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Zeitgeist- Reading on Contemporary Culture | Set 1

1. Who wrote “the story of an hour”?

Correct : D. Kate Chopin

2. Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with ____________

Correct : C. heart trouble

3. Who is Josephine in the short story “ The story of an hour”?

Correct : B. Mrs. Mallard's sister

4. What is Mr. Mallard's friend name in the short story “The story of an hour”?

Correct : B. Mr. Richard

5. Where did Mrs. Mallard went, when she heard the news of her husband's death?

Correct : A. To her Room

6. Kate Chopin's first novel?

Correct : C. At Fault

7. Kate chopin's At Fault published in ___________.

Correct : D. 1980

8. In which magazine “The story of an hour” first published?

Correct : B. Vogue

9. “The story of an hour” first published as ________________

Correct : A. The Dream of an hour

10. Who is the protagonist of the short story “The story of an hour”?

Correct : D. Lousie

11. Who told the news of Mr. Mallard's death to his wife?

Correct : B. Josephine

12. Who told the news of Mr. Mallard's death to Josephine?

Correct : A. Mr. Richard

13. Richard had been in the ____________ office when intelligence of the rail road disaster was received?

Correct : D. Newspaper office

14. In the short story “The story of an hour” the open window is a symbol of__________.

Correct : C. Freedom

15. who is the author of the poem “ What it's like to be Transgender”?

Correct : D. Lee Mokobe

16. Name of the poem which is about extreme right wing politics of Donald Trump?

Correct : B. The not yet burning country

17. “What it's like to be Transgender” is a/an __________________ poem.

Correct : C. Autobiographical poem

18. In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” What does the poet ask to the Jesus?

Correct : B. To fix him

19. In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” what was Jesus's response to the poets prayer?

Correct : C. Silence

20. Who reminds the poet that he could not bring a husband to his home?

Correct : B. His Aunt

21. In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” What does the kids at school called him?

Correct : A. Lesbian

22. In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” the poet treat his body like a ___________.

Correct : C. House

23. In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” where did the speaker make his first prayer?

Correct : D. In a glass stain cathedral

24. Who is the Olympic Gold winner athlete in decathlon in the 1976 Montreal Olympics mentioned in the poem “What it's like to be Transgender”?

Correct : C. Bruce Jenner

25. Who called the speaker “Lesbian” in the poem “What it's like to be Transgender”?

Correct : A. Kid

26. Identify the figure of speech in the line 'My tiny body dropping like a question mark all over the wooden pew.'

Correct : B. Simile

27. Who is the founder of Vocal revolutionaries?

Correct : A. Lee Mokobe

28. In the poem “Refugee Blues” people were living in.

Correct : B. Mansions and Holes

29. In the poem “Refugee Blues” What does the old yew do every spring?

Correct : A. It blossom

30. In the poem “Refugee Blues” What was the refugee offered by the committee?

Correct : D. a chair

31. In the poem “Refugee Blues”Which animal was let into an opened door?

Correct : C. a cat

32. In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the narrator see at the harbour?

Correct : C. Fish

33. In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the refugee see in the woods?

Correct : B. Birds

34. In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the refugee see in his dream?

Correct : B. a thousands of building

35. In the poem “Refugee Blues”Who is looking for the refugees?

Correct : C. Soldiers

36. In the poem “Refugee Blues” you are ‘officially dead’ if you haven’t got a ________________.

Correct : C. Passport

37. In the poem “Refugee Blues” the speaker at the public meeting worried that the refugees will steal?

Correct : C. Daily bread

38. The speech entitled “Calming an Education” is first printed in the magazine __________

Correct : D. The Common Woman

39. Who was the author of “Jane Eyre”?

Correct : A. Charlotte Bronte

40. “Calming an Education”, the convocation speech delivered to ____________ college.

Correct : B. Douglass

41. “Calming an Education” the convocation speech delivered to whom?

Correct : A. Graduating women student

42. A tendency to look to a style, activity or interest for a very short span of time is called_________.

Correct : A. Faddism

43. Adrienne Rich won Yale series of younger poets award for her book named _________.

Correct : B. A Change Of World

44. Adrienne Rich won National Book Award for __________.

Correct : D. Diving into the Wreck

45. Adrienne Rich's second collection of poetry is _______________.

Correct : A. The Diamond Cutter

46. Who was headed the Jury for giving the Yale series of younger poet's award to Adrienne Rich?

Correct : C. W. H. Auden

47. Adrienne Rich's work ' Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law' published in _________ year.

Correct : A. 1963

48. Who is the author of “An Atlas of the Early World”?

Correct : B. Adrienne Rich

49. According to Adrienne Rich, intelligent woman, who denies her intelligence in order to seem more _________.

Correct : A. Feminine

50. Adrienne Rich planned to separate her remarks in her speech “claiming an education” into how many parts?

Correct : D. Two

51. According to Adrienne Rich, university education implies an ethical and intellectual contract between whom?

Correct : C. Teachers and students

52. According to Adrienne Rich, many male professors still feel that teaching in a women's college is a __________ career.

