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1. Who is the author of "The Exile"?

a) Duleep Singh

b) Eli Amir

c) Navtej Sarna

d) Prajwal Parajuly

2. Who is the author of "The Namesake"?

a) Amitav Ghosh

b) Arundhati Roy

c) Jhumpa Lahiri

d) Kiran Desai

3. Who is the author of "The White Tiger"?

a) Amitav Ghosh

b) Aravind Adiga

c) Arundhati Roy

d) Jhumpa Lahiri

4. Who is the author of "Infinite Jest"?

a) Dave Eggers

b) David Foster Wallace

c) Jonathan Franzen

d) Mary Karr

5. Who is the author of "Playing It My Way"?

a) Kapil Dev

b) Ravi Shastri

c) Sachin Tendulkar

d) Yuvraj Singh

6. In which of the following books is 'Knowledge is power' written?

a) Behemoth

b) De Cive

c) De Corpore

d) Leviathan

7. Which one of the following is written by Donna Trott?

a) The goldfinch

b) What young India wants

c) Substance and Shadow

d) None

8. K. Giriprakash wrote a book on whom among the following?

a) Lakshmi Mittal

b) Mukesh Ambani

c) Subrata Roy

d) Vijay Mallya

9. Who is the author of 'What young India wants'?

a) Amish Tripati

b) Chetan Bhagat

c) Durjoy Datta

d) Ravinder Singh

10. Who is the author of "Sahara: the untold story"?

a) Aditya Puri

b) Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty

c) Subrata Roy

d) Tamal Bandyopadhyay

11. Who published 'Young India'?

a) Indira Gandhi

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) Mahatma Gandhi

d) Mother Teresa

12. Who is the author of 'The Inheritance of Loss'?

a) Anita Desai

b) Amitav Ghosh

c) Aravind Adiga

d) Kiran Desai

13. Who is the author of "A Suitable Boy"?

a) Amitav Ghosh

b) Arundhati Roy

c) Jhumpa Lahiri

d) Vikram Seth

14. Who is the author of "Cry, the Peacock"?

a) Anita Desai

b) Arundhati Roy

c) Kiran Desai

d) R. K. Narayan

15. Who is the author of "The Casual Vacancy"?

a) Bonnie Wright

b) Daniel Radcliffe

c) J. K. Rowling

d) Rupert Grint

16. Who is the author of ‘Death in The Castle’?

a. Thomas Mann

b. H.P Nanda

c. Pearl S. Buck

d. John Gunther

17. Who is the author of ‘Cricket My Style’ book?

a. Ronald Segal

b. Ajay Jadega

c. Sunil Gawaskar

d. Kapil Dev

18. Who was the first woman to win the Man Booker Prize?

a. Bernice Rubens

b. Iris Murdoch

c. Anita Brookner

d. None of the above

19. In which year Kiran Desai won Booker Prize?

a. 2004

b. 2005

c. 2006

d. 2007

20. When was it announced that authors from anywhere in the world will be considered for Man Booker Prize awards?

a. September 18, 2013

b. October 18, 2013

c. August 18, 2013

d. July 18, 2013

21. In which country Booker Prize awards are announced?

a. Geneva

b. Birmingham

c. California

d. London

22. At 25th anniversary of Man Bookers Prize whose novel was chosen as the best novel out of all the winners?

a. J.G. Farrell for Troubles

b. Salman Rushdie for Midnight Children

c. V.S Naipaul for In a Free State

d. Graham Swift for Last orders

23. Man Booker International Prize was inaugurated in ________

a. 2004

b. 2005

c. 2006

d. 2007

24. Author of A Tale of Two Cities is _______________

a. Charles Dickens

b. Jonathan Swift

c. John Bunyan

d. Thomas Hardy

25. What is prize money which the winner of the Man Booker Prize receives?

a. $ 50000

b. £ 50000

c. ¥ 50000

d. € 50000

26. Which of the following book is written by India’s first prime minister?

a. Discovery of India

b. A passage to India

c. Geetanjali

d. My experiments with Truth

27. Who is known as father of English Poetry?

a. Charles Dickens

b. Alexandra Dumas

c. Chaucer

d. George Elliot

28. Which of the following book has won Booker Prize?

a. A Blend in the river

b. The White Tiger

c. Adam Bede

d. A Tale of Two Gardens

29. Which country has received Booker Prize in 2012?

a. India

b. Ireland

c. Australia

d. United Kingdom

30. Who was the first person to receive Booker Prize?

a. P. H. Newby

b. John Berger

c. Stanley Middleton

d. David Storey

31. Which book is not written by Rabindranath Tagore?

a. Chitra

b. Court Dancer

c. Chidambara

d. Crescent Moon

32. Which of the following book is written by Bankim Chandra Chatterji?

a. Britain’s True Story

b. Broken wings

c. Canvass of Life

d. Brishbikkha

33. A Suitable Boy is written by ___________

a. Vikram Seth

b. J N Dixit

c. Abul Fazal

d. Amar Singh

34. Which of the following book is written by India’s first woman IPS officer?

a. Intelligence Services

b. Inside the CBI

c. It is Always Possible

d. Insider



Answers :

1) C

2) C

3) B

4) B

5) C

6) D

7) A

8) D

9) B

10) D

11) C

12) D

13) D

14) A

15) C

16) C

17) D

18) A

19) C

20) A

21) D

22) B

23) B

24) A

25) B

26) A

27) C

28) B

29) D

30) A

31) C

32) D

33) A

34) C

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