Question 1. ‘Hindi Swaraj’ was written by Mahatma Gandhi in _________.
(A) Urdu
(B) English
(C) Gujarati
(D) Hindi
Question 2. In which of the following year M.K. Gandhi wrote ‘Hind Swaraj’?
(A) 1914
(B) 1910
(C) 1909
(D) 1908
Question 3. The famous work of Bhartendu Harishchandra is _________.
(A) Chandra Kanta Santati
(B) Nutan Brahmachari
(C) Bharat Durdasha
(D) Mayanka Manjari
Question 4. Who wrote the play ‘Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja’?
(A) Bhartendu Harishchandra
(B) Fakir Mohan Senapati
(C) Munshi Premchand
(D) Govardhan Ram M. Tripathi
Question 5. Subramaniam Bharati was the poet of which language?
(A) Malayalam
(B) Kannada
(C) Tamil
(D) Telugu
Question 6. Who is the author of ‘Bharat Bharati’?
(A) Bankim Chandra
(B) Maithili Sharan Gupta
(C) Mulkraj Anand
(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Question 7. Who among the following assumed title ‘Rashtrakavi’ for emphatical co-operation in Indian independence struggle by his literary creations?
(A) Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
(B) Sumitra Nandan Pant
(C) Jai Shankar Prasad
(D) Maithili Sharan Gupta
Question 8. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(A) Urdu theatre used to depend heavily on Parsi theatre
(B) The play ‘Nawab’ by Nabin Chandra Das was based on the famine of Bengal
(C) The author of the play ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’ is Vijay Tendulkar
(D) ‘Neel Darpan’ was play based on the exploitation of the indigo farmers
Question 9. The author of the book ‘Towards Struggle’ was __________.
(A) J.B. Kripalani
(B) Jai Prakash Narayan
(C) Ram Manohar Lohia
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Question 10. Who wrote the book ‘Prison Diary’?
(A) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(B) Morarji Desai
(C) Munshi Premchand
(D) Jai Prakash Narayan
Question 11. Who wrote the book ‘A Passage to India’?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) E.M. Forster
(C) Minoo Masani
(D) None of the above
Question 12. The book ‘India’s Struggle for Independence’ was authored by ________.
(A) Bipan Chandra
(B) R.C. Majumdar
(C) S.N. Sen
(D) Tarachand
Question 13. The writer of Indian National Movement : The Long-Term Dynamics is __________.
(A) Sumit Sarkar
(B) Tarachand
(C) Bipan Chandra
(D) Satish Chandra
Question 14. Who is the author of the book ‘Out of Print : Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age’?
(A) Mark Tully
(B) Nic Newman
(C) Rabbin Jafferey
(D) Professor George Brock
Question 15. The Book ‘Mother India’ was written by _________.
(A) Bipin Chandra Pal
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) Catherine Mayo
Question 16. Who is the author of flag song (Jhanda Geet) of India?
(A) Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
(B) Shyamlal Prashad Gupta
(C) Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore
Question 17. The Nationalist song ‘Aie Mere Watan Ke Logo’ had been written by poet __________.
(A) Maithili Sharan Gupta
(B) Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’
(C) Pradeep
(D) Javed Akhtar
Question 18. Poet Iqbal, who wrote ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha’ was related to which State?
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Punjab
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Delhi
Question 19. Who wrote the famous song ‘Sare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara’?
(A) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(B) Muhammad Iqbal
(C) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(D) Sahir Ludhianvi
Question 20. ‘Mazhab Nahi Sikhata Aapas Mein Bair Rakhna’ who wrote these lines in his works?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Raghupati Sahai Firaq
(C) Muhammad Iqbal
(D) Mirza Ghalib
Question 21. The pamphlet entitled ‘Why I Am an Atheist’ was written by_________.
(A) Yashpal
(B) Rajguru
(C) Bhagat Singh
(D) B.K. Dutt
Question 22. The song ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ written during the Swadeshi Movement of India inspired the liberation struggle of Bangladesh and was adopted as the National Anthem of Bangladesh. Who wrote this song?
(A) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(B) Mukunda Das
(C) Dwijendralal Roy
(D) Rajni Kanta Sen
Question 23. Who composed ‘Jana Gana Mana’?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(C) Aurobindo Ghosh
(D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Question 24. Who of the following is the author of a collection of a poem called ‘Golden Threshold’?
(A) Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Annie Besant
(D) Aruna Asaf Ali
Question 25. Who is the author of the book, ‘Landmarks in Indian Constitutional and National Development’?
(A) Bipin Chandra
(B) Gurmukh Nihal Singh
(C) B.R. Nanda
(D) Ram Gopal