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National Library Week Final

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following novels is considered the first major Postcolonial novel in English from India?

a)

Kanthapura

b)

Untouchable

c)

The Guide

d)

The Midnight's Children

2.

Who is the author of the dystopian classic Fahrenheit 451?

a)

George Orwell

b)

Ray Bradbury

c)

Aldous Huxley

d)

Ursula Le Guin

3.

Which Shakespeare play is commonly referred to as “The Scottish Play”?

a)

Hamelt

b)

Macbeth

c)

King Lear

d)

Julius Caesar

4.

The term “stream of consciousness” is most strongly associated with which writer?

a)

Emily Brontë

b)

William Faulkner

c)

Leo Tolstoy

d)

Thomas Hardy

5.

The poem “Where the Mind is Without Fear” appears in which book?

a)

Gitanjali

b)

The Home and the World

c)

Balaka

d)

Chitra

6.

Which novel won the 2025 Booker Prize?

a)

The Land in the Winter-Andrew Miller

b)

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai

c)

The Rest of Our Lives – Ben Markovits

d)

Flesh – David Szalay

7.

Who among the following is best known for Magical Realism?

a)

Virginia Woolf

b)

Charles Dickens

c)

James Joyce

d)

Gabriel García Márquez

8.

Which novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2025?

a)

North Woods – Daniel Mason

b)

The Bee Sting – Paul Murray

c)

The Fraud – Zadie Smith

d)

James – Percival Everett

9.

Which Indian English poet wrote the poem “A River”?

a)

Nissim Ezekiel

b)

A. K. Ramanujan

c)

MulkRaj Anand

d)

Kamala Das

10.

Who is the director of the 2025 movie adaptation of Frankenstein?

a)

Tim Burton

b)

James Cameron

c)

Robert Eggers

d)

Guillermo del Toro

11.

Which book explores India's past, present, and future?

a)

Glimpses of World History

b)

A Bunch of Old Letters

c)

The Discovery of India

d)

Letters from a Father to His Daughter

12.

What is the main theme of The Discovery of India?

a)

Economic development

b)

Cultural and historical journey

c)

Nehru's Childhood

d)

World history

13.

Nehru's vision included which key principle?

a)

Religious state

b)

Economic isolation

c)

Democratic socialism

d)

Socialism

14.

The use of AI to automate tasks like grading and attendance is called:

a)

Digital fatigue

b)

Automated administration

c)

Virtual pedagogy

d)

Hybrid learning

15.

What does OER stand for?

a)

Open Educational Resources

b)

Online Exam Repository

c)

Optical Education Reader

d)

Open Exam Resources

16.

The full form of MOOC is:

a)

Massive Open Online Course

b)

Modern Online Organized Class

c)

Multiple Open Online Curriculum

d)

Managed Online Offline Course

17.

Gamification involves:

a)

Making exams harder

b)

Playing games

c)

Adding game elements to learning

d)

Removing games completely

18.

Which country is credited with inventing the first printed book using movable type?

a)

India

b)

China

c)

Germany

d)

Japan

19.

What is the Dewel Decimal Classification primarily used for?

a)

Assigning ISBN's

b)

Categorising books in a library

c)

Publishing Journals

d)

Scanning barcodes

20.

Which technology is most useful for students with hearing impairments?

a)

Text-to- Speech tools

b)

Speech-to-texts tools

c)

Projectors

d)

Braille

21.

21. What is the theme of National Library Week 2025 (India)?

a)

Empowering literacy through the library

b)

Drawn to the Library

c)

Reading for Change

d)

Digital Libraries to All

22.

Who is the Father of Library Science in India?

a)

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

b)

B.S Kesavan

c)

S.S. Ranganathan

d)

Harinath De

23.

Year Indian Library Association (ILA) was founded in which year?

a)

1947

b)

1999

c)

1987

d)

1933

24.

Who is the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in badminton at the Olympics?

a)

P.V Sindu

b)

Saina Nehwal

c)

Jwala Gutta

d)

Ashwini Ponnappa

25.

Main function of a college library in digital era?

a)

Preserve old books

b)

Issue Novels

c)

Provide digital access and academic support

d)

Provide digital access only

26.

