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TOPIC : ANITA DESAI

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ANITA DESAI (B-1937)
1⃣ Anita Desai received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel___.
A) The Village by the Sea
B) In Custody
C) Fire on the Mountain
D) Fasting, Feasting
1⃣- C ✔
2⃣ Which one of the following is the most autobiographical work written by Anita Desai?
A) Cry, the Peacock
B) Fire on the Mountain
C) Clear Light of Day
D) The Village by the Sea
2⃣- C ✔
3⃣ Which one of the following novels is NOT written by Anita Desai?
A) Cry of the Peacock
B) Games at Twilight
C) Cat on a Houseboat
D) The Zigzag Way
3⃣- A ✔
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• Cry of the Peacock is the first novel from Gina B. Nahai and follows the story of a
family of Jews through seven generations, from 1780s Persia to contemporary
Iran. ✔
4⃣ Maya is the protagonist in "Cry, the Peacock" married to Gautam who was_____by
profession.
A) Lawyer
B) Doctor
C) Teacher
D) Businessman
4⃣- A ✔
5⃣ What was the reason for Maya's neurosis?
A) Due to prediction by the astrologer of death either for her or her husband within four
years of their marriage
B) Due to prediction by the astrologer of her death within four years of their marriage
C) Due to prediction by the astrologer of her husband's death within four years of their
marriage
D) Due to prediction by the astrologer of her husband's death within five years of their
marriage
5⃣- A ✔
6⃣ What happens at the end of the novel in "Cry, the Peacock"?
A) Maya and Gautam both die
B) Maya dies
C) Gautam dies
D) Maya kills her husband
6⃣- D ✔
7⃣ Monisha is a character in which novel of Anita Desai?
A) Bye-Bye Black Bird
B) The Peacock Garden
C) Where shall we go this summer?
D) Voices in the City
7⃣- D ✔
• Voices in the City is based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta.
It is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the
crosscurrents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid
picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not
altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved. ✔
characters :
1) Nirode- Brother of Monisha and Amla
2) Monisha- elder sister
3) Amla- younger sister
8⃣ How does Monisha die?
A) She dies by drowning
B) She is killed by her husband
C) She dies of cancer
D) She pours Kerosene over herself and burns

8⃣- D ✔
9⃣ Anita Desai's novel, "Bye-Bye Blackbird" has a tripartite structure which are given
below. Put the odd one out.
A) Arrival
B) Departure
C) Recognition
D) Discovery and Recognition
9⃣- C ✔
1⃣0 Anita Desai's novel "Bye-Bye Blackbird" follows a pattern like that of___
A) Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts'
B) James Joyce's 'Ulysees'
C) Henry James' 'The Amssadors'
D) E.M. Forster's 'Howards End'
1⃣0 C ✔
1⃣1 "Blackbird" used in the title refers to____
A) Cuckoo
B) Sarah's feeling as prisoner in four walls of the house in patriarchal society
C) Psychological problems of Indian immigrants
D) It is the pet name of Sarah
1⃣1 C ✔

1⃣2 Sita is a character in which of the following novel?
A) The Peacock Garden
B) Cat on a Houseboat
C) Where shall we go this Summer?
D) Fire on the Mountain
1⃣2 C ✔
1⃣3 Sita, the wife of an industrialist, is disgusted with her indifferent husband, her
meaningless life in their Bombay flat, and her selfish, uncaring children. Toward the
close of the novel, Sita’s conflict appears to have found its solution when she recalls a
verse from____
A) William Wordsworth
B) Emily Bronte
C) D.H. Lawrence
D) John Keats
1⃣3 C ✔
1⃣4 Who has set the forest on fire in "Fire on the Mountain"?
A) Nanda
B) Raka
C) Asha
D) Ila
1⃣4 B ✔

