Q1 . "Matters of Discretion" is the autobiography of a former Indian Prime Minister. Do you know the author?

Rajiv Gandhi
I K Gujral
V P Singh
A B Vajpayee

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Q2. "Rajmohan's Wife" was the first Indian novel to be written in English, which was published in 1864. Name the author

Rabindranath Tagore
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Mulk Raj Anand
Raja Ram Mohan Roy

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Q3. "The Decameron", set in the backdrop of Black Death, is a collection of novellas that has a prominent place in literature. Who was the author?

Geoffrey Chaucer
Giovanni Boccaccio
Alexandre Dumas
Miguel de Cervantes

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Q4. "The Song Celestial" is a well-known poetic rendering of the sacred Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita. Who is the author?

Edwin Arnold
Rabindranath Tagore
Ronald Asher
Philip Glass

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Q5. "The World I Live In" is a book written in 1908 by a famous personality. Who is this personality?

Helen Keller
Virginia Woolf
Mark Twain
Jane Austen

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Q6. A recipient of Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1998 for her work "Beloved", she is also the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize. Who is she?

Wangari Maathai
Leymah Gbowee
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Toni Morrison

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Q7. Alexei Maximovich Peshkov was a Russian writer who was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is primarily known by the name

Anton Chehkov
Leo Tolstoy
Alexander Pushkin
Maxim Gorky

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Q8. Always a Reckoning' is a collection of poems by a Nobel Peace Prize winning US President. Who is he?

Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter

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Q9. Amitav Ghosh, the reciepient of 54th Jnanpith Award, writes his major works in which one of the following languages?

Hindi
Bengali
Kannada
English

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Q10. Amuktamalyada is an epic poem composed by Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar Dynasty. In which language was it written?

Tamil
Kannada
Konkani
Telugu

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