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  1. The first Indian novel written in English was —
    1. Anandamath
    2. Rajmohan’s Wife
    3. Untouchable
    4. Kanthapura
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    Answer: (B) Rajmohan’s Wife

    Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s Wife (1864).

  2. The hero of Untouchable is —
    1. Munoo
    2. Bakha
    3. Lalu
    4. Gauri
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    Answer: (B) Bakha

    Bakha, the sweeper boy; the novel covers a single day.

  3. Who wrote the foreword to Untouchable?
    1. Graham Greene
    2. E. M. Forster
    3. W. B. Yeats
    4. Edmund Gosse
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    Answer: (B) E. M. Forster

    E. M. Forster introduced Mulk Raj Anand’s novel in 1935.

  4. R. K. Narayan set almost all his fiction in —
    1. Mano Majra
    2. Malgudi
    3. Kanthapura
    4. Chandrapore
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    Answer: (B) Malgudi

    The imaginary south Indian town of Malgudi.

  5. The Guide won which award?
    1. the Booker Prize
    2. the Sahitya Akademi Award
    3. the Jnanpith Award
    4. the Pulitzer Prize
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    Answer: (B) the Sahitya Akademi Award

    The Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960.

  6. Kanthapura is narrated in the manner of a —
    1. diary
    2. sthala-purana
    3. court chronicle
    4. series of letters
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    Answer: (B) sthala-purana

    An old woman tells it as a sthala-purana, a village legend.

  7. "One has to convey in a language that is not one’s own the spirit that is one’s own" is from the foreword to —
    1. Untouchable
    2. Kanthapura
    3. The Guide
    4. Midnight’s Children
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    Answer: (B) Kanthapura

    Raja Rao’s foreword to Kanthapura (1938).

  8. The best-known novel of the Partition in English is —
    1. Azadi
    2. Train to Pakistan
    3. A Bend in the Ganges
    4. Ice-Candy-Man
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    Answer: (B) Train to Pakistan

    Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan (1956).

  9. Nectar in a Sieve was written by —
    1. Nayantara Sahgal
    2. Kamala Markandaya
    3. Anita Desai
    4. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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    Answer: (B) Kamala Markandaya

    Kamala Markandaya; the title comes from Coleridge.

  10. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won the Booker Prize for —
    1. Esmond in India
    2. Heat and Dust
    3. The Householder
    4. In Search of Love and Beauty
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    Answer: (B) Heat and Dust

    Heat and Dust, 1975.

  1. Anita Desai’s relationship to the Booker Prize is that she was —
    1. a winner in 1980
    2. shortlisted three times without winning
    3. a judge
    4. never nominated
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    Answer: (B) shortlisted three times without winning

    Shortlisted three times; her daughter Kiran won in 2006.

  2. That Long Silence was written by —
    1. Shashi Deshpande
    2. Githa Hariharan
    3. Manju Kapur
    4. Anita Nair
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    Answer: (A) Shashi Deshpande

    Shashi Deshpande; it won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990.

  3. Saleem Sinai is born at the moment of —
    1. Gandhi’s assassination
    2. Indian independence
    3. Partition riots
    4. the Emergency
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    Answer: (B) Indian independence

    Midnight on 15 August 1947, in Midnight’s Children.

  4. Midnight’s Children is the leading Indian example of —
    1. stream of consciousness
    2. magic realism
    3. naturalism
    4. the epistolary novel
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    Answer: (B) magic realism

    Magic realism, in the manner of Márquez and Günter Grass.

  5. Rushdie’s own term for his treatment of the English language is —
    1. hybridisation
    2. chutnification
    3. vernacularisation
    4. indigenisation
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    Answer: (B) chutnification

    Chutnification, from Midnight’s Children.

  6. The Shadow Lines was written by —
    1. Vikram Seth
    2. Amitav Ghosh
    3. Upamanyu Chatterjee
    4. Amit Chaudhuri
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    Answer: (B) Amitav Ghosh

    Amitav Ghosh, 1988 — Sahitya Akademi Award.

  7. The first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize was —
    1. Anita Desai
    2. Kiran Desai
    3. Arundhati Roy
    4. Jhumpa Lahiri
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    Answer: (C) Arundhati Roy

    Arundhati Roy, 1997, for The God of Small Things.

  8. The twins in The God of Small Things are —
    1. Rahel and Estha
    2. Ammu and Chacko
    3. Sophie and Mol
    4. Baby and Kochamma
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    Answer: (A) Rahel and Estha

    Rahel and Estha.

  9. The White Tiger is narrated in the form of —
    1. a diary
    2. letters to the Chinese Premier
    3. a court deposition
    4. a series of interviews
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    Answer: (B) letters to the Chinese Premier

    Balram Halwai writes to Wen Jiabao.

  10. Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for —
    1. The Namesake
    2. Interpreter of Maladies
    3. Unaccustomed Earth
    4. The Lowland
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    Answer: (B) Interpreter of Maladies

    Her first collection of short stories.

  1. Tughlaq was originally written in —
    1. English
    2. Kannada
    3. Marathi
    4. Hindi
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    Answer: (B) Kannada

    Girish Karnad wrote it in Kannada and translated it himself.

  2. Hayavadana draws on which folk theatre form?
    1. Jatra
    2. Yakshagana
    3. Tamasha
    4. Nautanki
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    Answer: (B) Yakshagana

    Yakshagana, with masks and a Bhagavata narrator.

  3. The "Third Theatre" is associated with —
    1. Vijay Tendulkar
    2. Badal Sircar
    3. Mohan Rakesh
    4. Habib Tanvir
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    Answer: (B) Badal Sircar

    Badal Sircar, who performed without a stage, among the audience.

  4. The first Indian English playwright to win the Sahitya Akademi Award was —
    1. Asif Currimbhoy
    2. Mahesh Dattani
    3. Girish Karnad
    4. Manjula Padmanabhan
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    Answer: (B) Mahesh Dattani

    Mahesh Dattani, in 1998, for Final Solutions and Other Plays.

  5. Which play is NOT by Vijay Tendulkar?
    1. Ghashiram Kotwal
    2. Sakharam Binder
    3. Silence! The Court Is in Session
    4. Evam Indrajit
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    Answer: (D) Evam Indrajit

    Evam Indrajit is Badal Sircar’s.

  6. Arrange chronologically: (i) Midnight’s Children (ii) Kanthapura (iii) The God of Small Things (iv) Rajmohan’s Wife
    1. iv, ii, i, iii
    2. ii, iv, i, iii
    3. iv, i, ii, iii
    4. ii, i, iv, iii
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    Answer: (A) iv, ii, i, iii

    1864 → 1938 → 1981 → 1997.

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