1. Kamala Markandaya , pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya, married name Kamala Taylor, was an Indian novelist and journalist. She has been called ‘one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English, She was born in____?
A:) 1924
B:) 1925
C:) 1927
D:) 1928
springline- Correct option: A:) 1924
2. Markandaya was born into an upper-middle-class Madhva Brahmin family. A native of Mysore, India, Markandaya was a graduate of Madras University, and afterwards published several short stories in Indian newspapers. After India declared its independence, Markandaya moved to _____ ?
A:) London
B:) England
C:) Britain
D:) Italy
springline- Correct option: C:) Britain
3. A Handful of Rice : Ravi is a very underprivileged person. He is fed up with hunger and poverty, so he goes to city. There, he joins the local trivial criminals, but he remains a destitute. Later on, he marries Apu’s daughter. Apu is a ______?
A:) teacher
B:) tailor
C:) headmaster
D:) postman
springline- Correct option: B:) tailor
4. In A Handful of Rice, Kamala dexterously reveals her characters from the inside. She has employed stream of consciousness technique and exposed to the readers the psyche of her characters. When Kamala got the the Asian Prize ?
A:) 1974
B:) 1975
C:) 1976
D:) 1977
springline- Correct option: A:) 1974
5. Kamala, who was awarded the National Association of Independent Schools Award (USA:) in 1967 and is one of the crispest and most warming persons of Indian writers . Ravi, the protagonist, has been drawn competently. Except the protagonist, the two vital male characters in the novel are Apu and______?
A:) Damodar
B:) Puttana
C:) Apu
D:) thangam
springline- Correct option: A:) Damodar
6. A Handful of Rice : Ravi, the hero, is a vigorous and healthy young man. His willpower is very strapping. He has a unique quickness of hand, eye and mind which endow with him a great advantage to deal with men. He is a ______
A:) tolerate boy
B:) literate boy
C:) handsome boy
D:) arrogant
springline- Correct option: B:) literate boy
7. A Handful of Rice : Ravi has been depicted as a vagrant. He is implicated in inconsequential criminal activities. He has left his village in search of a job in the city. When he comes to the city, he forcibly enters Apu’s house due to being chased by a ______?
A:) policeman
B:) thief
C:) debtor
D:) house owner
springline- Correct option: A:) policeman
8. A Handful of Rice : Ravi resides in Apu’s house since then. Meanwhile, Ravi falls in love with Nalini who is Apu’s daughter. Apu is an old tailor. Ravi helps Apu in his work and he has now more chances to see _______?
A:) Jayamma
B:) geetha
C:) Nalini
D:) thangam
springline- Correct option: C:) Nalini
9. A Handful of Rice : Ravi is ready to sacrifice for Nalini’s love. Before the marriage, he wants to be a highly regarded person. He wants to shun the bad company. He is ready to repudiate all in his life that was unworthy. Ravi sighed deeply, secretly with a profound sense of _________?
A:) humour
B:) anger
C:) sacrifice
D:) manner
springline- Correct option: C:) sacrifice
10. A Handful of Rice : Ravi would have liked his steady wage to be higher. He wanted to buy a bed, a nice sari for Nalini, material for some smart new shirts for himself, a safety-razor, a mouth-organ and sundry other essentials and luxuries, the list of which grew daily longer. Besides it, he wants to procure a cycle, a luxurious bed and _________?
A:) car
B:) gold chain
C:) villa
D:) a gold watch
springline- Correct option: D:) a gold watch
11. A Handful of Rice : The novelist has also portrayed Ravi as a livid man. He strappingly opposes social injustice. He never likes that the poor should always put up with and the rich should always rule over them. When he comes to know the fact that his one jacket is sold for ________?
A:) two fifty
B:) one twenty five
C:) hundred
D:) fifty five
springline- Correct option: B:) one twenty five
12. A Handful of Rice : Ravi felt like shrieking. The fact stuck in his gullet like an outsize stone.... He walked blindly, rapidly, wanting only to get as far away from the house as possible before his brain too, his thinking, becomes contaminated. Of all his emotions, disgust was uppermost, to be ground down like that, to lie down and take whatever they cared to give. Ravi cannot put up with social ______
A:) classes
B:) rich and poor
C:) injustice and inequality
D:) injustice and irresponsibility
springline- Correct option: C:) injustice and inequality
13. A Handful of Rice : Ravi’s temperament is indignant. He is effortlessly irritated. Sometimes he scuffles with Puttana, Nalini and his father-in-law, Apu. He does not like to see Nalini’s sister ________?
A:) Jayamma
B:) Geetha
C:) thangamma
D:) Thangam
springline- Correct option: D:) Thangam
14. A Handful of Rice : Ravi always has the feeling of rootlessness, since when he has left his village and migrated to the city. He does not have any house in the city. He feels seclusion and recalls his ________?
A:) childhood
B:) village
C:) school
D:) friends
springline- Correct option: B:) village
15. A Handful of Rice : The central character has been portrayed in a very microscopic way. Ravi starts his profession involving in insignificant unlawful activities, perhaps, therefore, in the beginning of the novel, the police are chasing him and he takes refuge in Apu’s house. Ravi and Who are anonymous to each other?
A:) Apu
B:) talkative women
C:) Puttana
D:) Nalini
springline- Correct option: D:) Nalini
16. A Handful of Rice : Ravi again decides to rivet in inconsequential scandalous deeds, but something prevents him from doing so. Now his heart has melted and he has embraced benevolence. When a crowd raids a storeroom for rice?
