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Questions : Who is the author of the book ‘Apprenticeship of a Mahatma’ on which the film called ‘The Making of the Mahatma’ is based?

(a) Shyam Benegal

(b) Fatima Meer

(c) Arundhati Roy

(d) Shobha De

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

Fatima Meer was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist.

She was born in Durban, the largest city in what is now KwaZulu-Natal Province, into a family of nine, where her father, a newspaper editor, instilled in her a consciousness of the racial discrimination that existed in the country.

She completed her schooling at the Durban Indian Girls High School and subsequently attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she was a member of a Trotskyist group and the University of Natal, where she completed a Masters degree in Sociology.

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Question : 1

Who wrote the famous book - ‘We the people’?

a) J.R.D. Tata

b) Khushwant Singh

c) T.N.Kaul

d) Nani Palkhivala

Answer: (d)

Question : 2

The author of the book ‘Towards Struggle’ was

a) Jai Prakash Narayan

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) J.B. Kripalani

d) Ram Manohar Lohia

Answer: (a)

Question : 3

Consider the following statements

  1. Nani Palkhivala wrote the famous book - ‘We the people’
  2. George Orwell is the author of the book ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’
  3. Manasorovar is NOT written by Munshi Premchand
Which of the statements given above is/are correct

a) 1 and 3 only

b) All of the above

c) 1 and 2 only

d) 2 only

Answer: (c)

Nani Palkhivala- ‘We the people’

George Orwell-’Nineteen Eighty Four’

Manasorovar- Munshi Premchand

Question : 4

Which of the following books has been written by Kamala Das?

a) The Red Devil

b) Tonight This Savage Rite

c) Witness the Night

d) Earth and Ashes

Answer: (b)

Kamala Surayya was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India.

Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography. Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation.

On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune but has earned considerable respect in recent years.

Question : 5

The famous work ‘Anandmath’ was written by

a) Sri Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

b) Sri Aarti Chaudhary

c) Sri Aurobindo

d) Sri Rabindra Nath Tagore

Answer: (a)

Anandmath is a Bengali fiction, written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and published in 1882. Set in the background of the Sanyasi Rebellion in the late 18th century, it is considered one of the most important novels in the history of Bengali and Indian literature. The national song of India, Vande Mataram, was first published in this novel.

Question : 6

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

List I List II
(Books) (Authors)
A. The Price of Partition 1. Abul Kalam
B. Ulysses 2. S.S. Gill
C. India 2020 3. Rafiq Zakaria
D. Pathology of corruption 4. James Joyce
  5. P.N. Chopra
Codes: A B C D

a) 3 4 1 2

b) 3 5 1 2

c) 4 3 2 5

d) 4 2 5 1

Answer: (a)

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