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Books & authors in modern india - Test Set 2

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  1. Question 1

    Bharat Durdasha, a satirical Hindi drama on colonial India, was written by —
    1. Harishchandra Bhatt
    2. Vishnu Sharma
    3. Bharatendu Harishchandra
    4. Jaishankar Prasad
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  2. Question 2

    Who wrote ‘It’s Always Possible’, a book on reforming Tihar Jail?
    1. Arvind Kejriwal
    2. Medha Patkar
    3. Kiran Bedi
    4. Prakash Singh
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  3. Question 3

    The novel ‘Pather Panchali’, which inspired Satyajit Ray’s film, was authored by —
    1. Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
    2. Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
    3. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
    4. Manik Bandopadhyay
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  4. Question 4

    Anandamath, which features the hymn Vande Mataram, was written by —
    1. Rabindranath Tagore
    2. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
    3. Aurobindo Ghosh
    4. Dinabandhu Mitra
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  5. Question 5

    The Spirit of Islam was authored by —
    1. Rafiq Zakaria
    2. Sayyid Ahmad Khan
    3. Sayyid Amir Ali
    4. Maulana Azad
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  6. Question 6

    Who wrote ‘Prison Diary’ while imprisoned during the Emergency (1975–77)?
    1. Jayaprakash Narayan
    2. Rajendra Prasad
    3. Morarji Desai
    4. Ram Manohar Lohia
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  7. Question 7

    Mahatma and the Ism was written by —
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Rafiq Zakaria
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Jayaprakash Narayan
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  8. Question 8

    Who is the author of Hind Swaraj?
    1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    2. Rabindranath Tagore
    3. M.K. Gandhi
    4. Jawaharlal Nehru
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  9. Question 9

    Geetanjali, which won the Nobel Prize, was authored by—
    1. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
    2. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
    3. Rabindranath Tagore
    4. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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  10. Question 10

    Gokhale My Political Guru was written by—
    1. M.K. Gandhi
    2. Jawaharlal Nehru
    3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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  11. Question 11

    Who wrote Why Am I an Atheist?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. Bhagat Singh
    3. C.R. Das
    4. Shachindra Sanyal
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  12. Question 12

    The author of My Experiments with Truth is—
    1. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    2. M.K. Gandhi
    3. Subhash Chandra Bose
    4. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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  13. Question 13

    Satyagraha in Champaran was authored by—
    1. M.K. Gandhi
    2. Rajendra Prasad
    3. Vallabhbhai Patel
    4. Jawaharlal Nehru
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  14. Question 14

    The author of The Life Divine is—
    1. Sri Aurobindo
    2. Swami Vivekananda
    3. Shivanand
    4. Rabindranath Tagore
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  15. Question 15

    Bandhi Jeevan is the autobiography of—
    1. C.R. Das
    2. Subhash Chandra Bose
    3. Jayaprakash Narayan
    4. Shachindra Nath Sanyal
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  16. Question 16

    Poverty and Un-British Rule in India was written by—
    1. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    2. Dada Bhai Naoroji
    3. M.G. Ranade
    4. C.R. Das
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  17. Question 17

    Tarane-e-Hind and Bang-e-Dara are composed by—
    1. M.A. Jinnah
    2. Sayyid Ahmed Khan
    3. Muhammad Iqbal
    4. Sir Syed Ameer Ali
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  18. Question 18

    Hints for Self-Culture was written by—
    1. Shivananda
    2. B.R. Ambedkar
    3. Ram Mohan Roy
    4. Lala Hardayal
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  19. Question 19

    A Nation in the Making is the autobiography of—
    1. Dadabhai Naoroji
    2. Bipin Chandra Pal
    3. Surendranath Banerjee
    4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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  20. Question 20

    At the Feet of Gandhi was written by—
    1. J.P. Narayan
    2. Vinoba Bhave
    3. C. Rajagopalachari
    4. Rajendra Prasad
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