Quiz on Three Prose Writers: Post-Independence Indian Writing in English

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1. Identify the correct pair of three prose writers.

1 point

Rashkrishnan, Raghunathan and Nirad Chaudhary

Radhakrishnan, Raja Rao, Nirad Chaudhary

Raja Rao, Raghunathan, Nirad Chaudhary

Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand

Clear selection

2. Who among the following was a Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu Universities?

1 point

Raja Rao

R. K. Narayan

S. Radhakrishnan

None of the above.

Clear selection

3. Who has written The Philosophy of Rabndranath Tagore (1918) and The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy (1920)?

1 point

Nirad Chaudhary

R. K. Narayan

Radhunathan

Radhakrishnan

Clear selection

4. In which year The Hindu View of Life by Radhakrishnan was published?

1 point

1927

1928

1929

1930

Clear selection

5. Which of the following is a series of Hibbert Lectures by Radhakrishnan?

1 point

The Hindu View of Life

The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore

An Idealistic View of Life

The Reign of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy

Clear selection

6. The function of Philosophy: " to provide us with spiritual rallying centre, a synoptic vision, as Plato loved to call it, a Samanvaya, as the Hindu thinkers pur it, ... a spiritual corcoradat which will free the spirti of religion from the disintegration of doubt and make the warfare of creeds and sects a thing of past." These are words by _____.

1 point

Sri Aurobindo

Radhakrishnan

Nirad Chaudhary

Rabindranath Tagore

Clear selection

7. The followings are works by Radhakrishnan. Match the pair.

4 points

1951

1953

1960

1948

Bhagavad Gita

Dhammapada

Principal Upanishads

Brahma Sutras

Clear selection

8. Who among the following signed as 'Vighneswara'?

1 point

Radhakrishnan

N. Raghunathan

Nirad Chaudhary

None of the above.

Clear selection

9. Who is the writer of The Coming of Freedom?

1 point

Nirad Chaudhary

Sri Aurobindo

Mulk Raj Aanand

None of the above.

Clear selection

10. Match the Pair. (Work and year of publication.)

5 points

1961

1964

1970

1969

1959

The Coming of Freedom

Our New Rulers

The Avadi Socialists

Planners' Paradise

Reason and Intuition in Indian Culture

Clear selection

11. Match the Pair. (Work and the writer)

3 points

The Avadi Socialists

An Idealist View of Life

The Autography of an Unknown Indian

Radhakrishnan

Nirad Chaudhary

Raghunathan

Clear selection

12. What is the theme of A Passage to England by Nirad Chaudhry?

1 point

His visit to England

His imagination about England

British rule in India

Nationalistic movement

Clear selection

13. Which among the following is written by Nirad Chaudhary?

1 point

The Continent of Circe

Swami and Friends

The Serpent and The Rope

Kanthapura

Clear selection

14. What is unique about Nirad Chaudhary's The Autobiography...?

1 point

It depicts Indian culture in more proper way.

It gives a very clear idea about his personal life.

It helps to understand history of India.

It is more a national than a personal history.

Clear selection

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