Online Quiz

1. Long Walk to Freedom an autobiography starting from his childhood, growing up in to a freedom fighter, to his twenty seven years in prison, and his significant role in molding up his democratic country.

• a. Nelson Mandela
• b. Barack Obama
• c. M.K. Gandhi
• d. Subhas Chandra Bose

2. A fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning was created by

• a.Ernest Hemingway
• b.George Bernard Shaw
• c. George Orwell
• d.Arthur Conan Doyle

3. The Hindi movie 3 Idiots is based on which of the following Book of Indian author Chetan Bhagat.

• a. The 3 Mistakes of My Life
• b. Revolution Twenty 20: Love. Corruption. Ambition
• c. Five Point Someone ; What Not To Do at IIT
• d. Half Girlfriend

4. What is the title of Agatha Christie's 1923 murder mystery in which a body is found on a golf course?

• a. Murder on the Links
• b. Murder on the Green
• c. Murder on the Fairway
• d. Murder in the Rough

5. This famous author was born in India

• a) George Bernard Shaw
• b) Emile Zola
• c) George Orwell
• d) Ernest Hemingway

6. World Book Day is observing on

• a. 23 March
• b. 23 April
• c. 23 May
• d. 23 June

7. Which of the novel chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families

• a. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• b. The Odyssey by Homer
• c. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• d. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

8. The novel is about crime lord Vito Corleone and his Son Michael Corleone. The story of their ascension and walk through the organized crime, conspiracies, love, trust, betrayal with one simple rule- 'Family first'. Name of the Novel.

• a. The Alchemist
• b. The Godfather
• c. The Citadel
• d. The Cuckoo's Calling

9. Malgudi is a fictional town located in south India in the novels and short stories of R.K. Narayan. It forms the setting for most of Narayan's works. Malgudi with which of his first novel appeares.

• a. Swami and Friends
• b. The Bachelor of Arts
• c. The English Teacher
• d. The Vendor of Sweets

10. Which of the following works of RK Narayan adopted to movies.

• a. Mr. Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi
• b. Reluctant Guru
• c. The English Teacher
• d. The Dark Room