1. Naidu's poetry includes both children's poems and others written on more serious themes including patriotism, romance, and tragedy. Published in 1912, ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad‘ remains one of her most popular poems. She married Govindarajulu Naidu, a general physician, and had four children with him. She died of a cardiac arrest on _____?
A:) 1 May 1948
B:) 2 March 1949
C:) 3 April 1950
D:) 5 June 1951
springline- Correct option: B:) 2 March 1949
2. Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist and poet. A proponent of civil rights, women's emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas, she was an important figure in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule. Naidu's work as a poet earned her the sobriquet 'the Nightingale of India', or 'Bharat Kokila' by ________?
A:) Mahatma Gandhi
B:) Rabindranath Tagore
C:) Kiran Desai
D:) Raja Rao
springline- Correct option: A:) Mahatma Gandhi
3. Following Sarojini Naidu’s time in England, where she worked as a suffragist, she was drawn to Indian National Congress' movement for India's independence from British rule. She was appointed as the President of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and later became the Governor of the United Provinces in ______?
A:) 1946
B:) 1947
C:) 1948
D:) 1949
springline- Correct option: B:) 1947
4. Naidu's poetry is written in English, and usually took the form of lyric poetry in the tradition of British Romanticism, which she was sometimes challenged to reconcile with her Indian nationalist politics. She was known for her vivid use of rich sensory images in her writing, and for her lush depictions of India. She was well-regarded as a poet, considered the _______?
A:) Indian Dickenson
B:) Indian Keats
C:) Bard of Bengali
D:) Indian Yeats
springline- Correct option: D:) Indian Yeats
5. Naidu's first book of poems was published in London in 1905, titled The Golden Threshold. The publication was suggested by Edmund Gosse, and bore an introduction by Arthur Symons. It also included a sketch of Naidu as a teenager, in a ruffled white dress, drawn by ________?
A:) John Butler Yeats
B:) W.B. Yeats
C:) Brook
D:) Daniel Defoe
springline- Correct option: A:) John Butler Yeats
6. Naidu's second and most strongly nationalist book of poems, The Bird of Time, was published in 1912. It was published in both London and New York, and includes ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad.’ The last book of new poems published in her lifetime, The Broken Wing (1927) was dedicated to _______?
A:) Raja Rao
B:) Mahatma Gandhi
C:) Sir Aurobindo
D:) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
springline- Correct option: D:) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
7. Sarojini Naidu: A collection of all her published poems was printed in New York in 1928. After her death, Naidu's complete poems, including unpublished works, were collected in The Feather of the Dawn (1961), edited by her_______?
A:) friend
B:) brother
C:) sister
D:) daughter
springline- Correct option: D:) daughter
8. The first biography of Naidu, Sarojini Naidu: a Biography by Padmini Sengupta, was published in 1966. A biography for children, Sarojini Naidu: The Nightingale and The Freedom Fighter, was published by _______?
A:) Hachette
B:) Ruskin Bond
C:) Nissim Ezekiel
D:) Amirta Pritam
springline- Correct option: A:) Hachette
9. Beginning in 1904, Naidu became an increasingly popular orator, promoting Indian independence and women's rights, especially women's education. Her oratory often framed arguments following the five-part rhetorical structures of Nyaya reasoning. She addressed the Indian National Congress and the Indian Social Conference in Calcutta in ________
A:) 1905
B:) 1906
C:) 1907
D:) 1908
springline- Correct option: C:) 1907
10. Sarojini Naidu: She was the eldest of the eight siblings. Her brother Virendranath Chattopadhyay was a revolutionary, and another brother Harindranath was a poet, a dramatist, and an actor. When she met Mahatma Gandhi, whom she credited with inspiring a new commitment to political action?
A:) 1912
B:) 1913
C:) 1914
D:) 1916
springline- Correct option: C:) 1914
11. Toru Dutt was a Bengali translator and poet from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature. Her poems explore themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism and nostalgia. Dutt died at the age of ______?
A:) 20
B:) 21
C:) 22
D:) 23
springline- Correct option: B:) 21
12. Toru Dutt: She is known for her volumes of poetry in English, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1877) and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), and for a novel in French, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers Which was written in_____?
A:) 1876
B:) 1877
C:) 1879
D:) 1880
springline- Correct option: C:) 1879
13. Toru Dutt was a natural linguist. In her short life she became proficient in Bengali, English, French and later Sanskrit. She left behind an impressive collection of prose and poetry. Her two novels, the unfinished Bianca or The Young Spanish Maiden in English and Le Journal de Mademoiselle d’Arvers in French, were based outside India with ________?
A:) non-Indian protagonists
B:) Anglo protagonists
C:) Indian Protagonists
D:) French Protagonists
springline- Correct option: A:) non-Indian protagonists
14. Toru Dutt: Her poetry appears in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields, consisting of translations into English of French poetry and Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, composed of translations and adaptations from_____?
A:) French
B:) Sanskrit
C:) Telugu
D:) Tamil
springline- Correct option: B:) Sanskrit
15. A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields was published in 1876 without a preface or introduction. Its 165 poems are translated from French into English by Dutt, except for one poem composed by her, ‘A Mon Père’, and How many Poems were translated by her sister?
A:) six
B:) seven
C:) eight
D:) nine
springline- Correct option: C:) eight
16. At first the collection attracted little attention, though it eventually came to the notice of Edmund Gosse in 1877. Sheaf saw a second Indian edition in 1878 and a third edition by Kegan Paul of London in 1880, but Dutt lived to see neither of these. The second edition added 44 new poems, a portrait of Toru Dutt and her sister, and a preface by ______?
