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MCQs Indian Writing English

The document contains multiple-choice questions (MCQs) focused on Indian Writing in English, covering notable authors, their works, and significant themes. It includes questions about the first Indian English novelist, key novels, and important literary figures such as Rabindranath Tagore and Sarojini Naidu. The questions assess knowledge of Indian literature, its history, and prominent literary contributions.

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MCQs Indian Writing English

The document contains multiple-choice questions (MCQs) focused on Indian Writing in English, covering notable authors, their works, and significant themes. It includes questions about the first Indian English novelist, key novels, and important literary figures such as Rabindranath Tagore and Sarojini Naidu. The questions assess knowledge of Indian literature, its history, and prominent literary contributions.

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MCQs on Indian Writing in English

1. Who is considered the first Indian English novelist?

(a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (b) Raja Rao (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) R.K. Narayan

2. Which of the following is the first Indian novel written in English?

(a) Kanthapura (b) Rajmohan's Wife (c) The Serpent and the Rope (d) Untouchable

3. Who among the following is NOT associated with the trio of Indian English fiction?

(a) R.K. Narayan (b) Raja Rao (c) Mulk Raj Anand (d) Anita Desai

4. The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao is primarily concerned with:

(a) Postcolonial struggles (b) Indian philosophy and Vedanta (c) British imperialism (d) The
partition of India

5. In Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand, the protagonist Bakha belongs to which caste?

(a) Brahmin (b) Kshatriya (c) Vaishya (d) Dalit

6. R.K. Narayan's fictional town, Malgudi, is located in:

(a) Bengal (b) Tamil Nadu (c) Karnataka (d) Kerala

7. Who wrote The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian?

(a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri (b) Salman Rushdie (c) R.K. Narayan (d) Amitav Ghosh

8. Coolie (1936) by Mulk Raj Anand focuses on:

(a) The struggles of an indentured laborer (b) The life of a railway worker

(c) The caste system in India (d) The partition of India

9. Raja Rao's Kanthapura is influenced by:

(a) Buddhist teachings (b) Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy (c) Postmodernism (d) Marxist
ideology

10. Who wrote The Discovery of India?

(a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Aurobindo Ghosh

11. Who is known as the Nightingale of India?

(a) Kamala Das (b) Sarojini Naidu (c) Toru Dutt (d) Meena Kandasamy

12. In which year did Rabindranath Tagore win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

(a) 1910 (b) 1913 (c) 1920 (d) 1935

13. Gitanjali was translated into English by:


(a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) William Butler Yeats (d) Rudyard Kipling

14. Who wrote the play Hayavadana?

(a) Girish Karnad (b) Mahesh Dattani (c) Vijay Tendulkar (d) Badal Sircar

15. Which of the following plays by Mahesh Dattani deals with LGBTQ+ themes?

(a) Tara (b) Final Solutions (c) Dance Like a Man (d) On a Muggy Night in Mumbai

16. Silence! The Court is in Session is written by:

(a) Girish Karnad (b) Vijay Tendulkar (c) Mahesh Dattani (d) Manjula Padmanabhan

17. The Golden Threshold is a collection of poems by:

(a) Toru Dutt (b) Sarojini Naidu (c) Kamala Das (d) Rabindranath Tagore

18. The character Padmini appears in which of the following plays?

(a) Tughlaq (b) Hayavadana (c) Final Solutions (d) Silence! The Court is in Session

19. Kamala Das is best known for writing in which two languages?

(a) Hindi and Tamil (b) English and Malayalam (c) Bengali and English (d) Urdu and English

20. The poem An Introduction is written by:

(a) Sarojini Naidu (b) Kamala Das (c) Meena Alexander (d) Nissim Ezekiel

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