Indian Literature

Q1. Famous Indian writer Dhanpat Rai Srivastav is also known as
(A) Lakshminath Bezbaroa
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Premchand
(D) Sumitranandan Pant

Q2. Who is the writer of the book 'A Suitable Boy"
(A) Vikram Seth
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Salman Rushdie
(D) Kiran Desai

Q3. Who is the writer of the book 'Devdas"
(A) Satyajit Ray
(B) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(C) Mahasweta Devi
(D) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Q4. Beside Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai, who is the other one to win Man Booker Prize from India
(A) Aravind Adiga
(B) Amitav Ghosh
(C) Rohinton Mistry
(D) Anita Desai

Q5. Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for the book
(A) Life of Pi
(B) The White Tiger
(C) Last Orders
(D) The Inheritance of Loss

Q6. Who is the first winner of Jnanpith Award
(A) G. Sankara Kurup
(B) Ashapurna Devi
(C) Umashankar Joshi
(D) Amrita Pritam

Q7. Who is the first women to received Jnanpith Award
(A) Amrita Pritam
(B) Ashapurna Devi
(C) Mahadevi Varma
(D) Mahasweta Devi

Q8. Which one is the longest Indian novels ever published in a single volume in the English language
(A) Revolution 2020
(B) The God of Small Things
(C) A Suitable Boy
(D) Train to Pakistan

Q9. Who is the writer of  of the book 'Train to Pakistan'
(A) Amrita Pritam
(B) Khushwant Singh
(C) Anita Desai
(D) Subodh Javadekar

Q10. The story in the book 'God of small things' is based on which state
(A) Goa
(B) Kerala
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Tamil Nadu

Q11. Which one is the first novel of Chetan Bhagat
(A) One Night @ the Call Center
(B) 2 States
(C) Five Point Someone
(D) The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Q12. The fictional character 'Mowgli' is the creation of
(A) Ruskin Bond
(B) R. K. Narayan
(C) Mulk Raj Anand
(D) Rudyard Kipling

Q13. Satyajit Ray's famous film 'shatranj ke khilari' is based on a novel written by
(A) PremChand
(B) R. K. Narayan
(C) Girish Kanad
(D) Anita Desai

Q14. From which year Sahitya Akademi Award was started
(A) 1949
(B) 1951
(C) 1954
(D) 1962

Q15. In which novel, the fictitious town 'Malgudi' was first mention
(A) The Bachelor of Arts
(B) The English Teacher
(C) Under the Banyan Tree
(D) Swami and Friends

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