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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What is the age of the narrator at the beginning of the poem? |
| A. | 2 or 3 |
| B. | 3 or 4 |
| C. | 4 or 5 |
| D. | 5 or 6 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
When did Govt. of India honour A K Ramanujan with Padmashri? |
| A. | 1988 |
| B. | 1985 |
| C. | 1984 |
| D. | 1983 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
In which language A K Ramanujan used to write apart from English? |
| A. | malayalam |
| B. | kannada |
| C. | marathi |
| D. | tamil |
| Answer» C. marathi | |
| 4. |
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T Sis a ………… against Indian English users. |
| A. | humour |
| B. | criticism |
| C. | sarcasm |
| D. | evaluation |
| Answer» D. evaluation | |
| 5. |
Which problem of Indian English users is mentioned in the poem? |
| A. | grammatical errors |
| B. | pronunciation |
| C. | spelling mistakes |
| D. | vocabulary |
| Answer» B. pronunciation | |
| 6. |
What does the speaker mean by ‘prospect’? |
| A. | character |
| B. | personality |
| C. | potential |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 7. |
From which language ‘Bon Voyage’ is borrowed? |
| A. | latin |
| B. | french |
| C. | greek |
| D. | italian |
| Answer» C. greek | |
| 8. |
‘External sweetness’ means? |
| A. | beautiful appearance |
| B. | personality |
| C. | sweet character |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. personality | |
| 9. |
Where was Miss Pushpa’s father practicing? |
| A. | culcutta |
| B. | bulsar |
| C. | bombay |
| D. | surat |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
What was the profession of Miss Pushpa’s father? |
| A. | doctor |
| B. | advocate |
| C. | teacher |
| D. | clerk |
| Answer» C. teacher | |
| 11. |
Which kind of narration is used in this poem? |
| A. | third person |
| B. | second person |
| C. | first person |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 12. |
What kind of personality is Miss Pushpa according to the speaker? |
| A. | sweet |
| B. | harsh |
| C. | dull |
| D. | rare |
| Answer» B. harsh | |
| 13. |
In whose name the party is arranged? |
| A. | poet |
| B. | narrator |
| C. | miss pushpa |
| D. | a stranger |
| Answer» D. a stranger | |
| 14. |
Ezekiel was awarded Padmashri in……….. |
| A. | 1998 |
| B. | 1988 |
| C. | 1987 |
| D. | 1978 |
| Answer» C. 1987 | |
| 15. |
Which locality of Indian English users is mentioned in this poem? |
| A. | kerala |
| B. | maharashtra |
| C. | rajasthan |
| D. | gujarat |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Which kind of love is portrayed in this poem? |
| A. | eternal love |
| B. | carnal love |
| C. | platonic love |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. platonic love | |
| 17. |
Whose poems were translated by Ezekiel along with Vrinda Nabar? |
| A. | gandhiji |
| B. | gokhale |
| C. | nehru |
| D. | iqbal |
| Answer» D. iqbal | |
| 18. |
Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is mostly used as the study material of Indian English Poetry? |
| A. | goodbye party for miss pushpa t s |
| B. | the night of the scorpion |
| C. | a time to change |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. a time to change | |
| 19. |
Among the following, which is the first book of Ezekiel? |
| A. | hymns in darkness |
| B. | a time to change |
| C. | the exact time |
| D. | the bad day |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
‘Finished jigsaw’ is an example of ……….. |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | alliteration |
| C. | simile |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. alliteration | |
| 21. |
To which thing narrator compares his embrace? |
| A. | plant |
| B. | crow |
| C. | ghost |
| D. | jigsaw |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
According to the narrator, what is filled in the wings of the crows? |
| A. | honey |
| B. | water |
| C. | poison |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 23. |
Where is the narrator settled in the poem? |
| A. | in a village |
| B. | in a town |
| C. | in the precincts |
| D. | near a river |
| Answer» C. in the precincts | |
| 24. |
What does the poet mean by ‘skin-communicated thing? |
| A. | lust |
| B. | unending love |
| C. | conversation |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. unending love | |
| 25. |
The use of ‘carnivorous plant’ in the poem is an example of ……… |