A:) their father
B:) their mother
C:) their friends
D:) fellow writer
springline- Correct option: A:) their father
17. At the time of her death, she left two novels, Le Journal de Mademoiselle d’Arvers, (published posthumously in 1879), the first novel in French by an Indian writer, and Which of her novel got the fame of thought to be the first novel in English by an Indian woman writer ?
A:) Life and Letters
B:) Hindu Literature
C:) Bianca or The Young Spanish Maiden
D:) Le Journal de Mademoiseele d’Arvers
springline- Correct option: C:) Bianca or The Young Spanish Maiden
18. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan appeared posthumously in 1882, Who wrote an introductory memoir for it: ‘She brought with her from Europe a store of knowledge that would have sufficed to make an English or French girl seem learned, but which in her case was simply miraculous?
A:) Adirenne Rich
B:) Edmund Gosse
C:) A.R. Ammons
D:) John Berryman
springline- Correct option: B:) Edmund Gosse
19. In 1869, when Dutt was 13, Dutt's family left India, making her and her sister some of the first Bengali girls to travel by sea to Europe. The family spent four years living in Europe, one in France and three in England. They also visited Italy and ______?
A:) French
B:) Mexico
C:) Germany
D:) Paris
springline- Correct option: C:) Germany
20. Our Casuarina Tree is a poem published in 1881 by Toru Dutt, an Indian poet. In this poem Toru Dutt celebrates the majesty of the Casuarina Tree that she used to see by her window, and remembers her happy childhood days. The poem begins with the description of the tree. The poet says that the creeper has wound itself around the rugged trunk of the Casuarina Tree, like a huge _________?
A:) mountain
B:) basilisk
C:) wall
D:) Python
springline- Correct option: D:) Python
21. Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, professor , philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright. His academic research ranged across _____?
A:) seven languages
B:) six languages
C:) four languages
D:) five languages
springline- Correct option: D:) five languages
22. A. K. Ramanujan: He published works on both classical and modern variants of this literature and argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due. Though he wrote widely and in a number of genres, Ramanujan's poems are remembered as enigmatic works of startling originality, sophistication and moving artistry. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1999 for ____?
A:) Second Sight
B:) The Collected poems
C:) Uncollected Poems
D:) The Interior Landscape
springline- Correct option: B:) The Collected poems
23. Ramanujan was born in Mysore City on 16 March 1929. His father, Attipat Asuri Krishnaswami, an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Mysore University, was known for his interest in English, Kannada and Sanskrit languages. His mother was a homemaker. Ramanujan also had a brother, A.K. Srinivasan who was a writer and mathematician . When he was given the MacArthur Prize Fellowship (Shulman, 1994) ?
A:) 1983
B:) 1984
C:) 1985
D:) 1986
springline- Correct option: A:) 1983
24. At the University of Chicago, Ramanujan was instrumental in shaping the South Asian Studies program. He worked in the departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Linguistics, and with the Committee on Social Thought. When he won the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri?
A:) 1974
B:) 1975
C:) 1976
D:) 1977
springline- Correct option: C:) 1976
25. A. K. Ramanujan's theoretical and aesthetic contributions span several disciplinary areas. In his cultural essays such as ‘Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?’ (1990), he explains cultural ideologies and behavioral manifestations there of in terms of an Indian psychology he calls ‘context-sensitive______?
A:) view
B:) mind
C:) divinity
D:) thinking
springline- Correct option: D:) thinking
26. A River’ by A.K. Ramanujan describes how poets of the past and present have romanticized a river in Madurai. In the first stanza of this piece, the speaker begins by setting the scene. He is going to be describing how the city of ‘Madurai’ is described by poets. A river poem written in the year of_____?
A:) 1965
B:) 1966
C:) 1967
D:) 1968
springline- Correct option: A:) 1965
27. Ramanujan was educated at Marimallappa's High School, Mysore, and at the Maharaja College of Mysore. In college, Ramanujan majored in science in his freshman year, but his father persuaded him to change his major from science to English. Later, Ramanujan became a Fellow of Deccan College, Pune in _______
A:) 1958–59
B:) 1957-58
C:) 1956-57
D:) 1956-55
springline- Correct option: A:) 1958–59
28. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian poetry edited by Prof. V.K. Gokak has listed about fifty earlier Indian poets writ¬ing in English. Behramji Malabari (1853-1912), for instance wrote in the style of the eighteenth century English poets, particularly like Pope and ______?
A:) Keats
B:) Dryden
C:) John Milton
D:) T.S. Eliot
springline- Correct option: B:) Dryden
29. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian poetry: Malabari’s place is more in the history of the Indian novel in English, for his Gujarat and Gujaratis (1882) and The Indian Eye on English Life (1893) were pseudo-fictional exercises which could be considered as the forerunners of the Indian novel in English in the same way in which the pseudo- fictional writings of Addison and ________?
A:) Goldsmith
B:) Pope
C:) John Dryden
D:) Henry Fielding
springline- Correct option: A:) Goldsmith
30. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian poetry: Most of the writers of Bengalis, they also have their roots in Bengali Bhakti literature and write under the profound influence of the Indian mystical and philosophical traditions. Who is the author of The Immortal Friend had also written poetry of a similar kind drawing again from his own rich spiritual experience?
A:) Arun Kolatkar
B:) Jeet Thayil
C:) Dom Moraes
D:) J. Krishnamurti
springline- Correct option: D:) J. Krishnamurti