Correct : C. Second- rate

53. Adrienne Rich refused to accept the ________________ award in1997.

Correct : B. National Medal for the Arts

54. How many volume of prose Adrienne Rich published?

Correct : C. 5

55. Adrienne Rich refused to accept the National Medal for the Arts award from whom?

Correct : B. President Clinton

56. Whose convocation speech is “Calming an Education”?

Correct : A. Adrienne Rich

57. According to Adrienne Rich, ultimately the women students and their teachers are ____________.

Correct : B. Indivisible

58. How many honorary doctorates has been awarded to Nadine Gordimer in literature from various universities.

Correct : B. 10

59. Whose work is “The Conservationist”?

Correct : D. Nadine Gordimer

60. “Amnesty”, a short story originally published in ____________ in 1991.

Correct : B. The New Yorker

61. In the short story “Amnesty” the narrator's life partner work in a ___________ .

Correct : B. Construction company

62. In the short story “Amnesty” by time of the trail of narrator's potential husband she had just passed her __________standard

Correct : C. Eighth

63. In the short story “Amnesty” how many brothers does the narrator have?

Correct : B. Three

64. In the short story “Amnesty”what did the the prisoners give the narrator as a present for the new born baby?

Correct : B. Money

65. In the short story “Amnesty” the policeman didn't allow them to the island because?

Correct : B. they didn't have a prior permit

66. Sharankumar Limbale is best known for his novel ___________.

Correct : A. Akkarmashi

67. Sharankumar Limbale's novel Akkarmashi is published in _________.

Correct : B. 1984

68. Who translated Sharankumar Limbale's novel Akkarmashi into English?

Correct : D. Santosh Bhoomkar

69. Sharankumar Limbale's novel 'Akkarmashi' originally written in __________ language.

Correct : D. Marathi

70. In the extract “the outcaste” who pulled Parshya from the picnic row?

Correct : C. Bhiwarabai

71. In the extract “the outcaste” who looked restless along the bank of the stream?

Correct : C. Harya

72. In the extract “the outcaste” The Wani and Brahmin boys played _________.

Correct : C. Kabbadi

73. In the extract “the outcaste” Mahar boys and girls played _____________.

Correct : A. Touch and Go

74. In the extract “the outcaste” what did the high caste ones do before eating?

Correct : D. pray

75. In the extract “the outcaste” what did the Mahar caste brought for the picnic?

Correct : C. Jowar bhakari and chutney

76. In the extract “the outcaste” what did the high caste girls offered the Mahar caste?

Correct : B. their leftover food

77. In the extract “the outcaste” the mother of the narrator looks the leftover food as___________.

Correct : A. Nectar

78. In the extract “the outcaste” What did the teacher ask the students to do the day after the picnic?

Correct : B. to write an essay

79. Harari thinks that human happiness is the result of processes taking place in the ______.

Correct : D. human brain.

80. From which work is the extract “Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life” taken

Correct : D. ho*mo sapiens

81. In which subject did Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize

Correct : C. Economic Studies

82. Prozac is lift people out of _____________

Correct : C. depression

83. According to Harari, what is the level of happiness of a medieval French peasant versus a modern Parisian banker?

Correct : C. same

84. In the extract “Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life”, Most parents declare that their children are their chief source of _____________

Correct : B. happiness.

85. Pearl S.buck won Pulitzer prize for her novel_______.

Correct : A. East wind, west wind

86. Who said “ my life is my message?

Correct : A. Mahatma gandhi

87. Who is Gandhi’s murderer?

Correct : A. Naturam Vinayak Godse

88. Pearl S buck’s essay ‘Should the Assassin of Gandhi be Killed’ is a ______

Correct : D. Obituary

89. Men wind confusion because they fear ____

Correct : B. Truth

90. Who says, “No war brings peace, for violence only brings more violence .”?

Correct : C. Pearl.S buck

91. Who should take up Gandhi’s world leadership?

Correct : B. People of India

92. When did India adopt a new constitution?

Correct : A. 26th Jan 1950

93. Drafting committee comprise of ___members

Correct : C. 7

94. The criticism against the Constitution was that it is _____

Correct : D. A bag of borrowings

95. The tradition of preamble began with ______

Correct : C. America

96. Manto was an ____author.

Correct : C. Indo- Pakistani

97. Most of his writing were originally written in _____.

Correct : A. Urdu

98. Toba means ____in Punjab.

Correct : D. Pond

99. Which inmate of the lunatic asylum mourned over his lost love?

Correct : C. A lawyer

100. Who were worried about eating Chapatis?

Correct : C. Anglo Indians