Indian Literature Questions Answers

21. For which book did Salman Rushdie win the Booker Prize?

• A) The Satanic Verses
• B) Midnight's Children
• C) Fury
• D) Shalimar the Clown

22. Who received the Sahitya Akademi Award for the short story collection 'Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra'?

• A) R.K. Narayan
• B) Chetan Bhagat
• C) Ruskin Bond
• D) Anita Desai

23. The Jataka stories are related to the previous lives of whom?

• A) Krishna
• B) Mahavir
• C) Buddha
• D) Guru Nanak

24. What is the subject of the Buddhist literature known as the Jataka?

• A) Stories of the previous births of Buddha
• B) Metaphysics
• C) Rules of the Orders
• D) Sermons of Buddha

25. Who translated Mahatma Gandhi's 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' from Gujarati to English?

• A) Mahadev Desai
• B) J.B. Kripalani
• C) Mohanlal Pandya
• D) Vinoba Bhave

26. Who is the author of 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian'?

• A) Inder Kumar Gujral
• B) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• C) Mahatma Gandhi
• D) Jawaharlal Nehru

27. Whose autobiography is titled 'Lone Fox Dancing'?

• A) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• B) Mahesh Dattani
• C) Anita Desai
• D) Ruskin Bond

28. Who wrote the book 'An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India', released in 2016?

• A) Amartya Sen
• B) Shashi Tharoor
• C) N. Ram
• D) Taslima Nasrin

29. What is another pen name used by Munshi Premchand?

• A) Nawab Rai
• B) Ramdhari Singh
• C) Shivaram Karanth
• D) Jaishankar Prasad

30. In which novel was the fictitious town 'Malgudi' first mentioned?

• A) The Guide
• B) The Financial Expert
• C) The Dark Room
• D) Swami and Friends