1. The English Teacher is a 1945 novel written by R. K. Narayan. It is a part of a series of novels and collections of short stories set in ‘Malgudi’. The English Teacher was preceded by Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937) and Malgudi Days, (1943) and followed by_______ ?
A:) The Guide
B:) The Vendor of Sweets
C:) Mr. Sampath
D:) Waiting for the Mahatma
springline- Correct option: C:) Mr. Sampath
2. The English Teacher: This novel, dedicated to Narayan's wife, is not only autobiographical but also poignant in its intensity of feeling. The story is a series of experiences in the life of Krishna, an English teacher, and his quest for inner peace and self-development after the traumatising death of his wife. What is the name of his wife??
A:) Rasathi
B:) Bhuvana
C:) Sudha
D:) Rajam
springline- Correct option: D:) Rajam
3. As an English teacher and lecturer at Albert Mission College, Krishna has led a mundane and monotonous lifestyle comparable to that of a cow. He too plays an important role of protecting the _____?
A:) Indian culture
B:) modernism
C:) classism
D:) Indian tradition
springline- Correct option: A:) Indian culture
4. The English Teacher: Krishna felt that his life had comparatively improved, as he understood that there's more meaning to life than to just teaching in the college. However, on the day when they went in search of a new house, Susila contracts typhoid after visiting a dirty lavatory, keeping her in bed for ______?
A:) 6 days
B:) 5 month
C:) years
D:) weeks
springline- Correct option: D:) weeks
5. The English Teacher: Krishna life took a turn when his wife, Susila, and their child, come to live with him. With their welfare on his hands, Krishna learns to be a proper husband and learns how to accept the responsibility of taking care of his family. What is the name of his daughter?
A:) sudha
B:) hema
C:) meera
D:) Leela
springline- Correct option: D:) Leela
6. Krishna receives a letter from a stranger who indicates that Susila has been in contact with him and that she wants to communicate with Krishna, he becomes more collected and cheerful. This leads to Krishna’s journey in search of enlightenment, with the stranger acting as a medium to Susila in the spiritual world. His daughter on the other hand, goes to a preschool where Krishna gets to meet the _________?
A:) Headmaster
B:) English teacher
C:) Strange man
D:) Susila
springline- Correct option: A:) Headmaster
7. Narayan’s The English Teacher was published in 1945, seven years after The Dark Room. Probably it was the shattering blow that he received in the death of his wife Rajam, which rendered him incapable of sustained artistic effort, and during this interval he could write only sketches and______?
A:) short stories
B:) prose
C:) manuscript
D:) novels
springline- Correct option: A:) short stories
8. Narayan’s frequently wanders to he meets a Sanyasi who can communicate with spirits of the dead. Through him Krishna is able to communicate with the spirit of his dear departed Susila. Krishna is thrilled, and regains his interest in life. Where he meet the a sunyasi?
A:) a lilly lake
B:) a lotus-pond
C:) a Jasmine pond
D:) a lotus-lake
springline- Correct option: B:) a lotus-pond
9. The English Teacher: The novel who commented on the rapturous state of Krishna’s being, which really derived in this most explicitly autobiographical of Narayan’s novels from the serenity and joy marriage brought to Narayan’s own life’ Whose notion is this?
A:) William Faulkner
B:) Thomas Hardy
C:) Emily Dickens
D:) Elizabeth Bowen
springline- Correct option: D:) Elizabeth Bowen
10. The Headmaster puts his students as his top priority but he doesn’t care for his own family and children, eventually leaving them on the day predicted by an astrologer as to be when he was going to die, which did not come true. Krishna gets to learn through the headmaster on the journey to _______?
A:) enlightenment
B:) Spiritual
C:) Desire
D:) achievement
springline- Correct option: A:) enlightenment
11. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. He was born in_____?
A:) 1906
B:) 1907
C:) 1908
D:) 1909
springline- Correct option: A:) 1906
12. Narayan's mentor and friend Graham Greene was instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan's first four books including the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in _______?
A:) The Guide
B:) Swami and Friends
C:) The English Teacher
D:) Mr. Sampath
springline- Correct option: B:) Swami and Friends
13. Narayan highlights the social context and everyday life of his characters. He has been compared to who created a similar fictional town and likewise Whom he explored with humor and compassion the energy of ordinary life?
A:) William Faulkner
B:) Raja Rao
C:) Thomas Hardy
D:) W.B. Yeats
springline- Correct option: A:) William Faulkner
14. Narayan: In a career that spanned over sixty years Narayan received many awards and honors including the AC Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan, India's second and third highest civilian awards. When Narayan's short stories have been compared with those of Guy de Maupassant because of his ability to compress a narrative. ?
A:) 1993
B:) 1994
C:) 1995
D:) 1996
springline- Correct option: B:) 1994
15. In 1994 the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honor of India's national academy of letters. He was also nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. The Financial Expert was hailed as one of the most original works of 1951 and Sahitya Academy Award winner work for ____?
A:) The Guide
B:) The English Teacher
C:) A Tiger for Malgudi
D:) Swami and Friends
springline- Correct option: A:) The Guide
16. R. K. Narayan was born in 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India into a Hindu family. He was one of eight children; six sons and two daughters. Narayan was second among the sons; his younger brother Ramachandran later became an ______?
A:) writer
B:) editor
C:) teacher
D:) lawyer
springline- Correct option: B:) editor
17. R. K. Narayan’s grandmother gave him the nickname of Kunjappa, A name that stuck to him in family circles. She taught him arithmetic, mythology, classical Indian music and Sanskrit. According to Whom the family mostly conversed in English, and grammatical errors on the part of Narayan and his siblings were frowned upon?
