GIC Lecturer Pre-Exam MCQs
1. Who is considered the "Voice of Social Realism" among the Big Three?
A) Raja Rao
B) R.K. Narayan
C) Mulk Raj Anand
D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: C) Mulk Raj Anand
2. In which year was Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable published?
A) 1935
B) 1938
C) 1936
D) 1947
Answer: A) 1935
3. The protagonist of Untouchable is a young sweeper named:
A) Moorthy
B) Swaminathan
C) Bakha
D) Mohun
Answer: C) Bakha
4. Mulk Raj Anand's commitment to the marginalized is rooted in his:
A) Spiritual leanings
B) Marxist sensibilities
C) Vedantic philosophy
D) Post-modernism
Answer: B) Marxist sensibilities
5. Which of these novels by Anand deals with the plight of a boy in the labor force?
A) Untouchable
B) Coolie
C) Two Leaves and a Bud
D) The Sword and the Sickle
Answer: B) Coolie
6. Bakha's father in Untouchable is named:
A) Rakha
B) Seth
C) Lakha
D) Pundit
Answer: C) Lakha
7. In Untouchable, Bakha is slapped by a high-caste man for:
A) Accidentally brushing against him
B) Entering a temple
C) Drinking from a forbidden well
D) Refusing to work
Answer: A) Accidentally brushing against him
8. The introduction of which technology symbolizes hope for untouchables at the end of the novel?
A) The steam engine
B) The flush system
C) The printing press
D) Electricity
Answer: B) The flush system
9. Anand's Two Leaves and a Bud explores the hardships of workers in:
A) Textile mills
B) Coal mines
C) Tea plantations
D) Railway construction
Answer: C) Tea plantations
10. What narrative technique does Anand use to delve into Bakha's internal world?
A) Epistolary
B) Puranic
C) Stream-of-consciousness
D) Metatheatre
Answer: C) Stream-of-consciousness
11. Raja Rao's Kanthapura is often described as a:
A) Gandhi-Purana
B) Post-colonial satire
C) Regional comedy
D) Social tragedy
Answer: A) Gandhi-Purana
12. The central theme of The Serpent and the Rope is the antithesis between:
A) Poverty and wealth
B) Illusion and reality
C) Tradition and science
D) Colonizer and colonized
Answer: B) Illusion and reality
13. Which philosophical tradition is central to Raja Rao's works?
A) Marxism
B) Existentialism
C) Advaitha Vedanta
D) Nihilism
Answer: C) Advaitha Vedanta
14. The protagonist of Kanthapura who leads the Gandhian movement is:
A) Ramaswamy
B) Govindan Nair
C) Moorthy
D) Swaminathan
Answer: C) Moorthy
15. Which novel is considered Raja Rao's "spiritual autobiography"?
A) Kanthapura
B) The Serpent and the Rope
C) The Cat and Shakespeare
D) Comrade Kirillov
Answer: B) The Serpent and the Rope
16. R.K. Narayan is best known for portraying life in the fictional town of:
A) Kanthapura
B) Malgudi
C) Port of Spain
D) Calcutta
Answer: B) Malgudi
17. Narayan's first novel, published in 1935, is:
A) The Guide
B) The Bachelor of Arts
C) Swami and Friends
D) The Vendor of Sweets
Answer: C) Swami and Friends
18. Which English author helped Narayan find a publisher in England?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Graham Greene
