Assignment

Subject: Pakistani Literature in English

Submitted To: Mam Sadaf Rasheed

Submitted By: Group F

1. Mahdi Abbas 10101

2. Adeel Safdar 10114

3. Wajid Ali 10116

4. Hifza Zaheer 10123

5. Uswa Iftikhar 10124

6. Ghulam Jeelani 13442

BS ( Hons) Department of English Literature

 MCQS

1. Progressive Writer’ Association came into being in Lucknow in

a) 1933
b) 1934
c) 1936
d) 1931
2. What is the name of collection of short stories that is considered as precursor of
Progressive Writer’ Association?
a) Idgah 1933
b) Angaare 1932
c) Dhuan 1941
d) None
3. Who was the leading figure of Progressive Writer’ Association?
a) Syed Sajjad Zaheer
b) Ahmad Ali
c) Jaleel Qidwai
d) Both Sajjad Zaheer and Ahmad Ali
4. The manifesto of Progressive Writer’ Association was first published in Hindi in 1935
in…
a) Premchand’s Hans
b) Indiana Review
c) Shabkhoon
d) None
5. Who presided first conference of Progressive Writer’ Association?
a) Syed Sajjad Zaheer
b) Ahmad Ali
c) Munshi Premchand
d) Hameed Akhtar
6. Who sent the inaugural address in second conference of Progressive Writer’
Association and could not attend it due to ill health…?
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) Jyoti Ghosh
c) Mulk Raj Anand
d) Pramod Ranjan Sengupta
7. In Pakistan Progressive Writer’ Association was considered illegal in
a) 1952
b) 1953
c) 1955
d) 1954
8. After Independence Progressive Writer’ Association was renamed in India as
a) National Federation of Progressive Writers
b) National Progressive Writers Association
c) Association of Indian progressive Writers
d) None
 Subject: Pakistani Literature in English-I

Submitted by: Group E

Nabeel Ahmad 10106
Majid Iqbal 10113
Muhammad Ahmad 10126
Submitted To: Mam Sadaf

Department of English Literature GC University

Faisalabad
1. What is the purist view of literature?
a. Art
b. Essence
c. Life
d. None
2. Who is an expatriate writer of Pakistani origin?
a. Zulfikar Ghose
b. Zulifkar Ali
c. Shahid Ghose
d. none
3. What does Zulfikar Ghose despise?
a. Art
b. Labels
c. Staples
d. Lines
4. What is the worst category invented for writers?
a. Regional
b. Provincial
c. Nationalistic
d. None
5. What debate in the Third World literatures has been justified?
a. All
b. Oppositional debate
c. Simple debate
d. Critical debate
6. What created cultural arrogance among European critics?
a. Nationalism
b. Colonialism
c. Modernism
d. None
7. What do Europeans tend to be in a reversal of colonialism?
a. Regional
b. Nationalists
c. Patronizing
d. None
8. When did modern African literature come to be given critical attention in the West?
a. 1950s
b. 1940s
c. 1930s
d. None
 Government College University Faisalabad

Topic
Introduction of Pakistani Literature in English by Tariq Rehman

Submitted To

Ms. Saddaf Rashid

Submitted By

Group 1

Name Roll No.

Asad Ali 10108
Bilal Kazim 10109
Usama Ubaid 10111
Saman Rauf 10117
Areej Rana 10120
Maraj Qutub 10145
Mahnoor Ali 10156
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1. In the Third World literatures, the problem of evaluation has assumed ___ form.

a. Cultural

b. Aesthetic

c. Political

d. None

Correct Ans. (C)

2. It was …………. Which created cultural arrogance among European critics, And a
corresponding sense of inferiority among the Colonized.

a. colonialism

b. imperialism

c .Post-colonialism

d. New-imperialism

Correct Ans. (A)

3. Which novel of Mrs. Jabvala contains a deep insight into the minds of Indians of different
classes and background.

a) A Backward place

b) The Nature of Passion

c) Heat and Dust

d) Three Continents

Correct answer: (b)

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4. The evolutionary view of creativity is based on the assumption that the __ is less
sophisticated in his response to reality than his Western counterpart.

