Books and authors - Question Bank

1. Who wrote the famous Indian epic 'Mahabharata'?
A) Valmiki
B) Tulsidas
C) Vyasa
D) Kalidasa
2. 'Animal Farm' is a satirical novella by which author?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) H.G. Wells
D) Ray Bradbury
3. Who wrote the novel 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
A) William Makepeace Thackeray
B) Charles Dickens
C) George Eliot
D) Thomas Hardy
4. 'Frankenstein' is a novel by which author?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mary Shelley
C) Bram Stoker
D) H.G. Wells
5. Who wrote the epic poem 'The Ramayana'?
A) Vyasa
B) Tulsidas
C) Valmiki
D) Kalidasa
6. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a novel by:
A) Robert Louis Stevenson
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Bram Stoker
7. Who wrote the collection of fables known as 'Panchatantra'?
A) Vyas
B) Vishnu Sharma
C) Kalidasa
D) Tulsidas
8. 'Jane Eyre' is a novel by which author?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Anne Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
9. Who wrote the influential book 'The Prince'?
A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Niccolò Machiavelli
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D) John Locke
10. 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' is a famous work by:
A) Mark Twain
B) Charles Dickens
C) Herman Melville
D) Jack London
11. Who is the author of 'The Mahabharata'?
A) Valmiki
B) Vyasa
C) Tulsidas
D) Kalidasa
12. '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
13. Who wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'?
A) John Maynard Keynes
B) Adam Smith
C) David Ricardo
D) Thomas Malthus
14. 'The Catcher in the Rye' is a novel by:
A) Arthur Miller
B) Tennessee Williams
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Kurt Vonnegut
15. 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
16. 'Sense and Sensibility' is a novel by:
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) Mary Shelley
17. Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Mario Vargas Llosa
B) Carlos Fuentes
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Jorge Luis Borges
18. 'The Canterbury Tales' is a collection of stories by which English poet?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) Edmund Spenser
D) John Milton
19. Who authored 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'?
A) Terry Pratchett
B) Neil Gaiman
C) Douglas Adams
D) Kurt Vonnegut
20. '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
21. Who wrote the influential book 'The Communist Manifesto'?
A) Vladimir Lenin
B) Leon Trotsky
C) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
D) Joseph Stalin
22. 'The Great Gatsby' is a novel by which American author?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) William Faulkner
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) John Steinbeck
23. Who is credited with writing the ancient Indian treatise 'Arthashastra'?
A) Kalidasa
B) Vatsyayana
C) Chanakya
D) Panini
24. 'The Kite Runner' is a novel by which Afghan-American author?
A) Khaled Hosseini
B) Mohsin Hamid
C) Tariq Ali
D) Aatish Taseer
25. Who wrote the famous novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Herman Melville
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Walt Whitman
26. 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad' are epic poems attributed to:
A) Virgil
B) Homer
C) Ovid
D) Sophocles
27. Who is the author of the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) Harper Lee
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
28. 'Wings of Fire' is the autobiography of which Indian personality?
A) Ratan Tata
B) APJ Abdul Kalam
C) Narayana Murthy
D) Ratan Tata
29. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) John Milton
D) Percy Bysshe Shelley
30. 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was written by:
A) Charles Dickens
B) Herman Melville
C) Mark Twain
D) Jack London
31. Which work is attributed to Kalidasa?
A) Panchatantra
B) Arthashastra
C) Meghaduta
D) Mahabharata
32. 'The Alchemist' is a novel by which Brazilian author?
A) Jorge Amado
B) Paulo Coelho
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Isabel Allende
33. Who wrote the novel 'The God of Small Things'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Vikram Seth
D) Jhumpa Lahiri
34. '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
35. Who authored the famous play 'Oedipus Rex'?
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Aeschylus
D) Aristophanes
36. 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' were written by whom?
A) Agatha Christie
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) G.K. Chesterton
37. Which Indian poet is known for his work 'The Golden Threshold'?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Sarojini Naidu
C) Subramania Bharati
D) Jayashankar Prasad
38. '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
39. Who wrote the novel 'The Guide'?
A) Anita Desai
B) Kiran Desai
C) R.K. Narayan
D) Salman Rushdie
40. '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
41. Who is the author of 'The Jungle Book'?
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Robert Louis Stevenson
D) Jules Verne
42. '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
43. The famous book 'The Republic' is attributed to which Greek philosopher?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Epicurus
44. Who wrote the historical novel 'Malgudi Days'?
A) R.K. Narayan
B) Mulk Raj Anand
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Vikram Seth
45. 'War and Peace' is a renowned novel by which Russian author?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Ivan Turgenev
46. Which book is famously associated with Swami Vivekananda?
A) My Experiments with Truth
B) Gita Govinda
C) Karma Yoga
D) Annihilation of Caste
47. Who penned the classic play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Shakespeare
C) Christopher Marlowe
D) Ben Jonson
48. 'The Discovery of India' was written by whom?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Subhas Chandra Bose
49. Which Indian author wrote the epic poem 'Ramcharitmanas'?
A) Tulsidas
B) Kabir Das
C) Surdas
D) Mirabai
50. Who is the author of the famous novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Mary Shelley
D) Emily Brontë