C) Salman Rushdie
D) E.M. Forster
Answer: B) Graham Greene
19. Narayan's narrative style is characterized by:
A) Heavy philosophical disquisition
B) Simple prose, humor, and irony
C) Stream-of-consciousness
D) Marxist ideology
Answer: B) Simple prose, humor, and irony
20. Which Narayan novel won the Sahitya Akademi Award and was later made into a famous film?
A) The English Teacher
B) The Guide
C) The Dark Room
D) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
Answer: B) The Guide
21. V.S. Naipaul's magnum opus published in 1961 is:
A) A Bend in the River
B) A House for Mr Biswas
C) In a Free State
D) The Enigma of Arrival
Answer: B) A House for Mr Biswas
22. Mohun Biswas's lifelong struggle is primarily a search for:
A) True love
B) Identity and a home of his own
C) Religious enlightenment
D) Political power
Answer: B) Identity and a home of his own
23. The oppressive communal household where Biswas lives is:
A) The Blue Mangoes
B) Hanuman House
C) Malgudi House
D) The Old Playhouse
Answer: B) Hanuman House
24. The setting of A House for Mr Biswas is primarily in:
A) India
B) Trinidad
C) London
D) Kenya
Answer: B) Trinidad
25. Biswas's son is named:
A) Mohun
B) Anand
C) Govind
D) Owad
Answer: B) Anand
26. Kamala Das is known for her bold _________ style of poetry.
A) Pastoral
B) Epic
C) Confessional
D) Abstract
Answer: C) Confessional
27. What is the title of Kamala Das's controversial autobiography?
A) Summer in Calcutta
B) My Story
C) The Old Playhouse
D) The Descendants
Answer: B) My Story
28. Which poem is famous for its assertion of female identity?
A) "An Introduction"
B) "The Hill"
C) "Night of the Scorpion"
D) "Gitanjali"
Answer: A) "An Introduction"
29. Kamala Das was born in:
A) Tamil Nadu
B) Kerala
C) Karnataka
D) Maharashtra
Answer: B) Kerala
30. "The Old Playhouse" symbolizes:
A) Childhood memories
B) Restrictive marriage
C) Colonial society
D) Theatre culture
Answer: B) Restrictive marriage
31. Hayavadana explores:
A) Colonial struggle
B) Identity and the mind-body dichotomy
C) Agrarian reform
D) Historical biography
Answer: B) Identity and the mind-body dichotomy
32. The main plot of Hayavadana is adapted from:
A) Mahabharata
B) Kathasaritsagara
C) Ramayana
D) Panchatantra
Answer: B) Kathasaritsagara
33. The horse-headed character in the play is:
A) Devadatta
B) Kapila
C) Hayavadana
D) Bhagavata
Answer: C) Hayavadana
34. Who represents intellect in the play?
A) Kapila
B) Devadatta
C) Hayavadana
D) Bhagavata
Answer: B) Devadatta
35. The narrator and commentator in Hayavadana is:
A) Kali
B) Bhagavata
C) Ganesha
D) Hayavadana
Answer: B) Bhagavata
36. Nissim Ezekiel is widely known for using _________ as an "agent of precision."
A) Metaphor
B) Irony
C) Alliteration
D) Hyperbole
Answer: B) Irony
37. Ezekiel belonged to which religious minority?
A) Parsi
B) Jewish (Bene Israel)
C) Christian
D) Sikh
Answer: B) Jewish (Bene Israel)
38. Which poem details the narrator's mother being stung by a scorpion?
A) "The Exact Name"
B) "Night of the Scorpion"
C) "Background, Casually"
D) "Urban"
Answer: B) "Night of the Scorpion"
39. The father in "Night of the Scorpion" is a:
A) Holy man
B) Skeptic and rationalist
C) Superstitious peasant
D) Doctor
Answer: B) Skeptic and rationalist
40. Which poem focuses on a city-dweller's mechanical life?
A) "Urban"
B) "Guru"
C) "The Hill"
D) "Theological"
Answer: A) "Urban"
41. Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in:
A) 1901
B) 1913
C) 1920
D) 1947
Answer: B) 1913
42. Tagore is affectionately known as:
A) Mahatma
B) Gurudev
C) Netaji
D) Lokmanya
Answer: B) Gurudev
43. Tagore's famous collection of poems is:
A) The Crescent Moon
B) Gitanjali
C) Balaka
D) The Gardener
Answer: B) Gitanjali
44. Tagore founded:
A) Nalanda
B) AMU
C) Visva-Bharati
D) BHU
Answer: C) Visva-Bharati
45. In "Where the Mind is Without Fear," Tagore prays for:
A) Political freedom only
B) Knowledge being free and dignity for all
C) Economic equality
D) Religious supremacy
Answer: B) Knowledge being free and dignity for all
46. The first book written by an Indian in English (1794) was:
A) Rajmohan's Wife
B) The Travels of Dean Mahomet
C) Hind Swaraj
D) Gitanjali
Answer: B) The Travels of Dean Mahomet
47. Who wrote the first Indian novel in English, Rajmohan's Wife?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Toru Dutt
C) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
D) Mulk Raj Anand
Answer: C) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
48. The "Big Three" of Indian English Fiction are:
A) Anand, Rao, and Narayan
B) Tagore, Naipaul, and Rushdie
C) Ezekiel, Das, and Karnad
D) Ghosh, Seth, and Roy
Answer: A) Anand, Rao, and Narayan
49. Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel is:
A) The Satanic Verses
B) Midnight's Children
C) Shame
D) The Golden House
Answer: B) Midnight's Children
50. The Sahitya Akademi is India's:
A) National Sports Council
B) National Academy of Letters
C) Film Certification Board
D) Historical Research Society
Answer: B) National Academy of Letters
51. The first Indian woman to write an English novel (Bianca) was:
A) Kamala Das
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Toru Dutt
D) Arundhati Roy
Answer: C) Toru Dutt
52. Who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for The God of Small Things?
A) Kiran Desai
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Anita Desai
D) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: B) Arundhati Roy
53. Nirad C. Chaudhuri is best known for:
A) The Continent of Circe
B) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
C) A Passage to England
D) Thy Hand, Great Anarch!
Answer: B) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
54. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies?
A) Amitav Ghosh
B) Vikram Seth
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Rohinton Mistry
Answer: C) Jhumpa Lahiri
55. My Story was originally published in Malayalam as:
A) Ente Jeevitham
B) Ente Katha
C) Njan
D) Kamala
Answer: B) Ente Katha
56. Which collection marked Kamala Das's debut in English poetry?
A) Summer in Calcutta
B) The Descendants
C) The Old Playhouse
D) Tonight, This Savage Rite
Answer: A) Summer in Calcutta
57. Kamala Das often challenges traditional:
A) Religious roles
B) Gender and patriarchal roles
C) Political roles
D) Economic roles
Answer: B) Gender and patriarchal roles
58. A recurring theme in Kamala Das's poetry is:
A) Nature and Industry
B) Tradition and Modernity/Female Desire
C) East and West
D) War and Peace
Answer: B) Tradition and Modernity/Female Desire
59. Kamala Das's mother was a famous poet in:
A) English
B) Malayalam
C) Tamil
D) Hindi
Answer: B) Malayalam
60. In The Serpent and the Rope, Ramaswamy marries:
A) Savithri
B) Madeleine
C) Padmini
D) Shama
Answer: B) Madeleine
61. The "Serpent" in Raja Rao's symbolism represents:
A) Reality
B) Illusion
C) Spirituality
D) Knowledge
Answer: B) Illusion
62. The "Rope" in Raja Rao's symbolism represents:
A) Reality
B) Ignorance
C) Colonialism
D) Death
Answer: A) Reality
63. Who advocates "Learn the Way of the Kitten"?
A) Ramakrishna Pai
B) Govindan Nair
C) Moorthy
D) Sivarama
Answer: B) Govindan Nair
64. The narrator of The Cat and Shakespeare is:
A) Ramakrishna Pai
B) Moorthy
C) Bakha
D) Ramaswamy
Answer: A) Ramakrishna Pai
65. Which Raja Rao novel is considered a sequel to The Serpent and the Rope?
A) Kanthapura
B) The Cat and Shakespeare
C) Comrade Kirillov
D) The Chessmaster and His Moves
Answer: B) The Cat and Shakespeare
66. The protagonist of The Chessmaster and His Moves is:
A) Govindan
B) Ramakrishna
C) Sivarama
D) Moorthy
Answer: C) Sivarama
67. Narayan's use of Malgudi is often compared to Hardy's:
A) London
B) Paris
C) Wessex
D) Dublin
Answer: C) Wessex
68. In The Guide, Raju transforms into a:
A) Politician
B) Teacher
C) Spiritual Guide/Sadhu
D) Scientist
Answer: C) Spiritual Guide/Sadhu
69. The Bachelor of Arts explores the life of:
A) Chandran
B) Swaminathan
C) Moorthy
D) Bakha
Answer: A) Chandran
70. Which Narayan novel features the character Swaminathan?
A) The Guide
B) Swami and Friends
C) The English Teacher
D) The Vendor of Sweets
Answer: B) Swami and Friends
71. The matriarch of the Tulsi family is nicknamed:
A) Old Hen
B) Old Queen
C) Big Boss
D) Sethani
Answer: B) Old Queen
72. Hanuman House symbolizes:
A) Democracy
B) Spirituality
C) Slave society and colonial structure
D) Modernity
Answer: C) Slave society and colonial structure