A) America

B) China

C) Africa

D) Japan

Correct Op.(C)

5. Modern African literature came to be given critical attention in the West in the

a.1970s

b.1980s

c.1960s

d.1950s

Correct answer is (d)

6. Categories are for clerks in bureaucracies and have nothing to do with art. The worst
category invented for writers is the nationalistic one, as though some sort of literary
Olympic games were in progress. These words said by:

a. Chinua Achebe

b. Zulfikar Ghose

c. Feroza F. Jussawalla

d. Benjamin Lee Whorf

[Type text]

Correct Ans. (b)

7. the second congress of Negro writers held in

a. Rome

b. Africa

c. Egypt

d. West India

correct answer (a)

8. Indian literature began as a consequence of the confrontation of India with the __.

a. East

b. Pakistan

c. Africa

d. West

Correct Ans. (D)

BS English Literature 6th Semester (Morning session) Typed by: Farooq

Group. D

Group member’s names: Muhammad Farooq (10137), Zainab Irfan (10118), Rabia (10105),
Musharraf Nawaz(10110), Bilal Ahmad(10150), Adil Rahman

Ahmad Ali

1. The first and most prominent Muslim writer who criticize British raj was:
a) Feroz Khan Noor b) Ahmad Ali c) Mumtaz Shah Nawaz d) Ahmad Abbas

2. “Twilight of Delhi” was written:

a) 1930 b) 1943 c) 1940 d) 1937

3. Ahmad Ali was born in:

a) 1901 b) 1910 c) 1912 d) 1915

4. Who is the founder of of All-India Progressive writers movement:

a) Feroz Khan b) Ahmad Abbas c) Mumtaz Shahnavaz d) Ahmad Ali

5. Ahmad Ali’s first novel in English language is:

a) Embers b) Our lane c) Twilight of Delhi d) Before death

6. When Ahmad Ali joined Pakistan foreign service:

a) 1947 b) 1948 c) 1951 d) 1950

7. Who was the first ambassador of Pakistan to China:

a) Feroz Khan b) Zulfiqar Ghose c) Ahmad Ali d) Ahmad Abbas

8. Ahmad Ali was died in:

a) 1990 b) 1984 c) 1994 d) 1990
Submitted to Ma’am Saddaf Rashid
ENG-510: Pakistani Literature
Subject
in English (I)
Semester BS English Literature 6th(M)
Group (B)
 Rimsha (10104)
 Ayesha Nisar (10112)
 Mehran Ahmed (10129)
Submitted by
 Maryam Bari (10141)
 Taha Hassan (10144)
 Fakhar Hameed (10152)
 Bilal Sultan (10153)
 Pre-Partition Fiction – MCQs
1) The Heart Divided is a famous novel by:
A) Feroze Khan Noon B) Mumtaz Shahnawaz C) Khawaja Ahmed Abbas D) Ahmed Ali
Answer: B)
2) The name of Feroze Khan Noon’s autobiography is:
A) From Memory B) Sparrows C) Specter and Skeleton D) The Spider’s Web
Answer: A)
3) Scented Dust was published in:
A) 1939 B) 1940 C) 1941 D) 1942
Answer: C)

4) The Umbrella is a story by:

A) Feroze Khan Noon B) Mumtaz Shahnawaz C) Khawaja Ahmed Abbas D) Ahmed Ali

Answer: C)
5) Ahmed Abbas’ novelette on partition is:
A) Saffron Blossom B) Revenge C) Cages of Freedom D) Blood and Stones
Answer: D)
6) The female protagonist of The Heart Divided is:
A) Sughra B) Mohini C) Mumtaz D) Parvati
Answer: B)
7) Which story is a work of Muhammad Habib:
A) The Desecrated Bones B) Wisdom from Fools C) Reflection in a Mirror D) Vathek
Answer: A)

8) The most common theme of pre-Partition Indian Muslim Urdu literature was:
A) Socialism B) Politics C) Liberalism D) Nostalgia
Answer: D)
  Ahmad Ali was born in Delhi on.

July 1, 1908

July 1, 1909

July 1, 1910

July 1, 1911

 Ali presented his paper "Art Ka Taraqqi-Pasand Nazariya" in its inaugural

conference in.

1935

1936

1937

1938

 Ali was the BBC's Representative and Director in India during.

1942-45

1945-48

1952-55

1955-58

 Mir Nihal struggles to protect new generation from the disastrous effects of
...........

Socialism

Colonialism

Culturalism

Structuralism

 Asghar represents

Muslims inspiring from English culture

Farangis occupying continent

directionless Indian Muslim Youth

Muslim youth

 Who becomes paralyzed

Asghar

Babban Jan

Begum Mir Nihal

Mir Nihal

 Twilight in Delhi deals with

dying culture

civilization of Muslims in India

both a & b

none of the above

 Twilight in Delhi is full of symbolic elements, cat represents

the intruders

peace

Indians

Both (b) & (c)

 Asghar abhors British culture but at the same time he likes English boots this
shows

Simile in the novel

Ironical element in the novel

Metaphor

None of the above

  Asghar’s mistress name is

Begum waheed

Mushtari Bai

Dilchain

None

 Zohra is the sister of

Mir Nihal

Asghar

Both

Bilqueece

 Babban Jan is the mistress of

Mir Nihal

Ahmad Ali

Asghar

None

 Who says "Never fall in love.It's better to commit suicide than fall in love."

