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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.

  • c. Decongests swollen memories,

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.

  • d. Rushes in with tincture and cotton wool.

Q. “Abhijnanasakuntalam” of Kalidasa is -------

a. An epic

b. A myth

c. A legend

d. A drama

  • d. A drama

Q. Who among the following translated “Abhijnanasakuntalam” into English?

a. William Empson

b. William Jones

c. William Wordsworth

d. William Logan.

  • b. William Jones

Q. Who referred to Kalidasa as ‘The Indian Shakespeare’ ?

a. William Logan

b. William Wordsworth

c. William Empson

d. William Jones.

  • 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

  • a. The Adi parva

Q. The story of “Abhijnanasakuntalam” is originally told in ---------

a. The Mahabharata

b. The Ramayana

c. The Panchathantra,

d. None of the above.

  • a. The Mahabharata

Q. Shakuntala is the daughter of -----

a. Viswamitra

b. Durvasav

c. Kanva,

d. Dushyanta.

  • a. Viswamitra

Q. Which among the following epithet is apt for Durvasa?

a. Angry-prone

b. Adamant

c. Haughty

d. All the above.

  • a. Angry-prone

Q. The dominant rasa in the play “Abhijnanasakuntalam”

a. Haze

b. Sringara

c. Karuna

d. Soka

  • b. Sringara

Q. Kanva is Shakuntala’s -------

a. Father

b. Master

c. Teacher

d. Foster Father

  • d. Foster Father

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.

  • a. Durvasa’s curse,

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.

  • 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.

  • b. Sarngavara and Saradwata,
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