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        WORLD CLASSIC INTRANSLATION QuestionBank 1. Poetry is a word of ------origin which comes from a verb which means “to create”. a. Latin b. English c. Greek d. Arabic 2. Who opined “poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere and at all times”? a. Wolfgang Goethe b. Bertolt Brecht c. Hermann Hesse d. Homer 3. Who is called the father of Italian language? a. Homer b. Virgil c. Dante d. Chaucer 4. Who was called ilsammopoeta (the supreme poet)? a. Shakespeare b. Goethe c. Plato d. Dante 5. Who accompanies Dante on his journey to Heaven? a. Venus b. Beatrice c. Cleopatra d. Helen 6. Which one is the seventh Heaven in Dante’s The Divine Comedy? a. The sphere of the Moon b. The sphere of Mercury c. The sphere of the Sun d. The sphere of Saturn 7. Where does the Golden Ladder appear in The Divine Comedy? a. In the third Heaven b. In the fourth heaven c. In the sixth Heaven d. In the seventh Heaven 8. Wolfgang Goethe is a --------- write...

            INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Question Bank:                     Songs of Radha                       Sarojini Naidu 1. Who was the first woman president of Indian National Congress? ( a. Amrita Pritam b. Sarojini Naidu c. Annie Besant d. Vijayalaxmi Pandit) 2. Who is known as Bharat Kokila ( the nightingale of India)? ( a. Lata Mangeshkar b. Toru Dutt c. Sarojini Naidu d. Kamala Das) 3. Who endowed Sarojini Naidu the title ‘The Nightingale of India? ( a. Mahatma Gandhi b. Jawaharlal Nehru c. Gopalakrishna Gokhale d. Rabindranath Tagore) 4. The narrator is in the search for her ……..? ( a. friend b. lover c. child d. mother) 5. Who is referred as Kanhaya in the poem? (a. Krishna b. Rama c. Radha d. shepherd) 6. In the evening, she asked ……….. about her flute player. (a. Wind b. woods c. forest d. gray coloured tide) 7. With the help of a beautiful...

                Language and Linguistics Question Bank 1. Which among the following statements is not true? a. Language is a means of communication b. Language is symbolic c. Language is structural d. Language is the only means of communication 2. Who defined language as “a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements” a. Noam Chomsky b. Ferdinand de Saussure c. Edward Sapir d. None of the above 3. Who defined language as “a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols” ? a. Noam Chomsky b. Ferdinand de Saussure c. Edward Sapir d. None of the above 4. Which among the following is not a characteristic feature of language? a. Language is systematic b. Language is arbitrary c. Language is dynamic d. Language is instinctive. 5. The theory which is based on the assumption that language originated as a result o...

REGIONAL LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Question Bank & Answer Key:      I am the Daughter of the Land of Dravida                             Amrita Pritam 1. Whose daughter is Kama-kanya? (a. Death b. birth c. love d. Dravida) 2. Who is the father of Kal-kanya? (a. Time b. space c. rebirth d. death) 3. How many ages have been observed by the daughter of Dravida? (a. Four b. three c. hundred d. ten) 4. Which among the following is the allure of body’s clay? (a. Temple b. palace c. brothel d. all of them) 5. What resides in temple, palace, brothel and slum? (a. Death b. body c. love d. time) 6. What does the red colour signify according to Ka Na Su? (a. Sky b. rose c. evening d. marriage) 7. The red veil denotes …….. (a. Disgrace b. honour c. respect d. disrespect) 8. Which colour shows disgrace? (a. White b. black c. red d. yellow) 9. ‘I am the daughter of the land of Dravida’ is the …… of the poem? (a....