Deck 3: Literature and Authors

Question 1

Purogamana Sahatya Sangatana is -------------------

A)An association of progressive writers
B)An association of thinking women
C)An association of feminist writers
D)An association of post modern writers

Answer 1

An association of progressive writers

Question 2

Which of the following won for Ponkunnam Varkey an award from Madras Government

A)Thirumulkahzcha
B)My turning point
C)Shabdikkunna Kalappa
D)None of the above

Answer 2

Thirumulkahzcha

Question 3

Which among the following is the Autobiography of Ponkunnam Varkey ?

A)My Idea of Success
B)My Turning Point
C)The Turning Point in My Life
D)None of the above

Answer 3

My Turning Point

Question 4

What did the other farmers call Ouseph?

A)Paachan.
B)Kannan.
C)Bullock-M

Question 5

Ouseph talked to Kannan as he talked to a ------

A)friend
B)Son
C)a member of family.
D)a daughter

Question 6

As soon as the ploughing was over------------------------

A)Kannan would be allowed to graze freely
B)Kannan's body would be washed
C)Kannan would be f

Question 7

Kannan disliked---------

A)alap
B)Being washed.
C)Being fed
D)Paachan

Question 8

How did Kannan respond when Paachan started an 'alap'?

A)by giving Paachan a sharp kick
B)By silently listening to the 'alap'
C)By raising his voice
D)by shaking his head

Question 9

How long did Kannan work for Ouseph?

A)12 months
B)12 years
C)12 days, and 12 months
D)12 days 12 months and 12 years

Question 10

How did Kannan behave at the time of his sale?

A)He expressed his hatred in leaving
B)He lifted his head and looked all around to see whether his master was there
C)He lowed once or twice
D)all the above

Question 11

How did Ouseph behave at the time of kannan's sale?

A)He left the scene
B)He stood under the southern jackfruit tree
C)He silently wiped his tears
D)All the above

Question 12

How long had Ouseph worked?

A)12 years
B)21 years
C)20 years
D)22 years

Question 13

Ouseph's Malabar trips got postponed because

A)He wanted to sell his bullock
B)He wanted to sell the little plot of land at a reasonable price.
C)He longed to the see the little face of his grandchild that would soon be born
D)Both 'b' and 'c'

Question 14

What did Ouseph see outside the municipal building?

A)Kannan grazing
B)Kannan ploughing
C)Kannan among other bullocks branded for slaughter
D)His wife and daughter

Question 15

Which among the following is the major symbol in "The Talking Plough"?

A)The jack fruit tree
B)The bullock
C)The cob web-ridden plough
D)The alap

Question 16

Before the mechanisation of agriculture, farming was inextricably linked with-----

A)Cattle
B)Pesticides
C)Fertilizers
D)Tractor

Question 17

Ouseph's relation to the soil and bullock is ------------

A)Utililitatian
B)Epicurian
C)Libertarian
D)Not utilitarian

Question 18

Ouseph had to mortgage his paddy field to-----------

A)buy a bullock
B)buy insecticides and pesticides
C)meet the expenditure on irrigation
D)find dowry for the marriage of his daughter

Question 19

Ouseph had to sell his bullocks including Kannan to----------

A)buy a plot of land
B)meet the expenditure of irrigation
C)find dowry for the marriage of his daughter
D)meet the expenses of the wedding of his daughter

Question 20

Kathrikutty is Ouseph's---------

A)daughter
B)wife
C)Sister
D)sister-in-law

Question 21

Maria is Ouseph's --------

A)daughter
B)wife
C)Sister
D)sister-in-law

Question 22

The poor beasts told him the 'poverty of man's kindness to living things'. What does 'poverty' in this context mean?

A)want of money
B)Carelessness
C)Absence
D)state of being poor

Question 23

Why did Maria and Kathrikutti scold Ouseph?

