Question 1. ‘Silent Spring’ was written by_________.
(A) Joseph Fourier
(B) Richard Wetherald
(C) Linnaeus
(D) Rachel Carson
Question 2. Who wrote ‘The Satanic Verses’?
(A) Taslima Nasreen
(B) Salman Rushdie
(C) Vikram Seth
(D) Arundhati Roy
Question 3. ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights’ is a book written by __________.
(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Salman Rushdie
(C) Ruskin Bond
(D) Jai Ram Ramesh
Question 4. Who is the author of the book ‘Namesake’?
(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Chetan Bhagat
(D) Kiran Desai
Question 5. The author of the book ‘The Road Ahead’ is _________.
(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) Vikram Seth
(C) Bill Gates
(D) Bill Clinton
Question 6. The author of ‘Manas ke Hans’ is __________.
(A) Jai Shankar Prasad
(B) Amritlal Nagar
(C) Premchand
(D) None of the above
Question 7. Sumitra Nandan Pant has been known as _________.
(A) Veer ras poet
(B) Pragativadi poet
(C) Chhayavadi poet
(D) Bhaktivadi poet
Question 8. The author of ‘Dyna : A Tribute’ is ___________.
(A) Andrew Morton
(B) Julia Delano
(C) Tim Graham
(D) Peter Donnelly
Question 9. Who is Cornelius Fudge in the novel ‘Harry Potter’?
(A) Friend of Harry Potter
(B) A King
(C) The Minister of Magic
(D) None of the above
Question 10. The book ‘Bullet for Bullet: My Life as a Police Officer’ is authored by ___________.
(A) Ashwani Kumar
(B) Kiran Bedi
(C) Julius Rebeiro
(D) K.P.S. Gill
Question 11. Who wrote the book entitled ‘Romancing with Life: An Autobiography’?
(A) Anupam Kher
(B) Amitabh Bachchan
(C) Kalpana Chawla
(D) Devanand
Question 12. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(A) Moin Shakir – Modern Islam in India
(B) Peter Hardy – Khilafat to Partition
(C) Khalid B. Sayeed – Pakistan: The Formative Phase (1857-1948)
(D) W.C. Smith – The Muslims of British India
Question 13. Who has written the book ‘Heart of India’?
(A) Anita Desai
(B) R.K. Narayanan
(C) Mark Tully
(D) Khushwant Singh
Question 14. The author of the book ‘Lajja’ is ________.
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Kiran Bedi
(C) Taslima Nasrin
(D) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Question 15. What is the name of the controversial novel written by Taslima Nasrin?
(A) Fire
(B) Lajja
(C) Water
(D) Tamas
Question 16. The Book ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ is written by ________.
(A) R.K. Narayanan
(B) George Orwell
(C) Khushwant Singh
(D) None of the above
Question 17. Who wrote the fiction ‘The God of Small Things’ in English?
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Mulkraj Anand
(C) R.K. Narayanan
(D) Shobha De
Question 18. Who is the author of ‘Mrignayani’?
(A) Bhagavati Charan Verma
(B) Amritlal Nagar
(C) Acharya Chatursen
(D) Vrindavan Lal Verma
Question 19. Which of the following Hindi works was written first?
(A) Mrigavati
(B) Madhumalti
(C) Padmavati
(D) Indravati
Question 20. ‘India from Curzon to Nehru’ is the book of __________.
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
(C) Durga Das
(D) Kuldip Nayyar
Question 21. The book entitled ‘India from Curzon to Nehru and After’ is written by _________.
(A) Louis Fischer
(B) Frank Moraes
(C) Web Miller
(D) Durga Das
Question 22. Who has written ‘An Equal Music’?
(A) Anita Desai
(B) Khushwant Singh
(C) Vikram Seth
(D) Shobha De
Question 23. The writer of ‘Bikhre Moti’ is _________.
(A) Dinkar Sonwalkar
(B) Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
(C) Agyeya
(D) Muktibodh
Question 24. What is the name of the writer of ‘Naukar Ki Kameez’?
(A) Prabhakar Shukla
(B) Bhawani Prasad Mishra
(C) Vinod Kumar Shukla
(D) Ashok Vajpayee
Question 25. Who was the writer of the novel ‘David Copperfield’?
(A) Thomas Mann
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) Charles Lamb
(D) Thomas Hardy