. According to Nehru, freedom and power are always related to ………..
Correct : B. responsibility
92. What is the main responsibility of Nehru and the other leaders?
Correct : A. representing people in the assembly
93. Which among the following comes in the list of the problems which should be wiped out from
India?
Correct : D. poverty
94. What was the long cherished dream of Indians?
Correct : B. attaining freedom
95. How should Indians face the new responsibilities?
Correct : B. with discipline
96. Which town is recurrently used in R K Narayan’s stories?
Correct : D. malgudi
97. Who was the mentor and friend of R K Narayan who helped him to publish his earlier
works?
Correct : A. graham greene
98. In compressing the story without loosing the elements, R K Narayan’s stories are often
compared with the stories of …………
Correct : C. guy de maupassan
99. Which among the following does not belong to the semi autobiographical trilogy of
R K Narayan?
Correct : D. the
100. Which habit made R K Narayan to fall in love with girls?