Q. What does the Sun do in the Sanatorium for Trees?
a. Rubs its balm on barren heads,
b. Rehydrates parched desires,
c. Decongests swollen memories,
d. Rushes in with tincture and cotton wool.
Q. What does the wind do in the Sanatorium for Trees?
a. Rubs its a balm on barren heads
b. Rehydrates parched desires
c. Decongests swollen memories
d. Rushes in with tincture and cotton wool.
Q. Who among the following translated “Abhijnanasakuntalam” into English?
a. William Empson
b. William Jones
c. William Wordsworth
d. William Logan.
Q. Who referred to Kalidasa as ‘The Indian Shakespeare’ ?
a. William Logan
b. William Wordsworth
c. William Empson
d. William Jones.
Q. The story of the Play Abhijnanasakuntalam appears in the -------of The Mahabharatha.
a. The Adi parva
b. The Karna Parva
c. The Sthree Parva
d. The Drona Parva
Q. The story of “Abhijnanasakuntalam” is originally told in ---------
a. The Mahabharata
b. The Ramayana
c. The Panchathantra,
d. None of the above.
Q. Which among the following epithet is apt for Durvasa?
a. Angry-prone
b. Adamant
c. Haughty
d. All the above.
Q. “Who would pour boiling water on the blossom of a tender Mallica?”What doesboiling water stand for in the context?
a. Durvasa’s curse,
b. Dushyantya’s forgetfulness,
c. Viswamitra’s negligence,
d. Sakuntala’s melancholy.
Q. Who among the following gives the description of the rising of the Sun and thesetting of the Moon at the same time in the play “Abhijnanasakuntalam”?
a. a pupil of Kanva,
b. Dushyanta,
c. Shakuntala,
d. Anasooya
Q. The moral conveyed by the description of the rising of the Sun and the Setting of theMoon?
a. Men should be equally firm in prosperous and in adverse fortune.
b. Prosperity and adversity are natural like the rising and the setting of the Sun and the Moon
c. Prosperity and adversity are like the spokes of a wheel.
d. All the above.
Q. Who are referred to in the play Abhijnanasakuntalam as ‘Misracesi’?
a. Anasooya and Priyanvada,
b. Sarngavara and Saradwata,
c. both ‘a’ and ‘b’,
d. none of the above.