Q1. Which of the following books has been written by Kishwar Desai?
(a) The Red Devil
(b) Witness the Night
(c) Tonight this Savage Rite
(d) Earth and Ashes
Q2. Which one of the following newspapers had been edited by Gandhiji?
(a) Navjivan
(b) Gujarat Times
(c) Maratha
(d) Jan Satta
Q3. Karl Marx’s books ‘Das Kapital’ was published in
(a) 1857
(b) 1862
(c) 1867
(d) 1872
Q4. The book ‘Cricket my Style’ has been written by
(a) Sunil Gavaskar
(b) Mohinder Amarnath
(c) Imran Khan
(d) Kapil Dev
Q5. Match the following
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List I
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List II
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A. The Satanic
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Sunil Gavaskar
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B. A House for Mr Biswas
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VS Naipaul
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C. Interpreter Maladies
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Salman Rushdie
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D. Sunny Days
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Jhumpa Lahiri
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Codes
A B C D
(a) 3 4 1 2
(b) 3 2 1 4
(c) 3 2 4 1
(d) 3 4 2 1
Q6. Which of the following famous books is associated with Austin?
(a) Lectures on Jurisprudence
(b) Leviathan
(c) Social Contract
(d) The Problem of Sovereignty
Q7. The author of the book titled ‘The Future of India’ is
(a) Bimal Jalan
(b) Deepak Chopra
(c) Anurag Mathur
(d) Amitav Ghosh
Q8. Who is the author of the internationally acclaimed book, “The Mystery of Capital?
(a) Julian Rathbone
(b) David Aaker
(c) Hernando de Soto
(d) Masaaki Sato
Q9. Who among the following wrote Sanskrit grammar?
(a) Kalidasa
(b) Charaka
(c) Panini
(d) Aryabhata
Q10. The book titled ‘The Indian War of Independence’ was written by
(a) Krishna Verma
(b) Madame Came
(c) BC Tilak
(d) VD Savarkar
Q11. The author of the book ‘My Experiments with Truth’ is
(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(b) Govind Vallabh Pant
(c) MK Gandhi
(d) Tara Ali Beg
Q12. The author of the book ‘India Wins Freedom’ is
(a) Kuldeep Nayyar
(b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(d) Indira Gandhi
Q13. With which of the following books, is Dr Sarvepalli RadhaKrishnan associated?
1. An Idealist View of Life
2. Bhagavad Gita
3. Conquest of Self
4. Hindu View of Life
Select the correct answer using the codes given below
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 4
Q14. Out of the following artists, who has written the book. Meandering Pastures of Memories?
(a) Shovana Narayan
(b) Saroja Vaidyanathan
(c) Yamini Krishnamoorthy
(d) Geeta Chandran
Q15. Who has written the book, ‘The White Castle’?
(a) Orhan Pamuk
(b) RK Narayan
(c) Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
(d) Vikram Seth
S1. Ans.(b)
Sol.
S2. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S3. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S4. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S5. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S6. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S7. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S8. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S9. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S10. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S11. Ans.(c)
Sol.
S12. Ans.(b)
Sol.
S13. Ans.(d)
Sol.
S14. Ans.(a)
Sol.
S15. Ans.(a)
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