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Question 1

“Amnesty”, a short story originally published in ____________ in 1991.

A. Vogue
B. The New Yorker
C. The Common Woman
D. Times

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Question 2

“Calming an Education” the convocation speech delivered to whom?

A. Graduating women student
B. public
C. all women
D. none of these

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Question 3

“Calming an Education”, the convocation speech delivered to ____________ college.

A. Edinburg
B. Douglass
C. Abbey
D. Bishop Burton

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Question 4

“The story of an hour” first published as ________________

A. The Dream of an hour
B. The Story of Dream
C. An Hour of Dream
D. The Story in an Hour

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Question 5

“What it's like to be Transgender” is a/an __________________ poem.

A. Elegy
B. Love poem
C. Autobiographical poem
D. Sonnet

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Question 6

A tendency to look to a style, activity or interest for a very short span of time is called_________

A. Faddism
B. Grappling
C. Slapdash
D. Drifting

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Question 7

According to Adrienne Rich, intelligent woman, who denies her intelligence in order to seemmore _________

A. Feminine
B. energetic
C. strong
D. polite

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Question 8

According to Adrienne Rich, many male professors still feel that teaching in a women's college isa __________ career.

A. First- rate
B. Main- rate
C. Second- rate
D. none of these

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Question 9

According to Adrienne Rich, ultimately the women students and their teachers are ____________

A. Invisible
B. Indivisible
C. divisible
D. none of these

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Question 10

According to Adrienne Rich, university education implies an ethical and intellectual contractbetween whom?

A. Parents and teacher
B. Parents and children
C. Teachers and students
D. none of these

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Question 11

According to Harari, what is the level of happiness of a medieval French peasant versus a modernParisian banker?

A. different
B. more than peasant
C. same
D. more than banker

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Question 12

Adrienne Rich planned to separate her remarks in her speech “claiming an education” into howmany parts?

A. Three
B. Five
C. Four
D. Two

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Question 13

Adrienne Rich refused to accept the ________________ award in1997.

A. National Booker Award
B. National Medal for the Arts
C. The Yale series of younger poet's award
D. Booker Prize

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Question 14

Adrienne Rich refused to accept the National Medal for the Arts award from whom?

A. President
B. President Clinton
C. President Trump
D. President

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Question 15

Adrienne Rich won National Book Award for __________.

A. The Diamond Cutter
B. A Change Of World
C. Ruins
D. Diving into the Wreck

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Question 16

Adrienne Rich won Yale series of younger poets award for her book named _________.

A. The Diamond Cutter
B. A Change Of World
C. Diving into Wreck
D. Ruins

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Question 17

Adrienne Rich's second collection of poetry is _______________.

A. The Diamond Cutter
B. A Change Of World
C. Diving into Wreck
D. Ruins

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Question 18

Adrienne Rich's work ' Snapshots of a Daughter-in-law' published in _________ year.

A. 1963
B. 1965
C. 1983
D. 1985

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Question 19

Drafting committee comprise of ___members

A. 10
B. 8
C. 7
D. 5

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Question 20

From which work is the extract “Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life” taken

A. Joothan
B. Homo Deus
C. The poisoned Bread
D. Homo sapiens

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Question 21

Harari thinks that human happiness is the result of processes taking place in the ______.

A. human heart
B. human mind
C. human thought
D. human brain.

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Question 22

How many honorary doctorates has been awarded to Nadine Gordimer in literature from variousuniversities.

A. 7
B. 10
C. 8
D. 9

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Question 23

How many volume of prose Adrienne Rich published?

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6

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Question 24

Identify the figure of speech in the line 'My tiny body dropping like a question mark all over thewooden pew.'

A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Hyperbole
D. Alliteration

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Question 25

In the extract “Chemical Happiness and the Meaning of Life”, Most parents declare that theirchildren are their chief source of _____________

A. blessing
B. happiness.
C. sadness
D. headache

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Question 26

In the extract “the outcaste” Mahar boys and girls played _____________.

A. Touch and Go
B. Kabbadi
C. Football
D. Cricket

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Question 27

In the extract “the outcaste” the mother of the narrator looks the leftover food as___________.

A. Nectar
B. Waste
C. Gift
D. None of these

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Question 28

In the extract “the outcaste” The Wani and Brahmin boys played _________.

A. Football
B. Cricket
C. Kabbadi
D. Touch and Go

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Question 29

In the extract “the outcaste” what did the high caste girls offered the Mahar caste?

A. gift
B. their leftover food
C. books
D. cloths

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Question 30

In the extract “the outcaste” what did the high caste ones do before eating?

A. sit quietly
B. look here and there
C. nothing
D. pray

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Question 31

In the extract “the outcaste” what did the Mahar caste brought for the picnic?

