1. In Which of Anita Desai’s novels does an insane wife kill her husband?
1. Voices in the City
2. In Custody
3. Cry, The Peacock
4. Baumgartner’s Bombay
ANSWER:3
2. Which of the following lines of T.S. Eliot is used by Anita Desai as the epigraph for her novel, Baumgartner’s Bombay?
(1) “I will show you fear in a handful of dust,” The Waste Land
(2) “In my beginning is my end”, “East Coker”
(3) “Human kind cannot bear very much reality”, “Burnt Norton”
(4) “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons,” “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
ANSWER:2
3. Which pair of novels by Anita Desai take as their subject the suppression and oppression of Indian women?
I. Where Shall We Go This Summer?
II. The Zigzag Way
III. Cry, the Peacock
IV. Baumgartner’s Bombay
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and III
(3) II and III
(4) III and IV
ANSWER:2
4. Which among the following novels of Anita Desai is a children’s book?
(A) Fire and the Mountain
(B) Fasting, Feasting
(C) The Zig zag Way
(D) The Village by the Sea
ANSWER:D
5. Which of the two novels of Anita Desai were shortlisted for the Booker Prize?
(A) The Artist of Disappearance and In Custody
(B) In Custody and Feasting, Fasting
(C) Feasting, Fasting and the Zig Zag Way
(D) In Custody and Fire on the Mountain
ANSWER:B