Indian Novels Previous Year UGC-NET English Questions

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Indian Novels PYQs UGC-NET English

1. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I (Book)

(a) English, August

(b) In Custody

(d) Funny Boy

List-II (Author)

I. Shyam Selvadurai

II. Anita Desai

III. Rohinton Mistry

IV. Upamanyu Chatterjee

1)(a)-I; (b)-II; (c)-IV; (d)-III
2)(a)-II; (b)-IV; (c)-I; (d)-III
3)(a)-III; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-IV
4)(a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-III; (d)-I

2. Choose the right chronological sequence of the following books:

(a) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
(b) Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
(c) Shashi Deshpande, That Long Silence
(d) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

1)(a), (d), (b), (c)
2)(b), (c), (d), (a)
3)(c), (a), (d), (b)
4)(d), (b), (c), (a)

3. Which among the following is a short story by the Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree?

1)Khali Jagah
2)Hamara Shahar Us Baras
3)Bel Patra
4)Mai

4. Match List I with List II:

List I (Authors)

[A] Perumal Murugan

[B] Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

[C] Baby Kamble

[D] Urmila Pawar

List II (Works)

[I] Adivasi Will Not Dance

[II] The Weave of My Life

[III] One Part Woman

[IV] The Prisons We Broke

1)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
2)A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
3)A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV
4)A-IV, B-II, C-III, D-I

5. Choose the novels that use ‘magic realism’ as a tool of narration:

[A] The Shadow Lines
[B] One Hundred Years of Solitude
[C] Midnight’s Children
[D] Beloved
[E] Kanthapura

1)A, B and C only
2)B, C and D only
3)C, D and E only
4)B, C, D and E only

6. The following statement is written by which of the authors given below:

“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”

1)Arundhati Roy
2)Kiran Desai
3)Shashi Tharoor
4)Rohinton Mistry

7. Match List I with List II:

List I (Early Women Writers)

[A] Cornelia Sorabji

[B] Krupabai Santhinatha

[C] Raj Lakshmi Debi

[D] Kamala Markandaya

List II (Works)

[I] Between the Twilights

[II] The Hindu Wife

[III] Nectar in a Sieve

[IV] Saguna, A Story of Native Christian Life

1)A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
2)A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
3)A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
4)A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III

8. Identify the correct one from the following:

[A] Bharti Mukherjee’s novels display split in the diasporic subjects.
[B] Rohinton Mistry belongs to the community of Parsees that fled to India from Persia to escape Islamic persecution.
[C] Sujata Bhatt recalls home as a nostalgic memory and longs intensely for it.
[D] Farrukh Dhondy connects Delhi and New York to discuss the diasporic experiences.
[E] Sharath Chandra in his poem, ‘In the Third Country,’ wishes to die in India.

1)A, B and D only
2)A, B and C only
3)A, D and E only
4)B, C and E only

9. Given below are two statements:

Statement I: The Indian English novelists witnessed a warm reception of their writings in Europe, and they proliferated well in India during the 1930’s and 1940’s.

Statement II: The two world wars added an overall sense of gloom and civilizational crisis across the globe, especially in Europe.

1)Both statement I and statement II are true
2)Both statement I and statement II are false
3)Statement I is true, but statement II is false
4)Statement I is false, but statement II is true

10. Match List I with List II:

List I (Contemporary Authors)

[A] Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

[B] Advaita Kala

[C] Amrit Shetty

[D] Anuja Chauhan

List II (Works)

[I] Almost Single

[II] Love Over Coffee

[III] The Zoya Factor

[IV] The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay

1)A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
2)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
3)A-IV, B-I, C-III, D-II
4)A-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

Indian Novels PYQs UGC-NET English (Continued)

