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Literature and Contemporary Issues | Set 1

1. Who does the word ‘you’ in the poem Still I Rise refer to?

Correct : A. The White

2. Maya Angelou is a/an …………… poet?

Correct : A. Black American

3. Maya Angelou was born in…….?

Correct : D. 1928

4. Which publication made Angelou famous all over the world?

Correct : D. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

5. With who’s certainty, Maya Angelou compares the certainty of the Blacks?

Correct : C. Tides

6. What does Angelou suggest by ‘the past rooted in pain’?

Correct : D. All of these

7. Which identity is realized by Angelou when she mentions her pleasure like that of getting diamonds?

Correct : B. Woman

8. Where does the past of the blacks rooted in?

Correct : C. Pain

9. Who wrote the history of the Blacks?

Correct : C. Whites

10. ‘That I laugh like I’ve got gold mines’ This line suggests Angelou’s identification as a ……….

Correct : B. Black

11. What is the gift of the ancestors?

Correct : A. Tradition

12. ‘I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide’ means:

Correct : A. Deep black tradition

13. According to Angelou, the White people gifted a ……. history to the black?

Correct : C. Shameful

14. Angelou tells that the Whites can cut the black with:

Correct : B. Eyes

15. Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto is known as:

Correct : C. Pablo Neruda

16. Who is the writer of the poem- The Portrait in the Rock?

Correct : B. Pablo Neruda

17. In the early periods of writing, Neruda wrote………. poems

Correct : D. Love

18. Who is the poet suggested in this poem?

Correct : B. Vallejo

19. What does the use of the names of different countries imply?

Correct : A. Spreading of the idea

20. Which phrase denote the well-read nature of Vallejo?

Correct : B. Some half opened books

21. Among the following, which is not written by Neruda?

Correct : D. The Heart of a Woman

22. Neruda left Chile with the banning of ………?

Correct : C. Communism

23. Cesar Vallejo is a/an ………. Poet

Correct : D. Peruvian

24. ‘They called him at the door’- Who?

Correct : C. Policemen

25. What is the poem The Portrait in the Rock about?

Correct : B. Violation of freedom of expression

26. ‘You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep the spring from coming’ Who said this?

Correct : B. Soldier

27. Golden and stony substance refers to ………,?

Correct : B. Poetry

28. The word used in the poem to show how the people are restricted from having the freedom of expression is ………?

Correct : C. Muffling

29. ‘Changed into stone, he lives in his own country’. What does the line suggest?

Correct : A. He lives in the hearts of the people

30. What is the meaning of ‘The night of storms’?

Correct : A. A turbulent night of fear

31. Neruda was born in ………..?

Correct : C. Chile

32. Who is the author of Another Woman?

Correct : C. Imtiaz Dharker

33. Which vegetable attracts the woman in the market?

Correct : B. Raddish

34. Whom does the mother-in-law curse for darkening their doors?

Correct : C. The woman’s parents

35. “The future she had been born into” suggests:

Correct : B. The house of the husband

36. ‘A brilliant spark’ means?

