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Questions : Who is the author of the book, ‘Discovery of India’?

(a) Rabindra Nath Tagore

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) B.R. Ambedkar

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

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Question : 1

Who is the author of ‘Indica’ ?

a) Fa-Hien

b) Hiuen Tsang

c) Megasthanese

d) Selucas

Answer: (c)

Indica is an account of India that was authored by Megasthenes, an ancient Greek historian and diplomat. He was sent by the Hellenistic king Seleucus I on embassies to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta. He gave the most complete account of India then known to the Greek world and was the source for work by the later historians.

Question : 2

Match the names mentioned in List-I with the names mentioned in List-II and select the right answer using the code given below.

List I List II
(Books) (Authors)
A. History of the Freedom Movement in India 1. Tara Chand
B. History of the Freedom Movement in Bihar 2. W.W. Hunter
C. Anand Math 3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D. Precepts of Jesus 4. Father Bulke
E. Our Indian Musalmans 5. K.K. Dutta
  6. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Codes: A B C D E

a) 1 5 6 3 2

b) 1 4 6 3 2

c) 1 2 3 4 5

d) 2 4 3 2 1

Answer: (a)

Question : 3

The author of ‘Love and Longing in Bombay’ is

a) Raj Kamal Jha

b) Vikram Chandra

c) Kiran Desai

d) Arundhati Roy

Answer: (b)

Question : 4

Which of the following pair is correct?

a) Savita Pande - The Path to Power

b) C. Rajagopalachari - India Wins Freedom

c) Margaret Thatcher - The Future of N.P.T.

d) Mani Shankar Aiyar - The Pakistan Papers

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

Who is the author of the book “Two Lives”?

a) James Patterson

b) Khushwant Singh

c) Vikram Seth

d) Ved Mehta

Answer: (c)

Vikram Seth is an Indian author and poet. Two Lives is a non-fiction family memoir written at the suggestion of his mother and published in October 2005.

It focuses on the lives of his great-uncle (Shanti Behari Seth) and German-Jewish great aunt (Henny Caro) who met in Berlin in the early 1930s while Shanti was a student there and with whom Seth stayed extensively on going to England at age 17 for school.

As with From Heaven Lake, Two Lives contains many autobiographies.

Question : 6

Which of the following Hindi works was written first?

a) Madhumalti

b) Indravati

c) Mrigavati

d) Padmavati

Answer: (c)

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