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Among the following who is considered as the 'First English writing women of India' ?
Among the following which Indian writer published his collection of short stories under the title 'Tales from Firozshah Baag' ?
A. Vikram Seth
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Pritish Nandy
D. Rohinton Mistry
Ans. D
Who is the protagonist of the novel 'The Serpent and the Rope' written by Raja Rao ?
A. Moorthy
B. Achakka
C. Ramaswamy
D. Govinda Nair
Ans. C
Among the following plays by Grish Karnad which one is based on the folktales of Karnataka, India ?
A. Yayati
B. Tughlaq
C. Nagamandala
D. Hayavadana
Ans. C
Who among the following is the first Indian poet to receive Sahitya Akademi Award (1981) ?
A. A.K Ramanujan
B.Nissim Ezekiel
C. Khushwant Singh
D. Jayanti Mahapatra
Ans. D
Which Indian writer received Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012 ?
A. Grish Karnad
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Shashi Tharoor
D. Rohinton Mistry
Ans. D
Among the following who wrote the poem 'Our Casuarina Tree' ?
A. Romesh Chunder Dutt
B. Madhusudan Dutt
C. Toru Duty
D. Sarojini Naidu
Ans. C
Who wrote the poem 'The Lotus' ?
A. Romesh Chunder Dutt
B. Madhusudan Dutt
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Toru Duty
Ans. D
'The Fakir of Jungheera' is a well-known Indian literary work written by whom in the following?
A. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
B. H. Derozio
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Toru Duty
Ans. B
The great Indian philosophical epic 'Savitri' in 12 books, is written by____.
A. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
B. H. Derozio
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Toru Duty
Ans. A
Arun Joshi received Sahitya Academy Award for his novel __.
A. 'The Last Labyrinth
B. The Foreigner
C. The Strange Case of Belly Biswas
D. Shri Ram (biography co-authored with Khushwant Singh
Ans. A
The collection of poems 'The Golden Threshold' is written by ___.
A. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
B. H. Derozio
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Toru Duty
Ans. C
Among the following characters of R. K. Narayan, who is a true disciple of Mahatma Gandhi ?
A. Sita
B. Rosie
C. Daisy
D. Bharati
Ans. D
"While I feel about as an Indian, I think about it as an outsider." Who among the following Indian writers states it in his/her work?
'The Bachelor of Arts' and 'Mr. Sampath' are the works of _____.
A. Milk Raj Anand
B. R. K. Narayan
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. Toru Duty
Ans. B
Anita Desai focuses on the decline of Urdu Language in one of his works. Identify the work below-
In which of the following work by Anita Desai the Urdu poet named Nur appears?
The Story of My Experiments with Truth , published in 1925, is the autobiography of ____.
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Maulana Azad
D. Gieve Patel
Ans. B
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Literary Criticism and Theory | English Literature MCQ |
Major Indian Writers:
- Rabindra Nath Tagore
- Henry Derozio
- R.K Narayan
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Raja Rao | Toru Dutt
- Ruskin Bond
- Nissim Ezekiel
- Micheal Madhusudan Dutt
- Sri Aurobindo
- Vikram Seth
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Sarojini Naidu
- Rohinton Mistry
- Salman Rushdie
- Khushwant Singh
- Shobha De
- Shashi Deshpande
- Shashi Tharoor
- Romesh Chander Dutt
- A.K Ramanujan
- R Parthsarthy
- Arvind Adiga
- Amitav Ghosh
- Kamla Das
- Arundhati Roy
- Arun Kolatkar
- Kamla Markandaya
- Badal Sircar
- Bhabani Bhattacharya
- Jayant Mahapatra
- Mahesh Dattani
- Mahashweta Devi
- Nirad C Chaudhury
- Nayantara Sahgal
- Manohar Malgaonkar
- Arun Joshi
- Ananda Coomaraswamy
- Anita Desai
- Kiran Desai
- Girish Karnad
- Vijay Tendulkar
- Meena Alexander
- Meena Kandaswami
