METHODOLOGY OF LITERATURE QUESTION BANK

1. The study of signs is called________________ 
a. Linguistics 
b. Semiotics 
c. Scientology 
d. Stylistics 
2.  Who coined the word netspeak to denote the language used in internet 
  communication? 
a. Roland Bartthes 
b. Michel Foucault  
c. David Crystal 
d. David Lodge          
3.  Who is the author of AHouse forMr.Biswas?  
a. Shiv Naipaul 
b. Kushwant Singh 
c. Dom Moraes 
d. VS Naipaul 
4.  Who wrote Thingsfall Apart? 
a. Chinua Achebe 
b. Wole Soyinka 
c. Ismuth Chugthai 
d. Yeats 
5.  Train to Pakistan is a famous novel by Kushwant Singh based on____________ 
a. Partition 
b. Untouchables 
c. Prostitution 
d. Famine 
6.  Who wrote Summer in Calcutta ? 
a. Kamla Das 
b. Mahasweta Devi 
c. Mihir Sen 
d. Satyajit Ray 
7.  Which of the following is not a novel by Chinua Achebe? 
a. No longer at Ease
b. Arrow ofGod
c. AMan of people
d. Shame
8.  Achebe belongs to_______________ 
a. Nigeria 
b. Sudan 
c. South Africa 
d. Ethiopia 
9.  The poem which lends the title of Thingsfall Apart by Achebe is ______________ 
a. Easter 1916 
b. Byzantium 
c. Second Coming  
d. Daffodils 
10.  AnArea ofDarkness by VS Naipaul is a _____________ 
a. Travelogue 
b. Novel 
c. Shortstory 
d. Drama 
11.  _____________   is a novel by Patrick White, the Australian novelist. 
a. Snake 
b. Voss 
c. Cosmos 
d. Raj Quartet 
12.  The StoneAngel is a novel written by Margaret Lawrence, a native Neepawa in 
___________ 
a. Africa 
b. England 
c. Australia 
d. U S A 
13.  TheGuide is a novel written by ____________ 
a. RK Narayan 
b. KR Narayanan 
c. Anita Desai 
d. KiranDesai 
14.  MuktaDhara is a play by ________________ 
a. Tagore 
b. R K Narayanan 
c. Anita Desai 
d. Manjula Padmanaban 
15.  The term “Gitanjali” of the poem of the same name by Tagore means_____________ 
a. God Songs 
b. Good songs 
c. Verses 
d. Song offerings 
16.  Who wrote the introduction to Gitanjali? 
a. WB Yeats 
b. Tagore 
c. Eliot 
d. Louis Fischer 
17.  Rabindra Nath Tagore the first Indian to get Nobel Prize was awarded Nobel Prize 
in__________ for literature. 
a. 1930  
b. 1960  
c. 1931  
d. 1913    
18.  Douglas Steward who wrote many verse plays like _____ Kelly, Shipwreck, TheGolden
Lover and Fischer’s Ghost originally belonged to 
a. Australia  
b. New Zealand 
c. Trinidad 
d. China 
19.  Who wrote the book TheWestern Canon? 
a. Harold Bloom 
b. David Lodge 
c. William wordsworth 
d. F R Leavis 
20.  Literary Theory:An Introduction is a book written by ___________ 
a. Harold Bloom 
b. Terry Eagleton 
c. F.R.Leavis 
d. Northrop Frye 
21.  Who wrote the book The Common Pursuit?
a. Harold Bloom 
b. Terry Eagleton  
c. F.R Leavis 
d. Coleridge 
ANSWERS
1 b,  2 c , 3 d,  4 a , 5 a , 6 a , 7 d , 8 a , 9 c , 10 a , 11 b,  12 a ,13 a , 14 a  ,15 d   ,16 a , 17 d , 18 b ,
 19 a  20 b ,21 c