A:) One afternoon
B:) One Morning
C:) One Sunday
D:) One night
springline- Correct option: A:) One afternoon
17. A Brahman, Markandaya studied at the University of Madras, then worked as a journalist. In 1948 she settled in England and later married an Englishman. Her first novel, Nectar in a Sieve , an Indian peasant’s narrative of her difficult life, remains Markandaya’s most popular work. Nectar in a Sieve which was written in_______?
A:) 1953
B:) 1954
C:) 1955
D:) 1956
springline- Correct option: B:) 1954
18. Markandaya’s next book, Some Inner Fury (1955), is set in 1942 during the Indian struggle for independence. It portrays the troubled relationship between an educated Indian woman, whose brother is an anti-British terrorist, and a British civil servant who loves her. Marriage provides the setting for a conflict of values in A Silence of Desire (1960), in which a religious middle-class woman seeks ______?
A:) money
B:) education
C:) her husband
D:) medical treatment
springline- Correct option: D:) medical treatment
19. In Markandaya’s fiction Western values typically are viewed as modern and materialistic and Indian values as traditional and spiritual. She examined this dichotomy in Possession (1963), in which an Indian shepherd-turned-artist is sent to England, where he is nearly destroyed by an aristocratic ______?
A:) British woman
B:) English man
C:) Indian Women
D:) French Man
springline- Correct option: A:) British woman
20. To the Veda were added prose commentaries such as the Brahmanas and the Upanishads. The earliest Indian literature took the form of the canonical Hindu sacred writings, known as the Veda, which were written in ________?
A:) French
B:) Sanskrit
C:) Hindi
D:) Tamil
springline- Correct option: B:) Sanskrit
21. The literature of those languages depended largely on the ancient Indian background, which includes two Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata and Ramayana. In addition, the Sanskrit philosophies were the source of philosophical writing in the later literatures, and the Sanskrit schools of rhetoric were of great importance for the development of ______?
A:) philosophical poetry
B:) historical poetry
C:) classical poetry
D:) court poetry
springline- Correct option: D:) court poetry
22. A Handful of Rice- 1996-Fifth novel It contains 40 Chapter Ravi, like Telemachus finds Apu who has been looking for son, he takes to him. ‘A Handful of Rice’ is a realistic exploration of the problems in the city in which rural poverty hunger is only a take off-point Thangam-ragging nature, Jayamma-Selfishness, Puttana_________?
A:) irresponsibility
B:) bad manner
C:) anger
D:) fallacy
springline- Correct option: A:) irresponsibility
23. A Handful of Rice deals with urban life with its struggle for survival. It set metropolis of India. Madras city. Ravi promises Memisahib to prepare the gown in time. Varma and Who dependence on the income of Ravi and Apu?
A:) Nalini
B:) Kumaran
C:) Thangam
D:) Puttana
springline- Correct option: B:) Kumaran
24. A Handful of Rice : Ravi tells the death of his father-in-law. ‘The dress had been wanted for Saturday reception’ - Mema sahib. In fact, life in a city like Madras gives one of the impression of being in a ____?
A:) Jungle
B:) prison
C:) temple
D:) hell
springline- Correct option: A:) Jungle
25. A Handful of Rice : Ravi represents himself as the East-its faith. Its spiritual values, its humanity Madras is symbolized by Westernization Damodar is product of the West. The fashionable shop named ___?
A:) EVE
B:) VEV
C:) EVA
D:) EAV
springline- Correct option: EVE
26. Ravi looks back to village from where he has come and remembers’ - all lived between bouts of gentcel and acute poverty the kind in which the weakest went to the wall, the old ones and the babies dying TB, dysentery and____?
A:) fever
B:) Jaundice
C:) faints
D:) stomach flu
springline- Correct option: A:) fever
27. Indian and British Influences Kamala Markandaya was born in Mysore, India, in 1924 to a privileged Brahmin family. She was born as Kamala Purnaiyas, and often known as Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, she adopted the surname Markandaya when her first novel was published in the year of_____?
A:) 1954
B:) 1955
C:) 1957
D:) 1958
springline- Correct option: A:) 1954
28. Markandaya’s childhood, but as a young woman, she graduated with a degree in history from the University of Madras before working in the Indian army during World War II. She then established herself as a journalist and short-story writer, married a fellow journalist, Englishman _______?
A:) Marit Allen
B:) Bertrand Taylor
C:) Decca Aitkenhead
D:) George Taylor
springline- Correct option: B:) Bertrand Taylor
29. During Markandaya's youth, India was officially a colony of the British Empire. This led to a mix of both traditional Indian and contemporary English cultural influences, most notably the widespread use of the English language. A popular movement supporting the independence of India gained momentum throughout the 1920s and 1930s, largely due to the leadership of _______
A:) Mohandas Gandhi
B:) Jawarharlal Nehru
C:) Vallabhbhai Patel
D:) Ambedkar
springline- Correct option: A:) Mohandas Gandhi
30. Markandaya: The Nowhere Man (1972) to be the author's greatest novel. Epic in scope, the story focuses on the cultural consequences of widespread postwar South Asian migration to Britain. Which is her last novel ______?
A:) A Silence of Desire
B:) Possession
C:) Shalimar
D:) The Coffer Dams
springline- Correct option: C:) Shalimar