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GK_Books and Authors

Practice Test 1

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‘Nature never did betray the heart that loved her’ is a quotation from –

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Travelling Through Conflict is a book written by –

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Who among the following has directed the film ‘Sardar’?

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Mulk Raj Anand is the author of –

5 / 100

Which of the following is a biography of Lady Mountbatten?

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Who among the following is the author of the book ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’?

7 / 100

‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’ is the autobiography of :

8 / 100

‘Kautilya’s from fear’ is a book written on :

9 / 100

Who is the author of the book named ‘Pinjar’?

10 / 100

Who is the author of the book named “A Prisoner’s Scrapbook”?

11 / 100

The book ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ was written by :

12 / 100

Who of the following is the author of the book “The Audacity of Hope”?

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Who amongst the following is the author of the book ‘A bend in the River’?

14 / 100

Karl Marx wrote

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Who has authored the book ‘The Kingdom of God is Within You’?

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Which of the statements given below are correct?
1. The author of ‘Forty Thieves’ is Jonathan Franzen.
2. Author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
3. Author of ‘Middlesex’ is Jeffrey Eugenides.

17 / 100

Who is the author of the book “The Accidental Prime Minister”?

18 / 100

Who said ‘Man is a political animal’?

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Who is the author of the book ‘If Cricket is Religion, Sachin is God’?

20 / 100

In which language did Dr. Masti Venkatesh Iyengar write?

21 / 100

Who is the author of the book “The Interpreter of Maladies”?

22 / 100

‘Freedom from Fear’ is a book written by :

23 / 100

Who was the author of the book ‘Plagues and Peoples’?

24 / 100

‘India of our dreams’ is a book written by –

25 / 100

Who wrote the book, Cry, the Peacock?

26 / 100

What was the pen name of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay?

27 / 100

‘The Old Man and the Sea’ was a short novel written by

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Who has authored the book titled ‘Narendra Modi : A Political Biography’?

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Who wrote the book ‘Why Socialism’?

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‘The World Outside My Window’ is written by which author?

31 / 100

Who has written the book ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’?

32 / 100

Which play of Shakespeare was recently claimed to be dated wrongly?

33 / 100

‘A China Passage’ book was written by –

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Who amongst the following is the author of the book “Termites in the Trading System”?

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Which of the statements given below are correct?
1. The author of the novel ‘Dodgers’ is Bill Beverly.
2. The author of the novel ‘Forty Thieves’ is Thomas Perry.
3. Author of ‘The Corrections’ is Jonathan Franzen.

36 / 100

Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Names of Books
Authors

1. The Burning Forest
Nandini Sundar

2.One Indian Girl
Chetan Bhagat

3. Jinnah often came to our house
Kiran Doshi

4. Island of lost girls
Kunal Basu

37 / 100

Which of the statements given below are correct?
1. Author of ‘Brave New World’ is Aldous Huxley.
2. Author of ‘An Affair Downstairs’ is Sherri Browning.
3. Author of ‘Darkness at Noon’ is Victor La Valle.

38 / 100

The novel ‘A Suitable Boy’ is written by –

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Who wrote the book “Ramacharitmanas”?

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Which of the statements given below are correct?
1. The author of the novel ‘Gilead’ is Don Wirslo.
2. The author of the novel ‘Wolf Hall’ is Stephen Dobyns.
3. The author of the novel ‘To Kill a Mocking bird’ is Harper Lee.

41 / 100

The famous character Pickwick was created by –

42 / 100

Who is the author of the book named “Malgudi Days”?

43 / 100

‘Sonia, a Biography’ was written by –

44 / 100

What was the pen name of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay?

45 / 100

Which one of the following books was written by Tilak?

46 / 100

’24 Brand Mantras’ is a book written by –

47 / 100

Match List-I and List-II.

List-I (Books)
List-II (Authors)

a. The child and the State in India
1. Atul Kohli

b. The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics
2. Pranab Bardhan

c. The Political Economy of Development in India
3. Christopher Jaferlot

d. Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India
4. Myron Weiner

48 / 100

Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgement’?

49 / 100

‘A Critique of Pure Reason’ book was written by

50 / 100

Who has written ‘Panchatantra’?

51 / 100

The author of the book ‘My Experiments With Truth’ is –

52 / 100

Consider the following statements:
“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.”
Who among the following made the above statement?

53 / 100

The author of the book ‘India Wins Freedom’ is?

54 / 100

Who is the author of the book ‘Argumentative Indian writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity’?

