Q. The poor beasts told him the ‘poverty of man’s kindness to living things’. What does‘poverty’ in this context mean?
a. want of money,
b. Carelessness,
c. Absence
d. state of being poor,
Q. Why did Maria and Kathrikutti scold Ouseph?
a. Ouseph sold Kannan,
b. Ouseph took Kannan home,
c. Ouseph could not purchase new clothes for Kathrikutty,
d. both ‘b’ and ‘c’
Q. Where his own family failed to understand Ouseph, the poor beast--------
a. also failed,
b. succeeds,
c. Indifferent,
d. none of the above.
Q. The plough is an important-------in the story “The Talking Plough”
a. simile,
b. metaphor,
c. personification,
d. sign.
Q. After he lost the paddy field, Ouseph’s heart burns at the sight of the------
a. kannan,
b. jack fruit tree,
c. cob web-ridden plough,
d. the lost fiel
Q. At the end of the story “The Talking Plough” we see ------
a. the cob web-ridden plough,
b. the new talking plough,
c. the resting plough,
d. the plough in the fiel
Q. What is the writers observation about the death of Kannan?
a. the poor beast died of broken heart at the misery of his master,
b. the poor beast died of starvation,
c. the poor beast was slaughtered,
d. its death was natural.
Q. What did Ouseph do to save Kannan from the butchers?
a. He gave them another bullock,
b. He bought Kannan back with the money his wife had managed through a chitti.
c. He stole away with Kannan,
d. He sold his paddy fiel
Q. ---------is a concept which is based on the holistic world view that sees the world asan integrated whole.
a. National integration,
b. secularism,
c. deep ecology,
d. social solidarity.
Q. The setting for most of R. K. Narayan’s story is -----
a. Mangala,
b. Malgudi,
c. Nizamudhin,
d. Jaipur.
Q. Malgudi is a -------
a. a real town,
b. an imaginary town,
c. a slum area,
d. a metropolitan city.
Q. Which among the following is not a work by R. K. Narayan?
a. The Guide,
b. The Untouchability,
c. Swami and Friends,
d. Financial Expert.
Q. Which among the following is a novel by R. K. Narayan?
a. The Parrot’s Training,
b. The Guide,
c. Fifteen Years,
d. The Flavour of Coconut
Q. -------------is the story of a man’s supreme self-sacrifice to save his community fromcommunal violence
a. Fifteen Years,
b. Another Community,
c. Parrot’s Training,
d. The Flavour of Coconut