books & authors section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

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.

Answer: (a)

The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942–46 at Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra. The book is widely considered one of the finest modern works on Indian history.

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)

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)

Nani Palkhivala- ‘We the people’

George Orwell-’Nineteen Eighty Four’

Manasorovar- Munshi Premchand