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Indian Authors

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Ruskin Bond was born in _____

a)

Delhi

b)

Shimla

c)

Kasauli

d)

Dehradun

2.

India's first women novelist to write in English was _____

a)

Amrita Pritam

b)

Krupabai Satthianadan

c)

Jhumpa Lahiri

d)

Arundhati Roy

3.

What was the first book that Chetan Bhagat Ever Wrote?

a)

2 States

b)

Revolution 2020

c)

Five Point Someone, a Campus Caper

d)

What Young India Wants

4.

Indentify the author :

a)

Khushwant Singh

b)

Vikram Seth

c)

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

d)

Chetan Bhagat

5.

What job(s) had Khushwant Singh experienced except Authoring?

a)

Diplomat

b)

Lawyer

c)

Politician

d)

All of the above

6.

The book "Two Lives" by Vikram Seth was released in which year?

a)

2003

b)

2004

c)

2005

d)

2006

7.

_____ is known for writing the book series 'The Shiva Trilogy' and 'Ram Chandra' series, which were the fastest and second-fastest selling book series in the Indian publishing history (respectively).

a)

Ruskin Bond

b)

Amish Tripathi

c)

Aravind Adiga

d)

Salman Rushdie

8.

______'s Nobel Prize was stolen.

a)

Amartya Sen

b)

Rabindranath Tagore

c)

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

d)

Mother Teresa

9.

This book is written by

a)

Mahatma Gandhi

b)

Radhakrishnan

c)

Jawaharlal Nehru

d)

Sardar Patel

10.

The famous book 'The White Tiger' was written by ____, which even won the 2008 Man Booker prize.

a)

Chetan Bhagat

b)

Aravind Adiga

c)

Amitav Gosh

d)

Amish Tripathi

11.

She/He was an Indian author known for for her/his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi.

a)

R K Narayan

b)

Jhumpa Lahiri

c)

Arundhati Roy

d)

Ruskin Bond

12.

Identify this author :

a)

Preeti Shenoy

b)

Kiran Desai

c)

Chitra B. Divakaruni

d)

Anuja Chauhan

13.

Which of these books is written by Shashi Tharoor?

a)

Midnight's Children

b)

Train to Pakistan

c)

Two Lives

d)

Why I Am a Hindu

14.

He is mainly know for these four collections : These Errors Are Correct, English, Apocalypso and Gemini.

a)

Suketu Mehta

b)

Ravinder Singh

c)

Durjoy Datta

d)

Jeet Thayil

15.

The book "Exam Warriors" is written by?

a)

Salman Rushdie

b)

Shashi Tharoor

c)

Narendra Modi

d)

Devdutt Pattanaik