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PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS
1. Which of the following novels has been written by Chetan Bhagat?
(A) A Suitable Boy
(B) Gullivers Travels
(C) The White Tiger
(D) Five Point Someone
2. Who among the following is the author of the book 'The Origin of Species'?
(A) Alfred Wegener
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) Confucius
(D) Sigmund Freud
3. Which of the following books has been written by Arundhati Roy?
(A) Midnight's Children
(B) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
(C) Unhappy India
(D) A Suitable Boy
4. Who was the author of the book 'The Wealth of Nations'?
(A) Adam Smith
(B) Khushwant Singh
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Nandan Nilekani
5. 'The Race of My Life' is an autobiography of ________.
(A) Sania Mirza
(B) Yuvraj Singh
(C) Dutee Chand
(D) Milkha Singh
6. Which of the following novels has been written by R.K. Narayan?
(A) A Tiger for Malgudi
(B) The White Tiger
(C) A Suitable Boy
(D) Padmavat
7. Who wrote the book 'India Divided'?
(A) Vallabhbhai Patel
(B) Khudiram Bose
(C) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
(D) Rajendra Prasad
8. Who authored the 'Gitanjali', an anthology of poems?
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(A) Debendranath Tagore
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Kazi Nazrul Islam
(D) Swami Vivekananda
9. Which of the following books has been written by Krishna Deva Raya?
(A) Ananda Math
(B) Sudraka
(C) Amuktamalyada
(D) Ratnavali
10. Who is the author of the book 'The Argumentative Indian'?
(A) Rudyard Kipling
(B) Kiran Desai
(C) Amartya Sen
(D) Ruskin Bond
11. Which of the following books has been written by Jayaprakash Narayan?
(A) I do what I do
(B) Towards Total Revolution
(C) The New India
(D) Exam Warriors
12. Which of the following books was written by Kalidasa?
(A) Abhijnanashakuntalam
(B) Ashtadhyayi
(C) Padmavat
(D) Panchatantra
13. The Lakshmi (Laxmi) Purana is a purana written by which of the following Odia Poets?
(A) Balarama Dasa
(B) Jayadeva
(C) Anata Dasa
(D) Jagannatha Dasa
14. Who is the author of the book 'My Experiments with Truth'?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Nelson Mandela
(C) Kasturba Gandhi
(D) Mother Teresa
15. Which of the following books has been written by Rudyard Kipling?
(A) The Jungle Book
(B) Animal Farm
(C) A Tale of Two Cities
(D) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
16. Which of the following books has been written by Amartya Sen?

(A) Train to Pakistan
(B) Wings of Fire
(C) The Idea of Justice
(D) The Republic
17. Who among the following is the author of the book 'The Social Contract'?
(A) Amartya Sen
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(D) Voltaire
18. Who among the following is the author of the novel 'Anandamath'?
(A) Ananda Mohan Bose
(B) Surendranath Banerjee
(C) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
19. Who is the author of the book 'Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India'?
(A) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Amartya Sen
(D) Chetan Bhagat
20. Who is the author of the novel 'Revolution 2020'?
(A) Chetan Bhagat
(B) Nandan Nilekani
(C) A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
(D) Vikram Seth
21. Who was the author of the book 'The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the
Community Behind'?
(A) Raghuram Rajan
(B) C. Rangarajan
(C) Urjit Patel
(D) Sumitra Mahajan
22. Who is the author of the book 'The God of Small Things'?
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) Khushwant Singh
(D) Narendra Modi
23. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Golden Threshold’?
(A) Annie Besant
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Jayaprakash Narayan
(D) Sarojini Naidu

24. Who is the author of Sanskrit grammar book, Ashtadhyayi?
(A) Panini
(B) Bharavi
(C) Gautama
(D) Bhaskaracharya
25. Who is the author of the book 'The Discovery of India'?
(A) Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Rajendra Prasad
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
26. Who among the following is the author of the poem "Bandi ra Atma Katha"?
(A) Madhusudan Das
(B) Gadabarish Mishra
(C) Upendra Bhanja
(D) Gopabandhu Das
27. Who was the author of the novel 'Malgudi Days'?
(A) Salman Rushdie
(B) R.K. Narayan
(C) Chetan Bhagat
(D) Kiran Desai
28. Which of the following books has been written by Leo Tolstoy?
(A) Animal Farm
(B) War and Peace
(C) Macbeth
(D) The Alchemist
29. Which of the following ancient Indian books has been written by Harshavardhana?
(A) Ashtadhyayi
(B) Ratnavali
(C) Kumarasambhava
(D) Amuktamalyada
30. Who among the following was the author of Natyashastra?
(A) Ramanmatya
(B) Sarangadeva
(C) Nanda
(D) Bharata Muni
31. Who was the author of the work 'Padmavat'?
(A) Amir Khusrau
(B) Siraj Afif
(C) Malik Muhammad Jayasi
(D) Ziauddin Barni

