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GATE 2021 XH2 – Question 31

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · Intersections of literature with political, social and intellectual movements · 1 mark · Multiple choice

What do Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of1084, Shobha Shakti’s Gorilla and Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun have in common?

  1. They are set during political uprisings.
  2. They are all feminist narratives.
  3. They all have animals as central characters.
  4. They are all picaresque novels.

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Correct answer: (A) They are set during political uprisings.

Explanation

The works engage respectively with revolutionary France, the Naxalite movement, Sri Lankan conflict and the Nigerian/Biafran war. Their common denominator is political upheaval, A. Titles alone do not make animals their central characters, and the other proposed genre or thematic labels do not describe all four equally.

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