Practice Quiz set 9 - general awareness mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

Q-1)   Which of the following is not written by Munshi Premchand?

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Q-2)   Which of the following books is not written by Munshi Premchand?

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Explanation:

The Guide is a 1958 novel by R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works the novel is based on Malgudi, the fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India. The novel brought its author the 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award for English.


Q-3)   Who is the author of ‘Ashtadhyayi’?

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Ashtadhyayi is Sanskrit treatise on grammar written in the 6th to 5th century BCE by the grammarian Panini.


Q-4)   The book ‘Avanti Sundari’ is written by

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Q-5)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I List II
A. Priya Pravas 1. Indira Gandhi
B. Gaban 2. Ayodhya Prasad
C. Eternal India 3. Premchand
D. Shah Nama 4. Firdausi
Codes: A B C D

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Q-6)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
A. Vinay Patrika 1. Tulsidas
B. Virangana 2. Maithili Sharan Gupta
C. Vish Vriksha 3. Bankim Chandra Chatterji
D. Voice of Conscience 4. V.V. Giri
Codes: A B C D

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Explanation:

The correctly matched pairs are :

Vinay Patrika — Tulsidas.Tulsidas, also known as Goswami Tulsidas; 1497/1532–1623) was a poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion to the god Rama.

Virangana — Maithili Sharan Gupta. Maithili Sharan Gupt was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one of the pioneers of Khari Boli poetry and wrote in the Khari Boli dialect, at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of the Braj Bhasha dialect.

Vish Vriksha — Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was a Bengali writer, poet and journalist. He was the composer of India’s national song Vande Mataram, originally a Bengali and Sanskrit stotra personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring the activists during the Indian Freedom Movement.

Voice of Conscience — V.V. Giri. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974. He served as Acting President of India from 3 May 1969 to 20 July 1969, before getting elected.


Q-7)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I List II
A. Gandhian Constitution for India 1. D. Mackenzie Brown
B. The Republic of India 2. Sriman Narayan
C. The White Umbrella 3. A. Gledhill
D. The Politics of India since Independence 4. Paul R. Brass
Codes: A B C D

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Q-8)   The author of the famous Indian book of astrology ‘Panchsiddhantika’ is —

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Varahamihira was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He is considered to be one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendary ruler Vikramaditya (thought to be the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II Vikramaditya).

Varahamihira’s main work is the book Pañcasiddhantika (or PanchaSiddhantika, “[Treatise] on the Five [Astronomical] Canons) dated ca. 575 CE gives us information about older Indian texts which are now lost.

The work is a treatise on mathematical astronomy and it summarises five earlier astronomical treatises, namely the Surya Siddhanta, Romaka Siddhanta, Paulisa Siddhanta, Vasishtha Siddhanta and Paitamaha Siddhantas.


Q-9)   Match the following:
List I List II
(Book) (Author)
A. Abul Fazl 1. Akbarnama
B. Nizam-ud-Din Ahmad 2. Tabaqat-i-Akbari
C. Gulbadan Begum  3. Humayun-Nama
D. Jauhar 4. Tazkiratul-Waqiat
Select the correct answer A B C D

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Q-10)   Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I List II
(Books) (Authors)
A. The Price of Partition 1. Abul Kalam
B. Ulysses 2. S.S. Gill
C. India 2020 3. Rafiq Zakaria
D. Pathology of corruption 4. James Joyce
  5. P.N. Chopra
Codes: A B C D

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