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Literature and Contemporary Issues | Set 3

1. That Long Silence is written by……..

Correct : C. Shashi Deshpande

2. Deshpande received the Sahitya Akademi Award for ……….

Correct : A. That Long Silence

3. Roots and Shadows is a work by ……….

Correct : C. Shashi Deshpande

4. Writing from the Margin is written by …….

Correct : B. Shashi Deshpande

5. The Dark Holds No Terrors is written by …….

Correct : A. Shashi Deshpande

6. According to Deshpande, motherhood is neither sacred nor holy, it is..…….

Correct : A. Natural

7. Death of a Child is a work by ………

Correct : C. Shashi Deshpande

8. A Very Easy Death is written by ………..

Correct : C. Simone de Beavoir

9. Anne Tyler is an ………… novelist.

Correct : A. American

10. Who spoke of the oddness of the fact that people take up the most difficult of all professions, parenthood,without having any qualifications for it?

Correct : C. Bernard Shaw

11. Bhagya Rekha is a collection of short stories written by ……..

Correct : A. Bhisham Sahni

12. Bhisham sahni won the Sahitya Akademi Award for …….

Correct : C. Tamas

13. Shamnath wanted to please his boss for ……..

Correct : B. Getting promotion

14. Who in Shamnath’s house impressee the boss most?

Correct : C. Shamnath’s old mother

15. Shamnath wanted his old mother to make a ……… for his boss.

Correct : A. Phulkari

16. The boss wanted Shamnath’s mother to ………

Correct : B. Sing

17. What does the boss in Sahni’s story ask the mother to sing?

Correct : A. A folk song

18. Behind Closed Doors is a work by ………

Correct : C. Rinki Roy Bhattacharya

19. It was the documentary ,…………, on domestic violence that Rinki made with the help of her hotline group HELP that earned her the greatest media attention?

Correct : A. Char Diwari

20. Unveiled is a fictional work by ……….

Correct : C. Rinki Roy Bhattacharya

21. Daughters and Motherhood is a significant work by ………

Correct : C. Rinki Roy Bhattacharya

22. The first glimpse of a bride has of her husbnd during the traditional Bengali marriage is called ……..

Correct : A. Subhodrishti

23. What type of a person was Arun’s husband?

Correct : C. Demanding

24. Who helped Aruna fly to the U.S.?

Correct : A. Hert younger sister

25. Aruna’s younger sister Gita was ……..

Correct : A. An air hostess

26. Aruna’s research was about ………

Correct : B. Women’s issues

27. Usha Rai started her career as a ……..

Correct : C. Press reporter

28. Akha Teej is an occasion for ……..

Correct : A. Mass marriages of children

29. DWDA is ……….

Correct : A. District Women’s Development Agency

30. What does ‘muklava’ mean?

Correct : B. The bride’s entry to her husband’s home

31. Who found SEWA?

Correct : C. Ela Bhatt

32. How old was Ela Bhatt when India became independent on 15 August 1947?

Correct : A. 14

33. TLA is ………

Correct : B. Textile Labour Associatuion

34. The name of the national labour union in Israel is ……..

Correct : A. Histadrut

35. SEWA is ………

Correct : A. Self‐Employed Women’s Association

36. …….. was Ela Bhatt’s first contact with poverty?

Correct : A. Communal riot in Ahmedabad

37. What was the name of the bank started by SEWA?

Correct : A. Manila SEWA Sahakari Bank

38. Who translated Chandrabati’s Bengali Ramayana of the sixteenth century?

Correct : A. Nabneeta Vev Sen

39. Who is the author of the Greek tragedy Medea?

Correct : C. Euripides

40. Manas’ sister‐in law is ……..

Correct : B. Sonali

41. Tutu and Ratan are Rupa’s ………

Correct : B. Children

42. Howm, accordind to Rupsa,was her husband died?

Correct : A. In a train accident

43. Where, according to Manas, was he after he had deserted Rupsa?

Correct : B. In Burma

44. Kamala Das is known under the pseudonym ……..

Correct : A. Madhavikutty

45. ……… is Kamala Das’ autobiography.

Correct : B. My Story

46. Childhood Memories is a work by ……..

Correct : C. Kamala Das

47. What was the name of the national political party which was founded by Kamala Das?

Correct : B. Lok Seva Party

48. The dominant emotion in Kamala Das’s poem is ………

Correct : D. Cynicism

49. ``The strangers who have come to wipe my tears…`` who could be the strangers?

Correct : C. The doctors and nurses who came to nurse

50. Vandana Shiva is analyzing India’s economy and social life in the ………years since independence.

Correct : C. Sixty

51. ………. was meant to increase food production through chemicals.

