25 GK Questions and Answers on Well Known Books and Authors
1. “The God of Small Things” was written by:
(a) Kiran Nagarkar (b) Arundhati Roy (c) Kuldip Nayar (d) Vikram Seth
2. The author of Lajja (Shame) is:
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(a) Vikram Seth (b) (c) Taslima Nasreen (d)
3. ‘The ‘Inside’ was written by:
(a) Mulkh Raj Anand (b) (c) P.V. Narasimha Rao (d)
4. ‘Hindu View of Life’ was written by:
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(a) R.K. Narayan (b) Dr. S. Radhakrishanan
(c) R.N. Tagore (d) Khushwant Singh
5. ‘The Prince’ was written by:
(a) N. Machiaveli (b) Boris Paternak
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(c) R.N. Tagore (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
6. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:
(a) Thomas Hardy (b) Charles Dickens
(c) Pearl S. Buck (d) None of the above
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7. ‘Untold Story’ is the creation of:
(a) B. M. Kaul (b) Mulkh Raj Anand
(c) Kuldip Nayar (d) V. Kumar
8. ‘India of My Dreams’ has been written by:
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(a) Jawahar Lai Nehru (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) C. Subramaniam (d) None of the above
9. ‘My Experiments with Truth’ was written by: (a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (b) Sardar Patel
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Mahatma Gandhi
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10. The book ‘Remembering Babylon’ is written by: (a) David Malouf (b) Philip Roth
(c) Vikram Seth (d) E. Annie Proulx
11. “In Custody”, an English novel, is written by which one of the following?
(a) Shobha De (b) Anita Desai
(c) Vikram Seth (d) VS. Naipaul
12. Who wrote “Three Musketeers”?
(a) Victor Augo (b) Alexander Dumas
(c) Charles Dickens (d) H.G. Wells
13. The author of ‘War and Peace’ was:
(a) Leo Tolstoy (b) Aldous Huxley
(c) Charles Dickens (d) Adam Smith
14. ‘Bhagwat Gita’ was written by:
(a) Maharishi Ved Vyas (b) Tulsi Das
(c) Sur Das (d) Hari Sharan
15. ‘Train to Pakistan’ was written by:
(a) Amrita Pritam (b) Khushwant Singh
(c) Benazir Bhutto (d) Z.A. Bhutto
16. ‘Autobiography of an Unknown Indian was written by:
(a) Mulkhraj Anand (b) R.N. Tagore
(c) N.C. Chowdhry (d) Sarojini Naidu
17. ‘Great Expectations’ was written by:
(a) John Galsworthy (b) Victor Hugo
(c) H.G. Wells (d) Charles Dickens
18. The author of ‘Discovery of India’ is:
(a) Mulkraj Anand (b) Kuldip Nayar
(c) Jawahar Lai Nehru (d) Nirad C. Chowdhry
19. ‘A Passage to England’ was written by:
(a) Nirad C. Chowdhry (b) R.K. Narayan
(c) Khushwant Singh (d) Nayantara Segal
20. ‘East of Eden’ was written by:
(a) B.N. Mullick (b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawahar Lai Nehru (d) Dr. Radhakrishanan
21. The Author of ‘Panch Tantra’ is:
(a) Kalidas (b) Vishnu Sharma
(c) Tulsidas (d) Valmiki
22. In which language Mahatma Gandhi had written his biography?
(a) Gujarati (b) Marathi
(c) Hindi (d) English
23. Who is the author of ‘Rights of Man’?
(a) Kautilya (b) Plato
(c) Valmiki (d) Thomas Paine
24. Which of the following books has been written by Vikram Seth?
(a) Look Back in Anger (b) Islamic Bomb
(c) A Suitable Boy (d) My God Died Young
25. Name of the author of ‘The Life Divine’:
(a) John Milton (b) G.B. Shaw
(c) Shri Aurobindo Ghosh (d) Mulkraj Anand
Answers
1. (b) 8. (c) 15. (b) 22. (d)
2. (c) 9. (d) 16. (c) 23. (d)
3. (c) 10. (a) 17. (d) 24. (c)
4. (b) 11. (b) 18. (c) 25. (c)
5. (a) 12. (b) 19. (a)
6. (b) 13. (a) 20. (a)
7. (a) 14. (a) 21. ( b)