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MCQs on History of Indian Writing in English

Ravindra yadav फ़रवरी 13, 2025

MCQs on History of Indian Writing in English

Who is known as the father of Indian English literature?
- (A) R.K. Narayan
- (B) Raja Rao
- (C) Rabindranath Tagore
- (D) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
  Answer: (D) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Which was the first Indian novel written in English?
- (A) Kanthapura
- (B) Rajmohan’s Wife
- (C) The Serpent and the Rope
- (D) Gitanjali
  Answer: (B) Rajmohan’s Wife
Who wrote the novel ‘Kanthapura’?
- (A) Mulk Raj Anand
- (B) R.K. Narayan
- (C) Raja Rao
- (D) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
  Answer: (C) Raja Rao
Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in which year?
- (A) 1905
- (B) 1913
- (C) 1920
- (D) 1930
  Answer: (B) 1913
Who is the author of ‘The Guide’?
- (A) Raja Rao
- (B) R.K. Narayan
- (C) Mulk Raj Anand
- (D) Salman Rushdie
  Answer: (B) R.K. Narayan
Which of the following works is written by Salman Rushdie?
- (A) Midnight’s Children
- (B) The Glass Palace
- (C) A Suitable Boy
- (D) Train to Pakistan
  Answer: (A) Midnight’s Children
Who is the author of ‘Untouchable’?
- (A) R.K. Narayan
- (B) Raja Rao
- (C) Mulk Raj Anand
- (D) Arundhati Roy
  Answer: (C) Mulk Raj Anand
Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for the novel ‘The God of Small Things’?
- (A) Arundhati Roy
- (B) Kiran Desai
- (C) Salman Rushdie
- (D) Vikram Seth
  Answer: (A) Arundhati Roy
The novel ‘Train to Pakistan’ is written by which author?
- (A) Khushwant Singh
- (B) Salman Rushdie
- (C) Vikram Seth
- (D) Anita Desai
  Answer: (A) Khushwant Singh
Which book is an autobiography of Nirad C. Chaudhuri?

(A) The English Teacher
(B) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
(C) A Passage to India
(D) The Glass Palace
Answer: (B) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
11 Who wrote the novel ‘A Suitable Boy’?

(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Vikram Seth
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Anita Desai
Answer: (B) Vikram Seth

‘Midnight’s Children’ won the Booker Prize in which year?

(A) 1980
(B) 1981
(C) 1982
(D) 1983
Answer: (B) 1981

Which Indian writer is known for the novel ‘The Glass Palace’?

(A) Amitav Ghosh
(B) Salman Rushdie
(C) Vikram Seth
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: (A) Amitav Ghosh

Who is the author of ‘The White Tiger’, which won the Booker Prize?

(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Kiran Desai
(C) Aravind Adiga
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: (C) Aravind Adiga

Which of the following is NOT a work of R.K. Narayan?

(A) Malgudi Days
(B) The Dark Room
(C) Swami and Friends
(D) The God of Small Things
Answer: (D) The God of Small Things

Who wrote the novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’?

(A) Kiran Desai
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) Amitav Ghosh
(D) Arundhati Roy
Answer: (A) Kiran Desai

‘Clear Light of Day’ is written by which Indian author?

(A) Anita Desai
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Khushwant Singh
Answer: (A) Anita Desai

Which of the following books is written by Jhumpa Lahiri?

(A) The Namesake
(B) The Glass Palace
(C) Sea of Poppies
(D) A Fine Balance
Answer: (A) The Namesake

Who is the author of ‘Sea of Poppies’?

(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Vikram Seth
(D) Rohinton Mistry
Answer: (B) Amitav Ghosh

Which novel by Mulk Raj Anand deals with the life of a sweeper?

(A) Coolie
(B) Untouchable
(C) Two Leaves and a Bud
(D) Across the Black Waters
Answer: (B) Untouchable

In which year was R.K. Narayan’s novel ‘Swami and Friends’ published?

(A) 1932
(B) 1935
(C) 1940
(D) 1945
Answer: (B) 1935

Who wrote ‘A Passage to India’?

(A) Rudyard Kipling
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) George Orwell
(D) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Answer: (B) E.M. Forster

Which Indian author wrote ‘A Fine Balance’?

(A) Rohinton Mistry
(B) Vikram Seth
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: (A) Rohinton Mistry

Who is the first Indian to write a novel in English?

(A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(B) Raja Rao
(C) Toru Dutt
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: (A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Who is the author of the book ‘Shadow Lines’?

(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) Kiran Desai
Answer: (B) Amitav Ghosh
26 Who wrote the novel ‘Coolie’?

