Books and Authors MCQS 1

1. The author of Geet Govinda is :
(A) Meera
(B) Jaya Dev
(C) Sur Das
(D) Kabir Das
(E) None of these

2. Who is the author of ‘A Suitable Boy’?
(A) R.K. Narayan
(B) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
(C) Amitava Ghosh
(D) Vikram Seth
(E) None of these

3. Who wrote ‘Jungle Book’?
(A) Mohd. Salim
(B) Rudyard Kipling
(C) Sibhu
(D) None of the above
(E) None of these

4. Who amongst the following has written the famous book ‘The Path to Power’?
(A) Bill Clinton
(B) V.P. Singh
(C) Margaret Thatcher
(D) Mikhail Gorbachev
(E) None of these

5. Who has written the book ‘Courtyards of My Childhood—A Memoir’?
(A) Ramola Chatterjee
(B) Kamala Markandeya
(C) Shobha De
(D) Tabish Khair
(E) None of these

6. ‘Freedom at Midnight’ was written by :
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Rajendra Prasad
(C) Lord Mountbatten
(D) Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
(E) None of these

7. Who wrote ‘Gulliver’s Travels’?
(A) Jonathan Swift
(B) Alvin Toffler
(C) Samuel Johnson
(D) D.H. Lawrence
(E) None of these

8. Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘Kiss and Tell’?
(A) Jitendra Kohli
(B) Kurt Eichenwald
(C) David Bomstien
(D) Allain de Botton
(E) None of these

9. The author of the famous novel ‘Gone with the Wind’ is :
(A) R.L. Stephenson
(B) Charles Dickens
(C) Margaret Mitchell
(D) Harold Robins
(E) None of these

10. Who was the author of ‘Religion of Man’?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) S. Radhakrishnan
(D) Aurobindo Ghosh
(E) None of these

11. Who wrote ‘Paradise Lost’?
(A) Sophocles
(B) Dante
(C) Homer
(D) Milton
(E) None of these

12. The most printed work in the world is :
(A) Shakespeare’s works
(B) Bible
(C) Thirukkural
(D) Mao’s red book
(E) None of these

13. Who wrote ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’?
(A) D.H. Lawrence
(B) Vincent
(C) Sir Walter Scott
(D) Chekhov
(E) None of these

14. The contemporary of Shakespeare was :
(A) Akbar the Great
(B) Elizabeth I
(C) Louis XIV
(D) All of these
(E) None of these

15. The book ‘Worshipping False Gods’ is written by :
(A) R.K. Narayan
(B) Arun Shourie
(C) B.M. Oza
(D) Mahasweta Devi
(E) None of these

16. Which one of the following books is not written by ‘William Shakespeare’?
(A) Julius Caesar
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) The Jew of Malta
(D) Othello
(E) None of these

17. Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘Nice Guys Finish Second’?
(A) B.K. Nehru
(B) Pupul Jayakar
(C) Michael Hammer
(D) R.K. Karanjia
(E) None of these

18. Author of the book ‘The City of Joy’ is :
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Dominique Lapierre
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) H.G. Wells
(E) None of these

19. Book of poems entitled ‘Lamhe Lamhe’ is written by which of the following Indian actresses?
(A) Deepti Naval
(B) Rekha
(C) Sharmila Tagore
(D) Shabana Azmi
(E) None of these

20. The book ‘Diplomatic Encounter’ has been written by :
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) P.B. Sawant
(C) I.K. Gujral
(D) S.K. Banerji
(E) None of these

21. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, who died in August 1999, was the controversial author of :
(A) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
(B) The Moor’s Last Sigh
(C) A Journey to Magi
(D) The Noble Man
(E) None of these

22. The book ‘My Childhood Days’ is written by :
(A) V.S. Naipaul
(B) Taslima Nasreen
(C) Anita Desai
(D) Shobha De
(E) None of these

23. Raja Tharangini wherein the history of the Kings of Kashmir was described was written by :
(A) Bana
(B) Kalhana
(C) Bhavabhuti
(D) Bhasa
(E) None of these

24. Kama Sutra (A treatise on sex) was written by :
(A) Vaisampayana
(B) Vatsyayana
(C) Jayadev
(D) Bharthruhari
(E) None of these

25. Which work of Shakespeare depicts Antonio as a character?
(A) Merchant of Venice
(B) King Lear
(C) Julius Caesar
(D) None of the above
(E) None of these
Answers :
1. (B) 2. (D) 3. (B) 4. (C) 5. (B) 6. (D) 7. (A) 8. (D) 9. (C) 10. (B) 11. (D) 12. (B) 13. (A)
14. (A) 15. (B) 16. (C) 17. (A) 18. (B) 19. (A) 20. (D) 21. (A) 22. (B) 23. (B) 24. (B) 25. (A