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Quiz for Reading Week

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote the Book “Gandhi and Stalin”?

a)

Raj Narayan

b)

Louis Fisher

c)

Anita Desai

d)

V.S.Naipaul

2.

Which among the following is not a work of Rabindranath Tagore?

a)

Chitra

b)

Kapala Kundala

c)

The Court Dancer

d)

Chithrangada

3.

Who wrote the book "My truth"?

a)

jackie chan

b)

Jawaharlal Nehru

c)

Indira Gandhi

d)

Vijay Hazare

4.

Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

a)

Leo Tolstoy

b)

Mahatma Gandhi

c)

Charles Dickens

d)

Kipling

5.

Panchatantra has been written by

a)

Surdas

b)

Kalidas

c)

Vishnu Sharma

d)

Vishakhadatta

6.

Famous book "Hind Swarajya" was written by ?

a)

Vallabh Bhai Patel

b)

Jawahar Lal Nehru

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Lala Lajpat Rai

7.

Who is the author of the book New India?

a)

Manik Bandopadhyay

b)

Annie Besant

c)

John Milton

d)

None

8.

Booker award given for

a)

Best Book

b)

Best Magazine

c)

Best Novel

d)

None of the above

9.

For Which book Rabindra Nath Tagore received the Noble Prize?

a)

Gora

b)

Ghar aur Bahar

c)

Gitanjali

d)

None of these

10.

Wings of Fire is an autobiography of

a)

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak

b)

Pranab Mukherjee

c)

Rabindranath Tagore

d)

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

11.

Who is the author of book “Hitopadesha”?

a)

Kālidāsa

b)

Narayan Pandit

c)

Vishnu Sharma

d)

None of these

12.

Who composed the Ramcharitmanas?

a)

Tulsidas

b)

Surdas

c)

Valmiki

d)

Kalidas

13.

World Book Day is celebrated on -

a)

23rd March

b)

23rd April

c)

23rd September

d)

23rd August

14.

National Reading Day in India is celebrated on -

a)

15th June

b)

21st June

c)

31st May

d)

19th June

15.

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

16.

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

a)

Salman Rushdie

b)

Arundhati Roy

c)

Kiran Desai

d)

Aravind Adiga

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

a)

S R Ranganathan

b)

P N Panicker

c)

P Sreeramulu

d)

S Radhakrishnan

20.

Which famous author used the pseudonym Premchand for his works?

a)

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava

b)

Narayan Sanyal

c)

Birendra Krishna Bhadra

d)

Samaresh Basu