Day 6: Books & Authors

Here is a list of some important books and their authors, covering a mix of Indian and international literature that are often relevant for general awareness:

Indian Authors & Books:

• Mahatma Gandhi: My Experiments with Truth, Young India, Hind Swaraj
• Jawaharlal Nehru: The Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History
• Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali, The Home and the World, Gora
• Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
• Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
• Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
• R.K. Narayan: The Guide, Malgudi Days
• Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan
• Shashi Tharoor: The Great Indian Novel
• Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines
• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire
• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: Anandmath

International Authors & Books:

• William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
• Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility¹
• George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm
• Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
• Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
• Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey
• Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

20 MCQs on Books & Authors (Day 6)

1. Who is the author of the book “The Discovery of India”?
   a) Mahatma Gandhi
   b) Jawaharlal Nehru
   c) Rabindranath Tagore
   d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
   
2. “Gitanjali” is a collection of poems by which famous Indian author?
   a) Arundhati Roy
   b) Vikram Seth
   c) Rabindranath Tagore
   d) Salman Rushdie
   
3. Which of the following books was written by Mahatma Gandhi?
   a) The Guide
   b) Train to Pakistan
   c) My Experiments with Truth
   d) Midnight’s Children
   
4. The novel “A Suitable Boy” is authored by:
   a) Amitav Ghosh
   b) Vikram Seth
   c) Khushwant Singh
   d) Shashi Tharoor
   
5. Who wrote the famous play “Hamlet”?
   a) Charles Dickens
   b) William Shakespeare
   c) Jane Austen
   d) George Orwell
   
6. “Pride and Prejudice” is a novel by:
   a) Emily Bronte
   b) Charlotte Bronte
   c) Jane Austen
   d) Virginia Woolf
   
7. Which book by George Orwell is a dystopian novella about animals rebelling against their human masters?
   a) Nineteen Eighty-Four
   b) Animal Farm
   c) The Old Man and the Sea
   d) To Kill a Mockingbird
   
8. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
   a) Kiran Desai
   b) Anita Desai
   c) Arundhati Roy
   d) Jhumpa Lahiri
   
9. “Train to Pakistan” is a poignant story about the partition of India written by:
   a) R.K. Narayan
   b) Khushwant Singh
   c) Mulk Raj Anand
   d) Raja Rao
   
10. “Midnight’s Children”, a Booker Prize winner, is written by:
    a) Vikram Seth
    b) Salman Rushdie
    c) Amitav Ghosh
    d) Shashi Tharoor
    
11. Which of the following books is NOT written by William Shakespeare?
    a) Macbeth
    b) Othello
    c) Paradise Lost
    d) Romeo and Juliet
    
12. “War and Peace” is an epic novel by which Russian author?
    a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
    b) Anton Chekhov
    c) Leo Tolstoy
    d) Nikolai Gogol
    
13. Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
    a) Ernest Hemingway
    b) Mark Twain
    c) Harper Lee
    d) John Steinbeck
    
14. “Malgudi Days” is a collection of short stories set in a fictional South Indian town, authored by:
    a) Salman Rushdie
    b) R.K. Narayan
    c) Arundhati Roy
    d) Vikram Seth
    
15. “The Great Indian Novel” is a satirical work that retells the Mahabharata in a modern Indian political context. Who is the author?
    a) Khushwant Singh
    b) Shashi Tharoor
    c) Amitav Ghosh
    d) Upamanyu Chatterjee
    
16. “Wings of Fire” is the autobiography of which eminent Indian personality?
    a) Jawaharlal Nehru
    b) Indira Gandhi
    c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
    d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    
17. Who is the author of the Bengali novel “Anandmath”, which is historically significant for its song “Vande Mataram”?
    a) Rabindranath Tagore
    b) Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
    c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
    d) Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
    
18. “The Old Man and the Sea”, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novella, is written by:
    a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
    b) Ernest Hemingway
    c) John Steinbeck
    d) William Faulkner
    
19. The epic poems “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” are attributed to which ancient Greek author?
    a) Plato
    b) Aristotle
    c) Homer
    d) Socrates
    
20. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a masterpiece of magical realism by which author?
    a) Isabel Allende
    b) Jorge Luis Borges
    c) Gabriel García Márquez
    d) Julio Cortázar
    

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Answers to the MCQs:

1. b) Jawaharlal Nehru
2. c) Rabindranath Tagore
3. c) My Experiments with Truth
4. b) Vikram Seth
5. b) William Shakespeare
6. c) Jane Austen
7. b) Animal Farm
8. c) Arundhati Roy
9. b) Khushwant Singh
10. b) Salman Rushdie
11. c) Paradise Lost (written by John Milton)
12. c) Leo Tolstoy
13. c) Harper Lee
14. b) R.K. Narayan
15. b) Shashi Tharoor
16. c) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
17. c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
18. b) Ernest Hemingway
19. c) Homer
20. c) Gabriel García Márquez