books & authors section 1 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (a)

“The Adventures of Rusty: Collected Stories” has been written by Ruskin Bond, one of India’s mostloved authors of children’s books. This book features the titular character of Rusty, an Anglo-Indian boy who bears close resemblances to author when he was a child himself. It was published in 2012 by Penguin India.

Answer: (c)

Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership.

Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali?English writer and cultural commentator. He was born in 1897 in Kishoreganj, which today is part of Bangladesh but at that time was part of Bengal, a region of British India.

Rabindranath Tagore, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music.

Kuldip Nayar is a veteran Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human rights activist and author, noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator.

Answer: (c)

The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm Sweden, except for the peace prize which is held in Oslo, Norway.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

English author Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book in 1894. It is a collection of stories.