Mir Nihal

Asghar

Mushtari Bai

Bilqeece

 "Delhi was once the jewel of the ……"

Asia

world

Africa
None

 Ahmed in his novel Twilight in Delhi portrayed which type of muslim society?

Patriarchal

Sexually repressed

Fatalistic

All of these

 To be ___ is sweet, he thought, whereas to love is full of sorrow and grief and
pain.

hated

married

loved

 Asghar thought of ___ her, but the thought of his father and mother stood in his
way.

bullying

cheating

marrying

 A ___ culture which had nothing in it of the past was forcing itself upon
Hindustan, a hodgepodge of Indian and western ways which he failed to
understand

Bold

notorious

hybrid

 Ahmad Ali has used the simile of blanket for

Day

Night
Evening

None of the above

 Mir Nihal’s paralyzed condition is the symbol of stagnant and paralyzed condition
of

Muslims

Indians

Russians

Africans

 Murder of Aziz Khan was published in:

1962 B) 1965 C) 1967 D) 1971

 Murder of Aziz Khan was written by:

Ahmed Ali B) Zulfiqar Ghose C) Abbas Raahi D) Ashfaq Ahmad

 Kalapur is a fictional name for which city of the Punjab?

Lahore B) Jhelum C) Sialkot D) Faisalabad

 What is the name of the Chief Superintendent of Police?

Fazal Elahi B) Ehsan Elahi C) Irshad Elahi D) Zahoor Elahi

 How much money does Hussain owe to Aziz Khan?

One Thousand B) Three Thousand C) Two Thousand D) Five Thousand

 The name of Aziz Khan’s wife is:

Bushra B) Zakia C) Parveen D) Nazia

 Ayub refuses to go to which city?

New York B) St. Jose C) London D) Chittagong

 The name of Afaq’s girlfriend is:

Pamela Beresford B) Ronit Kuperman C) Carol Belivet D) Alison Aird

 Which character resembles Tess d’Urberville?

Faridah B) Razia C) Zarina D) Amina

 The girl Afaq rapes and murders is named:

Jamila B) Sana C) Nusrat D) Mariam

 What device does Ghose use to establish characters’ sophistication?

Dressing B) Voice C) Table manners D) Accent

 Who is hanged for an uncommitted crime?

Javed B) Saleem C) Rafiq D) Riaz

 Zarina is actually the illegitimate daughter of:

Aziz Khan B) Akram C) Ayub D) Afaq

 Ayub’s ruthless disposal of Saleem and Riaz is an example of:

Nazi Pogrom B) Zionist Brutality C) Terrorism D) Bourgeoise Oppression

 Akram and Faridah are childless because:

A) Akram is a closeted homosexual C) Akram is sterile

B) Faridah does not want children D) There is a curse of childlessness on them

 The Shah brothers’ control over state institutions and officials exemplifies:

Marxism B) Relativism C) Stalinism D) Nazism

 Which character in her mannerism resembles Mrs. Bennet from Pride and Prejudice?

Faridah B) Zakia C) Razia D) Zarina

 In line with Marxist theory, the Shah brothers control the law, the ministries, and:

Educational Institutes B) Newspapers C) Military D) TV

 A prominent vice of the elite class is shown to be:

Unbridled Sexual Relations B) Cage fighting C) Politics D) Alcohol

 The Shah brothers’ hunger for influence and wealth is:

Kantian B) Capitalistic C) Stoic D) Zen

 "If anyone's to blame, blame the British! "

In This above line Col. Barucha is blaming British for:

Typhoid
Malaria
Polio
None of these
  Gandhi and Nehru are forcing the League to push for------

India
Exit
Pakistan
British

 "These are bad times---Allah knows what's in the store. There is big trouble in
Calcutta and Delhi: Hindu-Muslim trouble ". The above lines are uttered by:

Ayah
Godmother
Ice candy man
Sharbat Khan

 "The Radcliffe Commission deals out Indian cities like:

