Chapter 2 - Urvashi Butalia : ‘Memory’ from The Other Side of Silence, Voice from The Partition of India

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. ‘The Other Side of Silence : Voices from the Partition of India’ is a book by -
   (a) Yasmin Khan
   (b) Ayesha Jalal
   (c) Bapsi Sidhwa
   (d) Urvashi Butalia

2. Which of the following does Urvashi Butalia’s ‘The Other Side of Silence’ primarily seek to do?
   (a) To understand the Partition as something more than a political divide.
   (b) To foreground a personal history of the Partition.
   (c) To foreground the Partition as an event more tragic than the Holocaust.
   (d) Both (a) and (b)

3. What is the theme of ‘The Other Side of Silence’ by Urvashi Butalia?
   (a) Unfolds the different layers of the history
   (b) Partition as narrated to her especially by women
   (c) Reflects only the political side
   (d) Both (a) and (b)

4. What awards did Urvashi Butalia win?
   (a) The French Chevalier des lettres et des Artes.
   (b) The Nikkei Asia Award for Culture
   (c) Goethe Medaille and Padmashree Awards
   (d) All of these

5. What is the famous work of Urvashi Butalia?
   (a) Speaking Peace : Women’s Voices from Kashmir
   (b) The Other Side of Silence : Voice from the Partition of India
   (c) Both (a) and (b)
   (d) None of these

6. Which movement Butalia started (co-founded) along with Ritu Menon for women?
   (a) Kashmir movement
   (b) Partition movement
   (c) Kali movement
   (d) None of these

7. What are the main areas of interest by Butalia in her writing (works)?
   (a) Partition and oral histories
   (b) Gender, communalism
   (c) Fundamentalism
   (d) All of these

8. Who founded Zubaan books for an imprint of Kali (for women)?
   (a) Jaishree Mishra
   (b) Urvashi Butalia
   (c) Annie Zaidi
   (d) None of these

9. Who is an Indian feminist writer, publisher and activist?
   (a) Urvashi Butalia
   (b) Yashmin Khan
   (c) Bapsi Sidhwa
   (d) None of these

10. Which is the first feminist publishing house in India?
    (a) Shakti for women
    (b) Kali for women
    (c) Devi for women
    (d) All of these

11. What is the significance of the title ‘The Other Side of Silence’?
    (a) An attempt to vocalize the pain
    (b) Anguish sense of loss
    (c) And the ultimate silence that has captivated the life of mass
    (d) All of these

12. What is the Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia?
    (a) Considered to be divulge into the memories of Partition.
    (b) Reflects only history of India.
    (c) Trauma violence, experience of dislocation during Partition
    (d) Both (a) and (c)

13. Urvashi Butalia is known for -
    (a) Indian feminist writer, publisher and activist
    (b) Non Indian writer
    (c) Actor
    (d) Fighter

14. How many books Urvashi Butalia wrote?
    (a) Eight books
    (b) Seven books
    (c) Twelve books
    (d) All of these

15. What is the central theme of Urvashi Butalia’s famous book ‘The Other Side of Silence’?
    (a) Displacement, Victimization
    (b) Gruesome shattering of the body and soul of women
    (c) Both (a) and (b)
    (d) None of these

16. What is the major theme of the essay ‘The Other Side of Silence’?
    (a) To analyze the partition in Indian society
    (b) The collection of traumatic events from those people who lived through partition
    (c) Partition caused one of the largest human migrations in history
    (d) All of these

17. What is meant by ‘The Other Side of Silence’?
    (a) An attempt to bring out the side of the people who experienced partition of India and Pakistan
    (b) Along with several major incidents like the massacre of 1984
    (c) That made people across both the countries shiver with fear - making them wonder how could a peaceful nation.
    (d) All of these

18. What does silence symbolize in the ‘The Other Side of Silence’ work by Butalia?
    (a) Heighten emotion
    (b) Magnify suspense or drama
    (c) Let a character grow into their own being
    (d) All of these

19. When was ‘The Other Side of Silence’ published?
    (a) 1997
    (b) 1998
    (c) 1999
    (d) 1996

20. What Indian literature award won by Urvashi Butalia?
    (a) Ashok Chakra
    (b) Rajiv Gandhi
    (c) Padmashri
    (d) All of these

21. What is the major theme of Urvashi Butalia?
    (a) Presents the alternative history of women during the partition
    (b) Tries to fill the blank spots in women’s history
    (c) Their (women) existence was always threatened with physical and mental assaults
    (d) All of these

22. Who is the publisher of ‘The Other Side of Silence’?
    (a) Duke University Press
    (b) London University Press
    (c) New York University Press
    (d) None of these

23. What are the main interest of Urvashi Butalia’s writing?
    (a) Gender and History
    (b) Culture and Society
    (c) (a) and (b) both
    (d) None of these

24. Urvashi was a member of the … … . Executive Boards 1994-97 and 2000-03.
    (a) AMAN
    (b) ARENA
    (c) KHOJ
    (d) None of these

25. Urvashi Butalia won Pandora Award for … …
    (a) Historical achievements
    (b) Women’s Publishing
    (c) Political Writing
    (d) International writing

26. Nikkei Asia Award for … … won by Urvashi Butalia.
    (a) Women’s publishing
    (b) National theme
    (c) Culture base writing
    (d) None of these

27. Name the International Award won by Urvashi Butalia
    (a) French Chevalier des Artes et des Letters
    (b) The German Goethe Medaille
    (c) The Polish Bene Merito
    (d) All of these

28. Who was the editor of Katha: Short stories by Indian women?
    (a) Urvashi Butalia
    (b) Ritu Menon
    (c) Both (a) and (b)
    (d) None of these

29. Who wrote ‘The Inner Line’: women’s stories from India?
    (a) Ritu Menon
    (b) Urvashi Butalia
    (c) Anita Roy
    (d) Tanika Sarkar

30. Urvashi Butalia did masters in literature from … …
    (a) Bombay University
    (b) Delhi University
    (c) University of London
    (d) None of these

31. Butalia writing published in several newspapers including …
    (a) The Guardian
    (b) The Statesman
    (c) The Times of India and India Today
    (d) All of these

32. Urvashi also did masters in … …
    (a) South Asian Studies from the University of London (1977)
    (b) Delhi University (1973)
    (c) Bombay University (1976)
    (d) None of these

33. Butalia was born … …
    (a) In Ambala India in 1952
    (b) In Jalandar India in 1952
    (c) In Lahore Pakistan in 1952
    (d) None of these

34. Who is the CEO of the feminist publishing house Zubaan?
    (a) Pankaj Butalia
    (b) Urvashi Butalia
    (c) Anita Roy
    (d) Ritu Menon

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