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Questions : Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the Lists.
List I List II
(Author) (Books)
A. Arundhati Roy 1. Malgudi Days
B. Khushwant Singh 2. God of Small Things
C. R. K. Narayan 3. What Went Wrong
D. Kiran Bedi 4. The Sikhs
Codes: A B C D

(a) 3 1 4 2

(b) 2 1 4 3

(c) 4 2 1 3

(d) 2 4 1 3

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. The book was republished outside India in 1982. The book includes 19 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, located in South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi.

The God of Small Things (1997) is the debut novel of Indian author Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the “Love Laws” that lay down “who should be loved, and how. Khushwant Singh is an Indian novelist and journalist. Singh’s weekly column, “With Malice towards One and All”, carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.

"What Went Wrong?", a collection of The fortnightly column written by Kiran Bedi. Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is an Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and became the first woman officer in the IPS.

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Question : 1

Which of the following periodicals is not correctly matched with its editor?

a) New India : Bipin Chandra Pal

b) Sandhya : Barindra Ghosh

c) Bande Mataram : Aurobindo Ghosh

d) Yugantar : Bhupendranath Dutta

Answer: (b)

Brahmabandhav Upadhyaya was the founder editor of Sandhya. He was an Indian freedom fighter, journalist, theologian, and mystic.

Question : 2

Who was the first historian who wrote about ‘Feudalism’ in Rajasthan during the 19th Century?

a) George Grearson

b) Col. James Tod

c) John Thomas

d) Dr. L.P. Tessitori

Answer: (b)

Question : 3

The song “Vande Mataram” occurs in the book

a) Anandmath

b) Poverty and UN-British Rule in India

c) Geetanjali

d) Indian People

Answer: (a)

Vande Mataram is a poem from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1882 novel Anandamath. An Ode to Mother Bengal as Mother goddess, it was written in Bengali and Sanskrit. It is a hymn to the Mother Land and played a vital role in the Indian Independence movement.

Question : 4

‘A Voice for Freedom’ is a book written by

a) Aung San Suu Kyi

b) Benazir Bhutto

c) Corazon Aquino

d) Nayantara Sahgal

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

Match the following:

List I List II
(Books) (Author)
A. Rich Like Us 1. Nirad C Chaudhari
B. Reflection on our Time 2. P N Haksar
C. Hinduism a religion to live by 3. Nayantara Sahgal
D. Bliss was it in that Dawn 4. Monoo Masani
Codes: A B C D

a) 3 2 1 4

b) 4 1 2 3

c) 2 1 3 4

d) 1 3 4 2

Answer: (a)

Question : 6

Who is the writer of the famous book ‘Kabuliwala’?

a) Ravindra Nath Tagore

b) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

d) Munshi Prem Chand

Answer: (a)

Kabuliwala is a short story by Rabindranath Tagore. It is about the friendship between small Bengali girl called Mini and Abdur Rehman Khan, a middle-aged dry fruit seller from Kabul (Afghanistan), who comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise.

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