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Question : 1 [Uttarakhand PCS (Mains) 2006]

Who wrote the play ‘Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja’?

a) Fakir Mohan Senapati

b) Govardhan Ram M. Tripathi

c) Bhartendu Harishchandra

d) Munshi Premchand

Answer: (c)

Question : 2 [SSC Tax Asst 2008]

Who wrote the recent best-selling book The Road Ahead?

a) I.K. Gujral

b) T.N. Seshan

c) Bill Clinton

d) Bill Gates

Answer: (d)

To date, Bill Gates has authored two books. The Road Ahead, written with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson, was published in November 1995, and it summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway.

Business at the Speed of Thought was published in 1999, and discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digital infrastructures and information networks can help to get an edge on the competition.

Question : 3

Match the following: 

List I List II
(Planets) (Satellites)
A. Swallows and Amazons 1. Boris Pasternak
B. The Plantagenet Saga 2. Thomas Hardy
C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3. Jean Plaidy
D. Dr Zhivago 4. Arthur Ransome
Select the answer from the codes given below:

a) A-4, B-2 , C-1, D-3

b) A-2, B- 1, C-3, D-4

c) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4

d) A-4, B-3 C-2, D- 1

Answer: (d)

All four books are romantic fiction. A romantic novel is a literary genre.

Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people and must have an “emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.

Question : 4

Consider the following statements

  1. A Suitable Boy was written by Vikram Bhat.
  2. Jagmohan wrote the book ‘My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir’
  3. ‘To Live or Not Live’ was written by Nirad C. Chaudhuri.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct

a) 1 and 3 only

b) All of the above

c) 1 and 2 only

d) 2 and 3 only

Answer: (d)

A Suitable Boy was written by Vikram Seth.

Question : 5 [UP Lower Sub. (Spl)(Pre) 2003]

Taslima Nasreen is not the author of

a) Amar Meye Bela

b) Lajja

c) Amar Sonar Bangla

d) Utol Hawa Ki

Answer: (c)

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