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(d) Guiding Soul

Q16. Who wrote "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" book?

(a) MK Gandhi
(b) Rabindranath Tagore
(c) S Radhakrishnan
(d) Arundhati Roy

Q17. Who among the following is a famous English writer?

(a) Amrita Pritam
(b) Mahadevi Verma
(c) Ashapurna Devi
(d) Mulk Raj Anand

Q18. ‘Meghdoot’ was written by

(a) Humayun Kabir
(b) Khushwant Singh
(c) Banabhatta
(d) Kalidasa

Q19. Karl Marx wrote

(a) Asian Drama
(b) Emma
(c) Das Kapital
(d) Good Earth

Q20. The book entitled ‘Spell of the Tiger’ is written by

(a) Jim Corbett
(b) Valmik Thapar
(c) Sy Montgomery
(d) Atul Sethi

Q21. Who wrote ‘As You Like it’?

(a) Mulk Raj Anand
(b) Bernard Shaw
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Leo Tolstoy

Q22. ‘War and peace’ was written by

(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Leo Tolstoy
(c) Lenin
(d) Rabindranath Tagore

Q23. Who is the author of the famous book ‘A Better India: A Better World’?
(a) Azim Prem Ji
(b) Rajiv Sikri
(c) NR Narayana Murthy
(d) Prema Mahajan

Q24. ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ film is based on the book ‘Question and Answer’ written
by
(a) Vikas Swarup
(b) Vinesh Swaroup

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(c) Vimal Swaroup

(d) None of the above

Q25. Who has authored the book ‘Straight from the Heart’?
(a) Amrita Pritam
(b) Raj Mohan Gandhi
(c) Kapil Dev
(d) RK Karanjia

Q26. The author of ‘The Satanic Verses’ is

(a) Kushal Das
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Rammurthy
(d) John Grisham

Q27. Who is the author of the book ‘The Zigzag Way’?

(a) Anita Desai
(b) Simran Sodhi
(c) Jahnavi Barua
(d) Lisa Geneva

Q28. The book ‘Great Soul Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India’ was in news
some time back and was banned in some Indian states including Gujarat. The
author of the book is
(a) Joseph Lelyveld
(b) Michael Ondaatje
(c) Jack Welch
(d) Duncan Green

Q29. Which of the following books has been written by Kamala Das?
(a) Witness the Night
(b) The Red Devil
(c) Earth and Ashes
(d) Tonight this Savage Rite

Q30. Which of the following books has been written by Atiq Rahimi?
(a) Earth and Ashes
(b) This Savage Rite
(c) The Red Devil
(d) Witness the Night

Solutions

S1. Ans.(c)
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S2. Ans.(b)
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S3. Ans.(a)
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S4. Ans.(c)
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S5. Ans.(d)
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S6. Ans.(b)

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Sol.
S7. Ans.(c)
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S8. Ans.(a)
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S11. Ans.(b)
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S12. Ans.(c)
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S13. Ans.(d)
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S14. Ans.(b)
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S15. Ans.(d)
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S16. Ans.(d)
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S17. Ans.(d)
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S18. Ans.(d)
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S19. Ans.(c)
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S20. Ans.(c)
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S21. Ans.(c)
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S22. Ans.(b)
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S24. Ans.(a)
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S25. Ans.(c)
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S26. Ans.(b)
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S27. Ans.(a)
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S28. Ans.(a)
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S29. Ans.(d)
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S30. Ans.(a)
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