An American Brat by Sidhwa MCQs For BS/MA/MS/MPHIL/Phd....
MCQs ----- AN AMERICAN BRAT BY SIDHWA
1) Narrow minded attitude touted by ---------- infects Ferzoa according to Zareen?
A) Gen Zia
B) Bhutto
C) Ahura Mazda
D) All of These
Ans(A)
2)Who stared at the petrified youth for an interminable moment?
A) Cyrus
B) Manek
C) Mike
D) David
Ans(A)
3) Zareen said to Feroza that your matric exams are close and I think it's time to go to ?
A) Data Sahib
B) Bata Sahib
C) Baba Fareed
D) Bhutto
Ans(A)
4)The man who advised Bhutto's wife about the trial belongs to ?
A) Turkey
B) Bangladesh
C) Sri Lanka
D) London
Ans(B)
5)At what age Cyrus had spanked Feroza due to exasperation ?
A) Three Years
B) Four Years
C) Five Years
D) Six Years
Ans(B)
6) Feroza’s pediatrician is?
A) Dr Anwar
B) Dr Sarwar
C) Dr Akbar
D) None
Ans(A)
7)Whose nickname is "Ping Pong" and who calls Ping Pong?
A) Zareen and Sonamaei
B) Cyrus and Khutlibaei
C) Khutlibaei and Cyrus
D) Feroza and Manek
Ans(B)
8) Who discovered "Linda Goodman's Love Signs" ?
A) Feroza
B) Zareen
C) Jo
D) Kim
Ans(B)
9) Zareen has blood relation with ?
A) Manek
B) Ahura Mazda
C) None
D) Both A & B
Ans( A)
10) Whose sister Zareen and Feroza see at the tomb ?
A) Gen Zia
B) Bhutto
C) Jinnah
D) Iqbal
Ans( B)
11) How old was Manek ?
A) Twenty two
B) Thirty
C) Twenty Five
D) Forty
Ans (A)
12) Which subject Manek was studying in America ?
A) Biochemistry
B) American Literature
C) Chemical Engineering
D) Economics
Ans (C)
13) "To hell with you and your damn country. I'll go back !" Who said these words ?
A) Zareen
B) Manek
C) David
D) Feroza
Ans (D)
14) Who called Feroza Boochimai ?
A) Zareen
B) Khutlibai
C) Cyrus
D) Manek
Ans (D)
15) Boochimai is an archaic_____word ?
A) Hindi
B) Sanskrit
C) Gujrati
D) Parsee
Ans (C)
16) What is the date of birth of Feroza?
A) December 18, 1954
B) November 19, 1961
C) August 11, 1933
D) September 15, 1961
Ans (B)
17) What is the status of Manek's Visa?
A) F- 10
B) F- 2
C) F- 1
D) F- 9
Ans (C)
18) When Manek and Feroza drove out of airport, in which language Manek speaks to Feroza?
A) Sindhi
B) Punjabi
C) English
D) Gujrati
Ans (D)
19) Cyrus had given Feroza___ American dollars
A) One hundred dollars
B) Two hundred dollars
C) Three hundred dollars
D) Four hundred dollars
Ans (A)
20) Cyrus mother's Name?
A) Zareen
B) Feroza
C) Jeroo
D)Soonamai
Ans (D)
21) While visiting the museum who said the line "Let's move on before you turn into a gorilla or something"?
A) Manek
B) Guard
C) Feroza
D) Other tourist
Ans C
22) On Which day of New York tour Feroza insisted on window shopping on Fifth Avenue?
A) 2nd day
B) 3rd day
C) 4th day
D) 5th day
Ans C
23) In which street in YMCA at Broadway Feroza and Manek were living?
A) Thirty-first
B) Forty -fourth
C) Fifty-third
D) Sixty-third
Ans D
24) Feroza returned to the YMCA at around ?
