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Question : 11

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes:

List I List II
A. Jyotsana 1. Sumitra Nandan Pant
B. Life Divine 2. Shri Aurobindo Ghosh
C. Divine Life 3. Swami Shivanand
D. Death of a City 4. Amrita Pritam
Codes: A B C D

a) 4 3 2 1

b) 4 2 3 1

c) 1 2 3 4

d) 1 3 2 4

Answer: (c)

Sumitranandan Pant was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. He is considered one of the major poets of the Chhayavaadi school of Hindi literature. Pant mostly wrote in Sanskritized Hindi.

Sri Aurobindo, was a nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, maharishi, guru and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule, for a while became one of its influential leaders and then turned into a spiritual reformer, introducing his vision on human progress and spiritual evolution.

He was a direct disciple of Ramakrishna and became the second president of the Ramakrishna Mission. His devotees refer to him as Mahapurush Maharaj (Great Soul).

Amrita Pritam was a Punjabi writer and poet, considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist, and the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both sides of the India Pakistan border.

Question : 12

Post Office’ is written by?

a) R.K Laxman

b) Rabindra Nath Tagore

c) R.K. Narayan

d) Mulk Raj Anand

Answer: (b)

The Post Office (Bengali: Dak Ghar) is a 1912 play by Rabindranath Tagore. It concerns Amal, a child confined to his adopted uncle’s home by an incurable disease.

Question : 13

Consider the following statements :

  1. ‘Malgudi Days’ was written by R.K. Narayanan.
  2. ‘Kagaz te Canvas’ was written by Amrita Pritam.
  3. ‘Swami and Friends’ was written by B.M. Kaul
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 1 and 2 only

b) 1, 2 and 3

c) 1 only

d) 2 only

Answer: (a)

Question : 14 [IAS (Pre) 1996]

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List I List II
A. Surendra Nath Banerjee 1. Hind Swaraj
B. M.K. Gandhi 2. The Indian Struggle
C. Subhash Chandra Bose 3. Autobiographical Writings
D. Lajpat Rai 4. A Nation in Making
Codes: A B C D

a) 1 4 2 3

b) 4 1 3 2

c) 4 1 2 3

d) 1 4 3 2

Answer: (c)

Question : 15 [Arunachal Pradesh PSC (Pre) 2016]

Which one of the following books is associated with the rise of the national movement in India?

a) Satyarth Prakash

b) Gitanjali

c) Gita Rahasya

d) Anand Math

Answer: (d)

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