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READING DAY/WEEK QUIZ

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who composed the Ramcharitmanas?

a)

Tulsidas

b)

Surdas

c)

Valmiki

d)

Kalidas

2.

World Book Day is celebrated on -

a)

23rd March

b)

23rd April

c)

23rd September

d)

23rd August

3.

National Reading Day in India is celebrated on -

a)

15th June

b)

21st June

c)

31st May

d)

19th June

4.

Who is the only Indian to have won the Nobel Prize for literature?

a)

Abhijit Banerjee

b)

Amartya Sen

c)

Rabindranath Tagore

d)

Rudyard Kipling

5.

Who is the first Indian citizen to have won the Booker Prize?

a)

Salman Rushdie

b)

Arundhati Roy

c)

Kiran Desai

d)

Aravind Adiga

6.

For which novel did Salman Rushdie, an Indian born novelist win the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers Prize in 1993 & the Best of the Booker Prize in 2008?

a)

The Enchantress of Florence

b)

The Satanic Verses

c)

The Moors Last Sigh

d)

Midnight's Children

7.

Who won India's most prestigious literary award "Jnanpith Award" in 2019?

a)

Amitav Ghosh

b)

G Sankara Kurup

c)

Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri

d)

Krishna Sobti

8.

For which of his poems did Nand Kishore Acharya win the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi Poetry in 2019?

a)

हर कोई चाहता है

b)

कहीं नहीं मैं दिखा

c)

छीलते हुए अपने को

d)

सब जो खिला था

9.

In whose honour is Reading Day/Week celebrated in India?

a)

S R Ranganathan

b)

P N Panicker

c)

P Sreeramulu

d)

S Radhakrishnan

10.

Which famous author used the pseudonym Premchand for his works?

a)

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava

b)

Narayan Sanyal

c)

Birendra Krishna Bhadra

d)

Samaresh Basu