31. What is the term for a novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood?
(A) Picaresque
(B) Epistolary
(C) Allegory
(D) Bildungsroman
Answer:
(D) Bildungsroman
Explanation:
A Bildungsroman is a specific literary genre that focuses on a protagonist’s formative years and psychological development.
32. The Diary of a Young Girl was written by:
(A) Anne Bronte
(B) Sylvia Plath
(C) Louisa May Alcott
(D) Anne Frank
Answer:
(D) Anne Frank
Explanation:
The Diary of a Young Girl contains the writings from the diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding during the Holocaust.
33. The Harlem Renaissance is associated with which country?
(A) United States
(B) France
(C) Jamaica
(D) South Africa
Answer:
(A) United States
Explanation:
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American arts, literature, and music centered in Harlem, New York City, during the 1920s and 1930s.
34. The novel The Guide by R.K. Narayan is set in which fictional town?
(A) Malgudi
(B) Kanthapura
(C) Kasauli
(D) Palanpur
Answer:
(A) Malgudi
Explanation:
R.K. Narayan’s novels, including The Guide, are famously set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi.
35. Which Indian epic is reimagined in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Palace of Illusions?
(A) Ramayana
(B) Silappatikaram
(C) Bhagavata Purana
(D) Mahabharata
Answer:
(D) Mahabharata
Explanation:
The Palace of Illusions is a retelling of the Hindu epic Mahabharata told entirely from the perspective of Draupadi.
