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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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