Correct : A. Green Revolution

52. Vandana supports ………. vision of modernization.

Correct : A. Gandhiji’s

53. According to Vandana ……… in terms of strangling others was considered anti‐ social behaviour.

Correct : C. Competitiveness

54. ……….. movement was started by Vandana Shiva to save seeds and promote organic farming.

Correct : A. Navdanya

55. When laws abuse human freedom, then we have the duty to exercise non‐ cooperation and ……….

Correct : C. Civil disobedience

56. ……… is another aspect of Gandhiji’s notion of freedom, the other being self‐ reliance, which inspired Vandana.

Correct : A. Swaraj

57. The brand of democracy we need is ‘……….. democracy’

Correct : B. Earth

58. ………. is an alternative to corporate globalization.

Correct : C. Living democracy

59. ……… is more conducive to Living Democracy.

Correct : D. Vasudev Kutumbakam

60. In December 2003 the Business Week wrote a cover story on ………

Correct : A. The Rise of India

61. The Newsweek magazine wrote a breathless celebration of what it called ……… about India.

Correct : B. Outsourcing

62. Which country was ‘the tiger in front’ of India the newest Asian tiger?

Correct : D. China

63. Besides the high flying praises India gets, the majority of Indians are in.……..

Correct : A. Poverty

64. John Rawl’s analysis of critical assessment was largely confined to ……… with in a country.

Correct : B. Issues of justice

65. People from very deprived countries demand for the fruits of ………….

Correct : A. Modern technology

66. Global economic relations can flourish with appropriate…… policies.

Correct : D. Domestic

67. Globalization cannot remove poverty, but it can put the tools in the hands of those who are …… to work towards the goal.

Correct : A. Willing

68. Corporate globalization is ………

Correct : B. Anti‐poor

69. Globalising the market place also means globalizing ……… and religious intolerance.

Correct : B. Terrorism

70. A free market undermines ……… by driving a wedge between the rich and the poor.

Correct : A. Democracy

71. Globalization seems to apply only to expanding the market place for the benefit of ……….

Correct : D. Multinational companies

72. Arundati Roy doesn’t see any virtue in the globalization of ………

Correct : C. Economy

73. Ms.Roy defines the World Bank, IMF, WTO and multinational corporations as the modern concept of……….

Correct : B. Empire

74. ……… is one of the biggest markets of globalized economy.

Correct : C. India

75. The press and the judiciary are ……… in the hands of corporate globalization.

Correct : C. Weapons

76. According to Dionne Bunsha, it is …….. for the, past 15 years that has brought poverty to Vidarbha.

Correct : A. Liberalisation

77. Liberlisation forces the local farmers to compete with …….. prices.

Correct : D. Global

78. Vidarbha’s ………. Soil was perfect for the cultivation of cotton.

Correct : A. Black

79. Vidharbha’s cotton was considered ……… gold.

Correct : C. White

80. With Liberalisation, the white gold became………..

Correct : D. Worthless

81. The Central government can protect the cotton producers of Vidarbha from imports and crashing international prices by …….. the import duty on cotton.

Correct : A. Hiking

82. In India ………. Does not apply to all agricultural goods.

Correct : D. Free market

83. ……… was once called India’s Orange County

Correct : A. Lehegaon

84. Activists want cotton imports to be made ………. To protect Indian farmers

Correct : B. Costlier

85. Officials come to the village of Vidarbha only to demand repayment of………

Correct : A. Loans

86. …………. Called globalization ‘the greatest form of violence in our times’

Correct : B. Baudrillard

87. Satchidanandan equates globalization with the desire for dominance and ………. By the west

Correct : A. Hegemony

88. Internationalism was pushed out of sight by ……..

Correct : B. Globalisation

89. Globalisation believes in world dominance by …………

Correct : A. One nation

90. Internationalism believes in the …….. of all nations

Correct : D. Co‐existance

91. Globalisation believes in monologues and ……… commands.

Correct : A. Giving

92. Globalisation believes in centralization and a ……….. economy.

Correct : C. Command

93. Internationalism believes in ……… power.

Correct : A. Distributing

94. Globalisation is a ware………..

Correct : D. Monger

95. Internationalism is a …… broker

Correct : B. Peace

96. Globalisation …….. the environment

Correct : A. Destroys

97. Internationalism keeps the environment ……….

Correct : C. Green

98. Globalisation promotes……….. model of development

Correct : B. Double

99. Internationalism believes in dialogue and ……….

Correct : A. Negotiation

100. The poem ‘Can you Make out?’ was written by………...

Correct : B. Kumar Vikal