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Questions : Who is the author of ‘A Suitable Boy’ ?

(a) Arundhati Roy

(b) None of these

(c) Vikram Seth

(d) Khushwant Singh

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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.

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Question : 1

The author of the book ‘World of All Human Rights : Soli J. Sorabjee A Festschriff’ is

a) R.N. Trivedi

b) Chetan Bhagat

c) Arun Jaitely

d) Vishnu Sahai

Answer: (a)

Question : 2

Who wrote the book ‘A Passage to India’?

a) E.M. Forster

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) None of the above

d) Minoo Masani

Answer: (a)

Question : 3

Which of the following is correctly matched ?

a) “Dilli Chalo” — Mahatma Gandhi

b) “Swaraj is my birthright” — Swami Dayanand

c) “Do or die” — Jawahar Lal Nehru

d) “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” —Lal Bahadur Shastri

Answer: (d)

Jai Jawan Jai Kisan was a slogan given to India by the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965. It means hail the soldier and hail the farmer.

Soon after Shastri took over the prime ministership of India after Nehru’s death. India was attacked by Pakistan. At the same time, there was a scarcity of foodgrains in the country.

Shastri gave the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan to enthuse the soldiers to defend India and simultaneously cheering farmers to do their best to increase the production of food grains to reduce dependence on imports.

It became a very popular slogan. After Pokaran tests in 1998, Atal Bihari Vajpayee added Jai Vigyan (Hail knowledge) to the slogan to underline the importance of knowledge in India’ progress.

Question : 4

Which of the following books is not written by Munshi Premchand?

a) Godan

b) Nirmala

c) Gaban

d) Guide

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.

Question : 5

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 : 6

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)

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