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………...