2. Question 1.
“I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer,
because being Y has been such a liberating
experience. It has been wonderful to publish
without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure
to get feedback under a different name.”
These were the words of X after it was revealed
that Y was only a pseudonym used by X, an
established author.
Id. X and Y.
4. Question 2.
• X was by tradition a Greek slave, and he is known
today exclusively for the genre of fables ascribed
to him. His tales (most of which have
anthropomorphic animals as the main characters)
have remained popular throughout history, and
are still taught as moral lessons and used as
subjects for various entertainments, especially
children's plays and cartoons. His fables are some
of the most well known in the world, and are the
source of many phrases and idioms in everyday
use such as “sour grapes”, “crying wolf”, “dog in a
manger”, "lion's share", etc. Who is X?
5. Answer 2.
• X- Aesop, credited as the writer of the Aesop’s
Fables.
8. Question 4.
• “You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this
great difference between us. He describes
what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine
is the hardest task.”
• These words were spoken by a known
professional rival of Lord Byron. He was
among the second wave of romantics, identify
him.
10. Question 5.
• She made her first and last appearance in
Tintin and the Picaros. Identify her.
11. Answer 5.
• Peggy Alcazar, the wife of Tintin’s friend
General Alcazar.
12. Question 6.
• She wrote six romance novels as Mary
Westmacott, but is best known for the
detective novels she wrote using her own
name. Who is she?
14. Question 7.
• X is a mountainous region in North West
England. A popular holiday destination, it is
famous for its associations with the early 19th
century writings of William Wordsworth and
the other Lake Poets. Give X.
22. Question 11.
• This particular test asks if a work of fiction features at least
two women who talk to each other about something other
than a man. The requirement that the two women must be
named is sometimes added.
• Originally conceived for evaluating films, this test is now
used as an indicator of gender bias in all forms of fiction.
Almost half of all contemporary films fail the test, and
critics have noted that the test is most informative when
applied in the aggregate, because individual works may
pass or fail the test for reasons unrelated to sexism.
• The test reiterates the point made by X in her essay ‘A
Room of One’s Own’.
• Id the test and X.
24. Question 12.
• The famous cover of ‘X’,published in 1925,
was designed by Francis Cugat, who later went
on to become a designer for
actor/director/producer Douglas Fairbanks.
‘Y’, the author so loved Cugat’s art that he
rewrote parts of ‘X’ to better incorporate it.
Give ‘X’ and.
26. Question 13.
• Many speculate that it may be Coimbatore, with
a river on one side and a forest on the other.
• Many speculate that it may be the town of
Lalgudi on the river Kaveri or Yadavgiri in the
erstwhile state of Mysore.
• But as per the writings of the author, he loved the
towns of Basavanagudi and Malleshwaram and
they could had an influence in the creation of this
fictional town.
• Id the town.
27. Answer 13.
• Malgudi. It is believed that the name could
have been a play on the towns Malleswaram
and Basavanagudi.
• (Mal)lleshwaram and Basavana(gudi) giving
Malgudi
28. Question 14.
As a child X had pet turtles, which were kept in a
toy castle. The inexpensive turtles were usually
unhealthy, and he’d fantasize about their lives
and speculate on their deaths in their toy castle.
He would often write tales imagining each of their
deaths to be the result of a sinister plot by the
other turtles.
Among other things, this served to inspire X’s most
famous work, Y.
Id X and Y.
29. Answer 14.
• X- George R.R. Martin
• Y- A Song of Ice and Fire
30. Question 15.
• X once had an altercation while camping, and
though he returned to work bruised and
swollen, his co-workers avoided asking him
what had happened on the camping trip. Their
reluctance to know what happened in his
private life inspired him to write Y.
• Id X and Y
37. Question 18.
• X, the light of my life, fire of my loins. My tip
of my tongue making a trip of three steps
down the palate to tap, at three, on the
teeth. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning,
standing four feet ten in one sock. She was
Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was
Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she
was always X.
39. Question 19.
It happened like this, “Mario!” exclaimed X on
seeing his old literary chum after a film
premiere in Mexico City. He marched towards
him, arms outstretched as if for an embrace.
“How dare you come and greet me after what
you did to Patricia in Barcelona!” Mario
reportedly shouted and decked X with a right
hook. Patricia it turns out, was Mario’s wife.
Id X.
41. Question 20.
• In X’s life, all her works were published
anonymously. Her first published novel Y, was
credited to “A Lady”, but her next book was
credited to “The Author of Y”. The publication
of her nephews ‘Memoir of X’ in 1869,
introduced her to a wider public and by the
1940s she had become widely accepted in
academia as a great English writer
