This PPT contains the comprehensive presentation of the MCQs based on Arun Kolatkar, Girish Karnad and U. R. Ananthamurthy. This presentation contains 25 questions with their answers. This PPT is going to be fruitful for the student of English literature and literary lovers.

1. MCQs & Answers
Arun Kolatkar & his Poems
Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq
U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Sanskara or
A Rite for a Dead Man
Dr Sudhir Mathpati
(M.A.,B.Ed.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,NET)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Adarsh Mahavidyalaya, Omerga, Dist.
Osmanabad, MS, India

2. MCQs & Answers
Q.1. The Boat Ride was written by_______?
A. Arun Kolatkar
B. Nissim Ezekiel
C. Sri Aurobindo
D. Sarojini Naidu
A. Arun Kolatkar
Q.3. Tughlaq is a Play by_______?
A. Chean Bhagat
B. Girish Karnard
C. Vijay Tendulkar
D. Mahesh Dattani
B. Girish Karnard

3. MCQs & Answers
Q.3. U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara or A Rite for a Dead Man is a____?
A. Play
B. Prose
C. Fiction
D. Poem
C. Fiction
Q.4. Tughlaq was Karnard’s______Play
A. First
B. Third
C. Fourth
D. Second
D. Second

4. MCQs & Answers
Q.5. ________ was having 30 Thousand soldiers in his command.
A. Tughlaq
B. Aziz
C. Kazi-i-Mumalik
D. Ain-ul-Mulk
D. Ain-ul-Mulk
Q.6. The Step Mother calls______a ‘Pompous Ass’
A. The Sultan
B. Aziz
C. Aazam Jeham
D. Kazi-i-Mumalik
A. The Sultan

5. MCQs & Answers
Q.7. ______is the Prince of Sampanshahar
A. Khusrau Malik
B. Shihab-ud-din
C. Ain-ul-Mulk
D. Ratan Singh
B. Shihab-ud-din
Q.8. Aziz and Aazam are two_________figures in the play
A. Villan
B. Advisers to Sultan
C. Comic
D. None of the above
C. Jesters/Comic

6. MCQs & Answers
Q.9. Aazam is a common_______man
A. Muslim
B. Pick Pocket
C. Hindu Hater
D. Advisers to Sultan
B. Pick Pocketer
Q.10. U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara was published in_____
A. 1963
B. 1964
C. 1965
D. 1966
C. 1965

7. MCQs & Answers
Q.11. In U.R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara, Praneshacharya is a_____
A. Scholar and Priest
B. A Dalit Person
C. Poor Brahmin
D. A Common Man
A. Scholar and Priest
Q.12. Naranappa lead a_______life in Samskara.
A. Religious Life
B. Non Dalit Life
C. Non Brahminical Life
D. Poor Life
C. Non Brahminical Life

8. MCQs & Answers
Q.13. Anasuya is a wife of __________ in Samskara.
A. Religious Life
B. Lakshmanacharya
C. Durgabhatta
D. None of the above
B. Lakshmanacharya
Q.14. The story in Samskara is set in____________.
A. A Small Village of Gujrat
B. A Small Village of Karnataka
C. A Small Village of Andra Pradesh
D. A Small Village of Maharashtra
B. A Small Village of Karnataka

9. MCQs & Answers
Q.15. At the beginning of the story of Samskara ____________dies
A. Durgabhatta
B. Anasuya
C. Chandri
D. Naranappa
D. Naranappa
Q.16. Who said, I destroy Brahminism, I certainly will” in Samskara.
A. Durgabhatta
B. Naranappa
C. Chandri
D. Anasuya
B. Naranappa

10. MCQs & Answers
Q.17. Bhagirathi is a wife of____________in Samskara
A. Praneshacharya
B. Naranappa
C. Durgabhatta
D. Putta
A. Praneshacharya
Q.18. Who performed the funeral rites of Naranappa
A. Praneshacharya
B. Durgabhatta
C. Ahmed Bari
D. Putta
C. Ahmed Bari

11. MCQs & Answers
Q.19. Jejuri was writtern by__________
A. Arun Kolatkar
B. Nissim Ezekiel
C. Sri Aurobindo
D. Sarojini Naidu
A. Arun Kolatkar
Q.20. Arun Kolatkar was born on__________in______
A. 1st November 1931, Delhi
B. 1st November 1932, Maharashtra
C. 1st November 1933, Karnataka
D. 1st November 1934, Madhya Pradesh
B. 1st November 1932, Maharashtra

12. MCQs & Answers
Q.21. The full name of Arun Kolatkar was ________________
A. Arun Balraje Kolatkar
B. Arun Balaji Kolatkar
C. Arun Balkrushna Kolatkar
D. Arun Bharat Kolatkar
C. Arun Balkrushna Kolatkar
Q.22. ….the long hooked poles
know the nooks and crannies
find flaws in stonework
or grappling with granite….. These lines are from____________
A. The Boatride
B. Jejuri
C. The Butterfly
D. The Priest A. The Boatride

13. MCQs & Answers
Q.23. The Boatride and other poems got published in____________
A. 2007
B. 2008
C. 2009
D. 2010
B. 2008
Q.24. Arun Kolatkar died on__________ in____________
A. 25th June 2004, Mumbai
B. 25th July 2004, Delhi
C. 25th August 2004, Ratnagiri
D. 25th September 2004, Pune
C. 25th August 2004, Ratnagiri

14. MCQs & Answers
Q.25. The Boatride is a small poem written in____________
A. 1967
B. 1968
C. 1969
D. 1970
B. 1968

15. Thank you !
Dr Sudhir Mathpati
(M.A.,B.Ed.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,NET)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Adarsh Mahavidyalaya, Omerga, Dist.
Osmanabad, MS, India