55 / 100

Which of the following books was written by Phaniswar Nath ‘Renu’?

56 / 100

Who wrote the book ‘Gulamgiri’?

57 / 100

The book ‘All Under Heaven’ was written by :

58 / 100

Who is the author of the book titled ‘Numbers Do Lie’?

59 / 100

Who wrote the line : ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’?

60 / 100

Who is the author of “A Passage to England”?

61 / 100

Who is the writer of “A Brief History of Time”?

62 / 100

Which one of the following literary works was not written by R. K. Narayan?

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Match Lis-I with List-II and select the correct answer.

List-I (Authors)
List-II (Books)

a. Atul Kohli
1. Divide and Quit

b. Granville Austin
2. The Success of India’s Democracy

c. Penderal Moon
3. The Republic of India : Development of its laws and Constitution

d. Alan Gledhill
4. Working a Democratic Constitution : A History of the Indian Experience

64 / 100

Which of the following statements given below are correct?
1. Author of ‘Half of a Yellow Sun is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
2. Author of the novel ‘Middlesex’ is Jeffrey Eugenides.
3. Author of ‘Missile Gap’ is China Mieville.

65 / 100

Who is the author of the book ‘Wings of Fire’?

66 / 100

Consider the following statement and identify the author of the statement using the code given below:
“I shall work for an Indian in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country, in whose making they have an effective voice, an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people, an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony.”

67 / 100

Which of the following books is written by Rabindranath Tagore?

68 / 100

Author of the book ‘My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir’?

69 / 100

Which of the statements given below are correct?
1. Author of the novel ‘Missile Gap’ is Charles Stross.
2. The author of the novel ‘Bird Box’ is Victor Valle.
3. Author of ‘The City and the city’ is China Mieville.

70 / 100

‘Six Machine (I Don’t Like Cricket . . . . . I Love It)’ is an autobiography of which famous batsman?

71 / 100

Which author employed India’s obsession for cricket as the theme for his recent book ‘selection day’?

72 / 100

Who was the author of the trilogy “The Immortals of Meluha”,”The Secret of the Nagas”, and “The Oath of the Vayuputras”?

73 / 100

‘My Story’ is an autobiography of which famous cricketer?

74 / 100

Who is the author of the ‘The Windfall’?

75 / 100

Who wrote the book “War and Peace”?

76 / 100

Who is the author of the book ‘Kamayani’?

77 / 100

‘The Lord of Rings : The Return of the King’ won Oscar award in how many categories?

78 / 100

The Nobel Prize in Economics was started in –

79 / 100

Who is the author of “The Kalam effect : My years with the president”?

80 / 100

The ‘One Straw Revolution’ was written by :

81 / 100

Which of the following is a book written by Shashi Tharoor?

82 / 100

Freedom From Fear’ is a book written by

83 / 100

Which of the following books has been written by Kamala Das?

84 / 100

Who wrote the book “Old History, New Geography”?

85 / 100

The book ‘Worshipping False Gods’ is written by :

86 / 100

Who has written the famous book ‘Anna Karenina’?

87 / 100

Who authored the book titled ‘Jinnah often came to our House’, which one the 2016 The Hindu Prize?

88 / 100

Who among the following is the author of the book, “Pakistan Paradox : Instability and Resilience”?

89 / 100

The first lady of the Indian screen to had been nominated to the Rajya Sabha is –

90 / 100

Who is the author of the book named “Not Just an Accountant”?

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1. Author of ‘Darkness at Noon’ is Victor La Valle.
2. Author of ‘The Great Gatsby’ is F. Scott Fitzgerald.
3. Author of ‘The Sound and the Fury’ is Hubbard.
Which of the statements given above are not correct?

92 / 100

‘Man – The Maker of His Own Destiny’ book was written by –

93 / 100

The book ‘Kargil : Turning the Tide’ is written by –

94 / 100

Who is the author ‘The Association of Small Bombs’, which is currently shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award?

95 / 100

Which of the books mentioned below was not written by Munshi Premchand?

96 / 100

The book “Born Again on the Mountain” is authored by which of the following Indian mountaineer?

97 / 100

Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Noble Prize for his literary work named –

98 / 100

The book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ was written by :

99 / 100

Who is the author of ‘A Suitable Boy’?

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Consider the following pairs:

Famous Books
Famous Scientists

1. A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking

2. The Grand Design
Paul Davies

3. The First Three Minutes
Steven Weinberg

Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

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