RRB Group D - Books and authors Online Test (MCQ Quiz)

1. Who is the author of the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?

A) Charlotte Brontë B) Jane Austen C) Mary Shelley D) Emily Brontë

2. Which Indian author wrote the epic poem 'Ramcharitmanas'?

A) Tulsidas B) Kabir Das C) Surdas D) Mirabai

3. 'The Discovery of India' was written by whom?

A) Mahatma Gandhi B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel C) Jawaharlal Nehru D) Subhas Chandra Bose

4. Who penned the classic play 'Romeo and Juliet'?

A) Charles Dickens B) William Shakespeare C) Christopher Marlowe D) Ben Jonson

5. Which book is famously associated with Swami Vivekananda?

A) My Experiments with Truth B) Gita Govinda C) Karma Yoga D) Annihilation of Caste

6. 'War and Peace' is a renowned novel by which Russian author?

A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Anton Chekhov C) Leo Tolstoy D) Ivan Turgenev

7. Who wrote the historical novel 'Malgudi Days'?

A) R.K. Narayan B) Mulk Raj Anand C) Salman Rushdie D) Vikram Seth

8. The famous book 'The Republic' is attributed to which Greek philosopher?

A) Aristotle B) Socrates C) Plato D) Epicurus

9. 'Gitanjali', a collection of poems, won Rabindranath Tagore the Nobel Prize. Who translated it into English?

A) William Butler Yeats B) Ezra Pound C) T.S. Eliot D) Alfred Tennyson

10. Who is the author of 'The Jungle Book'?

A) Rudyard Kipling B) Arthur Conan Doyle C) Robert Louis Stevenson D) Jules Verne

11. 'My Experiments with Truth' is the autobiography of which prominent Indian leader?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) Mahatma Gandhi C) Sardar Patel D) Subhas Chandra Bose

12. Who wrote the novel 'The Guide'?

A) Anita Desai B) Kiran Desai C) R.K. Narayan D) Salman Rushdie

13. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' is a dystopian social science fiction novel by which author?

A) Aldous Huxley B) George Orwell C) Ray Bradbury D) H.G. Wells

14. Which Indian poet is known for his work 'The Golden Threshold'?

A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Sarojini Naidu C) Subramania Bharati D) Jayashankar Prasad

15. 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' were written by whom?

A) Agatha Christie B) Arthur Conan Doyle C) Edgar Allan Poe D) G.K. Chesterton

16. Who authored the famous play 'Oedipus Rex'?

A) Sophocles B) Euripides C) Aeschylus D) Aristophanes

17. 'A Brief History of Time' is a popular science book by which physicist?

A) Albert Einstein B) Stephen Hawking C) Carl Sagan D) Richard Feynman

18. Who wrote the novel 'The God of Small Things'?

A) Salman Rushdie B) Arundhati Roy C) Vikram Seth D) Jhumpa Lahiri

19. 'The Alchemist' is a novel by which Brazilian author?

A) Jorge Amado B) Paulo Coelho C) Gabriel García Márquez D) Isabel Allende

20. Which work is attributed to Kalidasa?

A) Panchatantra B) Arthashastra C) Meghaduta D) Mahabharata

21. 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was written by:

A) Charles Dickens B) Herman Melville C) Mark Twain D) Jack London

22. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?

A) William Wordsworth B) John Keats C) John Milton D) Percy Bysshe Shelley

23. 'Wings of Fire' is the autobiography of which Indian personality?

A) Ratan Tata B) APJ Abdul Kalam C) Narayana Murthy D) Ratan Tata

24. Who is the author of the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

A) J.D. Salinger B) Harper Lee C) John Steinbeck D) William Faulkner

25. 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are epic poems attributed to:

A) Virgil B) Homer C) Ovid D) Sophocles

26. Who wrote the famous novel 'Moby Dick'?

A) Edgar Allan Poe B) Herman Melville C) Nathaniel Hawthorne D) Walt Whitman

27. 'The Kite Runner' is a novel by which Afghan-American author?

A) Khaled Hosseini B) Mohsin Hamid C) Tariq Ali D) Aatish Taseer

28. Who is credited with writing the ancient Indian treatise 'Arthashastra'?

A) Kalidasa B) Vatsyayana C) Chanakya D) Panini

29. 'The Great Gatsby' is a novel by which American author?

A) Ernest Hemingway B) William Faulkner C) F. Scott Fitzgerald D) John Steinbeck

30. Who wrote the influential book 'The Communist Manifesto'?

A) Vladimir Lenin B) Leon Trotsky C) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels D) Joseph Stalin

31. 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy was written by:

A) C.S. Lewis B) J.R.R. Tolkien C) George R.R. Martin D) Ursula K. Le Guin

32. Who authored 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'?

A) Terry Pratchett B) Neil Gaiman C) Douglas Adams D) Kurt Vonnegut

33. 'The Canterbury Tales' is a collection of stories by which English poet?

A) William Shakespeare B) Geoffrey Chaucer C) Edmund Spenser D) John Milton

34. Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

A) Mario Vargas Llosa B) Carlos Fuentes C) Gabriel García Márquez D) Jorge Luis Borges

35. 'Sense and Sensibility' is a novel by:

A) Charlotte Brontë B) Emily Brontë C) Jane Austen D) Mary Shelley

36. Which book is famously associated with the Indian independence movement and written by Jawaharlal Nehru?

A) My India B) Discovery of India C) An Autobiography D) Glimpses of World History

37. 'The Catcher in the Rye' is a novel by:

A) Arthur Miller B) Tennessee Williams C) J.D. Salinger D) Kurt Vonnegut

38. Who wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'?

A) John Maynard Keynes B) Adam Smith C) David Ricardo D) Thomas Malthus

39. 'Don Quixote' is a seminal novel by which Spanish writer?

A) Lope de Vega B) Miguel de Cervantes C) Calderón de la Barca D) Fernando de Rojas

40. Who is the author of 'The Mahabharata'?

A) Valmiki B) Vyasa C) Tulsidas D) Kalidasa

41. 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' is a famous work by:

A) Mark Twain B) Charles Dickens C) Herman Melville D) Jack London

42. Who wrote the influential book 'The Prince'?

A) Thomas Aquinas B) Niccolò Machiavelli C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau D) John Locke

43. 'Jane Eyre' is a novel by which author?

A) Emily Brontë B) Anne Brontë C) Charlotte Brontë D) George Eliot

44. Who wrote the collection of fables known as 'Panchatantra'?

A) Vyas B) Vishnu Sharma C) Kalidasa D) Tulsidas

45. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a novel by:

A) Robert Louis Stevenson B) Arthur Conan Doyle C) Oscar Wilde D) Bram Stoker

46. Who wrote the epic poem 'The Ramayana'?

A) Vyasa B) Tulsidas C) Valmiki D) Kalidasa

47. 'Frankenstein' is a novel by which author?

A) Edgar Allan Poe B) Mary Shelley C) Bram Stoker D) H.G. Wells

48. Who wrote the novel 'A Tale of Two Cities'?

A) William Makepeace Thackeray B) Charles Dickens C) George Eliot D) Thomas Hardy

49. 'Animal Farm' is a satirical novella by which author?

A) Aldous Huxley B) George Orwell C) H.G. Wells D) Ray Bradbury

50. Who wrote the famous Indian epic 'Mahabharata'?

A) Valmiki B) Tulsidas C) Vyasa D) Kalidasa

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