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 ARVIND ADIGA

1⃣ The Indian novelist teasingly described by William Walsh as ‘a wild-eyed Indian

Joyce’ is ____.

(A) G.V. Desani

(B) Salman Rushdie

(C) Arvind Adiga

(D) Anita Desai

1⃣- A ✅

2⃣ Following are email novels; one of them consists of unanswered emails. Identify the
novel.

(A) The White Tiger

(B) The Lawgiver

(C) The Correspondence Artist

(D) The Closeness that Separates Us

2⃣- A ✅

• The Lawgiver is a 2012 novel by Herman Wouk (American author) depicting a

fictional attempt to make a film about the biblical Moses.
• It is an epistolary novel, composed of traditional communications such as letters,
memos, and articles, as well as utilizing more contemporary means like e-mails,
text messages, and Skype transcripts. ✔
• The Correspondence Artist is a novel by American writer Barbara Browning. ✔
• The Closeness that Separates Us is a book written by Bogen Jones & Katie Hall ✔
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3⃣ Aravind Adiga is an Indo-Australian writer and_____.

A) Journalist

B) Architect

C) Painter

D) Librarian

3⃣ -A ✅

4⃣ Arvind Adiga's debut novel "The White Tiger" won_____award in 2008.

A) Jnanpith Award

B) Sahitya Akademi Award

C) Man Booker Prize

D) Man Booker International Prize

4⃣- C ✅

5⃣ Which one of the following statements is INCORRECT about Arvind Adiga?

A) Aravinda Adiga now lives in Mumbai.

B) He is the first Indian author to win the Man Booker Prize.

C) His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's book, Oscar and Lucinda,
appeared in The Second Circle, an online literary review.

D) He remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before becoming a freelancer.

5⃣- B ✅

• He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize, after Salman Rushdie,
Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai.

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6⃣ Which one of the following is NOT a novel written by Aravinda Adiga?

A) Between the Assassinations

B) Last Man in Tower

C) Selection Day

D) The White Tiger

6⃣ -A ✅

• Between the Assassinations is a collection of short stories. It was published by

Picador in India in 2008, and in Britain and the United States in 2009. While it
reveals the beauty of the rural, coastal south where it is set, its subject is the
pathos, injustices and ironies of Indian life.

7⃣ Which of the following is NOT one of Balram's "4 greatest poets"?

A) Rumi

B) Mirza Ghalib

C) Neruda

D) Iqbal

7⃣ -C ✅

8⃣ The Halwai caste is destined to ____.

A) Clean Feces

B) Be Sweet-makers

C) Drive Rickshaws

D) Work as Landlords

8⃣- B ✅
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9⃣ What sport does Pinky Madam play with Ram Persad in Aravind Adiga's "The White
Tiger"?

A) Tennis

B) Chess

C) Badminton

C) Cricket

9⃣ -C ✅

1⃣0 Complete the line from Adiga's 'The White Tiger': "I was looking for the key for
years......."

A) But the rooster coop is sealed

B) But I lost it long ago

C) But the door was always open

D) And some day it will be mine

1⃣0 C ✅

1⃣1 What are the properties of the main character of this novel 'Balaram Halwai'?

A) A philosopher

B) An entrepreneur

C) A murderer

D) All of the above

1⃣1 D ✅

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1⃣2 What is Balram Halwai's the childhood name or nickname?

A) Pappu

B) Tunna

C) Munna

D) Krishna

1⃣2 C ✅

1⃣3 What is the name of the place where 'Balram Halwai', the main character of this novel
is born?

A) Azamgarh

B) Chandigarh

C) Laxmangarh

D) Dibrugarh

1⃣3 C ✅

1⃣4 What is the name of the master of 'Balram Halwai'?

A) Mr. Ashok Sir

B) Mr. Mukesh sir

C) Mr. Durgesh sir

D) None of the above

1⃣4 A ✅

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1⃣5 What is the other name of 'Mr. Mukesh', the negative character of this novel, by which
it has been described in it?

A) The Langoor

B) The Mongoose

C) The Chimpangee

D) The Stork

1⃣5 B ✅

1⃣6 What is the name of wife of 'Mr. Ashok sir' in this novel?

