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