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 )
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List ii (book)
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a. VS Naipaul
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1. The siege of krishnapur
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b. Salman Rushdie
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2. In a Free State
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A. Paul Scott
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3. Idnight’s Children
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B. JG Farrell
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4. Staying on
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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)
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List ii (author)
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a. Chitra
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1. Bankim Chandra chatterjee
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b. Devdas
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2. Rabindranath tagore
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3. Durgesh
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4. Sharat Chandra
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c. Ganadevata
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5. Tea Shankar bandopadhyay
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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)
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List ii (author)
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a. My presidential years
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1. S radhakrishna
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b. Life
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2. VV Giri
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c. Voice of conscience
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3. N sanjiva Reddy
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d. Without fear of favour
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4. R venkataraman
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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
11.C
12.B
13.A
14.C
15.A
16A
17.B
18.B
19.A
20.D