Soupçon MCQ Series 25

 Today onwards, let us make this test item more complicated. 

1) Which of the following dates are not important in the colonial history of India?

a) 1757 b) 1857 c)1773 d) 1492 e) 1889

The choices are :A) 1757 and 1773 B) 1492 and 1889 C) 1492 and 1773 D) 1757 and 1889

The correct option is ( B).

1757: Battle of Plassey.                                               1857: The Indian War of Independence           1773:The Regulating Act which extended the British Monarchical powers on to India as a colony.                                                                   1492: Columbus' "discovery"                               1889: Otto van Bismarck convenes a meet of European powers which results in the scramble for and conquest of Africa

2) Who amongst the following authors do not belong to the "Lost Generation"?

1) James Joyce 2) Ernest Hemingway 3) F. Scott Fitzgerald 4) John Dos Passos  5) Edwin Muir

The options are: a) 1 and 5 b) 4 and 5 c) 3 and 5 d) 2 and 3

The correct option is (a), 1 and 5, that is Joyce and Muir.                                                                    The term "lost generation" describes a famous group of American expatriate writers who lived in Paris in the 1920s, disillusioned by the war and traditional societal values back home. 

Pratima Agnihotri                                                       Pune