Indian English Literature MCQ Set - 1

University of Gour Banga

Indian English Literature

MCQ

1. Song of Radha, the Milkmaid is written by :

(a) Tom Dutt (b) Sarojini Naidu

(c) R.C. Dutt (d) Aru Butt.

2. Manmohan Ghose was the elder brother of :

(a) K. P. Ghose (b) R. G. Dutt

(c) Sri Aurobindo (d) S.C. Dutt.

3. Identify the correct group consisting of the saint poets:

(a) Nobokissen Ghose - B. M. Malabari - R. C. Dutt - Tom Dutt.

(b) Manmohan Ghose - Sarojini Naidu - Ram Sharma - Henry Derozio

(c) Swami Vivekanand - Swami Ramtirtha -Sri Aurobindo - Paramhans Yogananda

(d) None of these.

4. Name the poet who composed the Ancient Legends and Ballads of Hindustan :

(a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Torn Dutt

(c) Sri Aurobindo (d) R. C. Dutt.

5. A critic said that Torn Dutt was “a Classic writer” who “placed her country and was the first to do so on the international map of letters. ” Who was the critic "

(a) K. R. S. Iyengar (b) M. K. Naik

(c) Sri Aurobindo (d) Padmini Sen Gupta.

6. Who among the following poets was influenced by Kabir and rendered some of his verses into English ?

(a) Sri Aurobindo (b) Sarojini Naidu

(c) R. N. Tagore (d) Toru Dutt.

7. Identify the correct group of poets who were influenced by Tagore’s mysticism and poetry:

(a) Harte Crane-Ezra Pound

(b) Robert Frost-Wallace Stevens

(c) Allen Ginsberg-Sylvia Plath

(d) W. H. Auden-Christopher Isherwood.

8. In November 1913 Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for the English translation of:

(a) The Gitanjali (b) Fruit Gathering

(c) Lover’s Gift (d) The Crescent Moon.

9. Two renowned English critics were Sarojini Naidu’s poetical mentors. Who were they?

(a) T. S. Eliot-I. A. Richards

(b) G.K. Chesterton-William Watson

(c) Edmund Gosse-Arthur Symons

(d) Neither.

10. Which of the following arrangements of Sarojini Naidu’s poetry is correct in chronological order ?

(a) The Golden Threshold - The Bird of Time - The Broken Wing - The Feather of Dawn

(b) The Broken Wing - The Bird of Time - The Feather of Dawn - The Golden Threshold

(c) The Bird of Time - The Golden Threshold -The Broken Wing-The Feather of Dawn

(d) None of these.