A. rice and curry
B. bread and butter
C. Jowar bhakari and chutney
D. nothing

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Question 32

In the extract “the outcaste” What did the teacher ask the students to do the day after the picnic?

A. to write a summary
B. to write an essay
C. to write a letter
D. to write an experience

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Question 33

In the extract “the outcaste” who looked restless along the bank of the stream?

A. Parsya
B. Bhiwarabai
C. Harya
D. Umbrya

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Question 34

In the extract “the outcaste” who pulled Parshya from the picnic row?

A. Mallya
B. Harya
C. Bhiwarabai
D. Parsya

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Question 35

In the poem “Refugee Blues” people were living in.

A. Place
B. Mansions and Holes
C. Hut
D. Big Hotels

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Question 36

In the poem “Refugee Blues” the speaker at the public meeting worried that the refugees will steal?

A. Money
B. Wealth
C. Daily bread
D. House

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Question 37

In the poem “Refugee Blues” What does the old yew do every spring?

A. It blossom
B. It dries
C. It
D. None of these

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Question 38

In the poem “Refugee Blues” What was the refugee offered by the committee?

A. a new passport
B. a gift
C. a cup of tea
D. a chair

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Question 39

In the poem “Refugee Blues” you are ‘officially dead’ if you haven’t got a ________________.

A. Birth certificate
B. Driver’s license
C. Passport
D. Country

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Question 40

In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the narrator see at the harbour?

A. crow
B. ship
C. Fish
D. person

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Question 41

In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the refugee see in his dream?

A. heaven
B. a thousands of building
C. a beautiful fairy
D. an old man

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Question 42

In the poem “Refugee Blues”What did the refugee see in the woods?

A. Cheetah
B. Birds
C. Spider
D. Monkey

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Question 43

In the poem “Refugee Blues”Which animal was let into an opened door?

A. a dog
B. a squirrel
C. a cat
D. a puppy

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Question 44

In the poem “Refugee Blues”Who is looking for the refugees?

A. Parent
B. Cousins
C. Soldiers
D. Colleagues

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Question 45

In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” the poet treat his body like a ___________.

A. workshop
B. church
C. House
D. Ideal place

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Question 46

In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” What does the kids at school called him?

A. Lesbian
B. silly boy
C. smuggler
D. thief

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Question 47

In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” What does the poet ask to the Jesus?

A. to make him popular
B. To fix him
C. To give him wealth
D. To grand him money

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Question 48

In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” what was Jesus's response to the poets prayer?

A. Granted him all
B. fixed him
C. Silence
D. none of these

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Question 49

In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” where did the speaker make his first prayer?

A. In the garden
B. From the school
C. In his house
D. In a glass stain cathedral

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Question 50

In the poem freedom is claimed to________

A. People
B. Colonizers
C. Foreigners
D. Motherland

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Question 51

In the short story “Amnesty” by time of the trail of narrator's potential husband she had just passedher __________standard

A. Tenth
B. Sixth
C. Eighth
D. Fifth

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Question 52

In the short story “Amnesty” how many brothers does the narrator have?

A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. One

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Question 53

In the short story “Amnesty” the narrator's life partner work in a ___________ .

A. Industry
B. Construction company
C. Farm
D. Shop

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Question 54

In the short story “Amnesty” the policeman didn't allow them to the island because?

A. they didn’t have passport
B. they didn't have a prior permit
C. they didn't took ticket
D. none of the above

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Question 55

In the short story “Amnesty”what did the the prisoners give the narrator as a present for the newborn baby?

A. Doll
B. Money
C. Gift
D. Dress

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Question 56

In the short story “The story of an hour” the open window is a symbol of__________.

A. Peace
B. Agony
C. Freedom
D. Sorrow

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Question 57

In which magazine “The story of an hour” first published?

A. The Common Woman
B. Vogue
C. The New Yorker
D. None of these

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Question 58

In which subject did Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize

A. humanitie
B. language and literature
C. Economic Studies
D. medicine

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Question 59

Kate chopin's At Fault published in ___________.

A. 1984
B. 1989
C. 1979
D. 1980

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Question 60

Kate Chopin's first novel?

A. The awakening
B. The dragon seed
C. At Fault
D. The slave

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Question 61

Manto was an ____author.

A. Indian
B. Pakistani
C. Indo- Pakistani
D. None of the above

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Question 62

Men wind confusion because they fear ____

A. Violence
B. Truth
C. People
D. Gandhi

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Question 63

Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with ____________

A. Cancer
B. TB
C. heart trouble
D. Jaundice

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Question 64

Most of his writing were originally written in _____.

