books & authors section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

Dominique Lapierre is a French author. One day in the cafeteria he met a young American corporal, Larry Collins, a Yale graduate and draftee.

They became friends instantly. When Collins was discharged he was offered a job with Procter & Gamble. Two days before reporting to the new job, the United Press offered him a job as a caption writer at their Paris office, for much less money than offered by Procter & Gamble. Collins took the offer from United Press and was soon picked up by Newsweek to be their correspondent in the Middle East.

When Lapierre was discharged, he found work as a reporter for the magazine Paris Match. Collins became the godfather of Lapierre’s first child, Alexandra. On several occasions, Collins and Lapierre met while on assignment.

In spite of their friendship, they had to compete with each other for stories. But they decided to join forces to tell a big story that would appeal to both French and anglophone audiences. Their first bestseller is Paris burning sold close to ten million copies in thirty languages.

In this book, they mixed the modern technique of investigative journalism with the classical methods of historical research.

Answer: (c)

Midnight Diaries is Boris Yeltsin's pithy, personal, and revealing account of the struggles and upheavals in Russia over several years, seen from the perspective of the man whose job it was to pull all the strings together.

3Growing out of a series of late-night conversations between Mr Yeltsin and his chief of staff, the book addresses astounding candour subjects including the real impact of the coup of 1991; the process of decision-making about Chechnya; etc.