Indian Writing in English

131. Who realize the reality of the Partition when planning to visit his/her sister in Dhaka while undergoing the usual procedure of compiling the immigration papers in The Shadow Lines?

A. Tha’mma

B. Mayadebi

C. Ila

D. Tridib

✅ The correct answer is option A.

132. Tridib dies in

A. The London Bombings

B. The Bay of Bengal

C. A car crash

D. A communal riot in Dhaka

✅ The correct answer is option D.

133. Who can talk on length about issues as diverse as the sloping roofs of Columbian houses and culture of the Incas with equal case in The Shadow Lines?

A. Tridip

B. Jatin

C. Robi

D. Ila

✅ The correct answer is option A.

134. Tha’mma (the narrator’s grandmother) worked as

A. The headmistress of a girls’ school in Calcutta

B. The hindi Teacher of a girls’ school in Calcutta

C. The Warden of a hostel in Calcutta

D. The owner of girls’ school in Calcutta

✅ The correct answer is option A.

135. The Shadow Lines spans around

A. Two generations

B. Three generations

C. Four generations

D. Five generations

✅ The correct answer is option B.

136. Ila is the narrator’s cousin who lives in

A. Calcutta

B. Dhaka

C. Stockwell London

D. Delhi

✅ The correct answer is option C.

137. The Shadow Lines was published in

A. 1984

B. 1986

C. 1988

D. 1990

✅ The correct answer is option C.

138. The Protagonist in the novel ‘The Shadow Lines’ is

A. May Price

B. Justice Datta Chaudhari

C. Tridib Mayadebi’s son

D. Jethamoshai

✅ The correct answer is option C.

139. The Shadow Lines takes the form of

A. bildungsroman tradition

B. historical fiction

C. gothic tradition

D. romanticism

✅ The correct answer is option A.

140. ‘The Shadow Lines’ explores the political and economical growth of India through the lives of two families:

A. One English and one Punjabi

B. One Bengali and one English

C. One Gujarati and one English

D. One Assamese and one English

✅ The correct answer is option B.