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Important Questions of Master Cadre Exam 

61. William Empson is famous for the critical work

1. Seven types of Ambiguity
2. Science of Criticism
3. Archetypes of literature
4. Science of Literature

62. In the beginning of his career Philip Lakin was influenced by

1. WB yeats
2. TS eliot
3. Ezra pound
4. DH Lawrence

63. Crow is a sequence of poems written by

1. Hudson
2. Ted Hughes
3. Victor hugo
4. Philip larkin

64. Stevie is known for her

1. allegorical poems
2. narrative verse
3. romantic verse
4. witty and enigmatic verse

65. Seamus Heaney is

1. an American poet
2. an Irish poet
3. a French poet
4. an Italian poet

66. Animal Farm by George Orwell is 

1. an attack upon the very idea of socialism
2. a critique of capitalism
3. a satire on the failure of communist ideals in Russia
4. none of the above

67. In his essay Why I Write, George Orwell declared that whatever he wrote was aganist

1. Communism
2. philistinism
3. totalitarianism
4. democracy

68. William Golding' Lord of the Flies is set

1. in a metropolitan city
2. on a desert island
3. in a remote mountain area
4. in a moffusil town

69. William Golding' major concern in his literary works is

1. with reanimation of ancient myths
2. not with the overturning of modern rationalist  ideas
3. with the invocation of charged, unorthodox moral ideas
4. with the strengthening of modern urban values

70. Doris Lessing is a 

1. Playwright
2. Novelist
3. Critic
4. Journalist

71. Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory is set in 

1. Mexico
2. Peru
3. Cuba
4. Eqnador

72. Graham Greene's The Quiet American is set in

1. Cambodia
2. Loas
3. Thailand
4. Vietnam

73. Stephon Leacock is a 

1. Humorist 
2. playwright
3. poet 
4. adventure writer

74. VS Naipaul's A house for Mr. Biswas is set in 

1. Trinidad
2. New York
3. Australia
4. Washington

75. VS Naipaul's The overcrowded Barracoon is a 

1.  collection of short stories
2. a novel
3. a travelogue
4. a collection of personal and political articles

76. Salman Rushdie is often calssed among the exponents of 

1. Satirical discourse
2. dramatic monologue
3. realism
4. magic realism

77. Which novel brought upon Salman Rushdie a Fatwa invoked by the Ayatollah khomeini?

1. Midnight's children
2. The Satanic Verses
3. Shame
4. The Moor's Lash sigh

78. It is said that RK Narayan's comic gift flourished in 

1.  the strong framework of social conventions
2. an arena outside the framework of social conventions
3. both A and B
4. neither A and B

79. The Grandmother's Tale is a work by

1. Salman Rushdie
2. Raja Rao
3. Rk Narayan
4. Anita Desai

80. The cow of the Barricades is a collection of short Stories by 

1. Salman Rushdie
2. Raja Rao
3. Rk Narayan
4. Mulk Raj  Anand

81. Who wrote the introduction to BR Ambedkar's latest edition of The Annihilation of Caste?

1. Amitav Ghosh
2. VS Naipaul
3. Arundhati Roy
4. AK Ramanujan

82. When was Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize for literature?

1. 1912
2. 1910
3. 1915
4. 1913

83. Who wrote the Indroduction to Tagore's Geetajali when its English translation appeared?

1. TS Eliot
2. WB Yeats
3. EM Forster
4. Leo Tolstoy

84. Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable recounts what happens in the life of its protagonist Bakha in

1. a single day
2. a week
3. a month
4. a year

85. Which of the following is Not a work by Mulk Raj Anand?

1. The Sword and the Sickle
2. Across the Black Waters
3. Private life of Indian Prince
4. Comrade Kirilov

86. The Home and the World is a novel by

1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Mulk Raj Anand
3. Anita Desai
4. AK Ramanujan

87. Listening to Grasshoppers is a collection of essays by

1. VS Naipaul 
2. Arundhati Roy
3. Raja Rao
4. Amitav Ghosh

88. A Bend in the   River is a novel by

1.  VS Naipaul 
2. Arundhati Roy
3. Raja Rao
4. Amitav Ghosh

89. Gautam is a character in 

1. Fasting Feasting
2. Cry the Peacock
3. Sea of Poppies
4. A Bend in the River

90. In the God of Small Things, the twin children Rahel and Estha were born in 

1. 1960
2. 1958
3. 1962
4. 1964