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50 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) on Indian Writing in English ( PART 1)



Here are 50 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) on Indian Writing in English Literature with answers provided below each question ( PART 1) 

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1. Who is often regarded as the pioneer of Indian English literature?
   - a) Salman Rushdie
   - b) R.K. Narayan
   - c) Arundhati Roy
   - d) Amitav Ghosh

   b) R.K. Narayan

2.  Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for his novel "Midnight's Children"?
   - a) Aravind Adiga
   - b) Vikram Seth
   - c) Salman Rushdie
   - d) Jhumpa Lahiri

   c) Salman Rushdie

3. Who wrote the famous novel "The God of Small Things"?
   - a) Kiran Desai
   - b) Arundhati Roy
   - c) Vikram Chandra
   - d) Shashi Tharoor

    b) Arundhati Roy

4. Which Indian poet is known for his work in English and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913?
   - a) Rabindranath Tagore
   - b) Sarojini Naidu
   - c) Kamala Das
   - d) Gulzar

    a) Rabindranath Tagore

5.  In which novel does Anita Desai explore the complex relationships in an Indian joint family?
   - a) "The Inheritance of Loss"
   - b) "Clear Light of Day"
   - c) "Cry, the Peacock"
   - d) "Fasting, Feasting"

   b) "Clear Light of Day"

6. Which Indian author's debut novel is "The White Tiger"?
   - a) Chetan Bhagat
   - b) Aravind Adiga
   - c) Kiran Desai
   - d) Vikram Seth

    b) Aravind Adiga

7. "The Inheritance of Loss" is a novel written by:
   - a) Jhumpa Lahiri
   - b) Kiran Desai
   - c) Arundhati Roy
   - d) Anita Desai

   b) Kiran Desai

8.  Which Indian author wrote "The Namesake"?
   - a) Arundhati Roy
   - b) Salman Rushdie
   - c) Jhumpa Lahiri
   - d) Vikram Seth

    c) Jhumpa Lahiri

9.  The novel "A Suitable Boy" is penned by:
   - a) Aravind Adiga
   - b) Vikram Seth
   - c) Jhumpa Lahiri
   - d) Salman Rushdie

   b) Vikram Seth

10.  Who is known for the novel "The Guide"?
    - a) R.K. Narayan
    - b) Chetan Bhagat
    - c) Ruskin Bond
    - d) Khushwant Singh

    **Answer:** a) R.K. Narayan

11. Which Indian author is known for her feminist writings and wrote "The Dark Holds No Terrors"?
    - a) Kamala Das
    - b) Shashi Tharoor
    - c) Anita Nair
    - d) Shashi Deshpande

    d) Shashi Deshpande

12. The novel "A Fine Balance" is authored by:
    - a) Vikram Seth
    - b) Rohinton Mistry
    - c) Arundhati Roy
    - d) Kiran Desai

     b) Rohinton Mistry

13. Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel "The Glass Palace"?
    - a) Amitav Ghosh
    - b) Vikram Seth
    - c) Jhumpa Lahiri
    - d) Aravind Adiga

   a) Amitav Ghosh

14.  "The Shadow Lines" is a novel by:
    - a) Arundhati Roy
    - b) Jhumpa Lahiri
    - c) Amitav Ghosh
    - d) Amit Chaudhuri

     b) Amitav Ghosh 

15. In which novel does Salman Rushdie explore the magical realism of Indian history?
    - a) "Midnight's Children"
    - b) "The Satanic Verses"
    - c) "Shame"
    - d) "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"

    a) "Midnight's Children"

16. Who is known for the novel "English, August"?
    - a) Upamanyu Chatterjee
    - b) Vikram Chandra
    - c) Vikram Seth
    - d) Aravind Adiga

    a) Upamanyu Chatterjee

17.  "Coolie" is a novel written by:
    - a) Mulk Raj Anand
    - b) Raja Rao
    - c) Khushwant Singh
    - d) Nirad C. Chaudhuri

    a) Mulk Raj Anand

18. Which Indian author's works often focus on the socio-political issues in the country and include "Maximum City"?
    - a) Aravind Adiga
    - b) Suketu Mehta
    - c) Kiran Desai
    - d) Vikram Seth

     b) Suketu Mehta

19. The novel "The Lowland" is authored by:
    - a) Jhumpa Lahiri
    - b) Arundhati Roy
    - c) Amitav Ghosh
    - d) Chetan Bhagat

    a) Jhumpa Lahiri

20.  Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for "The Siege of Krishnapur"?
    - a) R.K. Narayan
    - b) V.S. Naipaul
    - c) Salman Rushdie
    - d) Paul Scott

     d) Paul Scott


21. "The Elephant Paradigm" is a collection of essays by which Indian author?
    - a) Arundhati Roy
    - b) Shashi Tharoor
    - c) R.K. Narayan
    - d) Sudha Murthy

    d) Sudha Murthy

22.  Who wrote the novel "Fire on the Mountain"?
    - a) Anita Desai
    - b) Kamala Das
    - c) Bapsi Sidhwa
    - d) Anita Nair

     a) Anita Desai

23. Which Indian poet and lyricist is known for his contribution to Bollywood songs and also wrote the novel "Half Girlfriend"?
    - a) Javed Akhtar
    - b) Gulzar
    - c) Chetan Bhagat
    - d) Piyush Mishra

     c) Chetan Bhagat

24.  "The Palace of Illusions" is a retelling of the Indian epic Mahabharata from the perspective of which character?
    - a) Draupadi
    - b) Arjuna
    - c) Karna
    - d) Bhishma

     a) Draupadi

25. Which Indian author is known for the "Ibis Trilogy," which includes novels like "Sea of Poppies"?
    - a) Arundhati Roy
    - b) Jhumpa Lahiri
    - c) Vikram Seth
    - d) Amitav Ghosh

    d) Amitav Ghosh

26.  Who wrote the novel "The Blue Umbrella," which was later adapted into a Bollywood film?
    - a) Ruskin Bond
    - b) Khushwant Singh
    - c) R.K. Narayan
    - d) Chetan Bhagat

  a) Ruskin Bond

27. In which novel does Arundhati Roy address issues of caste, religion, and politics in contemporary India?
    - a) "The God of Small Things"
    - b) "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"
    - c) "In Custody"
    - d) "The Inheritance of Loss"

     b) "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"