A) Chinki

B) Twinkle

C) Dimple

D) Pinki

1⃣6 D ✅

1⃣7 Why the 'Balram Halwai' the main character of the novel, has murdered his master?

A) To steal his car

B) To steal his money

C) Both 1 and 2

D) To take revenge from his master

1⃣7 B ✅

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1⃣8 Where has the 'Balram Halwai' gone after murdering his Master?

A) Manglore

B) Banglore

C) Chennai

D) Mumbai

1⃣8 B ✅

1⃣9 In the novel, 'Balram halwai' the main character, was influenced by the following
lines, when he was wondering in the old market in old Delhi. "You was searching for the
keys; but the doors were always open."

Who has written these lines?

A) Allama Iqbal

B) Rumi

C) Mirza Ghalib

D) None of the above

1⃣9 A ✅

2⃣0 What does Balram mean when he says that Dharam is a "smart boy"?

A) That Dharam has more education than he has.

B) That Dharam has learned when to lie and when to tell the truth.

C) That Dharam will be useful in Mr. Ashok's business.

D) That Dharam has learned lessons about entrepreneurship from his Uncle Balram very
well.

2⃣0 B ✅
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2⃣1 Who is Mukesh Sir?

A) Mr. Ashok's more successful, more demanding younger brother.

B) Mr. Ashok's unsuccessful, soft-hearted business partner.

C) Mr. Ashok's unsuccessful, demanding father.

D) Mr. Ashok's more successful, more demanding older brother.

2⃣1 D ✅

2⃣2 Who is driving the car when the accident occurs in Section 6?

A) Balram

B) Mukesh Sir

C) Mr. Ashok

D) Pinky Madam

2⃣2 D ✅

2⃣3 Who is Uma?

A) A former girlfriend of Mr. Ashok's who comes back into his life after Pinky Madam
leaves.

B) The prostitute visited by Mr. Akosh at the insistence of the assistant.

C) A former girlfriend of Mukesh Sir's who comes back into his life after Pinky Madam
leaves.

D) The assistant, who insists on having sex with Mr. Akosh as part of their bribery
arrangement.

2⃣3 A ✅

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2⃣4 Why / how is it significant that Mr. Ashok comes from the same community as
Balram?

A) It provides Balram with money: he gets paid extra for trips into small, poor towns.

B) It sends Balram into despair: there's no way he can ever be as successful as Mr.
Ashok.

C) It makes Balram embarrassed: the fights between Mr. Ashok and Pinky Madam shame
him before his family.

D) It provides Balram with inspiration: if Mr. Ashok can become successful, so can he.

2⃣4 D ✅

2⃣5 The Rooster Coop is a metaphoric representation of what aspects of Balram's life and
situation?

A) Poverty and servitude

B) Poverty and solitude

C) Servitude and financial success

D) Solitude and financial success

2⃣5 A ✅

2⃣6 What is the primary implication of Balram being given the nickname "White Tiger"?

A) That like the white tiger, Balram is an object of ridicule.

B) That like the white tiger, Balram is in danger of becoming extinct.

C) That like the white tiger, Balram is a hunter and predator.

D) That like the white tiger, Balram is rare and special.

2⃣6 D ✅

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2⃣7 Why is Balram's encounter with the beggars at the side of the road significant?

A) He finds himself agreeing with Mr. Ashok, and wanting to move to America

B) They remind him of his father, and inspire him to continue fighting to better himself

C) They remind him of his grandmother, and inspire him to continue bettering himself

D) He finds himself agreeing with Pinky Madam that they're a menace

2⃣7 B ✅

2⃣8 Match these quotes which helps re-reading 'The White Tiger' . . . with the ones who
wrote/spoke it.

