Semester One Final (Language and Literature)

Question 1

To which American author was Kamala Markandaya most often compared?

Answer 1

Pearl S. Buck

Question 2

In which area did Markandaya have the least in common with her protagonist in Nectar in a Sieve?

Answer 2

Economics

Question 3

NIAS (Nectar in a Sieve) demonstrates that an Indian woman’s value was most tied to her what?

Answer 3

Fertility

Question 4

Which character leaves Ruku’s village in NIAS and does not return?

Answer 4

Janaki

Question 5

The British East India Company’s main purpose was as a what?

Answer 5

Commercial proxy

Question 6

Highly educated Indians like Mohandas Gandhi criticized British hypocrisy regarding what?

Answer 6

Self-determination

Question 7

Which Hindu religious festival is most significant?

Answer 7

Diwali

Question 8

How does the tannery’s arrival in NIAS contribute to inflation in Ruku’s village?

Answer 8

Tannery workers’ wages drive up prices

Question 9

True or false? The fact that Ruku is an educated village woman indicates that the story is in a colonial period

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Whose sons are the first to obtain tannery jobs?

Answer 10

Kunthi’s

Question 11

In NIAS, Arjun and Thambi seeks work where?

Answer 11

In Ceylon on tea plantations

Question 12

Which term best describes Nathan and Ruku’s city experience in NIAS?

Answer 12

Disorienting

Question 13

Which of the following traits is common to all the creatures mentioned in “Work without Hope”?

Answer 13

Industriousness

Question 14

Which element in NIAS makes it the most universal?

Answer 14

An indistinct setting

Question 15

NIAS is considered a safe novel except for which reason?

Answer 15

In portrays characters in a socially realistic way

Question 16

Which event in NIAS best represents India’s industrialization?

Answer 16

the tannery’s arrival

Question 17

Why does Ruku believe crying out against suffering will make no difference?

Answer 17

Collective action is necessary to change the situation

Question 18

Ruku responds to news of Raja’s death in NIAS with what emotion?

Answer 18

Despair

Question 19

Why are Nathan and Ruku left to work the land along at the end of part one of NIAS?

Answer 19

Selvam has become apprenticed to Kenny

Question 20

When Ruku meets Ammu in NIAS, she is overcome with what emotion?

Answer 20

Pity

Question 21

Whom did Mohandas Ghandi mainly organize against British exploitation in India?

Answer 21

Working poor

Question 22

At the beginning of his “Quit India” speech, Mohandas Gandhi assured his audience he still believes in what?

Answer 22

Ahimsa (nonviolence)

Question 23

For which form of protest did Mohandas Gandhi most advocate in the struggle for civil rights?

Answer 23

Nonviolent disobedience

Question 24

In “Quit India”, Gandhi explained his vision of what?

Answer 24

“Equal freedom for all”

Question 25

Nehru’s “Tryst with Destiny” speech was broadcast on the even of what?

Answer 25

India’s independence

Question 26

To whom does Nehru refer as “the greatest man of our generation”?

Answer 26

Gandhi

Question 27

When he says “an age ends” in “Tryst with Destiny”, Nehru is most likely referring to what?

Answer 27

Colonialism

Question 28

According to Nehru, freedom comes with what?

Answer 28

Responsibility

Question 29

Salman Rushdie’s first job was as a what?

Answer 29

Copywriter

Question 30

For which novel did Ayatollah Khomeini issue a fatwa against Salman Rushdie?

Answer 30

The Satanic Verses

Question 31

Which country did not issue a ban against The Satanic Verses?

Answer 31

Britian

Question 32

Which term best describes Rushdie’s feeling in India in “Imaginary Homelands”?

Answer 32

Foreign

Question 33

Rushdie points out in “Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist” that Indians do not always what?

Answer 33

Hate the British

Question 34

“The Second Coming” is most often understood to be what?

Answer 34

Apocalyptic

Question 35

Who led the schools in which Nissim Ezekiel was taught?

Answer 35

Christian missionaries

Question 36

In the opening of “Background, Casually”, the speaker highlights what?

Answer 36

Cultural-religious interactions

Question 37

The speaker of “Background, Casually” travels to Britain in order to what?

Answer 37

Attend school

Question 38

Which phrase ends “Background, Casually”?

Answer 38

“My backward place is where I am”

Question 39

Much of Jhumpa Lahiri’s writing focuses on her characters’ what?

Answer 39

Daily lives

Question 40

Where is Mr. Pirzada from?

Answer 40

Dacca

Question 41

Who narrates “When Mr. Pirzada Comes to Dine”?

Answer 41

Lilia

Question 42

In “When Mr. Pirzada Comes to Dine”, Lilia’s Americanization is most evident in what?

Answer 42

Her celebration of Halloween

Question 43

Which title best describes the passage?

Answer 43

“The Talented Mr. Tagore”

Question 44

The passage’s organization suggests that it is a what?

Answer 44

Preface

Question 45

Why does the narrator first approach the Bengali doctor? (PASSAGE)

Answer 45

He seeks to understand Tagore’s life better

Question 46

The narrator of the passage finds Tagore’s poetry to be what?

Answer 46

Emotionally stirring

Question 47

Based on the passage, what term best describes Tagore?

Answer 47

Multitalented

Question 48

The ideal audience for the passage is most likely who?

Answer 48

Poetry readers

Question 49

The narrator’s illusion to “the doctrine of Nietzche” in line 46 most likely implies that Nietzche what?

Answer 49

Believed true beauty manifested in the visible world

Question 50

Which modern grammatical error is most prevalent in the passage?

Answer 50

Comma splices