General Knowledge: Books and Authors | Test Code: GKBA3

 
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1.

Author of the ‘Jungle Book’.
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Juan Matapang Cruz
(c) S. K. Pachuri
(d) Thomas Paine 

Answer: (a)

2.

Author of the book ‘War and Peace’.
(a) Richard Nixon
(b) Pran Nevile
(c) Lalini Rajasuriya
(d) Leo Tolstoy

Answer: (d)

3.

Author of the book Oedipus Rex.
(a) Sophocles
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Louisa May Alcott
(d) Jane Austen

Answer: (a)

4.

Author of the book The Prince.
(a) Niccolo Machiavelli
(b) Nicholas Evans
(c) J.K. Rowling
(d) Christopher Marlowe

Answer: (a)

5.

Author of the books Little Men and Little Women.
(a) Louisa May Alcott
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Miguel de Cervantes
(d) George Orwell

Answer: (a)

6.

Author of the famous children book "The Adventure Of Alice In Wonderland".
(a) Stephen Hawking
(b) Honore de Balzac
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Lewis Carroll

Answer: (d)

7.

He wrote the book The Republic.
(a) Plato
(b) Mark Twain
(c) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(d) Arthur Schnitzler

Answer: (a)

8.

One among the following is not a Harry Potter story
(a) Chamber of secrets
(b) The philosopher's stone
(c) Half blood prince
(d) Naked Truth

Answer: (d)

9.

The author of the book ‘Time machine’ is:
(a) Lewis Carroll
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) H.G. Wells

 Answer: (d)

10.

The famous book 'Anandmath' has been authorised by
(a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Sri Aurobindo

Answer: (a)

11.

The Sanskrit poet called as the Indian Shakespeare?
(a) Kalidasa
(b) Thulasidas
(c) Sudraka
(d) Kautilya

Answer: (a)

12.

Who among the following is the author of recently published book, "Not by Reason Alone - The Politics of Change"?
(a) A. Ranga Reddy
(b) N.K. Singh
(c) Sanjay Nahar
(d) Prashant Talnikar

Answer: (b)

13.

Who is the author of "A Passage to England"?
(a) E.M. Forster
(b) Nirad C. Chaudhari
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) Winston Churchill

Answer: (b)

14.

Who was the author of the first famous books "The Phantom of the Opera"?
(a) O. Pulla Reddi 
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Gaston Leroux

Answer: (d)

15.

"Bhanu Singha" was the pen name of famous writer?
(a) Bankin Chandra Chattopadhaye
(b) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(c) Abanindra Nath Thakur
(d) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhaye

Answer: (b)

16.

Austrian playwriter of the play "Professor Bernhardi" and "La Ronde (Reigen)".
(a) Arthur Schnitzler
(b) Jonathan Swift
(c) Herman Merville
(d) Sophocles

Answer: (a)

17.

Author of the book ‘Hamlet’
(a) William Shakespeare
(b)  Lewis Carroll
(c) Jack London
(d) Geoffrey Chaucer

Answer: (a)

18.

Author of the book Moby Dick.
(a) George Eliot
(b) Karen Hall
(c) Eric Lustbader 
(d) Herman Merville

Answer: (d)

19.

Author of the book The Good Earth.
(a) Pearl Buck
(b) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(c) William Faulkner 
(d) P. D. Tandon 

Answer: (a)

20.

Author of the books A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield & Oliver Twist.
(a) Eyvind Johnson 
(b) Dalai Lama
(c) Honore de Balzac 
(d) Charles Dickens

Answer: (d)

21.

Author of the children's book Heidi.
(a) Johanna Spyri
(b) Time Parks
(c) Allan Sealey
(d) Norman Mailer 

Answer: (a)

22.

Filipino who wrote the first English novel "A Child Of Sorrow".
(a) Lewis Wallace
(b) Charles Berlitz 
(c) James Rusbridger
(d) Zoilo Galang

Answer: (d)

23.

Name of the 39 books comprising the Jewish scriptures.
(a) Old Testament
(b) Alexander Dumas
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Jonathan Swift

Answer: (a)

24.

The author of the book "India Wins Freedom" is
(a) Kuldeep Nayyar
(b) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Indira Gandhi

Answer: (b)

25.

The book ‘We Indians’ was written by:
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) James Jeans
(d) Thomas Moore

 Answer: (b)

26.

The play/book ‘Shakuntala’ was written by:
(a) Maithili Sharan gupt
(b) Swami Dayanand
(c) Kalidas
(d) Tulsidas

Answer: (c)

27.

Which of the following is the author of _____ Song of India, The?:
(a) Firdausi
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

 Answer: (b)

28.

Who has authored the book ‘Beyond the Last Blue Mountain’?
(a) Swaraj Paul
(b) Ajit Haksar
(c) Anil Ambani
(d) JRD Tata

Answer: (d)

29.

Who of the following is the author of the book "The Audacity of Hope"?
(a) Al Gore
(b) Barack Obama
(c) Bill Clinton
(d) Hillary Clinton

Answer: (b)

30.

A Midsummer Night's Dream : 
(a) Lucinda Vardey
(b) John Lennon
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Arthur M. Schlesinger

Answer: (c)

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