books & authors section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Nani Palkhivala- ‘We the people’

George Orwell-’Nineteen Eighty Four’

Manasorovar- Munshi Premchand

Answer: (d)

The Guide is a 1958 novel by R. K. Narayan. Like most of his works the novel is based on Malgudi, the fictional town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then one of the greatest holy men of India. The novel brought its author the 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award for English.

Answer: (c)

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. A sequel, to be called A Suitable Girl, is due for publication in 2016.

Answer: (d)

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.

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.