India Through a Traveller’s Eyes Objective Questions

1. Which type of prose-piece is India through a traveller’s eye ?

(A) essay

(B) travelogue

(C) speech

(D) short story

Ans (B) travelogue

2. Who has written ‘India through a traveller’s eye?

(A) H E Bates

(B) Mahatma Gandhi

(C) Pearl S Buck

(D) Shiga Naoya

Ans (C) Pearl S Buck

3. Pearl S Buck is an …………. writer.

(A) American

(B) African

(C) Iranian

(D) Japanese

Ans (A) American

4. Pearl S Buck had a/an

(A) Chinese

(B) Indian

(C) African

(D) American

Ans (B) Indian

5. Why did Pearl S Buck visit India?

(A) to see the young intellectuals of cities

(B) to see the Taj Mahal

(C) to see the peasants in the village

(D) to see the young intellectuals in the cities and peasants in the village

Ans (D) to see the young intellectuals in the cities and peasants in the village

6. The writer visited India ….. family doctor.

(A) after independence

(B) during first world war

(C) during 2nd world war

(D) on 15th Aug 1947.

Ans (C) during 2nd world war

7. Who was the prime minister of England during 2nd world war ?

(A) Neville Chamberlain

(B) Theresa May

(C) Winston Churchill

(D) Robert Walpole

Ans (C) Winston Churchill

8. Who invaded Kashmir?

(A) Americans

(B) Africans

(C) Australians

(D) Europeans

Ans (D) Europeans

9. According to the writer, the Indian belongs to ……. Race.

(A) Negroid

(B)Caucasoid

(C) Mongoloid

(D) Australoid

Ans (B) Caucasoid

10. The first woman president of the general assembly of the United state was a/an …….

(A) Chinese

(B) English

(C) Indian

(D) American

Ans (C) Indian

11. In the words of writer ,the most pitiable condition of the farmer was in ..

(A) Russia

(B) India

(C) China

(D) Germany

Ans (B) India

12. Nazism was associated with …………

(A) Mustafa kamal pasha

(B) Colonel Nasir

(C) Adolf Hitler

(D) Lenin

Ans (C) Adolf Hitler

13. Who does the writer blames for all the ills of India?

(A) Industrialists

(B) Chinese

(C) English

(D) Zamindaars

Ans (C) English

14. The God’s earth was written by ……….

(A) Anton Chekhov

(B) H E Bates

(C) Zakir Hussain

(D) Pearl S Buck

Ans (D) Pearl S Buck

15. On a visit of a certain village the young host of the writer could speak fair ………………..

(A) English

(B) Hindi

(C) Telugu

(D) Malyalam

Ans (A) English

16. Who was the head of hostť’s family.

(A) father

(B) eldest brother

(C) grand father

(D) uncle

Ans (B) eldest brother

17. What made the Indian enervated and exhausted.

(A) socialism

(B) polytheism

(C) communalism

(D) Colonisation

Ans (D) Colonisation

18. According to the writer, what is the main quality of a leader.

(A) education

(B) honesty

(C) innovation

(D) selflessness

Ans (D) selflessness

19. The one who leave their home to just spread the Christianity are called ..

(A) pope

(B) saint

(C) nun

(D) Missionary

Ans (D) Missionary

20. Which book of Pearl S Buck is based on Indian background.

(A) East wind west wind

(B) Come, my beloved

(C) The good earth

(D) A house divided

Ans (B) Come, my beloved

21. The life span in India was only…….

(A) 20 years

(B) 27 years

(C) 24 years

(D) 36 years

Ans (B) 27 years

22. Indian peasants are poorer then their…………. counterparts:

(A) Chinese

(B) British

(C) Nepalese

(D) Sri Lankan

Ans (A) Chinese

23. …………. advised the Indians not to blame the Britishers for everything:

(A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(B) Anton Chekov

(C) Pearl S. Buck

(D) Shiga Naoya

Ans (C) Pearl S. Buck

24. The land between Bombay and……….is famished:

(A) Madras (Chennai)

(B) Poona

(C) Patna

(D) Kanpur

Ans (A) Madras (Chennai)

25. The people of………. must be reckoned as belonging to the Caucasian race:

(A) Japan

(B) Burma

(C) Pakistan

(D) India

Ans (D) India

26. The president of the General Assembly of the UNO is a woman from……….

(A) Italy

(B) France

(C) Austria

(D) India

Ans (D) India

27. India Through a Traveller’s Eye is written by……….

(A) Pearl S. Buck

(B) Martin Luther King Jr.

(C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(D) Shiga Naoya

Ans (A) Pearl S. Buck

28. India through a Traveller’s Eye is an inspiring…………

(A) essay

(B) story

(C) novel

(D) drama

Ans (A) essay

29. India was a part of the background of……….

(A) the doctor’s life

(B) the wife’s life

(C) the Kashmiri man’s life

(D) Pearl S. Buck’s life

Ans (D) Pearl S. Buck’s life

30. India through a Traveller’s Eyes has been written by……

(A) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

(B) RN Tagore

(C) Pearl S. Buck

(D) Leo Tolstoy

Ans (C) Pearl S. Buck

31. India through a Traveller’s Eyes’ is……

(A) short story

(B) political treatise

(C) excerpt from novel

(D) an essay

Ans (D) an essay

32. According to Pearl S. Buck, who is to be blamed for India’s poverty?

(A) Indians

(B) intellectual

(C) Americans

(D) British

Ans (D) British

33. How did Pearl S. Buck eat her food in an Indian village?

(A) with fork and spoon

(B) with her hands

(C) with chopsticks

(D) with ladle

Ans (B) with her hands

34. According to Buck, India can teach the lesson…… to the word.

(A) Violence

(B) Peace

(C) Honesty

(D) Non-violence:

Ans (D) Non-violence:

35. According to Buck, the poorest people in India Are’s.

(A) Wise

(B) Wise and Innately civilised

(C) Dishonest

(D) Foolish

Ans (B) Wise and Innately civilised

36. Pearl S. Buck visited India to….

(A) see Taj Mahal

(B) see Jama Masjid

(C) meet Gandhiji

(D) know Indian People

Ans (D) know Indian People

37. Buck taught in a…. university.

(A) Chinese

(B) American

(C) African

(D) British

Ans (A) Chinese