28.  "Such a Long Journey" is a novel written by:
    - a) Rohinton Mistry
    - b) Salman Rushdie
    - c) Aravind Adiga
    - d) Vikram Seth

     a) Rohinton Mistry

29.  Who is the author of "Train to Pakistan"?
    - a) Khushwant Singh
    - b) Mulk Raj Anand
    - c) Bapsi Sidhwa
    - d) Ruskin Bond

     a) Khushwant Singh

30. * Which novel explores the life of a transgender hijra protagonist and is written by Manil Suri?
    - a) "The White Tiger"
    - b) "The Death of Vishnu"
    - c) "The Age of Shiva"
    - d) "City of Devi"

    c) "The Age of Shiva"


31.  "The Home and the World" is a novel written by:
    - a) Rabindranath Tagore
    - b) Salman Rushdie
    - c) Arundhati Roy
    - d) Anita Desai

     a) Rabindranath Tagore

32.  Which Indian author is known for his detective novels featuring the character Byomkesh Bakshi?
    - a) Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
    - b) Satyajit Ray
    - c) Ruskin Bond
    - d) Vikram Chandra

    a) Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

33. "Difficult Daughters" is a novel written by:
    - a) Bapsi Sidhwa
    - b) Manju Kapur
    - c) Kiran Desai
    - d) Anita Nair

     b) Manju Kapur

34. *Which Indian author won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel "Rich Like Us"?
    - a) Shashi Tharoor
    - b) Nayantara Sahgal
    - c) Khushwant Singh
    - d) Anita Desai

     b) Nayantara Sahgal

35. "The Folded Earth" is a novel written by:
    - a) Jhumpa Lahiri
    - b) Anuradha Roy
    - c) Kiran Desai
    - d) Anita Nair

    b) Anuradha Roy

36. Who is the author of the novel "The Calcutta Chromosome"?
    - a) Amitav Ghosh
    - b) Arundhati Roy
    - c) Amit Chaudhuri
    - d) Amitav Kumar

     a) Amitav Ghosh

37.  "The Rozabal Line" is a novel written by:
    - a) Ashwin Sanghi
    - b) Rana Dasgupta
    - c) Durjoy Datta
    - d) Anuja Chauhan

    a) Ashwin Sanghi

38. Who wrote the novel "Interpreter of Maladies," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000?
    - a) Arundhati Roy
    - b) Salman Rushdie
    - c) Jhumpa Lahiri
    - d) Amitav Ghosh

     c) Jhumpa Lahiri

39.  "Train Dreams" is a novella written by:
    - a) Salman Rushdie
    - b) Aravind Adiga
    - c) Vikram Seth
    - d) Denis Johnson

    d) Denis Johnson

40.  Who wrote the novel "An Atlas of the Difficult World"?
    - a) Meena Kandasamy
    - b) Arundhati Roy
    - c) Githa Hariharan
    - d) Amitav Ghosh

    b) Arundhati Roy


41. "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga primarily explores issues related to:
    - a) Caste system
    - b) Partition of India
    - c) Economic inequality
    - d) Women's rights

    c) Economic inequality

42. Who wrote the novel "The God of Small Things," which won the Booker Prize in 1997?
    - a) Arundhati Roy
    - b) Kiran Desai
    - c) Anita Desai
    - d) Jhumpa Lahiri

   a) Arundhati Roy

43. Which Indian author's novel "Aghora: At the Left Hand of God" delves into the world of Aghora, a form of Shaivite Tantra?
    - a) Raja Rao
    - b) Robert Irwin
    - c) Robert Svoboda
    - d) Amish Tripathi

     c) Robert Svoboda

44. The novel "Nectar in a Sieve" is written by:
    - a) Kamala Markandaya
    - b) R.K. Narayan
    - c) Shashi Tharoor
    - d) Raja Rao

     a) Kamala Markandaya

45.  Who is known for the novel "The Inheritance of Loss," which won the Booker Prize in 2006?
    - a) Kiran Desai
    - b) Arundhati Roy
    - c) Jhumpa Lahiri
    - d) Aravind Adiga

     a) Kiran Desai

46.  The term "Coolie" in Mulk Raj Anand's novel symbolizes the struggles of:
    - a) Industrial workers
    - b) Agricultural laborers
    - c) Street vendors
    - d) Railway workers

     d) Railway workers

47.  "The Last Song of Dusk" is a novel written by:
    - a) Vikram Seth
    - b) Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
    - c) Kiran Desai
    - d) Shashi Tharoor

     b) Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

48. The novel "In Custody" by Anita Desai explores the world of:
    - a) Journalism
    - b) Academia
    - c) Film industry
    - d) Poetry

   d) Poetry

49. "The Far Field" is a novel written by:
    - a) Madhuri Vijay
    - b) Manu Joseph
    - c) Anita Desai
    - d) Kiran Desai

     a) Madhuri Vijay

50. "Clear Light of Day" is a novel by which Indian author?
    - a) Kiran Desai
    - b) Salman Rushdie
    - c) Anita Desai
    - d) Arundhati Roy

     c) Anita Desai

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