A) one o'clock
B) two o'clock
C) three o'clock
D) four o'clock
Ans A
25) Feroza wants to go on 15th floor but the elevator stopped on ______ floor
A) Sixteenth
B) Sixteen-second
C) twentieth
D) twenty-second
Ans D
26)Manek shared the house and it's ancient bathrooms with how many Pakistani and Indian students?
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
Ans D
27) Which Pakistani boy helped Manek for carrying the stuff up?
A) Parvez
B) Jamil
C) Iqbal
D) Salman
Ans B
28) "If you hang that socialist bastard on my wall, I'll tear him to bits." In this line about which politician Manek was talking about?
A) General Zia
B) Bhutto
C) Mountbatten
D) None of these
Ans B
9)Which city became Feroza’s second favourite city?
A) Chicago
B) San Francisco
C) Boston
D) Austin
Ans C
30) Manek told Feroza, He bought the car for how many dollars?
A) Fifty dollars
B) Sixty dollars
C) Seventy dollars
D) Eighty dollars
Ans B
31) Which of the following is NOT the main theme of novel An American Brat?
A : Internalization
B: Generational Conflict
C: Complexity
D: Hybridization
ANSWER: C
32) Which of the following statement is true about An American Brat?
A: Coming of age Novel
B:Psychological Novel
C: Domestic Novel
D:Sentimental Novel
ANSWER: A
33) Feroza is described as ________ in the novel
A: Sensitive
B:Stubborn
C:Shy
D:Funny
ANSWER: B
34) Clashes of two different cultures is hallmark of :
A: The God of Small Things
B: Train to Pakistan
C: An American Brat
D: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
ANSWER: C
35) “That's the trouble with you desis .You don’t even know what a dedorant is and you want to make an atom bomb !
who said these line ?
A:Feroza
B:Airpot Officer
C:Zareen
D:Manek
Answer :D
36) What is the meaning of Sagan in An american brat :
A : Mourning Day
B:Friendship Party
C: Religions Fight
D:A good luck ceremony
Answer :D
37) Father Fibs was a :
A:Doctor
B:Story teller
C:Watchman
D:Zareen Father
Answer: B
38) On a saturday afternoon Feroza drove with David for a sabbath meal with ....
A: Adina and Abe Press
B:Shehryar and Bano Press
C: Deepak and national Press
D: David and America Press
Answer: A
39) At the end of novel Feroza married with :
A: David
B: She can’t got married
C:Maneks Friend
D: Deepak Brother
Answer :B
40) Bapsi sidhwa mostly used reference of English play writer in an american brat what is his name ?
A: Alexander Pop
B:Thomas Hardy
C: GB Shaw
D:shakespeare
Answer :D
41) Who was Feroza's roommate?
A) Jo
B) Emily
C) Nancy
D) None of them
Ans. A
42) Manek said that in America people referred to even Harvard and M.I.T as:
A) Colleges
B) Universities
C) Schools
D) None of these
Ans. C
43) Jo was a real:
A) Egyptian
B) Japanese
C) Indian
D) American
Ans. D
44) While working in the college registration office, Feroza found a valuable friend:
A) Emmy
B) Nancy
C) Jo
D) Kim
And. B
45) It was first time Feroza had ever driven a car in________.
A) Pakistan
B) America
C) India
D) None of these
Ans. B
46) who told Feroza that she was lucky to have Jo as her roommate?
A) Emily
B) Nancy
C) Manek
D) Zareen
Ans. C
47) What was the name of Feroza's genial counsellor?
A) Emily Simms
B) Anne
C) Nancy
D) None of them
Ans. A
48) Feroza enrolled in______.
A) Junior college
B) Boston college
C) Community college
D) Dartmouth college
Ans. A
49) Who supervised feroza's duties in the college registration office?
A) Nancy
B) Jo
C) Kim
D) David
Ans. A
50) " Kim" is the name of ______ in the novel.
