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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)

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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

Answer: (c)

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C. The Argumentative Indian
D. Unaccustomed Earth
Code:
AB C D
(a) 4 1 2 3
(b) 4 2 1 3
(c) 3 2 1 4
(d) 3 1 2 4

3. Anita Desai
4. Jhumpa Lahiri

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)

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