A)Ouseph sold Kannan
B)Ouseph took Kannan home
C)Ouseph could not purchase new clothes for Kathrikutty
D)both 'b' and 'c'

Question 24

Where his own family failed to understand Ouseph, the poor beast--------

A)also failed
B)succeeds
C)Indifferent
D)none of the above

Question 25

The plough is an important-------in the story "The Talking Plough"

A)simile
B)metaphor
C)personification
D)sign

Question 26

After he lost the paddy field, Ouseph's heart burns at the sight of the------

A)kannan
B)jack fruit tree
C)cob web-ridden plough
D)the lost field

Question 27

At the end of the story "The Talking Plough" we see ------

A)the cob web-ridden plough
B)the new talking plough
C)the resting plough
D)the plough in the field

Question 28

What is the writers observation about the death of Kannan?

A)the poor beast died of broken heart at the misery of his master
B)the poor beast died of starvation
C)the poor beast was slaughtered
D)its death was natural

Question 29

What did Ouseph do to save Kannan from the butchers?

A)He gave them another bullock
B)He bought Kannan back with the money his wife had managed through a chitti.
C)He stole away with Kannan
D)He sold his paddy field

Question 30

---------is a concept which is based on the holistic world view that sees the world as an integrated whole.

A)National integration
B)secularism
C)deep ecology
D)social solidarity

Question 31

The setting for most of R. K. Narayan's story is -----

A)Mangala
B)Malgudi
C)Nizamudhin
D)Jaipur

Question 32

Malgudi is a -------

A)a real town
B)an imaginary town
C)a slum area
D)a metropolitan city

Question 33

Which among the following is not a work by R. K. Narayan?

A)The Guide
B)The Untouchability
C)Swami and Friends
D)Financial Expert

Question 34

Which among the following is a novel by R. K. Narayan?

A)The Parrot's Training
B)The Guide
C)Fifteen Years
D)The Flavour of Coconut

Question 35

-------------is the story of a man's supreme self-sacrifice to save his community from communal violence

A)Fifteen Years
B)Another Community
C)Parrot's Training
D)The Flavour of Coconut

Question 36

Which among the following is not a work by R.K, Narayan?

A)Another Community
B)My Days
C)Flavour of Coconut
D)Fifteen Years

Question 37

Which among the following is R. K. Narayan's Memoirs?

A)MY Diary
B)My Life
C)My Days
D)My Reflections

Question 38

The hero of the story "Another Community" is-------

A)Raju
B)Bakha
C)a Judge
D)unnamed

Question 39

What was the job of the hero in "Another Community"?

A)A Railway booking clerk
B)a vendor
C)a bookseller
D)a clerk in an insurance company

Question 40

The hero in "Another Community" is----

A)young
B)middle-aged
C)adolescent
D)aged

Question 41

The time referred to in "Another Community" is

A)August 1947
B)September 1947
C)October 1947
D)November 1947

Question 42

"Another Community" describes the pangs of ordinary man in the wake of ---------

A)natural calamity
B)political upheaval
C)communal violence
D)none of these

Question 43

"Let us not cut each others throats, it does not matter who cuts whose, it is all same to me". Where does this line occur?

A)Another Communiity
B)The Talking Plough
C)The Night Never To Be Lost
D)None of the above

Question 44

The community to which the hero of "Another Community" belongs.

A)Mahar
B)Natar
C)Brahmin
D)not mentioned

Question 45

"But the button did get pressed" The implication is

A)The button of a nuclear bomb was pressed
B)The button of a calling bell was pressed
C)The button of a communal violence was pressed
D)none of the above

Question 46

What happened to the hero in the end of "Another Community'?

A)died of pneumonia
B)killed in a cycle accident
C)Killed in communal violence
D)fled from communal violence

Question 47

How could the police identify the body of the hero in "Another Community"?

A)by a scar on his face
B)Through the kerosene ration coupon in his pocket
C)through his passport
D)through his driving license

Question 48

"Had he been able to speak again, our friend would have spoken a lie and saved the city" Who is the friend under reference?

A)Noor Muhammed
B)The rustic girl
C)The hero in another community
D)Anasooya. S

Question 49

The unnamed hero's body was found in -------

A)ditch
B)on the sea shore
C)in a forest
D)by the side of the municipal building

Question 50

"The English Teacher" is a novel by

A)R. K. Narayan
B)Mulk Raj Anand
C)Raja Rao
D)Girish Karanad