1. A Passage to India is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library. When it won James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction ?
A:) 1922
B:) 1924
C:) 1926
D:) 1928
springline- Correct option: B:) 1924
2. A Passage to India: Time magazine included the novel in its ‘All Time 100 Novels’ list. The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India, deriving the title from Whose poem of ‘Passage to India‘ in Leaves of Grass ?
A:) T.S. Eliot
B:) Robert Frost
C:) George Orwell
D:) Walt Whitman
springline- Correct option: D:) Walt Whitman
3. A Passage to India: The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. During a trip to the fictitious Marabar Caves (modeled on the Barabar Caves of Bihar). Who thinks she finds herself alone with Dr. Aziz in one of the caves ?
A:) Ronny Heaslop
B:) Fielding
C:) Adela
D:) Miss Derek
springline- Correct option: C:) Adela
4. A Passage to India: A young British schoolmistress, Adela Quested, and her elderly friend, Mrs. Moore, visit the fictional city of Chandrapore, British India. Adela is to decide if she wants to marry Mrs. Moore's son, Ronny Heaslop, the city ____?
A:) Magistrate
B:) San Francisco
C:) Lon Angeles
D:) Austin
springline- Correct option: A:) Magistrate
5. A Passage to India: Disconsolate, Aziz walks down the road toward the railway station. When he sees his favourite mosque, he enters on impulse. He sees a strange Englishwoman there and yells at her not to profane this sacred place. Who has respect for native customs?
A:) Miss Derek
B:) Mrs.Turton
C:) Mrs. Moore
D:) Adela
springline- Correct option: C:) Mrs. Moore
6. A Passage to India: Mrs. Moore returns to the British gentleman's club down the road and relates her experience at the mosque. Who initially thinks she is talking about an Englishman and becomes indignant when he learns the facts?
A:) Ronny Heaslop
B:) Fielding
C:) Adela
D:) Dr. Aziz
springline- Correct option: A:) Ronny Heaslop
7. A Passage to India: The party turns out to be an awkward event, due to the Indians' timidity and the Britons' bigotry, but Adela meets Cyril Fielding, principal of Chandrapore's government-run college for Indians. Fielding invites Adela and Mrs. Moore to a tea party with him and a Hindu-Brahmin professor named ____?
A:) Mr. Turton
B:) Narayan Godbole
C:) Mr. McBryde
D:) Miss Derek
springline- Correct option: B:) Narayan Godbole
8. A Passage to India: At Fielding's tea party, everyone has a good time conversing about India, and Fielding and Aziz become friends. Aziz promises to take Mrs. Moore and Adela to see the Marabar Caves, a distant cave complex. Who arrives, and finding Adela ‘unaccompanied’ with Dr. Aziz and Professor Godbole, rudely breaks up the party?
A:) Miss. Derek
B:) Amritrao
C:) Ronny Heaslop
D:) Hamidullah
springline- Correct option: C:) Ronny Heaslop
9. A Passage to India: Aziz mistakenly believes that the women are offended that he has not followed through on his promise and arranges an outing to the caves at great expense to himself. Fielding and Who are supposed to accompany the expedition, but they miss the train ?
A:) Amritrao
B:) Hamidullah
C:) Ralph Moore
D:) Godbole
springline- Correct option: D:) Godbole
10. A Passage to India: Aziz and the women explore the caves. In the first cave, Mrs. Moore is overcome with claustrophobia. But worse than the claustrophobia is the echo. Disturbed by the sound, Mrs. Moore declines to continue exploring. Who and Aziz, accompanied by a guide, climb to the upper caves?
A:) Miss Derek
B:) Adela
C:) Dr. Aziz
D:) Fielding
springline- Correct option: B:) Adela
11. A Passage to India: As Aziz helps Adela up the hill, she asks whether he has more than one wife. Disconcerted by the bluntness of the remark, he ducks into a cave to compose himself. When he comes out, he finds the guide alone outside the caves. Who says Adela has gone into a cave by herself and Aziz looks for her in vain?
A:) Guide
B:) Adela
C:) Ronny Heaslop
D:) Godbole
springline- Correct option: A:) Guide
12. A Passage to India: Aziz looks around and discovers Adela's field glasses lying broken on the ground. He puts them in his pocket. Aziz then looks down the hill and sees Adela speaking to another young Englishwoman, who has arrived with Fielding in a car. Who is the Young English Women?
A:) Godbole
B:) Mr. Turton
C:) Hamidullah
D:) Miss Derek
springline- Correct option: D:) Miss Derek
13. A Passage to India: Adela says that Aziz followed her into the cave and tried to grab her, and that she fended him off by swinging her field glasses at him. The only evidence the British have is the field glasses in the possession of Aziz. Despite this, the British believe that Aziz is guilty. They are stunned when Fielding proclaims his belief in Aziz's innocence. Who is ostracised and condemned as a blood-traitor?
A:) Miss Derek
B:) Fielding
C:) Ronny Heaslop
D:) Adela
springline- Correct option: B:) Fielding
14. A Passage to India: During the weeks before the trial, Mrs. Moore is apathetic and irritable. Although she professes her belief in Aziz's innocence, she does nothing to help him. Ronny, alarmed by his mother's assertion that Aziz is innocent, arranges for her return by ship to ______?
