Books & Authors Section 2 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 1 [SSC SO 2006]

The book “Unto the Last” which influenced Gandhi was authored by

a) John Ruskin

b) Ruskin Bond

c) Boris Yeltsin

d) Pushkin

Answer: (a)

John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, water-colourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist.

He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy.

His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin’s political ideas, and Unto This Last in particular, later proved highly influential, praised and paraphrased in Gujarati by Gandhi, a wide range of autodidacts, the economist John A. Hobson and many of the founders of the British Labour party.

Question : 2 [UPPCS (Mains) 2004]

The song of Vande Mataram which served as a great inspiration to the patriotic song of India in their freedom struggle is in book

a) Meghanad-Vadh

b) Anand Math

c) Virangana Kavya

d) Durgesha Nandini

Answer: (b)

Question : 3 [MPPCS (Pre) 1991]

‘India from Curzon to Nehru’ is the book of

a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri

b) Kuldip Nayyar

c) Jawaharlal Nehru

d) Durga Das

Answer: (d)

Question : 4 [UP Lower Sub. (Spl)(Pre) 2003]

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

a) Subhash Chandra Bose - Indian Unrest

b) Valentine Chirol - Indian Struggle

c) V.D. Savarkar - Unhappy India

d) Rafiq Zakaria - The Man Who Divided India

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

Consider the following statements:

  1. Golf is related to US Masters tournament.
  2. Rovers Cup is related to Polo.
Choose the statement/s which is/are correct:

a) 1 only

b) 1 and 2

c) 2 only

d) None of these

Answer: (a)

The US Masters, is one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, it is the first of the majors to be played each year. West Chester Cup is a trophy in polo that was created in 1876.

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