| A. | metaphor |
| B. | personification |
| C. | simile |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» D. alliteration | |
| 26. |
Who utter ‘Bol Hari Bol’ in the night? |
| A. | porters |
| B. | corpse carriers |
| C. | vendors |
| D. | merchants |
| Answer» C. vendors | |
| 27. |
When the man succeeds over her, she turns………. |
| A. | violent |
| B. | gloomy |
| C. | happy |
| D. | silent |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
According to the narrator, the meeting of both of them is ………. |
| A. | full of love |
| B. | full of lust |
| C. | mechanical |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 29. |
……….. reminds her of her lover. (a. Burning sun b. jigsaw c. crow d. none of these)35. To which thing Kamala Das compares the limbs of her lover? |
| A. | jigsaw |
| B. | carnivorous plant |
| C. | plant |
| D. | trunk |
| Answer» B. carnivorous plant | |
| 30. |
Which among the listed do not constitute the theme of In Love? |
| A. | desperation |
| B. | female sexuality |
| C. | man-woman relationship |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
In which year, Tagore received Nobel Prize? |
| A. | 1910 |
| B. | 1911 |
| C. | 1912 |
| D. | 1913 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Kamala Das became iconoclast among her contemporaries due to her open expression of ……… |
| A. | household affairs |
| B. | love |
| C. | female sexuality |
| D. | contemporary issues |
| Answer» D. contemporary issues | |
| 33. |
Find out the pen-name of Kamala Das from the following. |
| A. | balamani |
| B. | sugathakumari |
| C. | aysha |
| D. | madhavikkutti |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
Name the first Indian to win Nobel Prize for literature? |
| A. | jawaharlal nehru |
| B. | r k narayan |
| C. | rabindranath tagore |
| D. | raja rao |
| Answer» D. raja rao | |
| 35. |
What/who teases the poet? |
| A. | breeze |
| B. | wind |
| C. | lover |
| D. | friend |
| Answer» B. wind | |
| 36. |
How many quatrains are there in Breezy April? |
| A. | one |
| B. | two |
| C. | three |
| D. | four |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
Breezy April is written in …….. style? |
| A. | neoclassic |
| B. | romantic |
| C. | modern |
| D. | pre-raphaelite |
| Answer» C. modern | |
| 38. |
What makes the poet surrender in front of the breeze of April? |
| A. | its kisses |
| B. | its sweetness |
| C. | its softness |
| D. | its nature |
| Answer» B. its sweetness | |
| 39. |
The wind and leaves communicate through …….. . |
| A. | music |
| B. | movement |
| C. | dance |
| D. | leafy language |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
What type of a poem is Breezy April? |
| A. | sonnet |
| B. | dramatic monologue |
| C. | ode |
| D. | lyric |
| Answer» D. lyric | |
| 41. |
Slumber means? |
| A. | game |
| B. | sleep |
| C. | tricks |
| D. | care |
| Answer» C. tricks | |
| 42. |
……… awakens the poet from his sleep. |
| A. | music |
| B. | river’s sound |
| C. | birds |
| D. | breeze |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
What makes the poet thrilled? |
| A. | aprils touch |
| B. | april’s beauty |
| C. | wind’s sound |
| D. | bird’s twittering |
| Answer» B. april’s beauty | |
| 44. |
Which peculiarity of April rocks the poet? |
| A. | hotness |
| B. | rain |
| C. | burning |
| D. | music |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
The poem Breezy April is addressed to………….. |
| A. | wind |
| B. | rain |
| C. | april |
| D. | summer |
| Answer» D. summer | |
| 46. |
Who wrote the national anthem of India? |
| A. | tagore |
| B. | bankin chandra chatterji |
| C. | sarat chandra chatterji |
| D. | mohammed iqbal |
| Answer» B. bankin chandra chatterji | |
| 47. |
Which is the first non-European work that had won the Nobel Prize for literature? |
| A. | midnight’s children |
| B. | bayen |
| C. | chitra |
| D. | gitanjali |
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. |
Which kind of love is portrayed in TheQuest? |
| A. | carnal |
| B. | platonic |
| C. | flirting |
| D. | insulting |
| Answer» C. flirting | |
| 49. |
What is the expression Naidu uses to explain the blind nature of Radha’s love? |
| A. | tricks |
| B. | gray coloured |
| C. | foolish |
| D. | rocked |
| Answer» D. rocked | |
| 50. |
The poem is about ……… |
| A. | friendship |
| B. | love |
| C. | companionship |
| D. | household affairs |
| Answer» C. companionship | |