List of top English Questions on Indian writing in English

Which of the following is NOT an autobiography?

Who is the author of the 2014 novel, The Black Hill?
(A) Mamang Dai
(B) Easterine Kire
(C) Robin S. Ngangom
(D) Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih

Match the playwright (List-I) to their play (List-II):

List I	Playwright	List II: Play
A	Badal Sircar	(I) Charandas Chor
B	Vijay Tendulkar	(II) Evam Indrajit
C	Mohan Rakesh	(III) Silence! The Court is in Session
D	Habib Tanvir	(IV) Adhe Adhure

Which famous author-filmmaker was also the editor of the children’s magazine Sandesh?

Which Indian play, published in 1990, deals with the theme of gender and identity?

Match the Indian writings in English (List I) with their respective authors (List II):

List I	Indian Writing in English	List II: Author
A	A Fine Balance	(I) Anita Desai
B	The God of Small Things	(II) Rohinton Mistry
C	Such a Long Journey	(III) Khushwant Singh
D	Fire on the Mountain	(IV) Arundhati Roy

Identify the poet of the lines: “Background. Casually,” “The Railway Clerk” and “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.”

V.S. Naipaul received the Booker Prize in 1971 for this novel:

Match the author (List-I) with the text (List-II):

List I	Author	List II: Text
A	Arundhati Roy	(I) Midnight's Children
B	Salman Rushdie	(III) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
C	Kiran Desai	(II) The Inheritance of Loss
D	Shashi Deshpande	(IV) The Dark Holds No Terrors

Arrange the publications of Khushwant Singh novels in the ascending order of their year of publication:
(A) Train to Pakistan (1956)
(B) Delhi: A Novel (1990)
(C) I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale (1959)
(D) The Company of Women (1999)

To which famous Indian playwright can the following plays be attributed? Pagla Ghoda, Hatt Tikhhar Pratap:

Which of the following is written by the African-American author Octavia Butler?
Fledgling (2005)
Kindred (1979)
Parable of the Sower (1993)
The Word for World is Forest (1972)

Match the Indian Writings in English in List I with their respective authors in List II:

List I (Books)	List II (Authors)
A. Difficult Daughters	I. Anita Desai
B. The God of Small Things	III. Arundhati Roy
C. The Shadow Lines	II. Manju Kapur
D. The Artist of Disappearance	IV. Amitav Ghosh

Choose the book from the following which was never banned.

Which of these writers won the Sahitya Akademi Award for literature?

Who among the following is the writer of Train to Pakistan?

In which literary work in English does the character Rusty appear?

Who penned the poem The Night of the Scorpion?

Which of the following is NOT written by Mulk Raj Anand?

Which popular film was made on a novel in English by R.K. Narayan?

Madhavikutty was a one-time pen-name of which author?

Which prize did Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things win in 1997?

Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting is a novel in two parts. Which of the following pairs corresponds with the settings of these parts?

Select the book by Vikram Seth which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1983:

Which of these writers is/are associated with the Progressive Writers Association?