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Spectrum- Literature and Contemporary Issues | Set 1

1. Which Character washes up on the Island of Phaeacians during his journey to Ithaca?

Correct : B. odysseus

2. Who according to Amenda Michalapoulou created the novel of wander lust?

Correct : A. cervantes

3. Who is the author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Correct : A. james joyce

4. Claudius and Getrude are the characters in ……………………………….

Correct : B. hamlet

5. Who is the author of Friday, the Other Island?

Correct : C. michel tournier

6. Who is the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther?

Correct : C. goethe

7. Who is Viswanathan’s wife?

Correct : A. radha

8. What was Radha’s profession?

Correct : A. tailor

9. In which novel is Comala a town of the dead?

Correct : B. pedro paramo

10. Who is the author of Pedro Paramo?

Correct : B. juan rulfo

11. Which day did Viswnathan select to commit suicide?

Correct : A. independent day

12. Who is the author of Comala ?

Correct : C. santhosh eachikkanam

13. What does Mariam bring along with the tea for the visitor?

Correct : B. small rolls of boiled riped nentrappazham

14. Who was the wife of Alassankutty?

Correct : A. mariam

15. In what accent did the visitor speak to Alassankutty?

Correct : B. manglish

16. According to Mariam, the visitor was a ____ sent by God to work miracles for them.

Correct : D. angel

17. How old was Alassankutty?

Correct : B. 41

18. What did the urban beauty smuggle?

Correct : B. gold

19. Turmeric is called the Nector of ____.

Correct : B. immortality

20. The term Yellow shore refers to the quality of Turmeric as a ___.

Correct : B. anti-dote

21. Where was the speaker’s brother employed?

Correct : B. cadillac

22. Identify the figure of speech: “Feeling the light rain falling like mist/into your hair”

Correct : B. simile

23. Whose is described as the opera ‘you’ hate most in “What Work Is”?

Correct : A. wagner’s

24. What is Warsan Shire’s ethnic identity?

Correct : A. somali

25. What is the boy with whom the poet went to school holding?

Correct : C. a gun

26. No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is _____

Correct : B. safer than the land

27. ____ is better than a truckload of men who look like one’s father.

Correct : C. a prison guard

28. Who is described as “the veteran of a hundred illegal trips to Sind”?

Correct : B. zaman

29. What was Najab notorious for among his friends?

Correct : C. diffidence

30. What was Kaley Shah’s profession?

Correct : C. trader

31. What could have brightened the darkness of the underworld?

Correct : C. fatima’s eyes

32. In which Indian state is the Rann of Kutch situated?

Correct : B. gujarat

33. Where did Najab sleep in the evening before slipping into Fatimah’s room late at night?

Correct : B. cattle shed

34. Identify the figure of speech: “ Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes.”

Correct : C. metonymy

35. By what can one win the strength of the other?

Correct : B. love

36. How are the other starved?

Correct : A. by war’s long winter

37. In which collection was the poem “No Men Are Foreign” included?

Correct : A. no men are foreign

38. Where are the speaker/s of the poem digging a grave?

Correct : B. earth

39. Who is the woman with golden hair?

Correct : B. margarete

40. What does the man in house play with?

Correct : A. snakes

41. Who is the woman with ashen hair?

Correct : A. shulamith

42. The narrator of “Jamaican Fragment” went for a walk everyday from his home to _____

Correct : A. the tramcar lines

43. The narrator of “Jamaican Fragment” noticed two boys, ___, playing in the garden.

Correct : C. one white and one black

44. The two boys were the ____of the white man.

Correct : D. sons

45. In A.L. Hendricks’ narrative, the white boy strode _____.

Correct : B. imperiously

46. Malala Yusefsai delivered a speech at U.N Assembly on …………………………

Correct : B. 12 july 2013

47. Malala got the Nobel Prize for peace at the age of ………………………

Correct : D. 17

48. ……………………. is the U.N Secretary General addressed by Malala in her speech.