A trash
A game
A pack of cards
None of these

 5.Ice Candy Man is titled on

Theme
b The name of character
c .Event
d.None

 Cracking India title is suggested by authors of:

a.London
b.India
 c. America
d.China

 "Children are the Devil....They only know the truth." This textual line is from

1.Twilight in Delhi
2. Murder of Aziz Khan
3. Cracking India
4. None

 In Cracking India Bapsi Sidhwa used

a. Child Narrator
b.Adult Narrator
c.Skaz
d.None

 .Bapsi Sidhwa in Cracking India is neutral towards

a.Muslims
b. Hindus
c. Sikhs
d. All of these

 . Cracking India is

a. Autobiographical novel
b.The Thriller
C. Satire
d. Semi-autobiographical

 : Ice candy man can be treated as

A.Postcolonial fiction
B. Historical fiction
C. Colonial fiction
D. Nonem
 : The majority of the novel takes place in Lahore between

a) 1943 and 1948.

b)1942 and 1946
C) 1921 and 1948
d) 1900 and 1920

 : The action is narrated in the .... tense.

Present tense
Past tense
Future tense
None

 Which suitor does Ayah like best?

a) ICE-CANDY-MAN

b ) THE HOTEL COOK

C) MASSEUR

d) SHARBAT KHAN

 what does Ice-candy-man do at the end of the book?

a) RETURN TO PAKISTAN

b) FOLLOW AYAH INTO INDIA

C) KILL HIMSELF

d) GET MARRIED

 Why does Lenny curse her tongue?

a) IT TELLS THE TRUTH

b) IT KISSED COUSIN

C) IT DECEIVES HER MOTHER

d) IT IS INFECTED WITH POLIO

 ) Lenny has which disease?

a) ADHD

b) POLIO

C) TUBERCULOSIS

d) SYPHILIS

 ) What does Gandhi talk to the women of Lahore about?

a) Food and Health

b) Boycotts

c) Independence

d) Sex and Marriage

 . Which is NOT a religious group mentioned in the novel?

a) Hindus

b) Muslims

c) Buddhists

D none

 . What is the word that Lenny uses to describe the way people of different religious
groups begin seeing each other?
a) Coins

b) Tokens

c) Stereotypes

c) Themselves

1. When was Sara Suleri born?

a) 1953 b) 1954 c) 1957 d) 1959

2. Who was the Father of Sara Suleri ?

a) MA Suleri b) ZA Suleri c) ZM Suleri d) none of these

3. Who was Sara Suleri?

a) British author b) American author c) Indian author d) none of these

4.When was Sara Suleri died?

a) 1995 b) 1997 c) 1999 d) 2006

5. Meatless days record the memories of?

a) Ahmed Ali b) Sara Suleri c) Aziz Khan d) Alamgir Hashmi

6. In Meatless days Sara Suleri brings us into her childhood home in?

a) Pakistan b) India c) America d) Africa

7. Meatless days encompass the history of the development of Pakistan and ……………

position within Pakistani culture.

 a) Male b) Female c) both d) none of these

8. A meatless day is an intriguing look at life in Pakistan and in…………….. Community

that Suleri has known.

a) Indian-Pakistan b) American-Pakistan c) African-Pakistan d) Asian

9. Dadi’s two favorite in dulgences which make her a typical Pakistani elderly woman are:

a) food and love b) love and conflict c) food and God d) pity and food

10. Character in the memoir (Meatless Days) Dadi widowed at the age of:

a) fourty b) fifty c) thirties d) twenty

11. Meatless days by Sara Suleri is a Novel

a) Post- colonial autobiographical b) Post-modernism autobiographical

c) Post-imperialism autobiographical d) none of these

12. The author welsh woman is shown as a reserved woman who suffered a :

a) Traditional clash b) Religious clash c) Cultural clash d) political clash

13. Women are subjected to sexual subjection through institutionalization of…

a) friendship b) Marriage c) partnership d) both b & c

14. In meatless days,as a son he never gave due respect to his….

a) Father b) Dadi c) Mother d) none of these

15. Meatless days in spite of themes such as political strife , religion , expstriatism is a novel :

a) Political novel b) tragic and comic novel

c) Personal novel d) Personal and autobiographical novel

16. Excellent things in women revolve around

a) Dadi b) Sara c) Both d) Father

17. After death of Suleri's grand father where did Sara's papa moved?

a) Lahore b) Bombay c) Delhi d) Karachi

18. Sara's papa was a.....?

a) Journalists b) Doctor c) Engineer d) Editor

19. When did Sara's papa moved to karachi and joined weekly dawn?

a) 1941 b) 1942 c) 1943 d) 1945

20. Who is elected leader of East Pakistan in 1970 elections?

a)Bhutto b) Mujeeb-ur-reham c) Nawaz sahreef d) None of these

 When was Taufiq Rafat born?

