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1. Which Indian author's debut novel is "The White Tiger"?
  1. Chetan Bhagat
  2. Aravind Adiga
  3. Kiran Desai
  4. Vikram Seth

Answer: Aravind Adiga

2. Who is the author of the famous novel “Midnight’s Children”?
  1. Vikram Seth
  2. Arundhati Roy
  3. Salman Rushdie
  4. Anita Desai

Answer: Salman Rushdie

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3. Which of the following is NOT a work by Kalidasa?
  1. Raghuvamsha
  2. Meghaduta
  3. Ritu Samhara
  4. Gitanjali

Answer: Gitanjali

4. Who is the author of Glimpses of World history and the discovery of India?
  1. J.L Nehru
  2. MK Gandhi
  3. B.G Tilak
  4. Rajgopalchari

Answer: J.L Nehru

5. Mulkraj Anand was awarded the Sahitya Academy award for
  1. Morning Face
  2. The Bubble
  3. The Big Heart
  4. None

Answer: Morning Face

6. Which is the latest novel published in 2005 of Salman Rushdie?
  1. Shalimar the clown
  2. The Moor’s last sigh
  3. The Satanic Verses
  4. Fury

Answer: Shalimar the clown

7. Name of the author of the following novels one Night at the Call center and Five points someone
  1. Anurag Mathur
  2. Vikram Chandra
  3. Chetan Bhagat
  4. Pico Lyer

Answer: Chetan Bhagat

8. Who wrote the book 'Panchatantra'
  1. Chanakya
  2. Banabhatta
  3. Vishnu Sharma
  4. Kalidas

Answer: Vishnu Sharma

9. Who was the first to translate the Mahabharat into English
  1. Ram Nath Kak
  2. Raja Rao
  3. K M Ganguli
  4. R. K. Narayan

Answer: K M Ganguli

10. Ramcharitmanas was originally written in which language
  1. Maithili
  2. Braj
  3. Awadhi
  4. Bhojpuri

Answer: Awadhi

11. Who wrote the famous play “Abhijnanasakuntalam”?
  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Kalidasa
  3. Premchand
  4. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Answer: Kalidasa

12. Who wrote the novel “The Guide”?
  1. R. K. Narayan
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Salman Rushdie
  4. Arundhati Roy

Answer: R. K. Narayan

13. Which of Mahatma Gandhi’s works is one of the imperishable classics of our time?
  1. The story of My Experiments with Truth
  2. Young India
  3. Hind Swaraj
  4. None

Answer: The story of My Experiments with Truth

14. Who among the following novelists translated from Bangla into English The Lake of Palms and The Slave Girl of Agra?
  1. R.C Dutta
  2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  3. S.B Banerjee
  4. None

Answer: R.C Dutta

15. Nathan and Rukmani are characters hi Kamala Markandya’s
  1. Nectar in A Sieve
  2. A Handful of Rice
  3. A Silence of Desire
  4. None

Answer: Nectar in A Sieve

16. The Company of Women and Delhi are novels written by
  1. Khushwant Singh
  2. Chaman Mahal
  3. Manohar Malgonkar
  4. Vikram Seth

Answer: Khushwant Singh

17. Identify the plays in which Karnad uses folk tales
  1. Tuglaq. Tale Danda
  2. Hayavadana. Naga Mandala
  3. The fire and the rain
  4. None

Answer: Hayavadana. Naga Mandala

18. Jataka is a Buddhist literature on
  1. Metaphysics
  2. Sermons of Budha
  3. Rules of the Orders
  4. Stories of Previous births of Budha

Answer: Stories of Previous births of Budha

19. What is the correct group of Kamala Das’ poems in chronological order ?
  1. Summer in Calcutta - The Descendents - The Old Playhouse and Other Poems -Collected Poems
  2. Collected Poems - Summer in Calcutta - The Old playhouse and Other Poems - The Descendants
  3. The Old Playhouse and Other Poems -Summer in Calcutta - Descendents - Collected Poems
  4. None of these.

Answer: Summer in Calcutta - The Descendents - The Old Playhouse and Other Poems -Collected Poems

20. "Lone fox dancing" is the autobiography of which Indian writer
  1. Nirad C Chaudhary
  2. Anita Desai
  3. Ruskin Bond
  4. Mahesh Dattani

Answer: Ruskin Bond

21. The ‘Fall of a Sparrow’ is the autobiography of
  1. Salim Ali
  2. Medha Patkar
  3. M. S. Swaminathan
  4. Sunderlal Bahuguna

Answer: Salim Ali

22. In which novel does Anita Desai explore the complex relationships in an Indian joint family?
  1. The Inheritance of Loss
  2. Clear Light of Day
  3. Cry, the Peacock
  4. Fasting, Feasting

Answer: Clear Light of Day

23. Who wrote the famous poem “Where the Mind is Without Fear”?
  1. Sarojini Naidu
  2. Rabindranath Tagore
  3. Subramania Bharati
  4. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

24. Who wrote My Days and My Dateless Diary?
  1. R.K Narayan
  2. Dom Morals
  3. K.M Pannikar
  4. Frank Morals

Answer: R.K Narayan

25. Who is the author of Bye. bye Blackbird?
  1. Anita Desai
  2. Kalama Das
  3. Kamala Markandya
  4. Ruth P Jhabvala

Answer: Anita Desai

26. Attia Hossain’s only novel is the story of Laila’s revolt against the joint family system name the novel
  1. A stronger climate
  2. The Zigag way
  3. Sunlight on a Broken column
  4. None

Answer: Sunlight on a Broken column

27. Who wrote the book "We the People"
  1. JRD Tata
  2. Khushwant Singh
  3. Nani Palkhivala
  4. TN Kaul

Answer: Nani Palkhivala

28. Who was the first receipient of Saraswati Samman Award
  1. Ramakant Rath
  2. Vijay Tendulkar
  3. Balamani Amma
  4. Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Answer: Harivansh Rai Bachchan

29. The book "An Era of darkness - The British Empire in India", released in 2016, is written by
  1. Amartya Sen
  2. N. Ram
  3. Taslima Nasrin
  4. Shashi Tharoor

Answer: Shashi Tharoor

30. Who is the first Hindi poet to received Jnanpith Award
  1. Sumitranandan Pant
  2. Maithili Sharan Gupt
  3. Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
  4. Suryakant Tripathi

Answer: Sumitranandan Pant

30. Who written the first indian novel written in English "Rajmohan's Wife" in the year 1864
  1. Rabindranath Tagore
  2. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  3. Ram Mohan Roy
  4. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

31. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for his novel "Midnight's Children"?
  1. Aravind Adiga
  2. Vikram Seth
  3. Salman Rushdie
  4. Jhumpa Lahiri

Answer: Salman Rushdie

32. Who is the author of the famous epic “Mahabharata”?
  1. Valmiki
  2. Ved Vyas
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Tulsidas

Answer: Ved Vyas

33. The book “Godan” was penned by which renowned Indian author?
  1. Munshi Premchand
  2. R. K. Narayan
  3. Rabindranath Tagore
  4. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Answer: Munshi Premchand

34. R.K Narayan created the region known as
  1. Malgudi
  2. Lake District
  3. Waverly
  4. Wessex

Answer: Malgudi

35. Wings of Fire is an autobiography of
  1. Indira Gandhi
  2. Subhash Chandra Bose
  3. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  4. Pranab Mukherjee

Answer: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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