A) Girl
B) Cat
C) Bitch
D) None of these
Ans. B
51) Zareen and Cyrus attended the dinner party consisting of____Couples.
A) 2
B) 4
C) 19
D) 30
Ans(D)
52) Two or three waiters had been hired from____who wove between loquacious guests.
A) German Club
B) Asian Club
C) Punjab Club
D) Indian Club
Ans(C)
53) Feroza and Jo heard the news of Bhutto's hanging on____ Channel.
A) ARY
B) BBC
C) CBS
D) PTV
Ans(C)
54) Who didn't believe at Bhutto's hanging at first?
A) Jo
B) Feroza
C) Cyrus
D) Zareen
Ans(B)
55) About which person, Feroza said, " I bet he's escaped from jail and they are saying saying this to hide the truth!"
A) Bhutto
B) A Dutch man
C) Jo
D) None
Ans(A)
56) Who said, " Oh, my notebook ! They took my term paper! I've worked three months on it and they've stolen it!"
A) Zareen
B) Feroza
C) Jo
D) Jo's Friend
Ans(C)
57) After the police left, Jo wept as she looked at the empty spaces that had once been occupied by____.
A) Her computer
B) Her printer
C) Her TV
D) All
Ans(D)
58) After the absence of how many years, Manek was returning to Pakistan?
A) Four years
B) Six years
C) Nine years
D) Seven years
Ans(A)
59) What was the name of son of Jeroo and Behrman?
A) Fahum
B) Jo
C) Dara
D) None
Ans(C)
60) While visiting Jo's family in Boulder, Colorado, Feroza received the letters from?
A) Zareen
B) Khutlibai
C) Cyrus
D) Both A & B
Ans(D)
61) Bapsi Sidhwa has been called Pakistan‘s leading English-language
A novelist
B fiction
C Essay
D Dramatist
Ans A
62) Bapsi sidhwa moved to United State in
A1912
B1956
C1925
D1938
Ans D
63) Alarmed by the rising fundamentalism of Pakistan in the
A1970s,
B1956
C1963
D1925
A
64) The whole story revolves around this single character?
A Zareen
B Feroza
C Manek
D none
B
65) In American Brat, Feroza is shown in the process of transformation as a result of?
A cross-cultural ties
B modernism
C Cultural conflict
D None
A
66) Manek was married in?
A Karachi
B Lahore
C Rawalpindi
D Islamabad
A
67) All other characters whether they are the major or minor incidents are related to character?
A Zareen
B Feroza
C Manek
D None
B
68) What called the Feroza at the end of the Novel?
A Valine
B Heroine
C American Barat
D None
C
69) The novel An American Brat is based on the theme of
A cultural collision
B diaspora
C Globalization
D Hybridity
A
70) What was the name of son of Jeroo and Behram?
A) Henry
B) Juess
C) Dara
D) Manek
Ans(C)
71) Feroza was received at the airport with..
A. Garlands
B. Clapping
C. Stone
D. Smiles
Ans. A
72) Khutlibai visited her son-in-law’s house often to see her
A) Grandfather
B) Grandmother
C) Granddaughter
D) Nephew
Ans. C
73) Khutlibai and Zareen went into convulsions of laughter at the funny way Feroza had of describing her adventures in
A) America
B) China
C) India
D) Pakistan
Ans. A
74) Something called the Hadood Ordinances had
been introduced by
A) General Zia in 1979
B) Captain Bajwa 1920
C) General Hanif 1930
D) General Rashid 1921
Ans. A
75) Fortunately, stoning to death was declared un-Islamic because there was no mention of it in the
A) Koran
B) Hadees
C) Anjeel
D) Toraat
Ans. A
76) The startled women, who had enjoyed equal witness status under the previous law,realized that their worth had been discounted by
A) Fifty percent
B) Thirty percent
C) Forty percent
D) 10 percent
Ans. A
77) Behram and Jeroo had come with their children over the long Christmas weekend which was a holiday because it coincided with the anniversary of--------------and Aban flew in from Karachi at Khutlibai’s behest.
