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Introducing to Literature | Set 1

1. Does English and Malayalam have the same sentence structure?

Correct : B. no

2. Look at the statements given below and choose the right option. English has no infections. In English, positions of words are what determine meaning.

Correct : C. both statements are right

3. Does the position of words affect meaning in English sentences?

Correct : A. yes

4. Complete the expression using word or words that suit the expression. Once upon a

Correct : C. time

5. Find the correct sentence.

Correct : D. the cat chased a rat.

6. Find the odd one out.

Correct : C. she slept well

7. Find the odd one out.

Correct : A. he did his chores

8. He ____ his hat.

Correct : C. put on

9. Who is the author of the story Eyes of the Cat?

Correct : C. ruskin bond

10. We ____ ____ the trash for pick up.

Correct : B. left out

11. I am having some trouble ____ ____ the solution for this problem.

Correct : A. working out

12. What will she _____ _____ next?

Correct : C. think up

13. I ____ ____ my friend on my way to work.

Correct : B. came across

14. She ____ _____ the tree.

Correct : D. climbed up

15. I will ____ _____ the matter.

Correct : D. look into

16. We are _____ ____ his sudden whims.

Correct : C. used to

17. It's time to _____ _____ the plane.

Correct : D. get on

18. The car ____ ____ on the way.

Correct : A. broke down

19. Did you ____ _____ the customer's complaint?

Correct : B. deal with

20. Who is the author of the story The Death of a Clerk?

Correct : C. anton chekhov

21. Identify the figure of speech in the given lines. Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me

Correct : C. personification

22. Identify the figure of speech in the text given below. To follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly

Correct : D. simile

23. Identify the figure of speech in the given text. I have told you to clean your room a million times.

Correct : A. hyperbole

24. Identify the figure of speech in the given text. The assignment was a breeze

Correct : B. metaphor

25. Who is the narrator in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

Correct : C. dr watson

26. Who wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

Correct : B. arthur conan doyle

27. Who is the protagonist of the novel 1984?

Correct : D. winston smith

28. Identify the popular novel in which the character Charles Bingley appears?

Correct : D. pride and prejudice

29. Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?

Correct : A. jane austen

30. Who wrote the novel 1984?

Correct : C. george orwell

31. Identify the novel in which the characters Isma, Eamonn, Parvaiz, Aneeka and Karamat appear?

Correct : D. home fire

32. Who wrote the novel Things Fall Apart?

Correct : B. chinua achebe

33. Who wrote the novel Home Fire?

Correct : C. kamila shamsie

34. Which society is portrayed in the novel Things Fall Apart?

Correct : D. igbo

35. Who wrote the essay Shakespeare in the Bush?

Correct : A. laura bohannan

36. Who is the director of the film Rashomon?

Correct : B. akira kurosawa

37. As I Grew Older is a poem by ____.

Correct : C. langston hughes

38. Who wrote the poem Everyone Sang?

Correct : C. siegfried sassoon

39. Who wrote the poem Because I could not stop for Death?

Correct : A. emily dickinson

40. Who wrote the poem The Oak?

Correct : D. alfred lord tennyson

41. Who wrote the poem, The Destruction of Sennacherib?

Correct : B. lord byron

42. Who wrote the poem, The Daffodils?

Correct : B. william wordsworth

43. Identify the poem from which the following line is taken. I wandered lonely as a cloud

Correct : D. the daffodils

44. Identify the poet who wrote the following lines. The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality

Correct : C. emily dickinson

45. Who wrote the poem The Voice?

Correct : A. thomas hardy

46. Who wrote the sonnet Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

Correct : C. william shakespeare

47. Who authored the collection of poetry, A Shropshire Lad?

Correct : D. a e housman

48. Who wrote the poem Birches?

Correct : A. robert frost

49. Who wrote the book Politically Correct Bedtime Stories?

Correct : B. james finn garner

50. Polonius and Ophelia are characters in which famous Shakespeare play?

Correct : C. hamlet

51. “A Hanging” is written by……………………………..

Correct : C. anton chekov

52. …………….is the process through which the dominant class propagate their beliefs and ideas and rule over the subordinate groups.

