books & authors section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Chitrangada and Gitanjali was written by Rabindra Nath Tagore. Rabindra Nath Tagore was a Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929.

Answer: (d)

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 is one of Kalidasa’s most famous works.

Answer: (a)

Nastanirh (The Broken Nest) is a Bengali novella by Rabindranath Tagore. It is the basis for the noted 1964 film, Charulata by Satyajit Ray.

The novella explores the lives of the “Bhadralok”, Bengalis of wealth who were part of the Bengal Renaissance and highly influenced by the Brahmo Samaj.

Answer: (d)

Long Walk to freedom is an autobiographical work written by South African President Nelson Mandela, which was published in 1995 by Little Brown & Co.