Books & Authors Section 1 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

Meghdoot (literally “cloud messenger”) is a lyric poem written by Kalidasa, considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets. A poem of 111 stanzas, it is one of Kalidasa’s most famous works.

Answer: (b)

‘Systema Naturae’ was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus that introduced the binomial nomenclature. The first edition was published in 1735. The book listed about 10,000 species of organisms, of which about 6,000 were plants and 4,236 were animals.

Answer: (c)

Chitrangada and Gitanjali was written by Rabindra Nath Tagore. Rabindra Nath Tagore was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929.