Books and Authors GK MCQ Questions Answers in English for preparation of Competitive exams. Important MCQs from previous year exam question papers.
Books and Authors MCQs in English
Q.1: Who is the author of the novel ‘When the River Sleeps’?
(A) Easterine Kire
(B) Anuradha Roy
(C) Vikram Seth
(D) Shobha De
Q.2: Which of the following books is written by Sachin Tendulkar?
(A) Playing It My Way
(B) Untold Story
(C) Train to Pakistan
(D) India of My Dreams
Q.3: The line ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’ is related to whom?
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) John Keats
(C) Dr. Charles Dickens
(D) Dr. Jonathan Swift
Q.4: Who is the author of the book ‘Zest for Life’?
(A) Emile Zola
(B) H.G. Wells
(C) Virginia Woolf
(D) Mark Twain
Q.5: Who wrote the famous novel The Guide?
(A) R.K. Narayan
(B) Chetan Bhagat
(C) Arundhati Roy
(D) Satyajit Ray
Q.6: Who is the author of the book Magic Seeds?
(A) Cyrus Mistry
(B) V.S. Naipaul
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) Vikram Seth
Q.7: Who is the author of the book Romancing with Life?
(A) Kapil Dev
(B) Dev Anand
(C) Shashi Tharoor
(D) Bill Clinton
Q.8: Who is the author of Indica?
(A) Megasthenes
(B) Fa-Hien
(C) Seleucus
(D) Hiuen Tsang
Q.9: Who wrote The Discovery of India?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q.10: Who wrote the book The Kingdom of God is Within You?
(A) Leo Tolstoy
(B) Henry David
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) John Ruskin
Q.11: In which year was the book ‘The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money’ published?
(A) 1930
(B) 1932
(C) 1934
(D) 1936
Q.12: Who is the author of the book ‘Freedom from Fear’?
(A) Benazir Bhutto
(B) Corazon Aquino
(C) Aung San Suu Kyi
(D) Nayantara Sahgal
Q.13: Who is the author of the book ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’?
(A) J.M. Barrie
(B) Walter Scott
(C) George Orwell
(D) Thomas Hardy
Q.14: Who wrote ‘Mein Kampf’?
(A) Hitler
(B) Mussolini
(C) Bismarck
(D) Mazzini
Q.15: Who is the author of the book ‘The Life Divine’?
(A) M.K. Gandhi
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) S. Radhakrishnan
(D) Sri Aurobindo
Q.16: Who wrote ‘Das Kapital’?
(A) Asian Drama
(B) Emma
(C) Das Kapital
(D) The Good Earth
Q.17: Who wrote ‘Meghaduta’?
(A) Humayun Kabir
(B) Khushwant Singh
(C) Banabhatta
(D) Kalidasa
Q.18: Which of the following is a famous English author?
(A) Amrita Pritam
(B) Mahadevi Verma
(C) Ashapoorna Devi
(D) Mulk Raj Anand
Q.19: Who wrote ‘Indica’?
(A) Kautilya
(B) Megasthenes
(C) Aryabhata
(D) Seleucus
Q.20: In which author’s book is the character ‘Rusty’ found?
(A) R.K. Narayan
(B) Ruskin Bond
(C) R.K. Laxman
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
Q.21: Who wrote the book ‘Systema Naturae’?
(A) Lamarck
(B) Buffon
(C) Darwin
(D) Linnaeus
Q.22: Who wrote the book ‘Narendra Modi: A Political Biography’?
(A) Andy Marino
(B) David Irving
(C) Jeffrey Dale
(D) Kingsley Amis
Q.23: Who is the author of ‘A Suitable Boy’?
(A) Vikram Seth
(B) Arundhati Roy
(C) Khushwant Singh
(D) None of these
Q.24: Which of the following books was not written by Jawaharlal Nehru?
(A) Discovery of India
(B) My Experiments with Truth
(C) An Autobiography
(D) Glimpses of World History
Q.25: Who wrote the book ‘The Hindus: An Alternative History’?
(A) Shobhaa De
(B) B.R. Ambedkar
(C) Wendy Doniger
(D) Salman Rushdie
Q.26: Who wrote ‘The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian’?
(A) R.K. Narayan
(B) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
(C) R.K. Laxman
(D) Rajmohan Gandhi
Q.27: Who is the author of ‘India of My Dreams’?