1927
1917
1937
1947
 Who was the father of Taufiq Rafat?
Khwaja Ghulam Muhammed Hazir
Khwaja Muhammad Nisar
Khwaha Muhammad Imran
None
 When did Sialkot become a part of Pakistan?
1947
1948
1949
none
 Where was Taufiq Rafat educated?
Dehra Dun
Aligarh
Lahore
All
 Where did Taufiq Rafat graduate?
Hailey College of commerce, Aligarh
Hailey College of Commerce, Lahore
Aligarh college and university
None
 Who did Taufiq Rafat marry into in Sialkot?
Indian
Kashmiris
Pakistani
None
 When did Taufiq Rafat died?
1997
1998
1999
2000
 What are the most prolific poets in Pakistan?
Maki Qureshi
Alamgir Hashmi
Daud Kamal
All
 What is Rafat s poetry a similitude of?
Modern tradition of poetry
Classical tradition of poetry
Both
None
 What has basically evolved with its roots in the past?
Sophism
Modernism
Classics
None
 What has modernism been developed out of?
Tradition
culture
emotions and memories of past
All
 In what poem did T. S. Eliot write the line What are the roots that clutch what branches
grow Out of this stony rubbish?
The Waste Land
The Eastern wind
Both
None
 What type of reference can be observed in Rafat s Reflections?
Sophist
Muslim
Buddhists
None
 What is one of the classical references in Rafat s Reflections?
Ramayan
 Bushism
Sophism
None
 What is one of the important aspects of Modern poetry?
Dry stone
Dead tree
Both
None
 What are some of Rafat's poems?
Reflections
Village Girl
Kitchen
All
 Modern poetry has called for a return to what were regarded as more?
Classical values
Modern values
Both
None
 What type of poetry has called for a return to classical values?
Classical poetry
Modern poetry
Victorian poetry
None
 Who is T. S. Eliot?
Ezra Pound
Elizabeth
Liz Pound
None
 What type of verse has modern poets made experiments with?
Free verse
Comprehended verse
Blank verse
None.
 aufiq Raffat was born on

1920

1923

1925

1927

 Taufiq Raffat died on

1995
1996

1997

1998

 Pakistani idiom was introduced by

Alamgir hashmi

Ahmad Ali

Taufiq Raffat
Daud Kamal

 The poem “Arrival of the Monsoon” is written by

Daud Kamal

Taufiq Raffat
Kaleem Omar
Makki Qurieshi

 Which poem of the Taufiq Raffat deals with the upcoming of the ill fortune of bride and
her family

Wedding in the flood

Kingfisher

Kitchens

Rebel

 In which poem Taufiq Raffat gives the image of monsoon, birds, trees and summer

Arrival of the monsoon

Kitchens

Kingfisher

Karachi

 The poem “Kitchens” was written by

Ahmad Ali

Taufiq Raffat
Daud Kamal
Alamgir hashmi

 The book, “Arrival of the monsoon” consists of …….. poems.

112

114

116
118

 The imagery of Taufiq Raffat reflects ………. Society.

Indian

American

European

Pakistani

 Which themes can be seen in Taufiq Raffa’s works.

Loneliness

Nature Imagery

Traumatic realities of life

All of the above

 In his poem, “Vultures” Taufiq Raffat compares vultures with whom

Friends

Enemies

Relatives
Neighbors

 Who is the pot-licking wench in Rafat’s poem, wedding in the flood”

Bride’s mother
Bride
Bride’s sister
Bride’s friend

 In which of his poem, Rafat watches the tradition of a joint-family system a) Kitchens
Going after geese

Morning Exercise

Rebel

 Who translated the Punjabi work of Bulleh Shah in English

Kaleem Omar

Taufiq Raffat
Alamgir hashmi

Daud Kamal

 Content is more important for him than form, who is that?

Ahmad Ali

Bapsi Sidhwa

Taufiq Raffat
Alamgir hashmi

 There are a number of poems dedicated to the theme of war in Rafat’s collection of
poetry
,like

The Medal

The Village

Sialkot

All of these

 Romantic ideals established by Rafat served as the foundation of Pakistan’s first original
and personalized expression in _____. a) British

American

English

Urdu

 English was considered a weak version of British style of writing in _________collection

a) Rafat
Ahmad Ali

Kaleem omar

Daud kamal

 Pioneer of Pakistani Idiom It was from Toufiq Rafat that the English language was used
to express the sensibility of the ____ people of Pakistan.
a) Rich

Middle class

Local

High class

 In the poem, “Kitchens” Taufiq Rafat compared Pakistani culture with

Indian culture

Western culture

Eastern culture

All of these