R. K. Narayan - Quiz
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  • 1. In which country was R. K. Narayan born?
A) Pakistan
B) India
C) Nepal
D) Sri Lanka
  • 2. What was the profession of R. K. Narayan?
A) Author
B) Doctor
C) Engineer
D) Teacher
  • 3. Which city is associated with the fictional town of Malgudi in Narayan's works?
A) Kolkata
B) Mysore
C) Chennai
D) Jaipur
  • 4. What year was R. K. Narayan born?
A) 1945
B) 1906
C) 1965
D) 1920
  • 5. Which novel by R. K. Narayan tells the story of a man named Raju who becomes a spiritual guide?
A) Waiting for the Mahatma
B) The Dark Room
C) The Bachelor of Arts
D) The Guide
  • 6. What was the first novel written by R. K. Narayan?
A) Swami and Friends
B) The Dark Room
C) The Guide
D) The Bachelor of Arts
  • 7. Which of the following is a recurring character in R. K. Narayan's works?
A) Swami
B) Gandhi
C) Rama
D) Krishna
  • 8. What was the title of R. K. Narayan's autobiography?
A) My Days
B) Swami and Friends
C) Malgudi Days
D) The Guide
  • 9. Which of the following is a social issue often addressed in R. K. Narayan's works?
A) Caste system
B) Space exploration
C) Cyberbullying
D) Global warming
  • 10. Which of the following is a short story collection by R. K. Narayan?
A) The Immortals
B) The God of Small Things
C) A Suitable Boy
D) Malgudi Days
  • 11. What was the name of the publishing company established by R. K. Narayan's niece and grandniece to bring his works to print?
A) Penguin Books India
B) Indian Thought Publications
C) Oxford University Press India
D) HarperCollins India
  • 12. Which medal did R. K. Narayan receive from the Royal Society of Literature in 1980?
A) AC Benson Medal
B) Man Booker International Prize
C) Nobel Prize
D) Booker Prize
  • 13. Which of R. K. Narayan's brothers became a cartoonist?
A) Kumar
B) Laxman
C) Ravi
D) Ramachandran
  • 14. In what year did R. K. Narayan pass his university entrance examination?
A) 1928
B) 1926
C) 1924
D) 1930
  • 15. Who recommended R. K. Narayan's first novel to a publisher?
A) Graham Greene
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Raja Rao
D) Mulk Raj Anand
  • 16. What was the name of the newspaper R. K. Narayan worked for as a reporter?
A) The Hindu
B) The Times of India
C) The Indian Express
D) The Justice
  • 17. What was the cause of Rajam's death?
A) Typhoid
B) Cholera
C) Malaria
D) Tuberculosis
  • 18. Which of R. K. Narayan's novels is considered semi-autobiographical?
A) The Guide
B) Waiting for the Mahatma
C) The Financial Expert
D) The English Teacher
  • 19. Which of R. K. Narayan's novels was inspired by his experiences at college?
A) Swami and Friends
B) The Bachelor of Arts
C) The Guide
D) The Dark Room
  • 20. Which award is India's second highest civilian award that R. K. Narayan received?
A) Padma Bhushan
B) Padma Shri
C) Padma Vibhushan
D) Bharat Ratna
  • 21. In which year did R. K. Narayan start building his own house on the outskirts of Mysore?
A) 1945
B) 1953
C) 1950
D) 1948
  • 22. What was the name of the film for which R. K. Narayan wrote a story that was produced?
A) Malgudi Days
B) The Guide
C) The Vendor of Sweets
D) Miss Malini
  • 23. Which of R. K. Narayan's novels deals with domestic disharmony?
A) The Guide
B) Waiting for the Mahatma
C) The Financial Expert
D) The Dark Room
  • 24. What was R. K. Narayan's nickname given by his grandmother?
A) Krishnaswami
B) Narayanaswami
C) Rasipuram
D) Kunjappa
  • 25. What was the primary theme of R. K. Narayan's first three novels?
A) Fantasy and magic
B) Romantic love
C) Problems with socially accepted practices
D) Science fiction
  • 26. What was R. K. Narayan's first job after college?
A) Film writer
B) School teacher
C) Publisher
D) Journalist
  • 27. What was the theme of R. K. Narayan's novel 'The Bachelor of Arts'?
A) Rebellious adolescent transitioning to a well-adjusted adult
B) Domestic disharmony
C) Problems with socially accepted practices
D) Fantasy and magic
  • 28. What was the name of R. K. Narayan's first published work?
A) The Bachelor of Arts
B) A book review of Development of Maritime Laws of 17th-Century England
C) Swami and Friends
D) The Dark Room
  • 29. Which novel by R. K. Narayan is considered his masterpiece and was published in 1951?
A) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
B) The Guide
C) The Financial Expert
D) Waiting for the Mahatma
  • 30. Which novel by Narayan is loosely based on a fictional visit to Malgudi by Mahatma Gandhi?
A) Waiting for the Mahatma
B) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
C) The Guide
D) The Financial Expert
  • 31. Which publishing house first published Narayan's works in the United States in 1953?
A) Michigan State University Press
B) Viking Press
C) HarperCollins
D) Penguin Books
  • 32. Which fellowship did Narayan receive while visiting the United States in 1956?
