Question 1

Turmeric is called the Nector of ____.

Accepted Answer

A)  love
B)  immortality
C)  purity
D)  wisdom B

Question 2

How old was Alassankutty?

Accepted Answer

A)  40
B)  41
C)  42
D)  44 B

Question 3

According to Mariam, the visitor was a ____ sent by God to work miracles for them.

Accepted Answer

A)  messanger
B)  soothsayer
C)  oracle
D)  angel D

Question 4

The term Yellow shore refers to the quality of Turmeric as a ___.

Accepted Answer

A)  medicine
B)  anti-dote
C)  cosmetic
D)  ingredient in curries.

Question 5

Identify the figure of speech: "Feeling the light rain falling like mist/into your hair"

Accepted Answer

A)  metaphor
B)  simile
C)  metonymy
D)  none of these.

Question 6

Who is the author of Pedro Paramo?

Accepted Answer

A)  mariyo varges llosa
B)  juan rulfo
C)  gabriel garcia marquez
D)  jorge luis borges

Question 7

What does Mariam bring along with the tea for the visitor?

Accepted Answer

A)  halwa
B)  small rolls of boiled riped nentrappazham
C)  boiled eggs
D)  none of these

Question 8

What is the boy with whom the poet went to school holding?

Accepted Answer

A)  a pistol
B)  a knife
C)  a gun
D)  a dagger.

Question 9

Who is Viswanathan's wife?

Accepted Answer

A)  radha
B)  seetha
C)  manju
D)  maya

Question 10

What was Radha's profession?

Accepted Answer

A)  tailor
B)  carpenter
C)  house maid
D)  none of these

Question 11

Whose is described as the opera 'you' hate most in "What Work Is"?

Accepted Answer

A)  wagner's
B)  tucker's
C)  domingo's
D)  none of these

Question 12

Who according to Amenda Michalapoulou created the novel of wander lust?

Accepted Answer

A)  cervantes
B)  shakespeare
C)  james joyce
D)  homer

Question 13

Who is the author of Friday, the Other Island?

Accepted Answer

A)  aristotle
B)  shakespeare
C)  michel tournier
D)  none of these

Question 14

Who is the author of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Accepted Answer

A)  james joyce
B)  cervantes
C)  shakespeare
D)  anton chekov

Question 15

Who is the author of Comala ?

Accepted Answer

A)  sachidananthan
B)  n p hafiz mohamed
C)  santhosh eachikkanam
D)  sara joseph

Question 16

Where was the speaker's brother employed?

Accepted Answer

A)  vox wagon
B)  cadillac
C)  ford
D)  benz

Question 17

Which Character washes up on the Island of Phaeacians during his journey to Ithaca?

Accepted Answer

A)  hamlet
B)  odysseus
C)  stephen dedalus
D)  don quixote

Question 18

What did the urban beauty smuggle?

Accepted Answer

A)  ivory
B)  gold
C)  values
D)  culture

Question 19

Claudius and Getrude are the characters in ……………………………….

Accepted Answer

A)  sorrows of young werther
B)  hamlet
C)  a portrait of an artist as a young man
D)  don quixote

Question 20

In which novel is Comala a town of the dead?

Accepted Answer

A)  the feast of the goat
B)  pedro paramo
C)  love in the time of cholera
D)  none of these

Exam 1: Literature : Authors, Characters, and Themes