A) Jinnah’s birth
B) Jinnah's death
C) Gandhi's birth
D) Gandhi's death
Ans. A
78) Feroza spent the Christmas vacation of ------------ with Manek and Aban.
A) 1981
B) 1982
C) 1983
D) 1984
Ans. A
79) Manek took Aban and Feroza to eat out frequently; after all, he was earning well. And, in a reckless exhibition of extravagance, he offered to take them to La Palms on Christmas Eve, saying, “The smallest lobster costs
A) seventy-five dollars
B) Sixty-five dollars
C) Fifty-five dollars
D) Forty-five dollars
Ans. A
80) She had wisely shed many of her illusions about marriage and romance, some within a few days of their marriage in
A) Karachi and United States
B) Lahore and London
C) India and Kashmir
D) Multan and Hyderabad
Ans. A
81) Feroza helout her hand to receive?
A ) Mango
B ) Apricot
C ) Coconut
D) Peach
ANS C
82) Khutlibai visited the house of her?
A) Daughter in law
B) Son in law
C ) Brother in law
D) None
ANS B
83) Zareen circled the try round Feroza head?
A) Five time
B) Six time
C) Seven time
D) All
ANS C
84) At the change in Feroza Zreen was ?
A) Shocked
B Happy
C Astonished
D) Both A & B
ANS C
85) What was the name of Feroza's beloved?
A) Dara
B) Aby
C) David
D) Manek
Ans C
86) what is the name of Manek's child?
a) Deepak
b) Dilshad
c) Shashi
d) Sash
Ans B
87) "please dont worry, Granny, I'll never break your heart." The above lines are stated by:
A) Freny
B) Manek
C) Feroza
D) Bunny
Ans D
88) Who told the incident of Roda Kapadia who married a Christian?
A) Bunny
B) Freny
C) Jeroo
D) Oxford aunt
Ans B
89) In America during travel Zareen was extremely impressed by ......... While Feroza not.
A) City Hall
B) The State Capitol
C) Denver Art Museum
Ans C
90) Where does Feroza' parents in laws lived??
A) Boulder
B) Denver
C) Capitol
D) Hampshire
Ans A
91) What was Feroza's reaction when Zareen wanted to investigate David's pedigree?
A) She admired it
B) She considered it ridiculous
C) She got angry
D) She became neutral
Ans B
92) On Saturday hangout where Feroza and Zareen had their lunch?
A) Pour La France
B) Windex
C) Foodiaphilic
D) Benihana
Ans D
93) What message did Shirley conveyed to Zareen?
A) Feroza will come latenight
B) Feroza is leaving the home
C) Feroza will see her after her classes tonight
D) She is spending the night with a friend
Ans D
94) How much amount did Cyrus give to Zareen just before they left for the airport?
A) Two thousand dollars cheque
B) Five hundred cash
C) Ten thousands dollars bank draft
D) A blank cheque
Ans C
95) What does Zareen demand from David to marry Feroza?
a) Come to Lahore
b) Adopt the parsee religion
c) Leave the parents
d) None of these
Ans(A)
96) David started calling Feroza
a) ZAP
b) JAP
c) Apple of Mummy’s eye
d) All
Ans ( D)
97) ZAP stand for
a) Zoroastrian- American Princess
b) Zed Attack Proxy
c) None of these
d) Both A and B
Ans( A)
98) David accepted a job with a firm in
a) Denver
b) California
c) Lahore
d) Delhi
Ans(B)
99) The very thing that had attached David to Feroza?
a) Her exoticism
b) Her religion
c) Her innocence
d) Her betrayal
Ans( A)
100) Feroza applied for the university of
a) Harvard University
b) University of Arizona’s
c) Standford University
d) Hopkins University
Ans( B)