10. Which of these books are written by Nirad C Chaudhuri?

[A] The Continent of Circe

[B] Principal Upanishads

[C] A Passage to England

[D] Our New Rulers

[E] The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

1)B, C and D only
2)C, D and E only
3)A, C and E only
4)A, B and D only

11. The Writer and the World by V.S. Naipaul is a

1)Novel
2)Travelogue
3)Collection of essays
4)Non-fiction

12. Identify the combination(s) that belong to the genre of sci-fi/speculative fiction:

[A] Vandana Singh – The Woman Who Thought She Was Planet

[B] Tehmina Durrani – Blasphemy

[C] Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses

[D] Priya Sarukkai Crabria – Generation 14

[E] Gautam Bhatia – The Wall

1)A, B and D only
2)A, D and E only
3)A, C and D only
4)D, A and C only

13. Which of the following is not a part of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy?

1)Sea of Poppies
2)River of Smoke
3)Flood of Fire
4)The Calcutta Chromosome

14. Subramani’s Fantasy Eaters (1988) is a

1)Novel
2)Collection of short stories
3)Collection of essays
4)Poem

15. Identify the correct pairs:

[A] The Boyfriend – Juliette Banerjee

[B] Nude Therapy – Margaret Chatterjee

[C] The Other Woman and Other Stories – Dina Mehta

[D] The Yankee and the Yogi – B.G. Siddharth

[E] Prejudice of Ages – Vera Sharma

1)(A), (B) and (C)
2)(A), (C) and (D)
3)(B), (C) and (E)
4)(C), (D) and (E)

16. Which of the following novels is NOT written by Amitav Ghosh?

1)Sea of Poppies
2)Flood of Fire
3)Gun Island
4)English, August

17. Which one of the following is false about V. S. Naipaul?

1)He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001
2)He won the Booker Prize for his novel A House for Mr. Biswas
3)He contributed his stories to the Trinidad Guardian
4)He won the Somerset Maugham Award for his Miguel Street

18. Which of the following are the leading characters in the novels written by Mulk Raj Anand?

[A] Munoo

[B] Bakha

[C] Sampath

[D] Gangu

[E] Dopdi

1)B, C and D only
2)A, C and E only
3)C, D and E only
4)A, B and D only

19. Match List I with List II:

List I (Works)

[A] Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High Caste Hindu Young Wife

[B] The Hindoo Wife or The Enchanted Fruit

[C] Kamala, A Story of Hindu Life

[D] Bianca or The Young Spanish Maiden

List II (Authors)

[I] Krupabai Satthianadhan

[II] Shevantibai M. Nikambe

[III] Toru Dutt

[IV] Raj Lakshmi Debi

1)A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II
2)A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I
3)A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
4)A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

20. Find the chronological order of publication of the given works:

[A] Rajmohan’s Wife

[B] A Bend in the Ganges

[C] Kanthapura

[D] Untouchable

[E] Distant Drum

1)A, B, C, D, E
2)A, C, D, E, B
3)A, D, C, B, E
4)A, E, D, C, B

21. Which among the following is NOT written by Kamala Markandaya?

1)Some Inner Fury
2)The Nowhere Man
3)A Time to be Happy
4)The Golden Honeycomb

22. Which of the following books are written by Aravind Adiga?

[A] The Blue Bedspread

[B] Between the Assassinations

[C] The House of the Blue Mangoes

[D] Last Man in Tower

[E] The White Tiger

1)A, B and C
2)B, D and E
3)B, C and D
4)A, C and D

23. Which among the following is correct in the context of R. K Narayan?

[A] His The Guide is an open-ended novel

[B] Most of the characters of his novels are from elite section of society

[C] He wrote a short story titled “The Martyr’s Corner”

[D] He received the Booker’s prize for his novel The Vendor of Sweets

[E] Malgudi is a real-life city in Karnataka

1)A, B, and C
2)A and C
3)A, C and D
4)A, C and E

24. Arrange the works in chronological sequence:

[A] Rajmohan’s Wife

[B] A Bend in the Ganges

[C] Kanthapura

[D] Untouchable

[E] Distant Drum

1)A, B, C, D, E
2)A, C, D, E, B
3)A, D, C, B, E
4)A, E, D, C, B

25. Match List I with List II:

List I (Authors)

