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The Bus — GK Questions with Answers

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12 questions
  1. "The Bus" is the opening poem of which sequence?
    1. Kala Ghoda Poems
    2. Jejuri
    3. Sarpa Satra
    4. Hymns in Darkness
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    Answer: (B) Jejuri

    It opens Jejuri (1976), Kolatkar’s sequence of 31 poems.

  2. Jejuri is a literary work written by —
    1. Kamala Das
    2. Arun Kolatkar
    3. Toru Dutt
    4. Sarojini Naidu
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    Answer: (B) Arun Kolatkar

    Arun Kolatkar wrote it after visiting the temple town of Jejuri.

  3. "Your own divided face in the pair of glasses on an old man’s nose is all the countryside you get to see." These lines occur in —
    1. "Grandfather" by Jayanta Mahapatra
    2. "The Bus" by Arun Kolatkar
    3. "Philosophy" by Nissim Ezekiel
    4. "The Old Playhouse" by Kamala Das
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    Answer: (B) "The Bus" by Arun Kolatkar

    It is the central image of "The Bus".

  4. Arun Kolatkar’s Sarpa Satra is a retelling of an episode from the —
    1. Ramayana
    2. Mahabharata
    3. Iliad
    4. Aeneid
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    Answer: (B) Mahabharata

    It retells the snake sacrifice from the Mahabharata.

  5. Jejuri is a temple town in —
    1. Karnataka
    2. Maharashtra
    3. Gujarat
    4. Kerala
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    Answer: (B) Maharashtra

    It lies in Maharashtra and is sacred to the god Khandoba.

  6. Jejuri won which prize?
    1. Sahitya Akademi Award
    2. Commonwealth Poetry Prize
    3. Jnanpith Award
    4. Booker Prize
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    Answer: (B) Commonwealth Poetry Prize

    It won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977.

  7. What covers the bus in the poem?
    1. A wooden roof
    2. A tarpaulin
    3. A sheet of glass
    4. Nothing at all
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    Answer: (B) A tarpaulin

    A tarpaulin that flaps and lets in a cold draught.

  8. The divided face in the poem symbolises —
    1. the poet’s poor eyesight
    2. the self split between belief and doubt
    3. two different travellers
    4. the breaking dawn
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    Answer: (B) the self split between belief and doubt

    Two lenses split the face, just as doubt splits the pilgrim.

  9. The poem is written in —
    1. the first person
    2. the second person
    3. the third person
    4. dialogue
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    Answer: (B) the second person

    Kolatkar addresses "you", which places the reader inside the bus.

  10. What can the traveller actually see of the countryside?
    1. The whole landscape through a window
    2. Only its reflection in an old man’s glasses
    3. Nothing at all, because of the dark
    4. A map pinned to the wall
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    Answer: (B) Only its reflection in an old man’s glasses

    His entire view is a reflection in two small lenses.

  11. The tone of the poem is best described as —
    1. devotional and reverent
    2. flat, dry and ironic
    3. angry and bitter
    4. joyful and celebratory
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    Answer: (B) flat, dry and ironic

    Kolatkar writes about a pilgrimage in deliberately unpoetic, ironic language.

  12. How does the poem end?
    1. He reaches the temple
    2. He gets down and is no longer a passenger
    3. He falls asleep
    4. He turns back home
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    Answer: (B) He gets down and is no longer a passenger

    The bus stops, he steps off, and the pilgrimage is left about to begin.

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