Sample question Paper III Answers

Sample question Paper III Answers

1.      Shantaram (2003) is the novel of Gregory David Roberts

2.      The Emigrant  Family; or the story of an Australian settler is the novel of 

      Alexander Harris

3.      The Nobel Prize for literature in 1973 was won by the Australian author 

      Patrick White

4.      The Solid Mandala, an urban Australian novel is written by Patrick White

5.      Dod Grile is the pseudonym of Ambrose Bierce

6.      The author of the novel ‘A Grain of Wheat’ is the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

7.      ‘A Dance in the Forest’,   is by Wole Soyinka

8.      ‘Efuru’, a realistic novel of Africa is written by Flora Nwapa. (Flora Nwapa was the first 

        Nigerian woman to be published and also the first to own a publishing press.)

9.      Wole Soyinka is the author of the novel ‘The Interpreters’?

10.    The Wellington group was started with Louis Johnson.  James K Baxter was 

      a prominent figure in this movement.  Other members are:  Peter Bland, Alistair Campbell,

        and  Gordon Challis

11.  ‘The Maori At Home’ is a famous novel by John White

12.  Te Rou, or, The Maori at Home is the first indigenous novel in New Zealand.

13.  The author of the feminist novel ‘Angela: A Messenger’ (1890) is 

      Edith Searle Grossman.

14.  Song of Radha, the Milkmaid is written by Sarojini Naidu

15.  Savitri, an epic in blank verse was written by Sri Aurobindo

16.  Bakha is the central character in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel The Untouchable

17.  ‘From Alamein to Zem Zem’ is composed by Keith Douglas

18.  Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is by  Edgar Allan Poe published in 1840

19.  The Scarlet Letter (1850) is the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

20.  William Sydney Porter is known by the pseudonym ‘O’Henry.