books & authors section 8 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 1

Consider the following statements

  1. Samkhyakarika is a book written by Ishwar Krishna
  2. Nyaya Sutra Bhashya, is written by Vatsyayana
  3. Kavyadarshana is written by Panini
Select the correct answer

a) All of the above

b) None of the above

c) 1 and 2 only

d) 2 and 3 only

Answer: (c)

Kavyadarshana is written by Dandin

Question : 2 [SSC Stenographer 2016]

The novel ‘When the River Sleeps’ is written by

a) Vikram Seth

b) Easterine Kire

c) Anuradha Roy

d) Shobhaa De

Answer: (b)

‘When the River Sleeps' is a novel by Easterine Kire. It won The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2015. First published by Zubaan in 2014, the novel is about the lives and hearts of the people of Nagaland: the rituals and beliefs, their reverence for the land, their close-knit communities with their natural surroundings.

Question : 3 [SSC CHSL 2014]

‘‘Meghdoot’’ was written by

a) Khushwant Singh

b) Kalidasa

c) Humayun Kabir

d) Banabhatta

Answer: (b)

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 was first translated into English by Horace Hayman Wilson.

Question : 4 [UPPCS (Mains) 2003]

The author of ‘Hind Swaraj’ was

a) Chandra Shekhar Azad

b) B.G. Tilak

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Vinoba Bhave

Answer: (c)

Question : 5

‘India Remembered’ is written by

a) Pamela Mountbatten

b) Stephen Hawking

c) JK Rowling

d) Robert Dallek

Answer: (a)

India Remembered is a book by Pamela Mountbatten written as a personal account of Mountbattens.

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