73. Biswas eventually works for:
A) The Hindu
B) The Times
C) The Trinidad Sentinel
D) The Guardian
Answer: C) The Trinidad Sentinel
74. Mohun Biswas was born with:
A) Club foot
B) Birthmark
C) Extra finger
D) Deafness
Answer: C) Extra finger
75. Biswas joins which religious group?
A) Catholics
B) Arya Samajists
C) Muslims
D) Presbyterians
Answer: B) Arya Samajists
76. Raghu dies by:
A) Snake bite
B) Drowning
C) Scorpion sting
D) Falling from a tree
Answer: B) Drowning
77. The Tulsi brother-in-law known as "The Big Boss" is:
A) Govind
B) Owad
C) Seth
D) Bhandat
Answer: C) Seth
78. Hayavadana is a play about:
A) Colonialism
B) Identity and completeness
C) Nationalism
D) Revolution
Answer: B) Identity and completeness
79. Hayavadana longs to become:
A) A king
B) A scholar
C) Complete
D) A god
Answer: C) Complete
80. Devadatta represents:
A) Physical strength
B) Intellect
C) Spirituality
D) Politics
Answer: B) Intellect
81. Kapila represents:
A) Physical strength
B) Intellect
C) Religion
D) Art
Answer: A) Physical strength
82. Padmini is caught between:
A) Hayavadana and Bhagavata
B) Devadatta and Kapila
C) Moorthy and Govindan
D) Bakha and Lakha
Answer: B) Devadatta and Kapila
83. Which goddess grants the boon in Hayavadana?
A) Lakshmi
B) Saraswati
C) Kali
D) Parvati
Answer: C) Kali
84. The play begins with an invocation to:
A) Shiva
B) Vishnu
C) Ganesha
D) Kali
Answer: C) Ganesha
85. At the end, Hayavadana becomes:
A) A complete man
B) A complete horse with human voice
C) A deity
D) Half horse-half man
Answer: B) A complete horse with human voice
86. Nissim Ezekiel belonged to the:
A) Parsi community
B) Bene Israel Jewish community
C) Christian community
D) Sikh community
Answer: B) Bene Israel Jewish community
87. The father in "Night of the Scorpion" is:
A) A priest
B) A skeptic and rationalist
C) A doctor
D) A farmer
Answer: B) A skeptic and rationalist
88. "Background, Casually" is:
A) A sonnet
B) A dramatic monologue
C) A long autobiographical poem
D) An epic poem
Answer: C) A long autobiographical poem
89. The Exact Name is praised for:
A) Epic grandeur
B) Political radicalism
C) Precision and subtle insight
D) Mysticism
Answer: C) Precision and subtle insight
90. "Entertainment" describes a:
A) Magic show
B) Monkey show
C) Circus
D) Puppet show
Answer: B) Monkey show
91. In "In India", Ezekiel comments on the condition of:
A) Farmers
B) Women
C) Workers
D) Politicians
Answer: B) Women
92. "The Double Horror" criticizes:
A) Industrialization
B) Colonialism
C) Lack of minority culture
D) Nationalism
Answer: C) Lack of minority culture
93. Tagore is popularly known as:
A) Mahatma
B) Netaji
C) Gurudev
D) Lokmanya
Answer: C) Gurudev
94. The institution founded by Tagore is:
A) Nalanda
B) Visva-Bharati
C) BHU
D) AMU
Answer: B) Visva-Bharati
95. The central theme of Gitanjali is:
A) Revolution
B) Self-purification and divine love
C) Science
D) Nationalism
Answer: B) Self-purification and divine love
96. "Where the Mind is Without Fear" advocates:
A) Militarism
B) Religious orthodoxy
C) Freedom of thought and knowledge
D) Isolationism
Answer: C) Freedom of thought and knowledge
97. Tagore's humanism is free from:
A) Education
B) Art
C) Nationalism
D) Religion
Answer: C) Nationalism
98. "Bharat-Tirtha" depicts India as:
A) A battlefield
B) A fortress
C) A meeting place of humanity
D) A desert
Answer: C) A meeting place of humanity
99. In "Apamanita", Tagore condemns:
A) Colonialism
B) Capitalism
C) Untouchability
D) Illiteracy
Answer: C) Untouchability
100. Tagore primarily wrote in:
A) Hindi and English
B) Bengali and English
C) Sanskrit and English
D) Tamil and English
Answer: B) Bengali and English
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