| Sr. No. |
Questions |
Answers |
1. |
Who is the author of the books ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’?
(a) Anna Sewell
(b) Voltaire
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(d) Jane Austen |
Answer: (d) |
2. |
Author of the book ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’
(a) J. K. Rowling
(b) Jack London
(c) Jules Verne
(d) George Orwell |
Answer: (c) |
3. |
Amrita Pritam's work "A Revenue Stamp" is
(a) A book of stories
(b) A novel
(c) A biography
(d) An autobiography |
Answer: (d) |
4. |
Author of the book ‘Crime and Punishment’.
(a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(b) Vatsyayana
(c) Niccolo Machiavelli
(d) Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Answer: (a) |
5. |
Author of the book Gulliver's Travels.
(a) P G. Wodehouse
(b) Rod Barker
(c) Saul Bellow
(d) Jonathan Swift |
Answer: (d) |
6. |
Author of the book Sherlock Holmes.
(a) Seymour Hersh
(b) Arthur Koestler
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Arthur Conan Doyle |
Answer: (d) |
7. |
Author of the books 5 Weeks in a Balloon & 80,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
(a) Jules Verne
(b) Alexander Dumas
(c)Jules Verne
(d) Charles Dickens |
Answer: (a) |
8. |
Author of the books The Three Musketeers and The Legend of Monte Cristo.
(a) Alexandre Dumas
(b) Albert Camus
(c) Arthur Stanley Eddington
(d) Aldous Huxley |
Answer: (a) |
9. |
'Beyond time' is the book written by
(a) Namita Gokhale
(b) Ruskin Bond
(c) William Balrymple
(d) None of these |
Answer: (d) |
10. |
Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
(a) The Post Office
(b) Gora
(c) India Wins Freedom
(d) Coolie |
Answer: (d) |
11. |
The "Killer Instinct" is written by
(a) Sulakshan Mohan
(b) M.K.Santanam
(c) O.P.Sabharwal
(d) Subash Jain |
Answer: (c) |
12. |
The book ‘Vish Vriksha’ was written by:
(a) Bankimchandra Chatterjee
(b) Annie Basant
(c) Tulsidas
(d) Kalidas |
Answer: (a) |
13. |
The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is:
(a) The Ramayana
(b) The Mahabharata
(c) The bible
(d) Guru Granth Sahib |
Answer: (c) |
14. |
Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt?
(a) Saket
(b) Satyartha Prakash
(c) Shakuntala
(d) Savitri |
Answer: (a) |
15. |
Who authored the 'Gitanjali', an anthology of poems?
(a) Sumitranandan Pant
(b) Makhanlal Chaturvedi
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Maithili Sharan Gupt |
Answer: (c) |
16. |
Who is the author of the book Superstar India?
(a) Arun Shourie
(b) Dominique Lapierre
(c) Shobha De
(d) Salman Rushdie |
Answer: ( c ) |
17. |
‘Travelling Through Conflict’ is a book written by _____.
(a) Hamid Ansari
(b) Cherie Blair
(c) Balraj Krishna
(d) Salman Rushdie |
Answer: (a) |
18. |
Author of the book ‘Candide’.
(a) Anna Sewell
(b) Voltaire
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
(d) Voltaire |
Answer: (d) |
19. |
Author of the book Frankenstein.
(a) Mary Shelley
(b) W.M. Thackeray
(c) Charlotte Bronte
(d) Jules Verne |
Answer: (a) |
20. |
Author of the book Robinson Crusoe.
(a) Daniel Defoe
(b) Johanna Spyri
(c) Lewis Carroll
(d) Rudyard Kipling |
Answer: (a) |
21. |
Author of the book Wuthering Heights.
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) Omar Khayyam
(c) Joyce Kilmer
(d) Gaston Leroux |
Answer: (a) |
22. |
Author of the books The Prince and the Pauper, The Great Expectation, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn.
(a) James A. Michener
(b) Stephen King
(c) George Byron
(d) Mark Twain |
Answer: (d) |
23. |
Authors of the book Tales From Shakespeare.
(a) Charles And Mary Lamb
(b) Gaurav C. Samant
(c) Benazir Bhutto
(d) Charles Dickens |
Answer: (a) |
24. |
Match List I and List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List I List II
(Book) (Author))
A. In custody 1. Amartya Sen
B. Sea of Poppies 2. Amitav Ghosh
C. The Argumentative Indian 3. Anita Desai
D. Unaccustomed Earth 4. Jhumpa Lahiri
Code:
A B C D
(a) 4 1 2 3
(b) 4 2 1 3
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 3 1 2 4 |
Answer: (c) |
25. |
She wrote the famous poem "Trees".
(a) Joyce Kilmer
(b) Alexander Dumas
(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) Robert Louis Stevenson |
Answer: (a) |
26. |
The book ‘Satyartha Prakash’ was written by:
(a) Swami Dayanand
(b) Swami Vivekanand
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Kalidas |
Answer: (a) |
27. |
The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868 is:
(a) The Bible
(b) The Hirake Sutra
(c) The Ramayana
(d) The Mahabharata |
Answer: (b) |
28. |
Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas:
(a) Vinay Patrika
(b) Ramcharitmanas
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Yashodhara |
Answer: (c) |
29. |
Who amonst the following is the author of the book 'Freedom from Fear'?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Aung San Suukyi
(c) Taslima Nasreen
(d) Benazir Bhutto |
Answer: (b) |
30. |
Who is the author of the book ‘Harry Potter’ and the ‘Half-Blood Prince’?
(a)Mark Twain
(a) J. K. Rowling
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Jules Verne |
Answer: (a) |