Correct : C. hegemony

53. The process of voluntarily assimilating consent into the mainstream thinking is………………….

Correct : B. interpellation

54. The leading Marxist philosopher ……………………….used the term ideology to refer to these dominant beliefs, ideas and representations which legitimize existing power relations.

Correct : A. louis althusser

55. The term …………………to refer to the dominant beliefs, ideas and representations which legitimize existing power relations

Correct : C. ideology

56. Jane Eyre is the famous novel written by……………….

Correct : B. charlotte bronte

57. Maya Angelou is an …………….poet

Correct : C. american

58. Who used the term ‘discourse’ to denote a historically contingent social system that produces knowledge and meaning

Correct : A. michel foucault

59. The term …………………….to denote a historically contingent social system that produces knowledge and meaning

Correct : C. discourse

60. The story ‘A Hanging’ is set in……………………….

Correct : D. burma

61. ‘The Adivasi will not Dance’ is written by ……………………..

Correct : A. h s shekhar b) mulkraj anand

62. The dictionary defines …………..as a ‘social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family in both domestic and religious functions.

Correct : B. patriarchy

63. …………..is an ideology people use in modern societies to imagine the existence of differences between men and women on the basis of their sex.

Correct : B. gender

64. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts is the autobiography of …….

Correct : A. maxine hong kingston

65. The short story ‘Prelude’ written by………

Correct : D. katherine mansfield

66. The word………. refers to any person or group of inferior rank or station, whether because of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion.

Correct : A. subaltern

67. Who is the author of Images of Women in Literature?

Correct : C. mary anne ferguson

68. The second Sex is written by…………………

Correct : A. simon de beauvoir

69. The typical, fixed gender images are called ……………

Correct : C. stereotypes

70. “ Which Language Should I Speak; is a poem of …………..

Correct : C. arun kamble

71. ‘ Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing is edited by………

Correct : D. dr. m dasan

72. F M Shinde is a……………..poet

Correct : B. marathi

73. The poem ‘Habit’ is written by……………

Correct : D. f m shinde

74. Which among the poems is written by S Joseph?

Correct : A. identity card

75. The poem ‘Identity Card’ is translated from Malayalam to English by

Correct : D. k sachidanandan

76. Who is the author of the novel Lord Of Flies?

Correct : A. william golding

77. A person’s gender identity may differ from the sex they were assigned at birth. Such subjects are called ……………

Correct : D. transgender.

78. ‘I Remember I Remembe’r is a poem of………..

Correct : A. thomas hood

79. Calvin and Hobbes , a daily comic strip by the American Cartoonist ……..

Correct : C. bill watterson

80. “ Norms are not static entities, but incorporated and interpreted features of existence” Who says?

Correct : C. betty friedan

81. People who use the term …………..may use it to mean lesbian, gay, bisexual, or pansexual, or they may use it because other terms don’t quite describe their experiences.

Correct : A. queer

82. People who identify their sexual orientation as ……………..typically feel attracted to people of a different gender

Correct : C. hetero sexual

83. ………….is about a gay man from rural Karnataka

Correct : B. mohanaswamy

84. Vasudhendra is a………….writer

Correct : D. kannada

85. Vasudhendra is a …………………………writer

Correct : A. gay

86. “I am large. I contain multitudes” is a line from…………

Correct : C. songs of myself

87. “Songs of Life” is the work of………

Correct : D. walt whitman

88. People who identify as ……………..typically feel attracted to more than one gender, such as being attracted to both women and men.

Correct : A. bi sexual

89. ……………, one of the earliest Dalit writers, defines Dalit literature as “Literature which artistically portrays the sorrows, tribulations, slavery, degradation, ridicule and poverty endured by Dalits”

Correct : A. sharankumar limbale

90. ‘The Letter Q’ is a letter written by…………

Correct : A. ely shipley

91. “Naught may endure but “mutability”is the line from the poem “ Mutability” by

Correct : B. p b shelly

92. “Don’t cry, Darling, It’s Blood All right” is the poem of………..

Correct : A. ogden nash