Books and Authors MCQS 2

1. Karl Marx wrote :

(A) Asian Drama
(B) Emma
(C) Das Kapital
(D) Good Earth
(E) None of these

2. The book ‘‘Discovery of India’’ is written by :
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Subhash Chandra Bose
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Sastri
(E) None of these

3. Who wrote ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’?
(A) Shakespeare
(B) Bernard Shaw
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) All of the above
(E) None of these

4. Who is the author of Humayun Namah?
(A) Abul Fazl
(B) Khwand Amir
(C) Hasan Nizami
(D) Abdul Kader Badauni
(E) None of these

5. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is treatise on :
(A) Philosophy
(B) Religion
(C) Diplomacy
(D) Statecraft
(E) None of these

6. Who compiled Adi Granth?
(A) Guru Arjan
(B) Guru Teg Bahadur
(C) Guru Nanak
(D) Guru Gobind
(E) None of these

7. ‘Freedom from Fear’ is a book written by :
(A) Benazir Bhutto
(B) Corazon Aquino
(C) Aung San Suu Kyi
(D) Nayantara Seghal
(E) None of these

8. Who among the following wrote a treatise on medicine in ancient India?
(A) Aryabhatta
(B) Charaka
(C) Nagarjuna
(D) Varahamihira
(E) None of these

9. Which of the following books was written by Gandhiji?
(A) Discovery of India
(B) My Experiments with Truth
(C) India Wins Freedom
(D) Freedom at Midnight
(E) None of these

10. Who wrote ‘Himalayan Blunder’?
(A) Brig. J.P. Dalvi
(B) Gen. Cariappa
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) V.R. Krishna Iyer
(E) None of these

11. The book ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by :
(A) John Lennon
(B) Mark Twain
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Charles Dickens
(E) None of these

12. ‘Life Divine’ is a book written by :
(A) Gandhiji
(B) Tagore
(C) Radhakrishnan
(D) Shri Aurobindo
(E) None of these

13. ‘Global Crises : Global Solutions’ has been written by :
(A) Bharat Bhushan
(B) H.V. Sharda Rao
(C) Bjorn Lombarg
(D) Inder Malhotra
(E) None of these

14. Who wrote ‘Waiting for the Mahatma’?
(A) M.J. Akbar
(B) Pran Chopra
(C) R.K. Narayan
(D) Rajmohan Gandhi
(E) None of these

15. Who wrote the ‘Ganit Sar’?
(A) Sridhara
(B) Bhaskar II
(C) Aryabhatta II
(D) Brahmagupta
(E) None of these

16. The religious text of the Jews is named as :
(A) The Analectus
(B) Torah
(C) Tripatika
(D) Zend Avesta
(E) None of these

17. Salman Rushdie has written which of the following books?
(A) The Golden Gate
(B) The God Father
(C) The God of Small Things
(D) Satanic Verses
(E) None of these

18. Ms. Amrita Pritam is a :
(A) Journalist
(B) Litterateur
(C) Musician
(D) Industrialist
(E) None of these

19. The writer of the Harry Potter book series is :
(A) DBC Pierre
(B) Dominique Lapierre and Lary Collins
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) J.K. Rowling
(E) None of these

20. Who wrote ‘As You Like it’?
(A) Bernard Shaw
(B) William Shakespeare
(C) Leo Tolstoy
(D) Mulk Raj Anand
(E) None of these

21. Who wrote ‘A Passage to India’?
(A) E.M. Forster
(B) Kipling
(C) Orwell
(D) None of them
(E) None of these

22. ‘Panchatantra’ was written by :
(A) Bhasa
(B) Jaya Deva
(C) Vishnu Sharma
(D) Banabhatta
(E) None of these

23. Who is the author of ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’?
(A) J.M. Barrie
(B) Walter Scott
(C) George Orwell
(D) Thomas Hardy
(E) None of these

24. The number of Upanishads are (approximately) :
(A) Three hundred
(B) Two hundred
(C) Four hundred
(D) Five hundred
(E) None of these

25. Who recast the original single Veda into four Vedas?
(A) Vyasa
(B) Sri Krishna
(C) Parasurama
(D) Patanjali
(E) None of these

Answers :
1. (C) 2. (C) 3. (D) 4. (B) 5. (D) 6. (A) 7. (C) 8. (B) 9. (B) 10. (A)
11. (D) 12. (D) 13. (C) 14. (C) 15. (A) 16. (B) 17. (D) 18. (B) 19. (D) 20. (B)
21. (A) 22. (C) 23. (C) 24. (A) 25. (A)