Correct : C. Escape

37. In the end, Imtiaz Dharker points her finger against the attitude of the ………?

Correct : A. Society

38. What was the only choice left in front of the woman?

Correct : B. Commit suicide

39. Imtiaz Dharker was born in…..?

Correct : C. Pakistan

40. The poem Another Woman is about………?

Correct : D. Domestic violence

41. Out of the given points, which is not a matter of Dharker’s poetry?

Correct : D. Terrorism

42. The gender issue raised in Another Woman is:

Correct : D. All the above

43. Imtiaz Dharker was brought up in?

Correct : A. India

44. At her in-law’s house, the woman lacks:

Correct : D. All of these

45. Darken the doors means:

Correct : B. Bring misfortune

46. The Dowry Prohibition Act was implemented in……..?

Correct : D. 1961

47. Who among the following is not a post-independence poet?

Correct : D. None of These

48. Poems from Guantanamo is a collection of poems written by:

Correct : C. Suspected terrorists

49. A lyric poem addressed to someone or something is called?

Correct : B. Ode

50. Ibrahim al-Rubaish was born in?

Correct : B. Saudi Arabia

51. Ibrahim al-Rubaish’s ode is addressed to?

Correct : A. Sea

52. In the poem Ode to the Sea, the narrator is longing to:

Correct : A. Meet the family

53. The poet is comparing the calmness of the sea with………?

Correct : C. Death

54. According to the narrator, the sea is supporting…..?

Correct : C. The US soldiers

55. What eats the patience of the narrator in Ode to the Sea ?

Correct : A. Bitterness of the sea

56. ‘Your calm is like death’ which figure of speech is used here?

Correct : A. Alliteration

57. What has the divine power of a balm to soothe and heal the wounded hearts?

Correct : A. Poetry

58. Guantanamo Bay is in:

Correct : B. Cuba

59. Which word is used by the poet to show his anger against the sea?

Correct : D. All of these

60. The prisoners come to the shore usually out of:

Correct : B. Compulsion

61. According to the narrator what was the gaining of the sea for the last three years?

Correct : C. Poems on sea

62. The silence of the sea is compared to:

Correct : D. Death

63. According to the narrator, the sea had colluded with whom?

Correct : B. Faithless

64. The word kafir means:

Correct : A. Faithful

65. Ghanashyam is a …….. poem?

Correct : B. Confessional

66. The poem Ghanashyam is written by:

Correct : B. Kamala Das

67. Kamala Das is comparing Ghanashyam to a……?

Correct : C. Koel

68. Ghanashyam vanishes like a/an:

Correct : C. Spectral flame

69. Kamala Das compares life with:

Correct : A. Moisture

70. She weaves raiment for Ghanashyam with………..

Correct : D. Words

71. Which poetic technique is used to show the narrator’s search for love?

Correct : B. Simile

72. The god referred in Ghanashyam is………?

Correct : C. Krishna

73. With the birth of a child, what does originate?

Correct : D. All the above

74. In Ghanashyam, death is compared to:

Correct : A. Drought

75. How does Kamala Das state her search for love?

Correct : B. Tragic game

76. The poet was led toward Ghanashyam as a/an:

Correct : D. Enchanted fish

77. When does the wisdom must come?

Correct : C. In silence

78. More than anything, the narrator loves………..?

Correct : D. The disguise of Krishna

79. ‘You came in strange forms’. Who?

Correct : C. Ghanashyam

80. ‘His ageing body’. Who is referred here?

Correct : B. Madhava Das

81. What does the narrator in Ghanashyam want to carry in her arms?

Correct : D. Peace

82. Raiment means:

Correct : C. Dress

83. Sylvia Plath is a …….. poet?

Correct : C. Confessional

84. The word achoo means:

Correct : D. It doesn’t have a meaning

85. The poem Daddy is against:

Correct : B. Nazism

86. Daddy in the poem is a representative of each……..

Correct : B. German

87. What does the black shoe suggest in the poem?

Correct : C. Male domination

88. In the poem, gray colour denotes ……..

Correct : C. Death

89. The term ‘marble- heavy means:

Correct : A. Heaviness of a dead body

90. What does the poet suggest by Freakish Atlantic?

Correct : B. Unpredictable nature of Atlantic

91. What does ‘engine’ refer to?

Correct : C. German language

92. ‘Lived like a foot’ is a ……?

Correct : A. Simile

93. What does the repetition of the word ‘war’ mean?

Correct : C. The horror of war

94. ‘Pollack’ is the derogatory slang of…..?

Correct : C. Polish

95. Daddy is famous for the vivid use of ………..

Correct : A. Imagery

96. Sylvia Plath is described as a girl with ………. complex.

Correct : C. Electra

97. Which book is referred to in the poem ‘Daddy’ to show the Nazi reign?

Correct : B. Meinkampf

98. What is Belsen?

Correct : C. Name of a concentration camp

99. Sylvia Plath was born in?

Correct : B. Boston

100. The word pandemonium means---

Correct : A. A noisy place