BOOKS AND AUTHORS 31 TO 40

31.   Who wrote the book ‘A passage to India’?

      a).  Minoo  Masani

b)    Jawaharlal Nehru

c)     Victor Bannerjee

d)    EM Foster

32.   Which book is entitle das ‘Bible of communism’?

a)    Affluent Society

b)    War and Peace

c)     Das Kapital

d)    Gulag Archipelago

33.   The book ‘Gulliver’s travels’ was written by

a) Charles lamb

b) Charles Dickens

c)  Alexander Dumas

d) Jonathan Swill

34.   ‘Alice in Wonderland’ the famous TV serial, is based on a book written by

a) Charles Dickens

b) Thomas Hardy

c)  Lewis Carroll

d) Father Dicoste

35.   the celebrated novel ‘The Godfather’ was authored by

a)    John Milton

b)    Victor Hugo

c)     Mario Puzo

d)    Harold Robbins

36.   Who is the author of the book ‘New dimensions of India’s foreign policy’?

a)    AB Vajpayee

b)    Jaswant Singh

c)     PC Alexander

d)    Yashwant sinha

37.   Who is called the Father of English Poetry?

a)    Charles Dickens

b)    Milton

c)     Wordsworth

d)    Chaucer

38.   Who among the following wrote the book ‘Algebra of infinite justice’?

a)    Anita Desai

b)    Vikaram Seth

c)     Arundhati Roy

d)    Riohington Mistry

39.   ‘Na Khatma Hone wali Kahani’ is the autobiography of

a)    TN Sheshan

b)    Amitabh Bachchan

c)     Sonia Gandhi

d)    VP singh

40.   The author of ‘Business a speed of Though’ is

a)    Dick Fran sis

b)    John Gray

c)     Bill Gates

d)    David Baldexi 

ANSWERS 

BOOKS AND AUTHORS 21 TO 30

21.   Match the following

List I (book)	List ii (author)
a.       Oliver twist	1.       Charles dickens
b.      Gathering storm	2.       Thomas Mann
c.       Death in Venice	3.       Winston Churchill
d.      Confessions	4.       JJ Rousseau

                       Codes

                               A  B C   D 

a)      1   3  2  4

b)      4    3 2  1

c)       1    2 3  4

d)      4    2  3 1

22.   Which one of the following centres of mainly done with development and flight tests of the cryogenic engine of Indian satellite launch vehicles?

a) Bengaluru

b) Hyderabad

c)  Mumbai

d) Mahendragiri

23.   Match the following

List (book)	List ii (author)
a.       My days	1.       Indira Gandhi
b.      My India	2.       RK Narayan
c.       My Life and Times	3.       S Nihal Singh
D.  My Truth	4.     VV Giri

Codes

     A  B   C   D 

a)  2   3   1   4

b)  3   2   1   4

c)   3   2   1   4

d) 2    3  4    1

24.   Outstanding historian, Eric Hobsbawmwho expired on 1^st October, 2012, has authored a large number of books. The title of his famous autobiography is

a) Bandits                         :

b) Uncommon People    : Resistance, rebellion and jazz

c)  The new century        :In conversation with Antonio polito

d) Interesting times        :a twentiteth century Life

25.   Match the following

List I (book)	List ii (author )
a.       Freedom at Midnight	1.       Mahatma Gandhi
b.      Nineten Eighty	2.       Sarojini Naidu
c.       My experiments with truth	3.       Larry colins and Dominique lapierre
d.      The song of India	4.       George Orwell

Code

A   B    C   D 

a)     3  4    2     1

b)    4  1    2     3

c)    3   4    1     2

d)   4   1    2     3

26.   Match the following

List I (book)	List ii (author)
a.       Wealth of Nations	1.       Adam smith
b.      Future shock	2.       Alan tauffler
c.       Mother	3.       Maxim Gorki
d.      MeinKamph	4.       Adolf Hitler

Code

        A     B     C      D

a)      1       2     3      4

b)      1        2     4    3

c)       2       1      3    4

d)      2        1     4    3

27.   The author of the book ‘A brief History of time’ is

a) Carl sagan

b) John sohwarz

c)  Mrehael green

d) Stephen hawking

28.   Who among the following authored the book ‘plain speaking?

a) .AB Vajpayee

b)   EK Nayanar

C)  LK advani

d) N chandrababyu Naidu

29.    ‘Higher than Hopes’ is a Biography of

a.)     Mother Toresa

b.)     Nelsonmandela

c.)      Bishop tutu

d.)      none of the above

30.   The book ‘satanic verses’ was written by

a) Gunnar Myrdal

b) Agatha Christie

c)  William Golding 

d) Salman Rushdie

ANSWERS 

BOOKS AND AUTHORS 11 TO 20

11.   Which of the following pairs is /are  correctly matched?

a) arundhati Roy :  the God of small things

b) kirandesai       : The inheritance of Loss

c)  jhumpa Lahiri : The Namesake

Codes

a) a, 2 and 3

b) 2 and 3

c)  1 and 3

d) 1 and 2

12.   The Musalman, the handwritten daily newspaper in circulation since 1927, is published from which one of the following places?

a) Chennai

b) Hyderabad.

c)  Mysore

d) Luck now

13.   Who among the following is the author of the book ‘My country, My life’?

a) APJ Abdul Kalam

b) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

c)  LK advani

d) Shashi tharoor

14.   Who among the following is the author of the book ‘India Remembered’?

a) JK Rowling

b) Robert Dallek

c)  Pamela Mountbatten

d) Stephen Hawking.

