Question 1. The Editor of ‘Congress Presidential Addresses’ was _________.
(A) H.N. Mitra
(B) Ramananda Chatterjee
(C) B.P. Sitaramayya
(D) G.A. Natesan
Question 2. In which one of the following jails, the book ‘Discovery of India’ was written by Jawaharlal Nehru?
(A) Ahmadnagar Fort Jail
(B) Naini Central Jail
(C) Yerwada Jail
(D) Alipur Central Jail
Question 3. Who is the author of the book, ‘Discovery of India’?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(C) B.R. Ambedkar
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Question 4. Who was the author of the book ‘Bandi Jiwan’?
(A) Sachindra Nath Sanyal
(B) Ram Prasad Bismil
(C) Hema Chandrakar
(D) Dinbandhu Mitra
Question 5. The book ‘Mountbatten and the Partition of India’ was written by _______.
(A) Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
(B) Louis Fischer
(C) M.N. Das
(D) None of the above
Question 6. The report ‘Journey through the Kingdom of Oudh in the year 1849- 50’ was written by _______.
(A) W.H. Sleeman
(B) Bishop Heber
(C) Outram
(D) None of the above
Question 7. ‘Indian War of Independence 1857’ is written by ________.
(A) S.B. Chaudhuri
(B) V.D. Savarkar
(C) R.C. Majumdar
(D) S.N. Sen
Question 8. ‘The Roots of Ancient India’ was written by _________.
(A) A. Ghosh
(B) W.A. Fairservis
(C) D.P. Agrawal
(D) D.K. Chakravarti
Question 9. The writer of the book ‘India’s Second Freedom’ is ________.
(A) M.G. Devasahayam
(B) Lal Krishna Advani
(C) Loknayak Jai Prakash Narayan
(D) Soli Sorabji
Question 10. The author of the book entitled ‘Planning and the Poor’ is _________.
(A) L.K. Jha
(B) L.C. Jain
(C) Gunnar Myrdal
(D) B.S. Minhas
Question 11. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Problems of the Far East’?
(A) Lytton
(B) Churchill
(C) Curzon
(D) Lawrence
Question 12. Who wrote ‘The Untold Story’?
(A) Air Marshal Keelor
(B) Admiral Bhagwat
(C) General Kaul
(D) Brigadier Dalvi
Question 13. The famous book ‘The Alphabet’ was written by ________.
(A) Sir William Jons
(B) G.S. Ojha
(C) David Diringer
(D) Buhler
Question 14. The book ‘The Proudest Day’ was authored by _________.
(A) Anthony Read and David Fisher
(B) Chandra Kumar and Mohindra Puri
(C) Durga Das
(D) Alok Bhalla
Question 15. Whose autobiography is the book ‘My Music, My Life’?
(A) Ustad Zakir Hussain
(B) Pandit Ravi Shankar
(C) Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
(D) Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma
Question 16. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Giddha – Jabbar Patel
(B) Yayati – Girish Karnad
(C) Sita – Vishnu Das Swayamvar Bhave
(D) Baki Itihas – Badal Sarkar
Question 17. The author of ‘Love and Longing in Bombay’ is _________.
(A) Kiran Desai
(B) Raj Kamal Jha
(C) Arundhati Roy
(D) Vikram Chandra
Question 18. ‘Godan’ and ‘Gaban’ are the works of the same author. What is his name?
(A) Nirala
(B) Kalidas
(C) Munshi Premchand
(D) Rabindra Nath Thakur
Question 19. The author of ‘Nirmala’ is __________.
(A) Mohan Rakesh
(B) Maithili Sharan Gupta
(C) Munshi Premchand
(D) Jaishankar Prasad
Question 20. Which one of the following books is not written by Kalidas?
(A) Ritusamharam
(B) Uttararamacharitam
(C) Kumarasambhavam
(D) Meghadutam
Question 21. Soj-e-Vatan is the book written by _________.
(A) Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’
(B) Sumitra Nandan Pant
(C) Premchand
(D) Mahadevi Verma
Question 22. The author of ‘Malgudi Days’ is _________.
(A) Mulkraj Anand
(B) Laxman Seth
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) K. Abbas
Question 23. Which of the following pair is correct?
(A) Margaret Thatcher – The Future of N.P.T.
(B) Savita Pande – The Path to Power
(C) Mani Shankar Aiyar – The Pakistan Papers
(D) C. Rajagopalachari – India Wins Freedom
Question 24. The author of ‘The Golden Gate’ is __________.
(A) Vikram Seth
(B) Sir Walter Scott
(C) Ernest Hemingway
(D) Amitabh Ghosh
Question 25. Who among the following Journalists has written his autobiography entitled the ‘Lucknow Boy’?
(A) Pritish Nandi
(B) Narendra Mohan
(C) Alok Mehta
(D) Vinod Mehta