A:) England
B:) Russia
C:) Britain
D:) Italy
springline- Correct option: A:) England
15. A Passage to India: Who dies during the voyage and her absence from India becomes a major issue at the trial, where Aziz's legal defenders assert that her testimony would have proven the accused's innocence ?
A:) Fielding
B:) Adela
C:) Mrs. Moore
D:) Callendar
springline- Correct option: C:) Mrs. Moore
16. A Passage to India: Fielding returns to India. His wife is Stella, Mrs. Moore's daughter from a second marriage. Aziz, now the Raja's chief physician, comes to respect and love Fielding again. However, he does not give up his dream of a free and united India. In the novel's last sentences, Who explains that he and Fielding cannot be friends until India becomes independent from British rule?
A:) Callendar
B:) Aziz
C:) Nawab Bahadur
D:) Amritrao
springline- Correct option: B:) Aziz
17. A Passage to India: Who is the 45-year-old, unmarried British headmaster of the small government-run college for Indians and his logical Western mind cannot comprehend the muddle (or mystery) of India, but he is highly tolerant and respectful toward Indians and he befriends Dr. Aziz ?
A:) Hamidullah
B:) Miss Derek
C:) Cyril Fielding
D:) Ronny Heaslop
springline- Correct option: C:) Cyril Fielding
18. A Passage to India: Who was the British city collector of Chandrapore and he does not hate Indians, for that would be to negate his life's work, nevertheless, he is fiercely loyal to his race, reviles less bigoted people like Fielding, and regards natives with thinly veiled contempt?
A:) Mr. Turton
B:) Mcbryde
C:) Aziz
D:) Godbole
springline- Correct option: A:) Mr. Turton
19. Who is Aziz's uncle and friend and he Educated in law at Cambridge University, he declares at the beginning of the novel that it is easier to be a friend of an Englishman in England than in India and Aziz comes to agree with him?
A:) Amritrao
B:) Nawab Bahadur
C:) Miss Derek
D:) Hamidullah
springline- Correct option: D:) Hamidullah
20. Edward Morgan Forster was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in the separate years of________?
A:) 12
B:) 13
C:) 14
D:) 16
springline- Correct option: D:) 16
21. William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, and is widely considered one of the best writers of ________?
A:) Southern literature
B:) Northern literature
C:) Modern Literature
D:) New Literature
springline- Correct option: A:) Southern literature
22. Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Which is his last novel?
A:) The Sound and The Fury
B:) The Reivers
C:) Sanctuary
D:) As I Lay Dying
springline- Correct option: B:) The Reivers
23. Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature for ‘his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.’ He donated a portion of his Nobel winnings ‘to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers,’ eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He donated another portion to a local Oxford bank to establish an account to provide scholarship funds to help educate________?
A:) Indian-American
B:) British- American
C:) African-American
D:) African-Indian
springline- Correct option: C:) African-American
24. Nobleprize acceptance speech: The author of this work, published in 1950, died in 1962, so the work is in the public domain in countries and areas copyrighting for lifetime plus up to 50 years, including New Zealand. However, if published between ______?
A:) 1922 and 1978
B:) 1926 and 1977
C:) 1936 and 1977
D:) 1934 and 1976
springline- Correct option: B:) 1926 and 1977
25. The main idea in Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech is that writers must overcome the fear prevalent during the Cold War; they must rise above this fear and focus on the only thing worth writing about, which is ‘the human heart in conflict with itself.’ He delivered the Noble Prize acceptance speech in 1950 at_____?
A:) Stockholm
B:) New Albany
C:) New Orlens
D:) Cuba
springline- Correct option: A:) Stockholm
26. The younger Faulkner was greatly influenced by the history of his family and the region in which he lived. Mississippi marked his sense of humor, his sense of the tragic position of ‘black and white‘ _______?
A:) Indians
B:) Africans
C:) Americans
D:) European Countries
springline- Correct option: C:) Americans
27. Stone mentored the young Faulkner, introducing him to the works of writers such as James Joyce, who influenced Faulkner's own writing. In his early 20s, Faulkner gave poems and short stories he had written to Stone in hopes of their being published. Stone sent these to publishers, but they were uniformly rejected. In spring 1918, Faulkner traveled to live with Stone at Yale, his first trip to _______?
A:) West
B:) East
C:) South
D:) North
springline- Correct option: D:) North
28. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel’. It was awarded at the following year's banquet along with the 1950 Prize to ________?
A:) Naseem Hijiazi
B:) Bertrand Russell
C:) Herman Melville
D:) Toni Morrison
springline- Correct option: B:) Bertrand Russell
29. Forster was awarded a Benson Medal in 1937. In the 1930s and 1940s Forster became a notable broadcaster on BBC Radio, and while Who was the BBC India Section talks producer from 1941 to 1943, he commissioned from Forster a weekly book review?
A:) Walt Whitman
B:) T.S. Eliot
C:) George Orwell
D:) W.B. Yeats
springline- Correct option: C:) George Orwell
30. Forster connects personal relationships with the politics of colonialism through the story of the Englishwoman Adela Quested, the Indian Dr. Aziz, and the question of what did or did not happen between them in the Marabar Caves. Forster makes special mention of the author _________?
A:) Ahmed Ali
B:) Tariq Ali
C:) Azhar Abidi
D:) Umra Ahmad
springline- Correct option: A:) Ahmed Ali