15.   Match the following

List i(writer )	List ii (book)
a.       VS Naipaul	1.       The siege of krishnapur
b.      Salman Rushdie	2.       In a Free State
A.      Paul Scott	3.       Idnight’s Children
B.      JG Farrell	4.       Staying on

Codes

       A     B    C    D 

a)    2      3   4    1

b)    4     1    2    3

c)    2      1    4     3

d)    4      3   2    1

16.   Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate politics of the Indian National Congress in a series of Articles entitled ‘New lamps for Old’?

a) Aurobindo Ghosh

b) RC Dutt

c)  Syed Ahmad Khan

d) Viraghavachari

17.   Who among the following translated the autobiography of Madam Curie in Hindi?

a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee

b) Lal Bahadur

c)  Choundhary Charan Singh

d) Gobind Vallabh Pant

18.   Who among the following wrote the poem’Subh – e – Azadi’?

a) Sahir Ludhiyanvi

b) Faiz Ahmed Faiz

c)  Muhammad  Iqbal

d) Maulana Abdul KalamAzad

19.   Match the following

List I (book)	List ii (author)
a.       Chitra	1.       Bankim Chandra chatterjee
b.      Devdas	2.       Rabindranath tagore
3.       Durgesh	4.       Sharat Chandra
c.       Ganadevata	5.       Tea Shankar bandopadhyay

Codes

        A   B   C    D

a)      2    3   1     4

b)      1    4   2     3

c)       2    4  1      3

d)      1    3  2     

20.   Match the following

List I (book)	List ii (author)
a.       My presidential years	1.       S radhakrishna
b.      Life	2.       VV Giri
c.       Voice of conscience	3.       N sanjiva Reddy
d.      Without fear of favour	4.       R venkataraman

Codes

        A  B   C   D 

a)      2   1   4   3

b)      4   3   2   1

c)       2   3   4   1

d)      4   1   2   3

ANSWERS

BOOKS AND AUTHORS 1 TO 10

 1.       Who among the following is the author the book, ‘sachin: born to Bat – the journey of Cricket’s Ultimate Centurion’?

a) Khalid ah ansari

b) Boria majumdar

c)  Kiran nagarkar

d) Ed Hawkins

2.       Match the following

List I (author)	List (book)
a.       Mahatma Gandhi	1.       India Divided
b.      RamManohar Lohia	2.       India Wins Freedom.
c.       Dr Rajendra Prasad	3.       Hind Swaraj
d.      Maulana Abdul KalamAzad	4.       The wheel of History

Codes

       A   B   C    D 

a) 1      2    4    3

b) 2      3    1   4

c)  3       1    2   4

d) 3      4     1   2

3.       Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Nirbasan’?

a) Mahsweta Devi

b) Taslima Nasreen

c)  Sunil Gangopadhyay

d) Vikram seth

4.       Match the following  

List (book)	List II (author)
a.       Geet govinda	1.       Kalhana
b.      Life divine	2.       Jaya deva
c.       Meghdootam	3.       Aurobindo Ghosh
d.      Rajtarangini	4.kalidasa

Codes

      A   B   C    D 

a)  2    3   4    1

b) 1     2   3    4

c)  3     2   1    4

d) 2     1   4     3

5.       Who is the author of controversialbok ‘Gatha Aid shree guru granth sahib’?

a) Akhilesh jaiswal

b) Fr Piar singh

c)  Dr Rita Joshi

d) Dr piara Singh

6.       Match the following.

List I (author)	List ii (book)
a)    Amartya sen	1.       An ordinary person’s guide to empire
a.       Bimal jolan	2.       The argumentative
c.arundhati Roy	3. the future of India
b.      Mani Shankar	3.       Confessions of a secular fundamental

Code

      A  B   C   D

a) 3    2   1    4

b) 3    2    4   1

c)  2    3    1  4

d) 2    3    4   1

7.       Which I of the following is not correctly matched?

a) Raja rao                                    : Telugu

b) Gobind trimbuk deshpande  : Marathi

c)  Dubramaniyam Bjharati        :Tamil

d) Tara Shankar Joshi                  :Gujarati

8.       Who among the following wrote the book ‘Bahubivah’?

a)  Raja rammohan Roy

b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

c)  Pandita Rambai

d) Rabindranath Tagore

9.       Who was the author of the famous work ‘A contributions to the critic oif Political 

Economy’ ?

a) Adam smith

b) John lock

c)  Karl Mark

d) Thomas Penn

10.   Who is the author of the book ‘glimpses of world history’?

a) Abdul Kalam Azad

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c)  S Gopalan

d) S Radhakrishnan

ANSWERS