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2) Whose father was Govin Chunder, a good linguist and a cultured man, who converted to Christianity
in 1862?
a) Romesh Chunder Dut
b) Toru Dut
c) Manmohan Ghosh
4) Whose lines are these? Into that heaven of Freedom my father let my country awake.
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Kamala Markandaya
c) Sri Aurobindo
6) Sarojini Naidus second volume of poems The Bird of Time came out in
a) 1915
b) 1912
c) 1910
7) No, not only prophets / Walk on water . These lines are taken from which of Ramanujans poem?
a) The Striders
b) Obituary
c) Beaded Fish
8) Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is a critique of the man woman relationship in modern society?
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Assignment for Indian Writing in English
Teacher Bhaskar Gogoi
GROUP A
a) Poet , Lover , Birdwatcher
b) Woman and Child
c) Island
12) Which poet has described his poetry as a totally impressionistic recording of subjective responses?
a) Adil Jussawalla
b) Keki. N. Daruwalla
c) A. K. Ramanujan
13) To live in Tamil Nadu is to be conscious everyday of an importance. This line appears in which
poem of R. Parthasarthy?
a) Homecoming
b) Delhi
c) The Mountain
14) Who among the following poets was a Parsi educated at Anglian School in Bombay?
a) Jayanta Mahapatra
b) Arun Kolatkar
c) Adil Jussawalla
15) Which work of Jayanta Mahapatra won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981?
a) Relationship
b) The False Start
c) Waiting
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Assignment for Indian Writing in English
Teacher Bhaskar Gogoi
GROUP A
16) his wife has dismissed/ the waves like a queen/ a band of oiled acrobats. These lines have been
composed by
a) K. N. Daruwalla
b) Mamta Kalia
c) Arun Kolatkar
17) The play entitled Nala and Damayanti has been writen by
a) Sri Aurobindo
b) P.A. Krishnaswamy
c) Vasudeva Rao
18) Which play of Tagore has Prakriti, the untouchable girl as the central character?
a) Chandalika
b) The Ascetic
c) Scarifice
20) Which novel of Bankim Chandra Chaterjee gave the Indians their national anthem Vande
Mataram?
a) Durgesh Nandini
b) Anand Math
c) Rajmohans Wife
21) You have no caste, you make no distinctions and have no hatred you are the only image of our
welfare. These lines appear in Tagores work
a) Gora
b) The Wreck
c) Chitra
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Assignment for Indian Writing in English
Teacher Bhaskar Gogoi
GROUP A
24) Which novel of Bhabani Bhatacharya is described as a modern fable of India at the time of
Independence?
a) Music for Mohini
b) So Many Hungers
c) A Goddess Named Gold
25) The collection of short stories titled Games at Twilight and Other Stories has been writen by
a) Shashi Deshpande
b) Anita Desai
c) Rama Mehta
27) Who is the first Asian writer to win an individual Pulitzer Prize, Americas ultimate literary accolade?
a) Pearl S. Buck
b) Jhumpa Lahiri
c) Nayantara Sahgal
28) Which novel of Salman Rushdie has won the Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial
Prize?
a) The Moor Last Sigh
b) Grimus
c) Midnights Children
29) Amitav Ghoshs novel The Shadow Lines tell the story of three generations of the narratorsfamily
spread over
a) Calcuta, Dhaka and London
b) Delhi, Dhaka and London
c) Calcuta, Dhaka and Delhi