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This set of Indian Literature in English Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Indian Literature In English Set 4

Q1 | “Yayati”, “Hayavadana” etc. are plays by __________.
  • girish karnad
  • vijay tendulkar
  • mahesh dattani
  • vikram seth
Q2 | In “Yayati”, _________ is Pooru’s wife.
  • sharmishtha
  • swarnalata
  • chitralekha
  • devyani
Q3 | The play “Yayati” was written originally in _________. A. Bengali B. Sanskrit C. Kannada D. Tamil81. “Yayati” is an adaptation of an ancient myth from _________.
  • the ramayana
  • the mahabharata
  • vedas
  • stories of kings
Q4 | Who is Vrshparvan in the play “Yayati”?
  • devyani’s father
  • yayati’s father
  • a guru
  • sharmishtha’s father
Q5 | Which of the following characters are not part of the original myth and were therefore inventedby Karnad for the play “Yayati”?
  • devyani
  • chitralekha
  • sharmistha
  • sukracharya
Q6 | Who is the author of the play “Tara”?
  • vikram seth
  • vijay tendulkar
  • mahesh dattani
  • manjula padhmanabhan
Q7 | Dan in “Tara” attempts to write a play titled _______.
  • tara
  • twinkle tara
  • tara and chandan
  • twinkle twins
Q8 | _________ says that Tara “would make a great business woman”.
  • chandan
  • patel
  • bharathi
  • roopa
Q9 | Which of the following characters in “Tara” is present throughout the play, always seated on achair?
  • chandan
  • dan
  • dr.thakkur
  • tara
Q10 | Which of the following characters doesnt understand English very well and therefore neverreally understands the jokes made by the twins?
  • bharathi
  • roopa
  • freni
  • patel
Q11 | In “Tara”, who does Roopa think Chandan would find ‘compatible’ or suitable as a partner?
  • roopa
  • piya
  • freni narangiwalla
  • wandh tarah
Q12 | Who doesn’t want to join college without Tara in the play “Tara”?
  • roopa
  • bharati
  • chandan
  • piya
Q13 | Which of the following characters reveal the secret behind the twins separation ?
  • bharathi
  • patel
  • dr.thakkur
  • roopa
Q14 | How many parts is Sen’s “The Argumentative Indian” divided into?
  • five
  • three
  • four
  • six
Q15 | Which of the following Muslim emperors does Sen talk about frequently in the section“Reason and Identity”?
  • tughlaq
  • shajahan
  • aurangazeb
  • akbar
Q16 | What is the name of the new religion which Akbar attempted to start that Sen talks of in“Reason & Identity”?
  • din-ilahi
  • bin-ilahi
  • jin-ilahi
  • tarikh-ilahi
Q17 | ‘Tarikh-ilahi’ is a ________ that Sen says Akbar tried to introduce in India.
  • new religion
  • synthetic calender
  • new document
  • mixed group
Q18 | According to Sen, which of the following people understood ‘the full significance of theindustrial revolution in the West & its potentialities for his own country’?
  • jamsetji tata
  • akbar
  • glover
  • sir john stratchey
Q19 | Nehru’s “What is Culture” was written on _________.
  • 8th april
  • 9th april
  • 8th may
  • 9th may
Q20 | Nehru believed that culture’s must be _________.
  • dynamic
  • static
  • isolated
  • closed up
Q21 | Nehru concludes “What is Culture” by quoting a ________ poet.
  • latin
  • indian
  • greek
  • english
Q22 | Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in the year ______.
  • 1914
  • 1912
  • 1913
  • 1911