A) Ford Foundation Fellowship
B) Rockefeller Fellowship
C) Guggenheim Fellowship
D) MacArthur Fellowship
  • 33. What is the title of Narayan's collection of conversational essays published in 1960?
A) Next Sunday
B) The Guide
C) My Dateless Diary
D) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
  • 34. Which book by Narayan is a condensed translation of the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata?
A) The Guide
B) The Ramayana
C) The Man-Eater of Malgudi
D) The Mahabharata
  • 35. What book did R. K. Narayan write to promote tourism in Karnataka?
A) The Tiger's Tale
B) The Emerald Route
C) Malgudi Days
D) Under the Banyan Tree
  • 36. Who chaired the committee recommended by Narayan's inaugural speech?
A) The Prime Minister
B) N. Ram
C) R. K. Narayan
D) Prof. Yash Pal
  • 37. What was the title of Narayan's final book?
A) Grandmother's Tale
B) A Writer's Nightmare
C) Malgudi Days
D) The Emerald Route
  • 38. Where did Narayan move after his daughter's death?
A) Karnataka
B) Mysore
C) Madras
D) Chennai
  • 39. Who took care of Narayan after his daughter's death?
A) N. Ram
B) His wife
C) His son
D) His granddaughter Bhuvaneswari (Minnie)
  • 40. What did Narayan plan to write before his death?
A) A story about a grandfather
B) A memoir of his travels
C) A collection of essays
D) A novel about a tiger
  • 41. What did Narayan do with the book he wrote for the government of Karnataka?
A) He republished it as The Emerald Route
B) He abandoned the project
C) He translated it into Chinese
D) He included it in Malgudi Days
  • 42. What was Narayan's interest in his later years?
A) Travel writing
B) Agriculture
C) Politics
D) Journalism
  • 43. What did Narayan ask N. Ram to get for him before his death?
A) A notebook
B) A pen
C) A camera
D) A book
  • 44. Where did Narayan die?
A) Mysore
B) Karnataka
C) Madras
D) Chennai
  • 45. What was the age of Narayan at the time of his death?
A) 85
B) 75
C) 100
D) 94
  • 46. Which auspicious day did R. K. Narayan choose to create the fictional town of Malgudi?
A) Vijayadashami
B) Diwali
C) Onam
D) Holi
  • 47. Which author compared R. K. Narayan to Charles Dickens?
A) Graham Greene
B) E. M. Forster
C) Somerset Maugham
D) John Updike
  • 48. R. K. Narayan's writing style is often compared to which Russian author?
A) Ivan Turgenev
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 49. Which Pulitzer Prize winner classified R. K. Narayan as a short-story genius?
A) Alice Walker
B) Kazuo Ishiguro
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Toni Morrison
  • 50. Which American author's works are compared to Narayan's in terms of humor and energy of ordinary life?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) William Faulkner
C) John Steinbeck
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 51. Which town is compared to Malgudi by Graham Greene?
A) Manchester
B) Battersea
C) Cambridge
D) Oxford
  • 52. Which Indian author criticized Narayan for having a pedestrian style?
A) Chetan Bhagat
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Shashi Tharoor
D) Ruskin Bond
  • 53. Which literary figure did critics consider Narayan to be the Indian equivalent of?
A) Mikhail Bulgakov
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 54. Which scholar created a map of Malgudi based on Narayan's fictional descriptors?
A) Dr. James M. Fennelly
B) Dr. N. Ram
C) Dr. V. S. Naipaul
D) Dr. Susan Ram
  • 55. Which author did critics label Narayan as the 'South Indian' equivalent of?
A) E. M. Forster
B) D. H. Lawrence
C) Virginia Woolf
D) George Orwell
  • 56. Which author described Narayan's writings as 'compassionate realism'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Anita Desai
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Arundhati Roy
  • 57. Which author noted that Narayan wrote from deep within his community?
A) Jhumpa Lahiri
B) Salman Rushdie
C) V. S. Naipaul
D) Arundhati Roy
  • 58. Which author compared Narayan's narrative style to that of Walt Whitman?
A) T. S. Eliot
B) Edmund Wilson
C) Ezra Pound
D) Robert Frost
  • 59. Which author criticized Narayan for not dealing with the political structures of his time?
A) Mulk Raj Anand
B) R. K. Laxman
C) K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar
D) Ruskin Bond
  • 60. In which year did R. K. Narayan receive the Sahitya Akademi Award?
A) 1980
B) 1960
C) 1964
D) 1986
  • 61. In which year was R. K. Narayan awarded the Padma Bhushan?
A) 2000
B) 1986
C) 1980
D) 1964
  • 62. In which year was R. K. Narayan elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters?
A) 1973
B) 1982
C) 1976
D) 1967
  • 63. In what year was R. K. Narayan nominated to the upper house of the Indian Parliament?
A) 1973
B) 1989
C) 2000
D) 1960
  • 64. Which year did Google commemorate R. K. Narayan's 108th birthday with a doodle?
A) 1986
B) 2019
C) 2014
D) 2016
  • 65. In which year was R. K. Narayan's former home converted into a museum?
A) 2000
B) 2014
C) 2016
D) 1989
  • 66. Which of the following is NOT a category of R. K. Narayan's works?
A) Novels
B) Mythology
C) Short story collections
D) Non-fiction
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