Books and Authors MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option A.
‘In Custody’ by Anita Desai is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small town scholar in the north of India. Anita Desai is an Indian novelist known for works on adult novels, children’s books and short stories.

✅ The correct answer is option B.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Midnight’s Children is a 1981 book by Salman Rushdie about India’s transition from British colonialism to independence.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Midnight’s Children, allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern India centering on the inextricably linked fates of two children who were born within the first hour of independence from Great Britain.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
‘Man is a political animal’ is a statement by Aristotle.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Kuldip Singh is the author of Indian military thought ‘Kurukshetra to Kargil’.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
‘Anna Karenina’ is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in installments between 1875 and 1877 and considered one of the pinnacles of world literature.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The author of the novel ‘Forty Thieves’ is Thomas Perry.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post – colonial mid 20th century Africa, is one of Naipaul’s best known works and was widely praised. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Lionel Fielden was appointed the first Controller of Broadcasting in August 1935. In the following month Akashvani Mysore, a private radio station was set up. On 8 June 1936, the Indian State Broadcasting Service became All India Radio.