1. Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

A. Rudyard Kipling
B. John Keats
C. Lewis Carroll
D. H G Wells
Ans. C
2. Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
A. Lord Alfred Tennyson
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Johannes Gutenberg
D. Ren Descartes
Ans. A
3. Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?
A. Browning
B. Marx
C. Shakespeare
D. Kipling
Ans. C
4. Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?
A. The Railway Children
B. Winnie the Poo
C. Jungle book
D. Peter Pan

Ans. D
5. Which is the first Harry Potter book?
A. HP and the Goblet of Fire
B. HP and the Philosophers Stone
C. HP and the Chamber of Secrets
D. HP and the God of small Things
Ans. B
6. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written?
A. 14th
B. 15th
C. 16th
D. 17th
Ans. A
7. What was the nationality of Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of 'Treasure Island'?
A. Scottish
B. Welsh
C. Irish
D. French
Ans. A
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8. 'Jane Eyre' was written by which Bronte sister?
A. Anne
B. Charlotte

C. Emily
D. None of the above
Ans. B
9. What is the book 'Lord of the Flies' about?
A. A round trip around the USA
B. A swarm of killer flies
C. Schoolboys on the desert island
D. None of the above
Ans. C
10. In the book' The Lord of the Rings', who or what is Bilbo?
A. Dwarf
B. Wizard
C. Hobbit
D. Troll
Ans. C
11. Who wrote the crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?
A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
B. Irvine Welsh
C. Agatha Christie
D. Emile Zola
Ans. C
12. Who wrote the famous book, "Who wants to be millionaire"?
A. Vikram Seth

B. Chetan Bhagat
C. Agatha Christie
D. D.Emile Zola
Ans. C
13. What is the other pen name of Munshi Premchand?
A. Nawab Rai
B. Dhanpat Das
C. Gopal Sharma
D. Prem Das
Ans. A
14. Who is the author of the book 'Shadow Lines'?
A. Vikram Seth
B. R. K. Narayan
C. Amitav Gosh
D. Rohington Mistry
Ans. C
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15. Who wrote the famous novel 'Anandmath'?
A. Rabindranath Tagore
B. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
C. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
D. None of the above
Ans. B

16. The Autography of an Unknown Indian' is written by:

A. Vikram Seth
B. V.S. Naipaul
C. Nirad C. Chaudhury
D. None of the above
Ans. C
17. The Argumentative Indian is written by:
A. V.S. Naipaul
B. Rohington Mistry
C. Prof. Amartya Sen
D. Amitav Gosh
Ans. C
18. Whose autobiography is known as 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth'?
A. Pandit Nehru
B. M. K. Gandhi
C. J. C. Bose
D. None of the above
Ans. B
19. Who wrote the book, One night at Call Centre"
A. Rohington Mistry
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Chetan Bhagat
D. Vikram Seth

Ans. B
20. For which of the following books, Salmaan Rushdie won the Booker Prize?
A. Satanic Verses
B. Midnight's Children
C. Fury
D. Shalimaar the Clown
Ans. B