South Asian Literature Quiz

Which author wrote Midnight's Children, a novel exploring postcolonial themes in South Asia?

• Jhumpa Lahiri

• Salman Rushdie

• Mohsin Hamid

• Rabindranath Tagore

What major event does Saadat Hasan Manto’s Toba Tek Singh address?

• Indian independence

• The Partition of India and Pakistan

• Globalization in the 21st century

• The caste system in India

Which of these themes is frequently explored in South Asian literature?

• Alien invasion

• Identity and diaspora

• Cybersecurity

• Environmentalism

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid primarily examines:

• The effects of globalization on cultural identity

• The role of women in South Asian literature

• The trauma of Partition

• The influence of traditional folklore

Which South Asian language is NOT mentioned as part of the region’s literary diversity?

• Urdu

• Tamil

• Spanish

• Bengali

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work Gitanjali.

• True

• False

South Asian literature exclusively uses English as the medium of storytelling.

• True

• False

Themes of war and conflict are absent in South Asian literature.

• True

• False

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things critiques caste and social inequality.

• True

• False

Identify the author of the novel that critiques globalization and alienation, titled The Reluctant Fundamentalist.