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Questions : Consider the following statements
  1. Vikramorvasiyam is the second of the three dramas attributed to Kalidasa.
  2. It tells the story of mortal King Chandragupt Vikramaditya and celestial nymph Urvashi who fall in love.
Select the correct answer

(a) Both 1 and 2

(b) Neither of the above

(c) 1 only

(d) 2 only

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

It tells the story of mortal King Pururavas and celestial nymph Urvashi who fall in love.

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Question : 1

Which of the following is not correctly matched?

a) India Wins Freedom - Abul Kalam Azad

b) Unhappy India - Bal Gangadhar Tilak

c) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India - Dadabhai Naoroji

d) Durgesh Nandini - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Answer: (b)

Question : 2

Who wrote the book ‘Geographical Factors in Indian History’?

a) M.N. Srinivas

b) K.M. Panikkar

c) Jamna Das

d) Toyanbee

Answer: (b)

Question : 3

Who is the author of the book “What Went Wrong”?

a) Sonia Gandhi

b) Kiran Bedi

c) Sushma Swaraj

d) Shaila Nigar

Answer: (b)

“What Went Wrong?” is a collection of the fortnightly column written by Kiran Bedi who 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. Bedi held the post of Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development before she voluntarily retired from the IPS in December 2007.

Bedi was the host and judge of the popular TV series “Aap Ki Kachehri” (English, “Your Court”), which is based on real-life disputes and provides a platform for settling disputes between consenting parties.

Question : 4

The book ‘A Bend in the River’ is written by

a) Vikram Seth

b) Arundhati Roy

c) VS Naipaul

d) Chetan Bhagat

Answer: (c)

A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul.

Question : 5

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

a) Louis Fischer - American witness to India’s Partition

b) Subhash Chandra Bose - Towards Struggle

c) Abul Kalam Azad - India Divided

d) Hugh Toye - Springing Tiger

Answer: (d)

Question : 6

The book ‘Mudrarakshas’ is written by

a) Vishakhadatta

b) Raskhan

c) Pt. Vishnu Sharma

d) Kalidasa

Answer: (a)

Mudrarkashas is written by Vishakhadatta. Mudrarakshasa (The Minister Signet’s Ring) is a Sanskrit drama written by Vishakhadatta, who is also credited with the authorship of Devichandragupta. Sanskrit drama of 4th century AD describing the overthrow of the Nandas ruling the Magadhan empire by the first Mauryan emperor Chandragupta Maurya who was aided in this endevour by Kautilya also called as Chanakya and Vishnugupta.

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