A. Urdu
B. English
C. Regional language
D. Marati

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Question 65

Name of the poem which is about extreme right wing politics of Donald Trump?

A. Refugee Blue
B. The not yet burning country
C. What it's like to be Transgender
D. None of these

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Question 66

Pearl S buck’s essay ‘Should the Assassin of Gandhi be Killed’ is a ______

A. Satire
B. Editorial
C. Letter
D. Obituary

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Question 67

Pearl S.buck won Pulitzer prize for her novel_______.

A. East wind, west wind
B. The Good Earth
C. The Dragon seed
D. The Christmas ghost

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Question 68

Prozac is lift people out of _____________

A. illnes
B. happiness
C. depression
D. none of the these

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Question 69

Richard had been in the ____________ office when intelligence of the rail road disaster wasreceived?

A. Police station
B. Post office
C. Bus stop
D. Newspaper office

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Question 70

Sharankumar Limbale is best known for his novel ___________.

A. Akkarmashi
B. Joothan
C. Face to Face
D. The pickup

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Question 71

Sharankumar Limbale's novel Akkarmashi is published in _________.

A. 1981
B. 1984
C. 1987
D. 1982

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Question 72

Sharankumar Limbale's novel 'Akkarmashi' originally written in __________ language.

A. Tamil
B. Malayalam
C. Hindi
D. Marathi

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Question 73

The criticism against the Constitution was that it is _____

A. Not seriou
B. Incomplete
C. Nonsensical
D. A bag of borrowings

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Question 74

The speech entitled “Calming an Education” is first printed in the magazine __________

A. Time
B. Vogue
C. The New Yorker
D. The Common Woman

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Question 75

Tagore urges for ______ in his poem “Freedom”

A. Truth
B. Freedom
C. Love
D. Power

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Question 76

Toba means ____in Punjab.

A. Kind
B. Cruel
C. Mad
D. Pond

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Question 77

What is Mr. Mallard's friend name in the short story “The story of an hour”?

A. Mr. Joseph
B. Mr. Richard
C. Mr. Raphael
D. Mr. John

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Question 78

What is Tagore’s university called?

A. Aankan
B. Shantiniketan
C. Viswa bharati
D. Geetmalya

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Question 79

When did India adopt a new constitution?

A. 26th Jan 1950
B. 15th August 1947
C. 03-Nov-47
D. 20th June 1967

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Question 80

Where did Mrs. Mallard went, when she heard the news of her husband's death?

A. To her Room
B. to bath room
C. to prayer-room
D. to kitchen

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Question 81

Which inmate of the lunatic asylum mourned over his lost love?

A. Bishan Singh
B. Mohammed Ali
C. A lawyer
D. A sweeper

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Question 82

The tradition of preamble began with ______

A. France
B. Africa
C. America
D. Greece

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Question 83

Who called the speaker “Lesbian” in the poem “What it's like to be Transgender”?

A. Kid
B. Teachers
C. Parents
D. Principal

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Question 84

Who is Gandhi’s murderer?

A. Naturam Vinayak Godse
B. Sardar Vallabhai Patel
C. V
D. Savarkar d. S V Gokhale

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Question 85

Who is Josephine in the short story “ The story of an hour”?

A. Mrs. Mallard's cousin
B. Mrs. Mallard's sister
C. Mrs. Mallard's daughter
D. Mrs. Mallard's mother

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Question 86

Who is the author of “An Atlas of the Early World”?

A. W. H. Auden
B. Adrienne Rich
C. P. B. Shelley
D. Robert Frost

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Question 87

who is the author of the poem “ What it's like to be Transgender”?

A. Adrienne Rich
B. Kate Chopin
C. W. H. Auden
D. Lee Mokobe

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Question 88

Who is the bard of Bengal?

A. Gandhi
B. Manto
C. Tagore
D. All of the above

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Question 89

Who is the founder of Vocal revolutionaries?

A. Lee Mokobe
B. W. H. Auden
C. Nadine Gordimer
D. Gieve Patel

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Question 90

Who is the Olympic Gold winner athlete in decathlon in the 1976 Montreal Olympics mentioned inthe poem “What it's like to be Transgender”?

A. Mya Hall
B. Leelah Alcorn
C. Bruce Jenner
D. Blake Brockington

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Question 91

Who is the protagonist of the short story “The story of an hour”?

A. Josephine
B. Mr. Mallard
C. Mr. Richard
D. Lousie

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Question 92

Who reminds the poet that he could not bring a husband to his home?

A. His friend
B. His Aunt
C. His mother
D. His Uncle

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Question 93

Who said “ my life is my message?

A. Mahatma gandhi
B. Nehru
C. Einstein
D. None

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Question 94

Who says, “No war brings peace, for violence only brings more violence .”?

