Literature

Question 1

Nathan does not become angry when told _______

Answer 1

He must leave his land

Question 2

Rukmani realizes she and Nathan are tethered by ______

Answer 2

Lack of money

Question 3

When Ruku first meets kenny, she tells him she is upset because _____

Answer 3

Her mother had just died

Question 4

Rushdie believes migration is like translation because both involve __________

Answer 4

Transfer of a cultural vocabulary

Question 5

In the end of the poem, Ezekiel most identifies with being _________

Answer 5

Indian

Question 6

Kenny believes Ruku has riches in her ____

Answer 6

Family

Question 7

Common to both Ezekiel’s and Rushdie’s respective works is ____________

Answer 7

Criticism yet appreciation for India

Question 8

Who stole Rukmani’s extra rice?

Answer 8

Nathan

Question 9

The overall tone of Chapter Seventeen is one of ___________

Answer 9

Irony and optimism

Question 10

How do Nathan and Rukmani’s views about the city change?

Answer 10

They grow to despise the city

Question 11

When Nathan works through his illness, the elements make Puli __________

Answer 11

Stay back in the city

Question 12

Rukmani only realized that she is crying when

Answer 12

She tasted her own tears

Question 13

What makes Rukmani weep with happiness?

Answer 13

Feeling the earth under her feet

Question 14

Long before Britain colonized India, European powers traded with the _______

Answer 14

Mughal and Maratha empires

Question 15

Which term best describes how literary critics responded to the publication of Nectar in a Sieve?

Answer 15

Enthusiastically

Question 16

MohandasGandhi’s experience in South Africa was most similar to__________

Answer 16

Nissim Ezekiel’s experience in India

Question 17

Which book did Mohandas Gandhi first publish?

Answer 17

Indian home rule

Question 18

Jawaharlal Nehru most likely viewed the English language as

Answer 18

A tool of power

Question 19

Which phenomenon to Salman Rushdie claim in “Commonwealth literature does not exist” distracts attention from worthwhile issues?

Answer 19

Emphasizing writing in English

Question 20

Which best describes the first line of “background, casually”?

Answer 20

Ironic

Question 21

To which other selected work is “when Mr.Pirzada came to dine” thematically most similar?

Answer 21

“Imaginary Homelands”

Question 22

In “when Mr. Pirzada came to dine”, Mr. Pirzada’s life in America is best described as

Answer 22

Simple

Question 23

Even though Rukmani no longer sells vegetables to Biswas, he makes money from ___________.

Answer 23

Usury

Question 24

Even though Biswas provokes Rukmani, her anger dies quickly because she feels so __________.

Answer 24

Remote

Question 25

Even though Biswas has not grown any nicer, he has become more ___________.

Answer 25

Fat

Question 26

When Rukmani complements Kenny’s gentleness, Kenny nervously __________

Answer 26

Bites his nails

Question 27

In his “tryst with destiny” speech, Nehru states that “peace has been said to be indivisible ; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.” Which of the following best explains Nehru’s statement?

Answer 27

The modern world is interconnected in such a way that division yields disaster, and peace, freedom, and prosperity are only achieved when the nations of the world are connected.

Question 28

In his “tryst with destiny” speech, Nehru stresses that this is an important moment in history using all of the following devices except

Answer 28

Comparing India to other great nations that have gained their independence

Question 29

Nehru. Praises Gandhi for all of the following except

Answer 29

Civil disobedience

Question 30

In “imaginary homelands,” Rushdie describes Bombay as

Answer 30

A city built by foreigners upon reclaimed land

Question 31

Which of the following writers’ life experiences was least similar to Kamala Markandaya?

Answer 31

Jamaica Kincaid

Question 32

Markandaya’s husband died in the

Answer 32

1980s

Question 33

Rukmani’s narrative voice in nectar in a sieve has the effect of

Answer 33

Challenging social norms

Question 34

The mists Ruku describes in nectar in a sieve most likely represent

Answer 34

The separation of material and spiritual worlds

Question 35

In chapter 4 of nectar in a sieve, Ruku lashes out at Nathan for saying that the

Answer 35

Workers will return to the tannery

Question 36

In which decade did Mohandas Gandhi first become sensitized to the problems of apartheid?

Answer 36

The 1890s

Question 37

What was the name of the weekly journal Gandhi began publishing in 1948?

Answer 37

Harijan

Question 38

Gandhi predicted in his “quit India” speech that his criticism of the British would lead to

Answer 38

Their aggression towards him

Question 39

Which of the following films incorporates an excerpt from the “tryst with destiny” speech?

Answer 39

earth

Question 40

Which British advertising agency offered Salman Rushdie his first job?

Answer 40

Ogilvy and mather

Question 41

According to the PBS general glossary, postmodernism centered on

Answer 41

Interpretation

Question 42

The Commonwealth of Nations was formally established with The

Answer 42

London declaration

Question 43

In which shorter so that she does the author observe, “art is a passion of the mind”

Answer 43

“Imaginary Homelands”

Question 44

Salman Rushdie uses the term “melange” in “‘Commonwealth literature’ does not exist” to

Answer 44

Reflect India’s diversity of subcultures

Question 45

Which radical activist most heavily influenced Nissim Ezekiel?

Answer 45

Manabendra Nath Roy