(A) R.K. Narayan
(B) Mulk Raj Anand
(C) Raja Rao
(D) Salman Rushdie
Answer: (B) Mulk Raj Anand

Which of the following is a work by Vikram Chandra?

(A) The White Tiger
(B) Sacred Games
(C) A Suitable Boy
(D) Midnight’s Children
Answer: (B) Sacred Games

Who is the author of ‘The Hungry Tide’?

(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Kiran Desai
(C) Amitav Ghosh
(D) Anita Desai
Answer: (C) Amitav Ghosh

The novel ‘Gitanjali’ was originally written in which language?

(A) Hindi
(B) Bengali
(C) Sanskrit
(D) English
Answer: (B) Bengali

Who is the first Indian woman to write a novel in English?

(A) Toru Dutt
(B) Krupabai Satthianadhan
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Kamala Das
Answer: (B) Krupabai Satthianadhan

Which novel by Salman Rushdie is based on the Emergency period in India?

(A) The Moor’s Last Sigh
(B) Midnight’s Children
(C) Shame
(D) Shalimar the Clown
Answer: (B) Midnight’s Children

Who wrote the novel ‘Two Leaves and a Bud’?

(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) R.K. Narayan
(C) Raja Rao
(D) Khushwant Singh
Answer: (A) Mulk Raj Anand

Which Indian author wrote ‘The God of Small Things’?

(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) Kiran Desai
(D) Anita Desai
Answer: (A) Arundhati Roy

Who is the author of ‘The Shadow of the Crescent Moon’?

(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Fatima Bhutto
(C) Kiran Desai
(D) Kamila Shamsie
Answer: (B) Fatima Bhutto

Which book won the Booker Prize for Aravind Adiga in 2008?

(A) The God of Small Things
(B) The White Tiger
(C) The Inheritance of Loss
(D) A Fine Balance
Answer: (B) The White Tiger

Which Indian author wrote ‘The Last Labyrinth’?

(A) Anita Desai
(B) Arun Joshi
(C) Kamala Markandaya
(D) R.K. Narayan
Answer: (B) Arun Joshi

Who is the author of ‘The Home and the World’?

(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Raja Rao
Answer: (B) Rabindranath Tagore

Which of the following is a novel by Kamala Markandaya?

(A) Nectar in a Sieve
(B) Cry, the Peacock
(C) The White Tiger
(D) The Hungry Tide
Answer: (A) Nectar in a Sieve

Who wrote the autobiographical work ‘My Experiments with Truth’?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Answer: (C) Mahatma Gandhi

Which Indian author wrote ‘Riot: A Love Story’?

(A) Shashi Tharoor
(B) Salman Rushdie
(C) Khushwant Singh
(D) Rohinton Mistry
Answer: (A) Shashi Tharoor

‘The Village by the Sea’ is written by which author?

(A) Anita Desai
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Vikram Seth
Answer: (A) Anita Desai

Who wrote the novel ‘Cry, the Peacock’?

(A) Kamala Markandaya
(B) Anita Desai
(C) Arundhati Roy
(D) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: (B) Anita Desai

Which of the following books is written by Khushwant Singh?

(A) A Suitable Boy
(B) Train to Pakistan
(C) The Shadow Lines
(D) A Fine Balance
Answer: (B) Train to Pakistan

Who is the author of ‘The Painter of Signs’?

(A) Mulk Raj Anand
(B) Raja Rao
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Vikram Seth
Answer: (C) R.K. Narayan

Which book is an autobiography of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam?

(A) My Country My Life
(B) Wings of Fire
(C) The Story of My Life
(D) Ignited Minds
Answer: (B) Wings of Fire

Who wrote the novel ‘Love and Longing in Bombay’?

(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Vikram Chandra
(C) Kiran Desai
(D) Anita Desai
Answer: (B) Vikram Chandra

‘The Discovery of India’ was written by which leader?

(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) B.R. Ambedkar
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Sardar Patel
Answer: (C) Jawaharlal Nehru

Who wrote ‘A Bend in the Ganges’?

(A) Anita Desai
(B) Khushwant Singh
(C) Manohar Malgonkar
(D) Vikram Seth
Answer: (C) Manohar Malgonkar

Which of the following is a poetry collection by Sarojini Naidu?

(A) The Golden Threshold
(B) Gitanjali
(C) Songs of Life
(D) Heavenly Songs
Answer: (A) The Golden Threshold

Who is known as the Nightingale of India?

(A) Kamala Das
(B) Toru Dutt
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Amrita Pritam
Answer: (C) Sarojini Naidu

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