1⃣5 Which one of the following statements is NOT correct about Desai's novel "Clear
Light of Day"?
A) The plot is a blend of the gothic and the philosophical
B) Bim and Tara are the two heroines
C) The novel portrays the life in London and its locales
D) T. S. Eliot’s line from Four Quartets, “Time the destroyer is also time the preserver.”
comes in this novel.
1⃣5 C ✔
Perhaps no other English novel so successfully immortalizes mid-twentieth century Delhi

and its locales—Civil Lines, the old Delhi convent school, the Jamuna, Connaught
Circus, Hindu College, Darya Ganj, Chandni Chowk, the Ridge, and the Lodi Gardens.
1⃣6 In "Baumgartner's Bombay", Baumgarten is a/an____
A) Indian monk
B) English Jew
C) German Jew
D) French Philosopher
1⃣6 C ✔
1⃣7 Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT about Desai's novel "Journey
to Ithaca"?
A) The title is an allusion to the Greek island home of Homer’s Odysseus
B) The novel is set in 1970s
C) Sophie and Matteo are two wealthy Italians

D) Matteo is practical and cynical by nature
1⃣7 D ✔
• Matteo is sensitive and emotional & Sophie is practical and cynical. ✔

•
1⃣8 What is the subject of Desai's novel "Fasting, Feasting"?
A) It is about the Fasting days in the month of Sraban
B) Two cultures are explored in this novel, Indian and the American
C) It is about the two tribes named Fasting and Feasting
D) It is about the partition
1⃣8 B ✔
• Uma- fasting, � Arun feasting

• Uma lives in indian traditional patri family while her bro Arun goes to america for
study.
1⃣9 Which of the following novels laments the loss of a beautiful language, I.e, Urdu and
its culture?
A) The Zigzag Way
B) In Custody
C) The Artist of Disappearance
D) Games at Twilight
1⃣9 B ✔

2⃣0 Deven Sharma, a character in "In Custody" is_____by profession?
A) Hindi Professor
B) Professor of English Literature
C) Professor of History
D) Urdu Professor
2⃣0 A ✔

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TOPIC : ANITA DESAI

A) The Village by the Sea

C) Fire on the Mountain

A) Cry, the Peacock

B) Fire on the Mountain

C) Clear Light of Day

D) The Village by the Sea

3⃣ Which one of the following novels is NOT written by Anita Desai?

A) Cry of the Peacock

D) The Zigzag Way

5⃣ What was the reason for Maya's neurosis?

6⃣ What happens at the end of the novel in "Cry, the Peacock"?

A) Maya and Gautam both die

7⃣ Monisha is a character in which novel of Anita Desai?

A) Bye-Bye Black Bird

B) The Peacock Garden

C) Where shall we go this summer?

D) Voices in the City

1) Nirode- Brother of Monisha and Amla

2) Monisha- elder sister

3) Amla- younger sister

8⃣ How does Monisha die?

A) She dies by drowning

B) She is killed by her husband

C) She dies of cancer

D) She pours Kerosene over herself and burns

4 MISSION NET GROUP DR. CHIRAG ADATIYA MO: 8866392488

D) Discovery and Recognition

A) Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts'

B) James Joyce's 'Ulysees'

C) Henry James' 'The Amssadors'

D) E.M. Forster's 'Howards End'

1⃣1 "Blackbird" used in the title refers to____

B) Sarah's feeling as prisoner in four walls of the house in patriarchal society

C) Psychological problems of Indian immigrants

D) It is the pet name of Sarah

5 MISSION NET GROUP DR. CHIRAG ADATIYA MO: 8866392488

A) The Peacock Garden

C) Where shall we go this Summer?

D) Fire on the Mountain

6 MISSION NET GROUP DR. CHIRAG ADATIYA MO: 8866392488

A) The plot is a blend of the gothic and the philosophical

B) Bim and Tara are the two heroines

C) The novel portrays the life in London and its locales

Perhaps no other English novel so successfully immortalizes mid-twentieth century Delhi

1⃣6 In "Baumgartner's Bombay", Baumgarten is a/an____

A) The title is an allusion to the Greek island home of Homer’s Odysseus

B) The novel is set in 1970s

C) Sophie and Matteo are two wealthy Italians

7 MISSION NET GROUP DR. CHIRAG ADATIYA MO: 8866392488

• Matteo is sensitive and emotional & Sophie is practical and cynical. ✔

1⃣8 What is the subject of Desai's novel "Fasting, Feasting"?

A) It is about the Fasting days in the month of Sraban

C) It is about the two tribes named Fasting and Feasting

D) It is about the partition

• Uma- fasting, � Arun feasting

A) The Zigzag Way