Deck 1: A Study of Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, and Imtiaz Dharker

Question 1

Who does the word 'you' in the poem Still I Rise refer to?

A)The White
B)The Black
C)A Woman
D)Maya Angelou

Answer 1

The White

Question 2

Maya Angelou is a/an …………… poet?

A)Black American
B)Canadian
C)British
D)Irish

Answer 2

Black American

Question 3

Maya Angelou was born in…….?

A)1920
B)1921
C)1925
D)1928

Answer 3

1928

Question 4

Which publication made Angelou famous all over the world?

A)The Heart of a Woman.
B)Gather Together in My Name
C)A Song Flung Up to Heaven
D)I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Question 5

With who's certainty, Maya Angelou compares the certainty of the Blacks?

A)Moon
B)Sun
C)Tides
D)Hopes

Question 6

What does Angelou suggest by 'the past rooted in pain'?

A)Slavery
B)Sufferings
C)Cultural issues
D)All of these

Question 7

Which identity is realized by Angelou when she mentions her pleasure like that of getting diamonds?

A)Black
B)Woman
C)White
D)Human

Question 8

Where does the past of the blacks rooted in?

A)Ocean
B)Dust
C)Pain
D)Dream

Question 9

Who wrote the history of the Blacks?

A)Red Indian
B)Blacks
C)Whites
D)Indians

Question 10

'That I laugh like I've got gold mines' This line suggests Angelou's identification as a ……….

A)Woman
B)Black
C)Revolutionary
D)Poet

Question 11

What is the gift of the ancestors?

A)Tradition
B)Slavery
C)Gold mines
D)Tear drops

Question 12

'I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide' means:

A)Deep black tradition
B)Painful past
C)Both 1&2
D)None of these

Question 13

According to Angelou, the White people gifted a ……. history to the black?

A)Attractive
B)Colourful
C)Shameful
D)None of these

Question 14

Angelou tells that the Whites can cut the black with:

A)Word
B)Eyes
C)Hatefulness
D)All of these

Question 15

Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto is known as:

A)Jan Neruda
B)Cesar Vallejo
C)Pablo Neruda
D)Carl Marx

Question 16

Who is the writer of the poem- The Portrait in the Rock?

A)Maya Angelou
B)Pablo Neruda
C)Kamala Das
D)Sylvia Plath

Question 17

In the early periods of writing, Neruda wrote………. poems

A)Revolutionary
B)Realistic
C)Post colonial
D)Love

Question 18

Who is the poet suggested in this poem?

A)Gibran
B)Vallejo
C)Blake
D)Wordsworth

Question 19

What does the use of the names of different countries imply?

A)Spreading of the idea
B)War
C)International relations
D)All of these

Question 20

Which phrase denote the well-read nature of Vallejo?

A)Golden and stony substance
B)Some half opened books
C)His profound silence
D)Changed into stone

Question 21

Among the following, which is not written by Neruda?

A)Hundred Love Song
B)Canto General
C)Book of Questions
D)The Heart of a Woman

Question 22

Neruda left Chile with the banning of ………?

A)Socialism
B)Terrorism
C)Communism
D)All the above

Question 23

Cesar Vallejo is a/an ………. Poet

A)Indian
B)American
C)Australian
D)Peruvian

Question 24

'They called him at the door'- Who?

A)Friend
B)Leaders
C)Policemen
D)Government employees

Question 25

What is the poem The Portrait in the Rock about?

A)Socialism
B)Violation of freedom of expression
C)Women
D)Nazism

Question 26

'You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep the spring from coming' Who said this?

A)Hitler
B)Soldier
C)al- Rubaish
D)Neruda

Question 27

Golden and stony substance refers to ………,?

A)Ornament
B)Poetry
C)Carved face in the rock
D)Equipment

Question 28

The word used in the poem to show how the people are restricted from having the freedom of expression is ………?

A)Defied
B)Profound
C)Muffling
D)Exile

Question 29

'Changed into stone, he lives in his own country'. What does the line suggest?

A)He lives in the hearts of the people
B)He returned to the country
C)He is still struggling with the autocrats
D)He was released from exile

Question 30

What is the meaning of 'The night of storms'?

A)A turbulent night of fear
B)A night where there was storm
C)A gloomy night
D)None of these

Question 31

Neruda was born in ………..?

A)Peru
B)Canada
C)Chile
D)France

Question 32

Who is the author of Another Woman?

A)Sylvia Plath
B)Kamala Das
C)Imtiaz Dharker
D)Mahaswetha Debi

Question 33

Which vegetable attracts the woman in the market?

A)Methi
B)Raddish
C)Carrot
D)None of these

Question 34

Whom does the mother-in-law curse for darkening their doors?

A)The woman
B)The woman's husband
C)The woman's parents
D)The woman's brother

Question 35

"The future she had been born into" suggests:

A)A girl's own house
B)The house of the husband
C)Profession of a woman
D)Education of a woman

Question 36

'A brilliant spark' means?

A)Recovery
B)Patience
C)Escape
D)Struggle

Question 37

In the end, Imtiaz Dharker points her finger against the attitude of the ………?

A)Society
B)In-laws
C)Husband
D)Woman

Question 38

What was the only choice left in front of the woman?

A)Escape from the house
B)Commit suicide
C)Go back to her home
D)Quarrel with in-law

Question 39

Imtiaz Dharker was born in…..?

A)India
B)Srilanka
C)Pakistan
D)Nepal

Question 40

The poem Another Woman is about………?

A)Violation of human right
B)Socialism
C)Marxism
D)Domestic violence

Question 41

Out of the given points, which is not a matter of Dharker's poetry?

A)Gender politic
B)Cultural displacement
C)Communal conflicts
D)Terrorism

Question 42

The gender issue raised in Another Woman is:

A)Dowry death
B)Poverty
C)Malnutrition
D)All the above

Question 43

Imtiaz Dharker was brought up in?

A)India
B)Pakistan
C)South Africa
D)USA

Question 44

At her in-law's house, the woman lacks:

A)Voice
B)Choice
C)Proper food
D)All of these

Question 45

Darken the doors means:

A)Make the door dark
B)Bring misfortune
C)Put fire
D)None of these

Question 46

The Dowry Prohibition Act was implemented in……..?

A)1972
B)1963
C)1974
D)1961

Question 47

Who among the following is not a post-independence poet?

A)Sujatha Bhatt
B)Imtiaz Dharker
C)Kamala Das
D)None of These

Question 48

Poems from Guantanamo is a collection of poems written by:

A)American poet
B)Cuban prisoners
C)Suspected terrorists
D)English poets

Question 49

A lyric poem addressed to someone or something is called?

A)Sonnet
B)Ode
C)Epic
D)Ballad