[A] Humayun Kabir

[B] Bhabani Bhattacharya

[C] Manohar Malgonkar

[D] Kamala Markandaya

List II (Works)

[I] A Goddess Named Gold

[II] Men and Rivers

[III] Combat of Shadows

[IV] Possession

1)A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
2)A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
3)A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
4)A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV

26. Which of the following fictional works form a trilogy by Mulk Raj Anand?

[A] Village

[B] Private Life of an Indian Prince

[C] Across the Black Waters

[D] The Sword and the Sickle

[E] The Road

1)A, B and C
2)A, C and D
3)B, D and E
4)C, D and E

27. The name of the Goddess in Kanthapura is:

1)Kenchamma
2)Akkayya
3)Narsiga
4)Tiruchengode

28. Arrange the following works in the chronological order of their publication:

[A] Tara

[B] Mister Behram

[C] Goa

[D] Marriage-Poem

[E] The Dumb Dancer

1)B, D, C, A, E
2)D, E, C, A, B
3)D, C, E, A, B
4)A, C, B, E, D

29. Sharankumar Limbale argues that Dalit literature is unique because:

[A] This brings out the Dalit reality which is liminal in time and space

[B] This has unique historical and ideological concerns

[C] This offers literary and cultural representations of marginalised and dispossessed people

[D] This brings out narratives and discourses of pity

[E] It uses disrespectful and offensive language towards revered figures

1)(A), (B) and (C) Only
2)(B), (C) and (D) Only
3)(A), (B) and (D) Only
4)(A), (C) and (E) Only

30. Match List I with List II:

List I (Text)

[A] The Collaborator

[B] The Garden of Solitude

[C] Roll of Honour

[D] The Half Mother

List II (Author)

[I] Amandeep Sandhu

[II] Shahnaz Bashir

[III] Siddhartha Gigoo

[IV] Mirza Waheed

1)(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
2)(A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
3)(A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
4)(A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)

31. The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) is a novel exploring past and future. It has been written by:

1)Rabindranath Tagore
2)Amitav Ghosh
3)Raja Rao
4)Mulkraj Anand

32. What is the correct chronological order of publication of the texts given under?

[A] R.K. Narayan’s The Financial Expert

[B] Manohar Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges

[C] Raja Rao’s Kanthapura

[D] Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel

[E] Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

1)(D), (A), (B), (C), (E)
2)(A), (D), (C), (B), (E)
3)(C), (A), (B), (D), (E)
4)(E), (D), (C), (B), (A)

33. Match List I with List II:

List I (Novel)

[A] Waiting for the Mahatma

[B] So Many Hungers

[C] The Sword and the Sickle

[D] Distant Drum

List II (Writer)

[I] Bhabani Bhattacharya

[II] R.K. Narayan

[III] Manohar Malgonkar

[IV] Mulk Raj Anand

1)(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
2)(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
3)(A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
4)(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

34. Arrange the following in the chronological order of the date/year of publication:

[A] Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices

[B] Anand Giridhar Das’s India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking

[C] V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Wounded Civilisation

[D] Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters

[E] Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

1)(A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
2)(B), (C), (D), (A), (E)
3)(C), (E), (A), (D), (B)
4)(E), (D), (C), (B), (A)

35. Choose the correct option(s) in the New Historicist reading of Dalit writing:

[A] Dalit writing does not essentialise Indian society, culture and identity

[B] Dalit writing has inflected the immanent metanarratives

[C] There is no single location of Dalit writing

[D] Dalit writing is only a political category

[E] Dalit writing is not grounded in history

1)(A), (B) and (C) Only
2)(A), (C) and (D) Only
3)(C), (D) and (E) Only
4)(B), (D) and (E) Only

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