32. Who is the author of the book 'Nil Darpan'?
(A) Dinabandhu Mitra
(B) Naksha Arab
(C) Sivanath Sastri
(D) Kamala Basu
33. Who is the author of the book 'Kitab-ul-Hind'?
(A) Abdur Razaq
(B) Al-Biruni
(C) Ibn Arabi
(D) Amir Khusrau
34. Who among the following is the author of Ramcharitmanas?
(A) Kalidasa
(B) Surdas
(C) Shankaracharya
(D) Tulsidas
35. Who among the following was the author of Sanskrit work Jambavati Kalyanam?
(A) Nandi Thimmana
(B) Allasani Peddana
(C) Krishna Deva Raya
(D) Tenali Rama
36. Who has become the first Indian author to win the prestigious International Booker Prize
for his/her novel 'Tomb of Sand'?
(A) Geetanjali Shree
(B) Krishna Sobti
(C) Sudhir Chandra
(D) Amartya Sen
37. Who among the following is the author of the book 'Unbreakable: An Autobiography'?
(A) Vijender Singh
(B) Saina Nehwal
(C) Shiva Thapa
(D) Mary Kom
38. The book Lilavati was written by _____________.
(A) Bhaskaracharya
(B) Ashwini Kumar
(C) Brahmagupta
(D) Aryabhata
39. 'Meghaduta' is a lyric poem written by which among the following Poets?
(A) Kalidasa
(B) Surdas
(C) Amar Simha

(D) Panini
40. The Philosophy of the Bomb' was written by which among the following revolutionaries?
(A) Jatin Das
(B) Surya Sen
(C) Rash Behari Bose
(D) Bhagwati Charan Vohra
41. The book 'Guru Granth' is written in which script?
(A) Gurmukhi
(B) Santali
(C) Kharosthi
(D) Devanagari
42. Which among the following books was written by Kautilya?
(A) Parishtaparvan
(B) Arthashastra
(C) Mudrarakshasa
(D) Nitisara
43. Which of the following books was written by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
(A) A Gift to the Monotheists
(B) Glimpses of World History
(C) All Men are Brothers
(D) The Arctic Home in the Vedas
44. The famous Sanskrit Drama "Parashurama Vijaya" was written by:
(A) Anangabhima Deva III
(B) Pratarudra Deva
(C) Kapilendra Deva
(D) Purusottama Deva
45. Ain-i-Akbari and Akbarnama were written by:
(A) Jodha
(B) Abul Fazl
(C) Birbal
(D) Akbar
46. The famous work Gita Govinda was written by:
(A) Jagannatha Dasa
(B) Jayadeva
(C) Bhima Bhoi
(D) Balarama Dasa
47. Who among the following wrote the poetry Book 'Bandira Atmakatha'?
(A) Laxmikantha Mohapatra
(B) Godabarish Mishra
(C) Jayadeva

(D) Gopabandhu Das
48. The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit by which poet?
(A) Amarasimha
(B) Vishnu Sharma
(C) Valmiki
(D) Ved Vyasar
49. Who among the following Hindi poets composed 'Prithviraj-raso'?
(A) Chandbardai
(B) Vyasa
(C) Panini
(D) Vishakhadatta
50. Who wrote the book 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'?
(A) R C Dutt
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) M G Ranade
(D) Subramaniyam Iyer
51.Who wrote the book "The Indian War of Independence 1857"?
(A) V D Savarkar
(B) S N Sen
(C) R C Majumdar
(D) M G Ranade
52. Who among the following wrote the famous Urdu song "Saare Jahan se achcha"?
(A) Muhammad Iqbal
(B) Abdul Hamid Lahori
(C) Abul Fazl
(D) Mirza Ghalib
53. Who among the following freedom fighters wrote the essay 'Why I am an Atheist'?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(C) Udham Singh
(D) Bagavati Charan Vohra
54. Who wrote the book 'Hind Swaraj'?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Motilal Nehru
(C) Subash Chandra Bose
(D) Khudiram Bose
55. Which Indian nationalist wrote the book ‘Economic History of India’?
(A) Romesh Chunder Dutt
(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(C) Chittaranjan Das

(D) Dadabhai Naoroji
56. Who among the following wrote the renowned play 'Malavikagnimitram'?
(A) Chanakya
(B) Shashanka
(C) Amir Khusrow
(D) Kalidasa
57. Who among the following wrote the Book 'Abakasa Chinta'?
(A) Pandit Godabarish Mishra
(B) Pandit Gopabandhu Das
(C) Jayadeva
(D) Laxmikantha Mohapatra
58. Guru Granth Sahib is a Sacred book of which of the following religions?
(A) Hindus
(B) Buddhists
(C) Sikhs
(D) Jains
59. Kalhana's remarkable book on history of Kashmir was _____________.
(A) Rajatarangini
(B) Gaha Sattasai
(C) Abhijnanashakuntalam
(D) Mudrarakshasa
60. The Book Sushruta Samhita is related to ______________.
(A) Astrology
(B) Architecture
(C) Surgery
(D) Mathematics
COMMENT WORK
1. Who wrote the book 'The Quest for Equity in Development'?
A. Raghuram Rajan
B. Montek Singh Ahluwalia
C. Amartya Sen
D. Manmohan Singh
2. Who is the author of the book “On Fire”?
A. David Warner
B. Ben Stokes
C. Virender Sehwag
D. AB de Villiers
3. Social harmony written by
A. Rajendra Prasad

B. Narendra Modi
C. Atal Vihari Vajpayee
D. Manmohan Singh
4. Who has written the book 'Stargazing: The Players in My Life' recently?
A. Rahul Dravid
B. Ravi Shastri
C. Anil Kumble
D. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
5. Who wrote the "Ahe Dayamaya Biswa Bihari' prayer?
A) Abinash Mohapatra
B) Satyajit Baral
C) Ramakrishna Nanda
D) Ramchandra Mishra
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