21. A Room of One’s Own was written by
(a) Ruskin Bond
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) William Hazlitt
(d) Arundhati Roy
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22. Who has created the famous character ‘Rosie’ in his novel ?
(a) Raja Rao
(b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Mulk Raj Anand
(d) Amitav Ghosh
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23. In which year was Arvind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger awarded the Man Booker Prize ?
(a) 2007
(b) 2008
(c) 2009
(d) 2010
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24. Who among the following novelists has written about the opium war ?
(a) Arvind Adiga
(b) Raja Rao
(c) Shashi Tharoor
(d) Amitav Ghosh
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25. Which among the following was a novel written by Henry Fielding ?
(a) Tom Jones
(b) Evelina
(c) Camilla
(d) The Wanderer
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26. Which was the first published novel of Thomas Hardy ?
(a) Under the Greenwood Tree
(b) Desperate Remedies
(c) A Pair of Blue Eyes
(d) Far From the Madding Crowd
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27. Who among the following novelists began his literary career as a dramatist ?
(a) Henry Fielding
(b) Samuel Richardson
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Lawrence Sterne
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28. When was E.M. Forster’s novel, A Passage to India first published ?
(a) 1910
(b) 1905
(c) 1915
(d) 1924
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29. Which of the following is not a work of Amitav Ghosh ?
(a) The Hungry Tide
(b) The Circle of Reason
(c) Last Man in Tower
(d) The Shadow Lines
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30. In which of the following plays of Bernard Shaw, Marchbanks appears as a character ?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Candida
(c) Getting Married
(d) The Doctor’s Dilemma
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31. “There is a soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.” Who has written it ?
(a) Ben Jonson
(c) William Shakespeare
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(d) G.B. Shaw
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32. Name the play in which Shakespeare had written :
“It is a tale told by an idiot, Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
(a) Hamlet
(b) King Lear
(c) Othello
(d) Macbeth
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33. Who translated Vijay Tendulkar’s Shantata ! Court Chalu Ahe into English as Silence ! The Court is in Session ?
(a) Priya Adarkar
(b) Badar Sircar
(c) Mohan Rakesh
(d) Vijay Tendulkar
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34. Which of the following was the first play by Harold Pinter ?
(a) The Room
(b) The Birthday Party
(c) The Caretaker
(d) Lover
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35. In which year was Chitra, the famous play by R. N. Tagore, first published ?
(a) 1911
(b) 1912
(c) 1913
(d) 1915
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36. When was Mahesh Dattani’s play Dance Like a Man first performed ?
(a) 1985
(b) 1988
(c) 1989
(d) 1991
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37. In which year did the first folio of Shakespeare’s plays appear ?
(a) 1620
(b) 1622
(c) 1623
(d) 1632
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38. Who said about Shakespeare that he knew ‘Small Latin and Less Greek’ ?
(a) Robert Greene
(b) Thomas Kud
(c) Dr. Samuel Johnson
(d) Ben Jonson
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39. In the play The Tempest, Prospero is the Duke of
(a) Milan
(b) Kent
(c) Edinburgh
(d) Naples
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40. Who among the following was not a University wits ?
(a) Robert Greene
(b) Thomas Nashe
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) George Peele
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