Objective Type Questions

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative.
1.  Mahasweta Devi was born in :
(a) 1920
(b) 1936
(c) 1940
(d) 1926

2. Mahasweta Devi was born at :
(a) Calcutta
(b) Dhaka
(c) Guwahati
(d) Chennai.

3. Mahasweta Devi moved to ...
after partition of India.  
(a) Calcutta
(b) Dhaka
(c) Guwahati
(d) Chennai

4. Mahasweta Devi finished M.A......university. English from
(a) Calcutta
(b) Vishva Bharti
(c) Shantiniketan  
(d) Delhi

5.  Mahasweta Devi was married on 27 February in 1947:
(a) Asit Gupta
(b) Bijon Bhattacharya
(c) Abhi Bhattacharya
(d) Manik Ghosh.

6. Mahasweta Devi was married to .......in 1962 after did:
(a) Asit Gupta
(b) Bijon Bhattacharya
(c) Abhi Bhattacharya
(d) Manik Ghosh

7. Mahasweta Devi got .....in 1979.
(a) Sahitya Akahemi Award
(b) Raman Magsaysay Award
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Padma Shri Award

8. Mahasweta Devi got.....in 1986.
(a) Sahitya Akahemi Award
(b) Raman Magsaysay Award
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Padma Shri Award

9. Mahasweta Devi got...... in 2006.
(a) Padma Vibhushan Award
(b) Raman Magsaysay Award
(c) Jnanpith Award
(d) Padma Shri Award

10. Mahasweta Devi died on .....
(a) 28 July, 2016
(b) 28 July, 2006
(c) 28 July, 2013
(d) 28 July, 2014
 
11. Whom does Mary wish to wed?
(a) Jalin
(b) Banwari
(c) Tehsildar
(d) Ratan Singh.

12. Whom does Mrs. Prasad select as a groom for Marry :
(a) Ratan Singh
(b) The Gardeners, Son
(c) The Chowkidar
(d) The cook

13. What does Mary gift Jalim?
(a) A flute
(b) A shir
(c) A coloured cotton vest
(d) A cycle
 
14. What weapon does Mary use to defend herself:
(a) Sickle
(b) A hammer
(c) A sword
(d) A machete

15. Who was the middle man in charge of cutting the Prasadji,s terrain:
(a) Tehsildar Singh
(b) Ratan Singh
(c) Lalchand
(d) Mulni.

16. What does collector Singh gift Mary?
(a) A Comb
(b) A Saree
(c) A Frock
(d) A Soap

17. What is the name of the festival which mary and her tribes celebrate in the text?
(a) Jani Parab
(b) Festival of Hunt
(c) Spring Festival
(d) Festival of the Wild

18. Which aninal corsses mary's path on her way to tehsilder:
(a) A hare
(b) A hedgehog
(c) A fox
(d) A mouse

19. Dev's first novel was
(a) Mother of 1084
(b) The Queen of Jansi
(c) The Hunt
(d) The Occupation of the Forest.

20. Mahasweta Devi wrote more than a hundred books, most of them in her native language of...
(a) Hindi
(b) Bengali
(c) Tamil
(d) Kannad

21. Mary has countless admires at:
(a) Tohri market
(b) Mangal market
(c) Sadar market
(d) None of them

22. Everyone says is mot fortunate :
(a) Prasadji
(b) Jalim
(c) Mary
(d) Bhikni  

23. Mary......... house:
(a) Damage
(b) Clean
(c) Decorate
(d) None of them.

24. In the Hunt, Mahasweta Devi deals with the...
(a) Myth
(b) Grim effect
(c) Social evils
(d) Fairytale

25. Mahasweta Devi speaks of the:
(a) Difference between child and parents
(b) Difference between men and women
(c) Difference between men and child
(d) Difference between women and child.

26. ........is also a coal halt.
(a) Tohri
(b) Kuruda Hills
(c) Daltonganj
(d) None of them.

27. There are ......  hills, one beyond the wide meadow:
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Five

28. Divon's son come back in:
(a) 1950
(b) 1952
(c) 1954
(d) 1959

29. Prasadji form......... come to live in the Dixon bungalow and refused to employ Bhikni.
(a) Bihar
(b) Kerla
(c) Ranchi
(d) Punjab.

30. Bhikni was:
(a) Ecstatic
(b) Miscrable
(c) Depressed
(d) Not happy

31. Mahasweta Devi's specialization lay in the studies of -
(a) Adivasi
(b) Dalit
(c) Marginalized Citizens
(d) All of these

32. Mahasweta Devi lived in Adivasi village in-
(a) West Bengal
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) All of these

33. 'The Hunt' exposes of how the tribal people are closely living with?
(a) Natural objects
(b) Modern civilization
(c) The nature
(d) Aliens

34. The tribal people who are sons and daughters of nature are still disturbed by?
(a) Britishers
(b) Society
(c) Citizens
(d) Foreigners

35. Mahasweta married renowed playwright Bijon Bhattacharya in-
(a) 1940
(b) 1947
(c) 1950
(d) 1952

36. Mahasweta Devi divorced Bhattacharya and then she married -
(a) Raman Banerjee
(b) Manish Gupta
(c) Asit Gupta
(d) Vishnu Bhattacharya

37. Mahasweta Devi's first schooling was at Eden Montessori school in -
(a) Dhaka
(b) Asansol
(c) Howrah  
(d) Guwahati

38. Vishva Bharti University was founded by -
(a) Mahasweta Devi
(b) R.N. Tagore
(c) Jyotish Rao
(d) Dalit Adivasi Society

39. According to Mahasweta Devi, the real history is made by
(a) Brave people
(b) Poor people
(c) Ordinary people
(d) None of these

40. Which one of the following is a creation by Mahasweta Devi?
(a) Kadambari
(b) Aadhe-Adhure
(c) Kanthapura
(d) Jhansi ki Rani

41. Who describes the word 'counter' which means killing by police?
(a) Mahasweta Devi
(b) Amrita Pritam
(c) Vijay Tendulkar
(d) Mohan Rakesh

42. The character of Mahasweta Devi include-
(a) The landless labourers
(b) The poor women
(c) The tribal people
(d) All of these

43. Who are inseparable from nature and nature seems to be their mother?
(a) The tribal people
(b) The poor people
(c) The orphan children
(d) None of these

44. In which language, Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak translated the work of Mahasweta Devi?
(a) Hindi
(b) Marathi
(c) English
(d)Sanskrit

45. Name the main character of 'The Hunt' -
(a) Jalim
(b) Tehsildar
(c) Bhikni
(d) Mary

46. The major event on which the novel is based on?
(a) Ramayana
(b) Bhagawad Geeta
(c) Mahabharata
(d) First world war

47. 'Aranyer Adhikar' is which kind of genre of literature by Mahasweta Devi?
(a) Drama
(b) Poetry
(c) Biography
(d) Novel

48. By which pen name Mahasweta Devi wrote for 'Sachitra Bharat'a Bengali weekly -
(a) Sumitra Devi
(b) Suman Devi
(c) Seema Devi
(d) Snehna Devi

49. .... is the narrative technique used in after Kurukshetra-
(a) First person
(b) Third person
(c) Decorative
(d) Stream of consciousness

50. In 1977, president ........ commuted two death sentences after Mahasweta led a petition campaign.
(a) Gyani Zail Singh
(b) R. Venkataraman
(c) Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharna
(d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

51. Who was one of the founding fathers of the Indian's people's theatre association?
(a) Bijon Bhattacharya
(b) Nandita Das
(c) Amar Singh
(d) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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