Organization that declares International Literacy Day?

a)

UNESCO

b)

UA

c)

ILA

d)

NITI Aayog

27.

Who is the father of experimental psychology?

a)

William James

b)

Sigmund Freud

c)

Wilhelm Wundt

d)

Carl Jung

28.

The Id operates on which principle?

a)

Moral principles

b)

Pleasure

c)

Ego

d)

Super ego

29.

Classical conditioning was developed by:

a)

B.F Skinner

b)

Ivan Pavlov

c)

Albert Bandura

d)

Edward C. Tolman

30.

“Learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour due to experience.” This definition is associated with:

a)

Cognitive Psychology

b)

Behaviourism

c)

Humanistic Psychology

d)

Psychoanalysis

31.

Reinforcing a behaviour after a fixed time interval is:

a)

Variable Ratio

b)

Fixed Interval

c)

Variable Interval

d)

Fixed Ratio

32.

The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) refers to:

a)

What a learner can do independently

b)

What a learner cannot do even with help

c)

The gap between actual ability and potential ability

d)

Tasks mastered through rote learning

33.

William James founded which school?

a)

Structuralism

b)

Functionalism

c)

Behaviourism

d)

Gestalt

34.

‘Insight learning’ was proposed by:

a)

Thorndike

b)

Kohler

c)

Skinner

d)

Bandura

35.

According to Piaget, children in the Concrete Operational Stage show the ability of:

a)

Abstract thinking

b)

Hypotheses testing

c)

Imaginative capacity

d)

Conservation

36.

The father of educational psychology is

a)

Edward Thorndike

b)

B.F Skinner

c)

Ivan Pavlov

d)

Jean Piaget

37.

Which country produces the most gold in the world?

a)

South Africa

b)

Russia

c)

China

d)

USA

38.

Whose autobiography is Unbreakable?

a)

Mary Kom

b)

P.T Usha

c)

Indira Gandhi

d)

Saina Nehwal

39.

Which is the highest national peak in Kerala?

a)

Periyar

b)

Silent Valley

c)

Eravikulam

d)

Wayanad

40.

Who launched the 'Global Specs 2030' initiative?

a)

WHO

b)

UNDP

c)

India

d)

UNESCO

41.

Who won the gold medal in men’s javelin throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships?

a)

Kishore Jena

b)

Arshad Nadeem

c)

Neeraj Chopra

d)

Rohit Yadav

42.

Who was elected as the President of Belarus?

a)

Vladimir Putin

b)

Alexander Lukashenko

c)

Petro Poroshenko

d)

Emmanuel Macron

43.

Who became the first Muslim and South Asian elected to the New York State Assembly?

a)

Aravella Simotas

b)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

c)

Ilhan Omar

d)

Zohran Mamdani

44.

What is the official magazine of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi?

a)

Granthalokam

b)

Bhashaposhini

c)

Kerala Kavita

d)

Sahitya Lokam

45.

Who wrote the work Kuttipencil, a malayalam children's literature work?

a)

Nandanar

b)

Kunjunni Mash

c)

E.V. Krishna Pillai

d)

O.V. Vijayan

46.

Who is known by the pen name “Kakkanadan”?

a)

S. K. Pottekkatt

b)

George Varghese

c)

M.T. Vasudevan Nair

d)

Basheer

47.

Which is the largest public library in India?

a)

Delhi Public Library

b)

Connemara Library

c)

National Library, Kolkata

d)

Saraswathi Sabha Library

48.

Who was the first Malayalam writer to receive the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for a specific work?

a)

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

b)

M.T. Vasudevan Nair

c)

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

d)

O.N.V. Kurup

49.

Who authored the Children’s Encyclopaedia for kids?

a)

B.R Ambedkar

b)

Jawaharlal Nehru

c)

Subhash Candra Bose

d)

Sardar Patel

50.

What is the term “Aksharavriksham” (Tree of Letters) related to?

a)

Agricultural Scheme

b)

Student Reading Initiative

c)

Water Conservation Scheme

d)

E- Library Project