Writers:

1) Umashankar Joshi

2) Gayatri Spivak

3) E.V. Ramakrishnan

4) Homi K Bhabha

Quotes:

a) Many people want to claim subalternity. They are the least interesting and the most
dangerous. I mean, just by being a discriminated-against minority on the university
campus; they don't need the word ‘subaltern’ . . . They should see what the mechanics of
the discrimination are. They’re within the hegemonic discourse, wanting a piece of the
pie, and not being allowed, so let them speak, use the hegemonic discourse. They should
not call themselves subaltern.

b) Indianness is rather an ongoing search for, a vision of, a pattern of Indian literature and
culture to which the literature and culture in every part of the country is more or less
converging”. “… We shall always be viewing the composite identity of Indian literature

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within the parameters of the composite culture of India.” “…True Indianness transcends
India and genuine Indianisation is a synonym for humanization.”

c) We need to relocate Indian literature in the context of caste gender, region, religion
etc., where issues of everyday struggles for subsistence in a living society find their
expression. . . The struggle against hegemonic structures of power defines the nature of
lower-caste subjectivity. … Literature is shaped by the material condition of society.

d) Nation – the modern Janus: the uneven development of capitalism inscribes both
progression and regression, political rationality and irrationality in the very genetic code
of the nation – it is by nature, ambivalent.

Codes:

A) 1-a, 2-b, 3-c, 4-d

B) 1-b, 2-a, 3-c, 4-d

C) 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-c

D) 1-a, 2-b, 3-d, 4-c

2⃣8 B ✅

2⃣9 Which of the novels/writers influenced Adiga in writing 'The White Tiger'?

1) Salman Rushdie's 'The Midnight's Children'

2) Three great African-American 20th-century novelists - Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin

and Richard Wright. Ellison's 'Invisible Man' was extremely important. That book was
disliked by white and blacks. This novel too caused widespread offence. Balram is
invisible man, made visible. This white tiger will break out of his cage.

3) Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals: the Hegelian master-slave dialectic from reading

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. But that dialectic is the spine of his novel: the servant
kills his master to achieve his freedom.

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4) Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens: it is important that writers like me try to highlight the
brutal injustices of society. That's what writers like Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens did in
the 19th century and, as a result, England and France are better societies. That's what I'm
trying to do - it's not an attack on the country, it's about the greater process of self-
examination.

5) Mohsin Hamid's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' and 'How to Get Filthy Rich in . . . .'

6) Chetan Bhagat's 2 States & Revolution 2020

Codes:

A) 5 & 6

B) 1, 2 & 3

C) 1, 2, 3 & 4

D) All of the above

2⃣9 C ✅

3⃣0 Balram Halwai narrates his life in a letter, written in seven consecutive nights and
addressed to____

A) Mr. Ashok

B) Mukesh Sir

C) Pinky Madam

D) Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao

3⃣0 D ✅

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3⃣1 Which of the following statement/s is/are correct about Aravinda Adiga's "The White
Tiger"?

A) It is an epistolary novel

B) It is a Bildungsroman novel

C) It is a Gothic novel

D) It is a partition novel

Codes:

A) Only A

B) A & B

C) A, B & C

D) A, B, C & D

3⃣1 B ✅

3⃣2 Yogesh Murthy is a protagonist in Adiga's novel "Last Man in Tower" who is_____by
profession.

A) A reporter

B) A journalist

C) A retired school teacher

D) A correspondent

3⃣2 C ✅

It tells the story of a struggle for a slice of shining Mumbai real estate.

A prominent builder offers to buy out the entire apartment block. All of the occupants
agree, except for Masterji. This creates problem for the builder and the other residents.
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3⃣3 Put the odd one out:

A) The Art of Fielding

B) Once a Runner

C) The White Tiger

D) Selection Day

3⃣3 C ✅

Except C, all are sport Fiction novels.

According to book-genres.com, The Sport fiction genre are “stories where a sport has an
impact on the plot or main character.”

(https://dppl.org/blog/post/5-sport-fiction-novels-you-should-read)

3⃣4 "Selection Day" is a 2016 sports fiction novel written by Booker Prize winner Aravind
Adiga in which the following sport is mentioned?

A) Cricket

B) Hockey

C) Tennis

D) Badminton

3⃣4 A ✅

It tells the story of Mohan Kumar, a chutney seller who trains his two sons: Manju
Kumar and Radha Krishna for Mumbai's under-19 cricket team. Here Manju meets his
rival, Javed.

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3⃣5 "Between the Assassinations" is a book written by Aravinda Adiga in which the title
refers to the period between assassinations of ____.

A) Indira Gandhi & his son Rajiv Gandhi

B) Jawaharlal Nehru & his daughter Indira Gandhi

C) Christ

D) None of the above

3⃣5 A ✅

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