Correct : C. ban ki moon

49. Malala delivered the U.N Speech on her ……………th birthday in 2013

Correct : A. 16th

50. Malala wanted people to empower themselves with ……………………..

Correct : D. the weapon of knowledge

51. Jon Silkin was a/an ……………………..poet.

Correct : C. british

52. “Caring for Animals” is taken from the poetry collection……………………………

Correct : B. the peaceable kingdom

53. In “Caring for Animals the poet questions the sky and …………………..

Correct : A. the serene blue water

54. In Silkin’s poem, dogs are seen with ………………………….

Correct : D. clipped ears

55. According to Silkin, animals are our …………………….

Correct : B. ghosts

56. It is from growing ………………………..that great love for human animal occurs.

Correct : D. mercy

57. Anne Tyler was a/an ……………………… novelist.

Correct : A. american

58. Anne Tyler’s first work of fiction is …………………………….

Correct : C. if morning ever comes

59. “Average Waves in Unprotected Waters” was originally published in………… on Feb28, 1977.

Correct : A. the new yorker

60. In the story “Average Waves in Unprotected Waters”…………………….. tries to institutionalize her mentally retarded son.

Correct : D. bet belvins

61. . …………………………. is the son of Bet Belvins.

Correct : D. arnold

62. Bet’s son was a ………………………………challenged child.

Correct : C. mentally

63. Arnold looked at the suitcase ………………………

Correct : C. suspiciously

64. Bet bought the tickets and a pack of ……………….. at the station

Correct : B. spearmint gum

65. ………………………… is Emmanuelle Laborit’s autobiography.

Correct : B. the cry of the gull

66. The parents nicknamed Laborit as ………………………..

Correct : A. mouette

67. Mouette is a ……………… word which means seagull

Correct : B. french

68. “She may be deaf but she’s so cute!” “She’ll just be that much smarter”- whose words are these?

Correct : D. mother’s

69. The author says that she comes from a ……………………..family.

Correct : B. seafaring family

70. “Emmanuelle makes shrieking sounds because she can’t hear herself”, was first said by …….......................

Correct : C. uncle fifou

71. ………………………got married in the chapel of the National Institute for the Deaf in Bordeaux.

Correct : A. the author’s paternal grandparents

72. Emmanuelle was ………………………months/years old when her mother was took her to a specialist.

Correct : A. nine months

73. “My life up to the age of seven is full of flashbacks”, was said by ………………………..

Correct : A. emmanuelle laborit

74. ………………………………. thought that Emmanuelle Laborit as a child was crazy.

Correct : D. the pediatrician

75. “Love Across the Salt Desert” is an adventurous journey of ______

Correct : B. najab

76. The Bollywood film “ Refugee” was directed by _____

Correct : A. j.p dutta

77. Najab’s lover Fathima is a ______ girl.

Correct : B. pakistani

78. _____ poet was awarded the Brunel University African Poetry prize in 2013

Correct : B. warson shire

79. In the poem “ Death Fugue” Black milk of daybreak symbolizes _____

Correct : A. a life in the camp

80. ____is the heroine of Goethe’s “Faust”

Correct : B. margaret

81. “Death Fugue” was originally written in ______

Correct : B. romanian

82. Emmanuelle Laborit was a ……………..actress

Correct : A. french

83. The Cry of the Gull is an autobiography of ……………….

Correct : D. emmanuelle laborit

84. “ And your love grows. Your great love grows and grows” is the line taken from.-------

Correct : C. caring for animals

85. Comala is the town located in ………………state of Colima

Correct : B. mexican

86. Who is the protagonist in the story “The Big Fish”?

Correct : B. alassankutty

87. What is the main theme of the poem Home?

Correct : B. refugee crisis

88. The central character in the story “Love across the Salt Desert”

Correct : C. najab

89. Name of the movie based on the story “Love across the Salt Desert”

Correct : A. refugee

90. According to critics , Silkin’s poems often focus on his …………….identity

Correct : B. jewish

91. The UN speech was given on Malala’s ……………birthday in 2013.

Correct : A. 16th

92. The narrator of the ‘Jamaican Fragment” went for a walk everyday from his home to………..

Correct : A. the tramcar lines

93. Who was the first to say that “Emmanulle makes shrieking sounds because she can’t hear herself”?

Correct : C. uncle fifou

94. No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is …………

Correct : B. safer than the land

95. In Silkin’s poem, dogs are seen with…………………

Correct : C. clipped ears

96. Who was the author of Pedro Paramo?

Correct : B. juan rulfo

97. Stephen Dedalus is the hero of James Joyce’s novel…………………

Correct : C. a portrait of the artist as a young man

98. “No Men Are Foreign” is a poem that protests against …………………

Correct : B. xenophobia