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Questions with Answers of The Marooned by Prativa Basu

Q.1 What is the original name of the story ‘The Marooned” by Prativa Basu

A: The original name of the story ‘The Marooned” by Prativa Basu is ‘Dulkuhara’.

Q. 2 Who is the protagonist of Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”?

Ans: Bindubashini is the protagonist of Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”?

Q.3 How many members were in Bindubashini’s family in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”?

A: There were four members in Bindubashini’s family including her widowed daughter-in-law, Uttara, and her two grand-daughters – Milu and Bulu?

Q. 4 What is the age of Uttara, the daughter-in-law of Bindubashini in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”?

A: Uttara is thirty-one-year old in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”?

Q.5 What did Bindubashini have in an iron chest?

A: There were at least forty tolas gold, three Benarsi sarees, two sets of silver services, and some copper and brass sets in the iron chest.

Q. 6 How many big halls did Bindubashini's house have in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”?

A: There were five big halls in Bindubashini's house in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned

Q. 7 When did Bindubashini light up the chandeliers with hundred and fifty candles in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned?”

A: Bindubashini lit up the chandeliers with a hundred and fifty candles when her only son Nirad got married.

Q. 8 What was the name of the only son of Bindubashini in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned?”

A: The name of the only son of Bindubashini in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned” was Nirad.

Q.9 “But soon a time came when all the lights in the house went off forever.” ---- What does it mean ‘The lights in the house went off forever.” Here?

A: Here ‘the lights in the house went off forever’ the demise of Bindubashini’s husband and her only son, Nirad in Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”

Q.10 “ She pondered over the situation, then summoned Jamir Mian” – Who is ‘she’ here?

A: Here ‘She’ is Bindubashini, the protagonist, of Prativa Basu’s short story ‘The Marooned”

Suggestion English Hons objective questions on partition literature 2023 Some important objective Questions
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1) “As for me, I was born here, and I will die here.” – Who says this in The Shadow Lines?

(2) Where did Bindubashini and her family spend their first night in ‘Hindustan’?

(3) Who came to meet Bishan Singh in the asylum before the exchange of lunatics?

(4) What does Birendra Chattopadhyay refer to as ‘worse than madness in Lumbini’ in his poem?

(5) What does Sahir Ludhianvi describe as ‘the malady … without a cure’ in his poem?

(6) What is Nick’s profession in The Shadow Lines?

(7) What is the name of Ila’s doll in The Shadow Lines?



(8) Who was killed in the Dhaka riot in 1964 in The Shadow Lines

(9)Where did May study music in The Shadow Lines

(10) How old was Mayadebi when she left for England?

(11) How old was Tridib when Mayadebi’s family left for England?

(12) Who was Mayadebi in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines.

(13) What is Lumbini in Birendra Chattopadhyay’s ‘After Death: Twenty Years’?

(13) What is the name of Bishan Singh's daughter in Sadat Hasan Manto’s short story, ‘Toba Tek Singh’.

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