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Dalit Literature | Set 1

1. Which work made SarankumarLimbale famous in literature?

Correct : B. towards an aesthetics of dalit literature

2. Which is the autobiographical novel of Sarankumar Limbale?

Correct : A. akkarmashi

3. What is the meaning of ‘Akkarmashi ‘?

Correct : C. out caste

4. What makes Dalit Literature different from the mainstream literature?

Correct : D. all of them

5. Which of the following features forms a reason for the suppression of Dalit?

Correct : D. all of them

6. Which character is considered as the forefather of dalits?

Correct : B. ekalavya

7. What is the aim of Dalit literature?

Correct : D. protest

8. To which community Limbale belonged?

Correct : A. mahar

9. Who is the author of ‘Kandathi’?

Correct : C. raghavanatholi

10. Where does the hungry woman wait?

Correct : B. before the garbage

11. How is the face of the parting day?

Correct : D. swollen

12. Where does Kandathi live?

Correct : C. in the pitch black hut

13. What is guarded by Kandathi?

Correct : B. a cold meal

14. What was broken by the hands of Kandathi?

Correct : C. stones

15. How do the people water the seeds in the fields?

Correct : A. from the river

16. What was vanished in the wild?

Correct : D. clans

17. Which word shows the poverty of the working class people in Kandathi?

Correct : A. empty hovels

18. Kandathi had shrunken in to an old …….

Correct : B. crone

19. What/who nursed the child?

Correct : C. tears

20. To which thing, life of the out caste is compared with?

Correct : C. coconut husk

21. What was crushed by the rushing feet?

Correct : B. handful of rice

22. What was the reason behind the battle?

Correct : A. water

23. What does the mother want?

Correct : D. a piece of land

24. According to Raj Gowthaman, any one who is ……….. dalit can produce dalit literature.

Correct : C. ideologically

25. Who provided the current position to the Dalits?

Correct : B. dominant society

26. Where do the problems take place over the dalits?

Correct : A. over their body

27. Who is Yasodhara?

Correct : B. wife of buddha

28. In the beginning of the poem, who is compared to the dream of sharp pain?

Correct : A. yasodhara

29. Who gave the light to the entire people?

Correct : B. goutama buddha

30. Who was thrown to darkness by Buddha?

Correct : C. yasodhara

31. Which colour is used to show the emptiness of Yasodhara’s life?

Correct : D. blue

32. Yasodhara had a …… life.

Correct : A. fragmented

33. Who is ready to provide refuge to Yasodhara?

Correct : B. sky

34. Yasodhara’s life is described as …..?

Correct : A. fruitless

35. ‘Matchless beauty’ means?

Correct : B. beautiful without a companion

36. Yasodara is getting dimmed like ……

Correct : C. twilight

37. Where does Yasodara carry the raging storm in?

Correct : C. small hands

38. What shakes the earth?

Correct : B. yasodhara’s life

39. What was the name of Buddha at his Grihastashrama?

Correct : B. sidhartha

40. Sidhartha was moving towards……

Correct : C. great splendor

41. What did history hide?

Correct : B. yasodhara’s sacrifice

42. When do the people of Veerashaiva family throw coins?

Correct : C. in the funeral procession

43. Which activity will provide redemption from the sins?

Correct : B. throwing coins on the corpse

44. The stich that was used to control the dalits were also used to control …….

Correct : A. pigs and dogs

45. What made the dominant people of the village to compete each other in ‘Coins on the Corpse and the Wedding Feast’?

Correct : D. all of them

46. Where do the younger members hide the collected coins from the corpse?

Correct : D. in the secret pocket

47. What was the profession of Adavichonchas, Lollyars and Kunchikoravas?

Correct : C. begging

48. What was the marking made to prevent the dalits from having a second meal?

Correct : B. colour

49. What helped dalits to remove the colour from the hands?

Correct : B. oil on the head

50. Who is the founder of ‘Dalit Panther’?

Correct : C. namdeodhasal