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12 questions
  1. Who was the mentor of R. K. Narayan?
    1. Joseph Conrad
    2. V. S. Naipaul
    3. Graham Greene
    4. Ford Madox Ford
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    Answer: (C) Graham Greene

    Graham Greene found a publisher for Swami and Friends and remained his lifelong friend.

  2. Malgudi is —
    1. a real town in Karnataka
    2. an invented South Indian town
    3. a district of Madras
    4. a village in Kerala
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    Answer: (B) an invented South Indian town

    Narayan invented it, and used it for almost all his fiction.

  3. Which character belongs to The Guide?
    1. Jagan
    2. Margayya
    3. Raju
    4. Krishna
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    Answer: (C) Raju

    Raju, the guide who becomes a holy man; Rosie is the dancer.

  4. The Financial Expert has as its main character —
    1. Margayya
    2. Nataraj
    3. Chandran
    4. Raman
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    Answer: (A) Margayya

    Margayya, the money-lender who works under a banyan tree.

  5. Jagan is the central figure of —
    1. The English Teacher
    2. The Vendor of Sweets
    3. The Dark Room
    4. Waiting for the Mahatma
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    Answer: (B) The Vendor of Sweets

    The Vendor of Sweets — Jagan, his son Mali and Mali’s companion Grace.

  6. Krishna is the main character of —
    1. The Guide
    2. The English Teacher
    3. The Painter of Signs
    4. Swami and Friends
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    Answer: (B) The English Teacher

    The English Teacher, drawn from the death of Narayan’s own wife.

  7. Daisy appears in —
    1. The Painter of Signs
    2. The Man-Eater of Malgudi
    3. The Bachelor of Arts
    4. A Tiger for Malgudi
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    Answer: (A) The Painter of Signs

    She is the family-planning worker in The Painter of Signs.

  8. R. K. Narayan won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960 for —
    1. Swami and Friends
    2. The Guide
    3. The Dark Room
    4. My Days
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    Answer: (B) The Guide

    The Guide (1958) won the award in 1960.

  9. Malgudi Days is —
    1. a novel
    2. a collection of short stories
    3. an autobiography
    4. a play
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    Answer: (B) a collection of short stories

    A short-story collection, not a novel.

  10. Narayan’s invented region is often compared with —
    1. Dickens’s London and Hardy’s Wessex
    2. Hardy’s Wessex and Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha
    3. Joyce’s Dublin and Eliot’s Waste Land
    4. Kipling’s India and Forster’s Chandrapore
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    Answer: (B) Hardy’s Wessex and Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha

    All three writers build a lifetime’s work inside one invented region.

  11. In "An Astrologer’s Day", the astrologer is relieved at the end because —
    1. he has earned a great deal of money
    2. he learns the man he stabbed is alive
    3. he has found a new profession
    4. his prophecy came true
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    Answer: (B) he learns the man he stabbed is alive

    He discovers he is not a murderer after all.

  12. Which three writers are called the "Big Three" of Indian English fiction?
    1. Narayan, Anand, Raja Rao
    2. Narayan, Tagore, Naipaul
    3. Anand, Ghosh, Rushdie
    4. Rao, Desai, Deshpande
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    Answer: (A) Narayan, Anand, Raja Rao

    Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.

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