Deck 3: The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

Question 1

The Shadow Lines is divided into two sections

A)'Moving Away' and 'Coming Home'
B)' The Window' and 'Time Passes'
C)'Reaping' and 'Garnering'
D)'Going Away' and 'Coming Home'

Answer 1

'Going Away' and 'Coming Home'

Question 2

__________ is set against the backdrop of major historical events such as- Freedom movement in Bengal, Second World War, partition of India in 1947 and Communal riots in Bangladesh and India

A)Tara
B)The Shadow Lines
C)Untouchables
D)Hayavadana

Answer 2

The Shadow Lines

Question 3

Through her characteristic pose Ila's mother earned a nickname of

A)Queen Elizabeth
B)Princess Camilla
C)Queen Victoria
D)Lady Windsor

Answer 3

Queen Victoria

Question 4

The Shadow Lines takes the form of

A)bildungsroman tradition
B)historical fiction
C)gothic tradition
D)romanticism

Question 5

The Shadow Lines was published in

A)1984
B)1986
C)1988
D)1990

Question 6

The Shadow Lines spans around

A)Two generations
B)Three generations
C)Four generations
D)Five generations

Question 7

Who can talk on length about issues as diverse as the sloping roofs of Columbian houses and culture of the Incas with equal case in The Shadow Lines?

A)Tridip
B)Jatin
C)Robi
D)Ila

Question 8

Who realize the reality of the Partition when planning to visit his/her sister in Dhaka while undergoing the usual procedure of compiling the immigration papers in The Shadow Lines?

A)Tha'mma
B)Mayadebi
C)Ila
D)Tridib

Question 9

The Upside Down House in The Shadow Lines represent

A)Polarising power of borders
B)The backward movement of the family
C)Binary representation of power
D)None of the above.

Question 10

Jatin marries a woman affectionately known as

A)Queen Priya
B)Queen Victoria
C)Queen Lakshmi
D)Queen Rita

Question 11

Mayadebi and the Shaheb have a third son

A)Robi
B)Ajay
C)Kamal
D)Vijay

Question 12

The main setting of The Shadow Lines takes place in two cities. What are they?

A)Dhaka-Delhi
B)London-Dhaka
C)Calcutta-Delhi
D)Calcutta-London

Question 13

What memory does Robi want to be free of?

A)The memory of travelling everywhere with his parents
B)The memory of Tridib's death
C)The memory of his college life
D)The memory of the war

Question 14

What is the relationship between Tridib and the narrator?

A)Friends
B)Cousins
C)Uncle-Nephew
D)Father-son

Question 15

In her youth, what did Tha'mma want to do in order to gain freedom?

A)Fight in a war
B)Join a terrorist group
C)Kill an English diplomat
D)Start a riot

Question 16

Ila chose to live in London because she ____________.

A)Wanted to be free
B)Wanted to have all the comfort and luxury
C)Wanted to marry an Englishman
D)Wanted to be away from her family

Question 17

Where did Lionel Tresawsen and Mr. Justice Chandrashekhar Datta-Chaudhuri meet and become friends?

A)At a seance
B)At a diplomatic conference
C)While they were travelling
D)At a restaurant

Question 18

Tridib's family first went to England in ______

A)1939
B)1942
C)1917
D)1930

Question 19

May Price, despite her wealth, volunteered as a ______

A)A nurse
B)a teacher
C)A famine relief worker
D)a cleaner

Question 20

Ila's mother is jokingly referred to as _____

A)Queen Victoria
B)Mayadebi
C)Tha'mma
D)May

Question 21

Ila cried when recounting how Nick has saved her from bullies because__

A)She was overwhelmed with love for him
B)Nick had died during the Blitz
C)Nick had never defended her in reality
D)The bullies had beaten him up too

Question 22

When Tha'mma's father and Jethamoshai divided their house in Dhaka, the result was ___

A)Peace on both sides
B)They realised how much they loved each other
C)a legal battle over property ownership
D)a strange eerie silence that continued for years

Question 23

After the death of her husband, Tha'mma had worked in a school in Calcutta for ____ years.

A)27
B)30
C)25
D)20

Question 24

The nightmare that haunts Robi is that _____

A)He is unable to find a secure, respectable job
B)He keeps getting lost in cities all over the world
C)He is unable to stop Tridib from getting out of the car in Dhaka
D)He is unable to protect Ila

Question 25

Tha'ama wants to bring back ____ to India to reunite her family.

A)Queen Victoria
B)May
C)Tridib
D)Jethamoshai