Deck 2: Literature and Social Issues

Question 1

No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is _____

A)safer than the home
B)safer than the land
C)risker than the jail
D)all of these

Answer 1

safer than the land

Question 2

____ is better than a truckload of men who look like one's father.

A)a general
B)a pastor
C)a prison guard
D)a teacher

Answer 2

a prison guard

Question 3

Who is described as "the veteran of a hundred illegal trips to Sind"?

A)aftab
B)zaman
C)najab
D)kaley shah

Answer 3

zaman

Question 4

What was Najab notorious for among his friends?

A)adventures
B)confidence
C)diffidence
D)brutality

Question 5

What was Kaley Shah's profession?

A)money lender
B)cloth seller
C)trader
D)illegal businessman

Question 6

What could have brightened the darkness of the underworld?

A)kaley shah's eyes
B)najab's eyes
C)fatima's eyes
D)panchmai pir's halo

Question 7

In which Indian state is the Rann of Kutch situated?

A)maharashtra
B)gujarat
C)uttarpradesh
D)jammu and kashmir

Question 8

Where did Najab sleep in the evening before slipping into Fatimah's room late at night?

A)stable
B)cattle shed
C)inside a car
D)none of these.

Question 9

Identify the figure of speech: " Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes."

A)metaphor
B)simile
C)metonymy
D)synecdoche

Question 10

By what can one win the strength of the other?

A)arms
B)love
C)compassion
D)none of these

Question 11

How are the other starved?

A)by war's long winter
B)by peaceful harvest
C)by dirty water
D)none of these

Question 12

In which collection was the poem "No Men Are Foreign" included?

A)no men are foreign
B)the caged bird in springtime
C)the prodigal son
D)the sand artist.

Question 13

Where are the speaker/s of the poem digging a grave?

A)sky
B)earth
C)water
D)none of these

Question 14

Who is the woman with golden hair?

A)shulamith
B)margarete
C)both
D)none of these.

Question 15

What does the man in house play with?

A)snakes
B)lizards
C)rabbits
D)none of these

Question 16

Who is the woman with ashen hair?

A)shulamith
B)margarete
C)both
D)none of these .

Question 17

The narrator of "Jamaican Fragment" went for a walk everyday from his home to _____

A)the tramcar lines
B)bus station
C)the coffee shop
D)the office.

Question 18

The narrator of "Jamaican Fragment" noticed two boys, ___, playing in the garden.

A)ne tall and one short
B)one fat and one lean
C)one white and one black
D)none of these

Question 19

The two boys were the ____of the white man.

A)brothers
B)neighbours
C)cousins
D)sons

Question 20

In A.L. Hendricks' narrative, the white boy strode _____.

A)gorgeously
B)imperiously
C)pompously
D)humbly.

Question 21

Malala Yusefsai delivered a speech at U.N Assembly on …………………………

A)12 june 2013
B)12 july 2013
C)13 jan 2014
D)13 july 2014

Question 22

Malala got the Nobel Prize for peace at the age of ………………………

A)11
B)14
C)16
D)17

Question 23

……………………. is the U.N Secretary General addressed by Malala in her speech.

A)vuk jeremic
B)nelson mandela
C)ban ki moon
D)gordon brown

Question 24

Malala delivered the U.N Speech on her ……………th birthday in 2013

A)16th
B)14th
C)15th
D)17th

Question 25

Malala wanted people to empower themselves with ……………………..

A)peaceful coexistence
B)terrorism
C)violence
D)the weapon of knowledge