(A) J.B. Kripalani
(B) M.K. Gandhi
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q.28: Who is the author of ‘Arthashastra’?
(A) Chandragupta
(B) Megasthenes
(C) Chanakya
(D) Seleucus Nicator
Q.29: Who wrote the book ‘Beyond the Lines: An Autobiography’?
(A) Khushwant Singh
(B) General J.J. Singh
(C) Kuldip Nayar
(D) Ray Bradbury
Q.30: Who is the author of ‘Harsha Charitra’?
(A) Banabhatta
(B) Amarasimha
(C) Kalidasa
(D) Harisena
Q.31: Who wrote the book ‘Employment, Interest, and Money’?
(A) J.M. Keynes
(B) A. Marshall
(C) D. Patinkin
(D) A. Smith
Q.32: Who wrote the famous play ‘Nil Darpan’, depicting the atrocities of British indigo planters?
(A) Premchand
(B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(C) Dinabandhu Mitra
(D) Subramania Bharati
Q.33: Who wrote ‘One Straw Revolution’?
(A) Rachel Carson
(B) M.S. Swaminathan
(C) Norman Borlaug
(D) Masanobu Fukuoka
Q.34: Who wrote ‘Natyashastra’?
(A) Bharat Muni
(B) Narad Muni
(C) Jandu Muni
(D) Vyas Muni
Q.35: Who is the author of the book ‘A Cricketing Life’?
(A) Christopher Martin Jenkins
(B) Sunil Gavaskar
(C) Kapil Dev
(D) Tony Greig
Q.36: Which of the following works was Salman Rushdie’s first novel?
(A) Shame
(B) Midnight’s Children
(C) The Satanic Verses
(D) The Moor’s Last Sigh
Q.37: Which film directed by Satyajit Ray is based on Rabindranath Tagore’s story ‘Nastanirh’?
(A) Aparajito
(B) Charulata
(C) Pather Panchali
(D) Apur Sansar
Q.38: Which of the following literary works was not written by R.K. Narayan?
(A) Malgudi Days
(B) Swami and Friends
(C) The Guide
(D) The Gardener
Q.39: Which literary work was written by Krishna Devaraya?
(A) Kavirajamarga
(B) Ushaparinayam
(C) Amuktamalyada
(D) Kathasaritsagara
Q.40: Who is the author of the book ‘The State of the Nation’?
(A) Mark Tully
(B) Vinod Mehta
(C) Kuldip Nayar
(D) Fali S. Nariman
Q.41: Who wrote the book ‘Straight from the Heart’?
(A) Amrita Pritam
(B) Rajmohan Gandhi
(C) Kapil Dev
(D) R.K. Karanjia
Q.42: Who is the author of the famous book ‘A Better India: A Better World’?
(A) Azim Premji
(B) Rajiv Sikri
(C) N.R. Narayana Murthy
(D) Prema Mahajan
Q.43: Who wrote the book ‘The Satanic Verses’?
(A) Agatha Christie
(B) Gunnar Myrdal
(C) Gabriela Sabatini
(D) Salman Rushdie
Q.44: Which of the following books was written by Atiq Rahimi?
(A) Earth and Ashes
(B) This Savage Rite
(C) The Red Devil
(D) Witness the Night
Q.45: ‘Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India’ was recently in the news and banned in some Indian states including Gujarat. Who is the author of this book?
(A) Joseph Lelyveld
(B) Michael Ondaatje
(C) Jack Welch
(D) Duncan Green
Q.46: Who is the author of the book ‘The Zigzag Way’?
(A) Anita Desai
(B) Salman Sodhi
(C) Jahnavi Barua
(D) Lisa Genova
Q.47: Who wrote the book ‘The Indian War of Independence’?
(A) Krishna Varma
(B) Madam Cama
(C) B.G. Tilak
(D) V.D. Savarkar
Q.48: Who wrote the Sanskrit grammar?
(A) Kalidasa
(B) Charaka
(C) Panini
(D) Aryabhata
Q.49: Which of the following famous books is related to Austin?
(A) Lectures on Jurisprudence
(B) Leviathan
(C) The Social Contract
(D) The Problem of Sovereignty
Q.50: Who is the author of the book ‘India Wins Freedom’?
(A) Kuldip Nayar
(B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Indira Gandhi