INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

For the students of University of Gour Banga, West Bengal, India

MOCK TEST

Total Marks - 50

Time – 2 Hours

A. Instruction: Write MCQ no. and options in full on Answer Sheet. 

Marks - 10

1. Who wrote the book "Wings of Fire".

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru

(B) APJ Abul Kalam

(C) Subhas Chandra Bose

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

2. In which year The Book Travels of Dean Mahomet was written -

(A) 1781

(B) 1788

(C) 1793

(D) 1798

3. Who wrote the first Indian novel written in English "Rajmohan's Wife" in the year 1864

(A) Rabindranath Tagore

(B) Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

(C) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

(D) Ram Mohan Roy

4. Who was the writer of the book "Coolie"

(A) Mulk Raj Anand

(B) R. K. Narayan

(C) Ahmad Ali

(D) Raja Rao

5. Who was the first to translate the Mahabharat into English

(A) Ram Nath Kak

(B) R. K. Narayan

 (C) Raja Rao

(D) KM Ganguli

6. Who was the first recipient of Saraswati Samman Award

(A) Ramakant Rath

(B) Harivansh Rai Bachchan

(C) Vijay Tendulkar

(D) Balamani Amma

7. In which year Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize in Literature

(A) 1912

(B) 1913

(C) 1914

(D) 1915

8. Total number of poems in the English version of the "Gitanjali" is

(A) 97

(B) 101

(C) 103

(D) 109

9. The book "An Era of darkness - The British Empire in India", released in 2016, is written by

(A) Amartya Sen

(B) Shashi Tharoor

(C) N. Ram

(D) Taslima Nasrin

10. The Sahitya Akademi Awards are for how many Indian languages

(A) 22

(B) 23

(C) 24

(D) 25

B. Answer any three of the following questions.         Marks – 10X3=30

1.      How does Nissim Ezekiel maintain Indianness in his poetries. Critically examine of the poems of Ezekiel prescribed in your syllabus?

or

2.      Write a critical appreciation of the poem “Good Bye Party for Miss Puspa”.

3.      Critically evaluate Character of Padmini in Hayavadana by Girish Karnad.

or

4.      Hayavadana is a play of ‘search for completeness or ‘quest for perfection'. Discuss the quote with reference to its title.

5.      Sketch the character of H. Vasu in the novel ‘The Man-Eater of Malgudi’.

or

6.      Critically examine Indianness in ‚The Man-Eater of Malgudi‛.

C. Answer any three of the following short questions:        Marks - 10

1.     How does Ezekiel ridicule superstitious Indians in the poem “Night of the Scorpion”? 

            or

2.      Bring out the personal elements in Ezekiel’s “Enterprise”.         

                         

3.      Discuss the Mythical element used in Hayavadana by Girish Karnad.                

or

4.      Discuss the dramatic significance of the dolls in Hayavadana.           

                 

5.      ‘Vasu as the modern version of a Rakshasa‛ - Discuss the illusion of Rakshasa.

or

6.      Briefly describe the congenial life of Nataraj.