A. Gandhi
B. Nehru
C. Pearl.S buck
D. Godse

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Question 95

Who should take up Gandhi’s world leadership?

A. Nehru
B. People of India
C. Pearl S buck
D. All of the above

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Question 96

Who told the news of Mr. Mallard's death to his wife?

A. Mr. Richard
B. Josephine
C. Mr. Mallard
D. Lousie

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Question 97

Who told the news of Mr. Mallard's death to Josephine?

A. Mr. Richard
B. Mr. Mallard
C. Lousie
D. Josephine

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Question 98

Who translated Sharankumar Limbale's novel Akkarmashi into English?

A. Radhika P. Menon
B. Anitha Nair
C. Santosh Thooval
D. Santosh Bhoomkar

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Question 99

Who was headed the Jury for giving the Yale series of younger poet's award to Adrienne Rich?

A. William Blake
B. P. B. Shelley
C. W. H. Auden
D. Robert Frost

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Question 100

Who was the author of “Jane Eyre”?

A. Charlotte Bronte
B. Emily Bronte
C. Jane Austen
D. Nadine Gordimer

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Question 101

Who were worried about eating Chapatis?

A. Taralal
B. Fazal Din
C. Anglo Indians
D. Pakistanis

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Question 102

Who wrote “the story of an hour”?

A. Sharankumar Limbale
B. Lee Mokobe
C. Mr. Richard
D. Kate Chopin

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Question 103

Who wrote national anthem for India and Bangladesh?

A. Rabindranath Tagore
B. Aurobindo Gosh
C. Sarojini Naidu
D. R.K Narayan

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Question 104

Whose convocation speech is “Calming an Education”?

A. Adrienne Rich
B. Nadine Gordimer
C. Lee Mokobe
D. Gieve Patel

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Question 105

Whose work is “The Conservationist”?

A. Nadine Gordimer
B. Lee Mokobe
C. Gieve Patel
D. Nadine Gordimer

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Question 106

Kate chopin's At Fault published in ___________

A. 1984
B. 1989
C. 1979
D. 1980

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Question 107

In the short story “The story of an hour” the open window is a symbol of__________

A. Peace
B. Agony
C. Freedom
D. Sorrow

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Question 108

In the poem “What it's like to be Transgender” the poet treat his body like a ___________

A. workshop
B. church
C. House
D. Ideal place

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Question 109

In the poem “Refugee Blues” you are ‘officially dead’ if you haven’t got a ________________

A. Birth certificate
B. Driver’s license
C. Passport
D. Country

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Question 110

Adrienne Rich won Yale series of younger poets award for her book named _________

A. The Diamond Cutter
B. A Change Of World
C. Diving into Wreck
D. Ruins

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Question 111

Adrienne Rich won National Book Award for __________

A. The Diamond Cutter
B. A Change Of World
C. Ruins
D. Diving into the Wreck

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Question 112

Adrienne Rich's second collection of poetry is _______________

A. The Diamond Cutter
B. A Change Of World
C. Diving into Wreck
D. Ruins

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Question 113

Sharankumar Limbale is best known for his novel ___________

A. Akkarmashi
B. Joothan
C. Face to Face
D. The pickup

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Question 114

Sharankumar Limbale's novel Akkarmashi is published in _________

A. 1981
B. 1984
C. 1987
D. 1982

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Question 115

In the extract “the outcaste” The Wani and Brahmin boys played _________

A. Football
B. Cricket
C. Kabbadi
D. Touch and Go

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Question 116

In the extract “the outcaste” Mahar boys and girls played _____________

A. Touch and Go
B. Kabbadi
C. Football
D. Cricket

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Question 117

In the extract “the outcaste” the mother of the narrator looks the leftover food as___________

A. Nectar
B. Waste
C. Gift
D. None of these

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Question 118

Harari thinks that human happiness is the result of processes taking place in the ______

A. human heart
B. human mind
C. human thought
D. human brain.

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Question 119

Pearl S.buck won Pulitzer prize for her novel_______

A. East wind, west wind
B. The Good Earth
C. The Dragon seed
D. The Christmas ghost

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Question 120

Most of his writing were originally written in _____

A. Urdu
B. English
C. Regional language
D. Marati

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Question 121

According to Adrienne Rich, intelligent woman, who denies her intelligence in order to seemmore _________.

A. Feminine
B. energetic
C. strong
D. polite

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Question 122

According to Adrienne Rich, ultimately the women students and their teachers are ____________.

A. Invisible
B. Indivisible
C. divisible
D. none of these

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Question 123

A tendency to look to a style, activity or interest for a very short span of time is called_________.

A. Faddism
B. Grappling
C. Slapdash
D. Drifting

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