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Questions : Who is the author of the book “Worshipping False Gods”?

(a) Vikram Seth

(b) Arun Shourie

(c) Salman Rushdie

(d) Arundhati Roy

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

Worshipping False Gods is a book by Arun Shourie. In this book, he criticized B.R. Ambedkar, the leader of Dalits, for alleged complicity with the British and lust for power and wealth. In Pune, his face was blackened by Dalit peoples for criticizing Ambedkar in his book.

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Question : 1

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below:

List I List II
A. Vinay Patrika 1. Tulsidas
B. Virangana 2. Maithili Sharan Gupta
C. Vish Vriksha 3. Bankim Chandra Chatterji
D. Voice of Conscience 4. V.V. Giri
Codes: A B C D

a) 3 2 4 1

b) 4 3 1 2

c) 1 2 3 4

d) 4 3 2 1

Answer: (c)

The correctly matched pairs are :

Vinay Patrika — Tulsidas.Tulsidas, also known as Goswami Tulsidas; 1497/1532–1623) was a poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion to the god Rama.

Virangana — Maithili Sharan Gupta. Maithili Sharan Gupt was one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He is considered one of the pioneers of Khari Boli poetry and wrote in the Khari Boli dialect, at a time when most Hindi poets favoured the use of the Braj Bhasha dialect.

Vish Vriksha — Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was a Bengali writer, poet and journalist. He was the composer of India’s national song Vande Mataram, originally a Bengali and Sanskrit stotra personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring the activists during the Indian Freedom Movement.

Voice of Conscience — V.V. Giri. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, commonly known as V. V. Giri, was the fourth President of India from 24 August 1969 to 23 August 1974. He served as Acting President of India from 3 May 1969 to 20 July 1969, before getting elected.

Question : 2

The novel ‘Durgesha Nandini’ is written by

a) Swarna Kumari

b) Rabindra Nath Tagore

c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

d) Taraknath Gangopadhyaya

Answer: (c)

Question : 3

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List I List II
A. Gandhian Constitution for India 1. D. Mackenzie Brown
B. The Republic of India 2. Sriman Narayan
C. The White Umbrella 3. A. Gledhill
D. The Politics of India since Independence 4. Paul R. Brass
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 3 1 4

b) 2 4 1 3

c) 1 2 3 4

d) 2 1 4 3

Answer: (a)

Question : 4

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

a) Rajendra Prasad - India Divided

b) S.C. Bose - Indian Struggle

c) Frank Moraes - India from Curzon to Nehru and After

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

Answer: (c)

Question : 5

Which of the following books was not written by a Nobel Laureate?

a) A House for Mr. Biswas

b) A Suitable Boy

c) Among Believers

d) An Area of Darkness and India

Answer: (b)

A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. At 1349 pages and 591,552 words, the book is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English language. It won the Best book, Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1994.

Question : 6

Who is the author of the new book “Knowledge Innovation Strategy”?

a) Ravinder Singh

b) Parag Kulkarni

c) Darjoy Datta

d) Amish Tripathi

Answer: (b)

“Knowledge Innovation Strategy’ is authored by Parag Kulkarni, one of India’s most senior management consultants. It was published by Bloomsbury India in February 2015. The book advocates a new concept of Systemic Knowledge Innovation for professionals.

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