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Questions : Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:
List I List II
A. Coolie 1. Mulk Raj Anand
B. Hinduism 2. Nirad C. Chaudhary 
C. Gitanjali 3. Rabindra Nath Tagore
D. The judgement 4. Kuldip Nayyar
Codes: A B C D

(a) 4 3 2 1

(b) 4 2 3 1

(c) 1 2 3 4

(d) 1 4 3 2

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an international readership.

Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a Bengali?English writer and cultural commentator. He was born in 1897 in Kishoreganj, which today is part of Bangladesh but at that time was part of Bengal, a region of British India.

Rabindranath Tagore, sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music.

Kuldip Nayar is a veteran Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human rights activist and author, noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator.

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Question : 1

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect about Nobel Prize?

a) The Nobel Foundation was founded as a private organisation on 29 June 1900.

b) The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895.

c) The prize ceremonies for all categories take place annually in stock holm, Sweden.

d) It is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available as the most prestigious, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace and economics.

Answer: (c)

The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm Sweden, except for the peace prize which is held in Oslo, Norway.

Question : 2

The book ‘Guilty Man of India’s Partition’ was authored by

a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Sarojini Naidu

d) Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia

Answer: (d)

Question : 3

Who wrote Jungle Book?

a) Sibhu

b) R.K. Narayan

c) Mohd. Salim

d) Rudyard Kipling

Answer: (d)

English author Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book in 1894. It is a collection of stories.

Question : 4

In whose work do we find the character ‘Rusty’ ?

a) Ruskin Bond

b) Rabindranath Tagore

c) R.K. Narayan

d) R.K. Laxman

Answer: (a)

“The Adventures of Rusty: Collected Stories” has been written by Ruskin Bond, one of India’s mostloved authors of children’s books. This book features the titular character of Rusty, an Anglo-Indian boy who bears close resemblances to author when he was a child himself. It was published in 2012 by Penguin India.

Question : 5

The author of the book ‘My Experiments With Truth’ is

a) Govind Vallabh Pant

b) Tara Ali Beg

c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

d) M.K. Gandhi

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.

Question : 6

Who wrote the ‘Kamayani’?

a) Girija Kumar Mathur

b) Jai Shankar Prasad

c) Mahadevi Verma

d) Shamsher Bahadur Singh

Answer: (b)

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