A:) Raman
B:) Rasam
C:) Parvati
D:) Laxman
springline- Correct option: D:) Laxman
18. R. K. Narayan’s, While living with his grandmother, Narayan studied at a succession of schools in Madras, including the Lutheran Mission School in Purasawalkam, and the Christian College High School. Narayan was an avid reader, and his early literary diet included Dickens, Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and _______?
A:) Thomas Hardy
B:) Yeats
C:) T.S. Eliot
D:) Robert Frost
springline- Correct option: A:) Thomas Hardy
19. In 1930, Narayan wrote his first novel, Swami and Friends, an effort ridiculed by his uncle and rejected by a string of publishers. With this book, Narayan created Malgudi, a town that creatively reproduced the social sphere of the country; while it ignored the limits imposed by colonial rule, it also grew with the various socio-political changes of ____?
A:) India
B:) novel
C:) British
D:) Writings
springline- Correct option: C:) British
20. Narayan: While vacationing at his sister's house in Coimbatore, in 1933, Narayan met and fell in love with Rajam, a 15-year-old girl who lived nearby. Despite many astrological and financial obstacles, Narayan managed to gain permission from the girl's father and married her. Following his marriage, Narayan became a reporter for a Madras-based paper called _______?
A:) The Law
B:) The Pen
C:) The Justice
D:) The Final
springline- Correct option: C:) The Justice
21. Earlier, Narayan had sent the manuscript of Swami and Friends to a friend at Oxford, and about this time, the friend showed the manuscript to Graham Greene. Greene recommended the book to his publisher, and it was finally published in ______?
A:) 1933
B:) 1934
C:) 1935
D:) 1936
springline- Correct option: C:) 1935
22. Narayan's next novel The Bachelor of Arts (1937), was inspired in part by his experiences at college, and dealt with the theme of a rebellious adolescent transitioning to a rather well-adjusted adult; it was published by a different publisher, again at the recommendation of Greene. His third novel, ______?
A:) The Man Eater of Malgudi
B:) The Guide
C:) The English Teacher
D:) The Dark Room
springline- Correct option: D:) The Dark Room
23. Narayan: In his first three books, Narayan highlights the problems with certain socially accepted practices. The concept of horoscope-matching in Hindu marriages and the emotional toll it levies on the bride and groom is covered in the second book. In the third book, Narayan addresses the concept of a wife putting up with her husband's________?
A:) affection and antics
B:) affection and attitudes
C:) antics and love
D:) antics and attitudes
springline- Correct option: D:) antics and attitudes
24. Narayan: Rajam died of typhoid in 1939. Her death affected Narayan deeply and he remained depressed for a long time. He never remarried in his life; he was also concerned for their daughter Hema, who had a age of___?
A:) three years old
B:) five years old
C:) six years old
D:) two years old
springline- Correct option: A:) three years old
25. The English Teacher, Narayan's writings took a more imaginative and creative external style compared to the semi-autobiographical tone of the earlier novels. His next effort was the first book exhibiting this modified approach oon after, he published The Financial Expert, considered to be his masterpiece and hailed as one of the most original works of fiction in _______?
A:) 1950
B:) 1951
C:) 1952
D:) 1953
springline- Correct option: B:) 1951
26. Narayan was commissioned by the government of Karnataka to write a book to promote tourism in the state. The book contains his personal perspective on the In 1983, Narayan published his next novel, A Tiger for Malgudi, about a tiger and its relationship with humans. His next novel, Talkative Man, published in ______?
A:) 1986
B:) 1987
C:) 1988
D:) 1989
springline- Correct option: A:) 1986
27. Narayan: In 1987, he completed A Writer's Nightmare, another collection of essays about topics as diverse as the caste system, Nobel prize winners, love, and monkeys. The collection included essays he had written for newspapers and magazines since 1958. Narayan then published his final book, ________?
A:) Grandmother's Tale
B:) The Guide
C:) The English Teacher
D:) The Vendor of Sweets
springline- Correct option: A:) Grandmother's Tale
28. Narayan: His national contemporaries, he was able to write about the intricacies of Indian society without having to modify his characteristic simplicity to confirm to trends and fashions in fiction writing. He also employed the use of nuanced dialogic prose with gentle Tamil overtones based on the nature of his characters. Critics have considered Narayan to be the ______?
A:) Indian Yeats
B:) Bard of Bengal
C:) Indian Chekhov
D:) Indian Keats
springline- Correct option: C:) Indian Chekhov
29. Lahiri also compares him to Guy de Maupassant for their ability to compress the narrative without losing the story, and the common themes of middle-class life written with an unyielding and unpitying vision. Who noted that he ‘wrote from deep within his community’, and did not, in his treatment of characters, ‘put his people on display?
A:) Amitav Ghose
B:) Kiran Desai
C:) Vikiram Seth
D:) V. S. Naipaul
springline- Correct option: D:) V. S. Naipaul
30. R. K. Narayan’s father was a school headmaster, and Narayan did some of his studies at his father's school. As his father's job entailed frequent transfers, Narayan spent a part of his childhood under the care of his maternal grandmother, Parvati. Which is his first novel?
A:) The Guide
B:) The English Teacher
C:) A Tiger for Malgudi
D:) Swami and Friends
springline- Correct option: D:) Swami and Friends