READING MATERIAL
literature
1. DAYS AND YEARS - INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE DAY is observed on a) Sept. 8 b) Oct. 8 c) Nov. 8 d) Dec.8
Answer: a. 2. English Literature: Time Machine, author: a) Lewis Carroll b) Robert Louis Stevenson c) Charles Lamb d) H.G. Wells
Answer: d . 3. English Literature: author of Other SIDE OF MIDNIGHT : a) Hemingway b) Karine Mayo c) Salman Rushdie d) Sydney Sheldon
Answer: d. 4. FAUVISM - is a term which relates to a) dance b) music c) literature d) painting
Answer: d. 5. LITERATURE - Booker Prize - first winner was : a) William Golding b) PH Newby c) JM Coetzee d) Peter Carey
Answer: b. 6. literature - ODE ON A GRACIOUS URN was a poem by a) Byron b) Keats c) Eliot d) Shelley
Answer: b. 7. literature - ULYSSES was a poem by a) Dryden b) Alexander Pope c) Tennyson d) Christina Rosetti
Answer: c. 8. literature - WAVERLEY is a novel by a) Maugham b) Bernard Shaw c) Joseph Conrad d) Walter Scott
Answer: d. 9. literature - XENOCIDE, author of book is: a) Orson Scott Card b) Sir Arthur Connon Doyle c) William Somerset Maugham d) George Bernard Shaw
Answer: a. 10. literature -'Of Human Bondage'is magnum opus of a) W.H. Auden b) W.B. Yeats c) William Somerset Maugham d) Ted Hughes
Answer: c. 11. literature -'Wind among reeds'is a poem by a) Hughes b) Christina Rosetti c) Tennyson d) Yeats
Answer: d. 12. literature -‴Oh tell me truth about love'is a poem by a) W.H. Auden b) Kipling c) Wilfred Owen d) Ezra Pound
Answer: a. 13.
AMERICAN CURRENT BUSINESS LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: ‷ Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard‷- author of this book is
a) Heath Brothers (Chip and Dan) b) Robert Greene c) John Kutter d) David Novak
Answer: a. 14.
AWARDS AND PRIZES : Alice Munro is 2013 winner of Nobel Prize for a) chemistry b) physics c) medicine d) literature
Answer: d. 15.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷ So perhaps that ancient trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply an empty, faded formula as we thought in the days of our self-confident, materialistic youth?‷ -these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 16.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷...Intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 17.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Education doesnot make you smarter.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 18.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 19.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 20.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 21.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 22.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 23.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 24.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 25.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 26.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. ‷One word of truth outweighs the world.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 27.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 28.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 29.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷When you're cold, do not expect sympathy from someone who's warm.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 30.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷You only have power over people as long as you do not take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power--he's free again.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 31.
AMERICAN CURRENT BUSINESS LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: ‷ Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work‷- author of this book is
a) Heath Brothers (Chip and Dan) b) Robert Greene c) John Kutter d) David Novak
Answer: a. 32.
AMERICAN CURRENT BUSINESS LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: ‷ Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die‷- author of this book is
a) Heath Brothers (Chip and Dan) b) Robert Greene c) John Kotter d) David Novak
Answer: a. 33.
AMERICAN CURRENT BUSINESS LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: ‷ TAKING PEOPLE WITH YOU‷- author of this book is
a) Heath Brothers (Chip and Dan) b) Robert Greene c) John Kutter d) David Novak
Answer: d. 34.
AMERICAN CURRENT BUSINESS LITERATURE: Robert Cialdini, the author of the classic book Influence, said ‷Kawasaki provides insights so valuable we all wish we had them first.‷. This Guy Kawasaki is represented as
a) author b) Venture Capitalist c) Advisor d) All in one
Answer: d. Author of the book Enchantment. 35.
BIBLICAL LITERATURE - king of Judea who ordered slaying of all children under age two, in Bethleham : a) Harod b) Pilate c) Claudius d) Augustus
Answer: a. 36.
ENGLISH LITERATURE - BOOKS AND AUTHORS - author of the book'ANATOMY OF RESTLESSNESS‴: a) Bruce Chatwin b) Bruce Coville c) Bruce Whatley d) Bruce Desilva
Answer: a. 37.
ENGLISH LITERATURE - BOOKS AND AUTHORS - author of the book'In Patagonia‴: a) Bruce Chatwin b) Bruce Coville c) Bruce Whatley d) Bruce Desilva
Answer: a. 38.
ENGLISH LITERATURE - ROBERT HEINLEIN‷s BEYOND THE HORIZON belongs to the genre a) autobiographical b) biographical c) love fiction d) science fiction
Answer: d. 39.
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF FICTION: BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Author of the book THE CUCKOO is CALLING. a) Robert Galbraith b) J.K. Galbraith c) J.K. Rowling d) Shirley Macclaine
Answer: a. 40.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: AUTHORS AND BOOKS. Author of which of the following books is not Ms. George Eliot?
a) The Mill on the Floss b) Adam Bede c) MiddleMarch d) Wasteland
Answer: d. T.S. Eliot. 41.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: AUTHORS AND BOOKS. Which of the following is not a work of VIRGINIA WOOLF?
a) Mrs. Dalloway b) To the Lighthouse c) The Mill on the Floss d) Orlando
Answer: c. Mill on the Floss, author is George Eliot alias Mary Anne. 42.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: Author of the Book: ‷Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth extracted textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French & English ‷ is:
a) George Washington b) John Adams c) Thomas Jefferson d) Madison
Answer: c. Called Jefferson‷s Bible. 43.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Author of the book Mrs. Dalloway is
a) Jane Austen b) Virginia Woolf c) Emile Bronte d) George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans Disraeli)
Answer: b. 44.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Author of the poem ‷The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‷ a) T.S. Eliot b) George Eliot c) George Elliot d) S.T. Coleridge
Answer: a. 45.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of THE DARK TOWER=.
a) Anthony Burgess b) Stephen King c) Ezra Pound d) James Joyce
Answer: b. 46.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the book A CASTLE IN SPAIN is
a) Matthew Parris b) Martin Amis c) Graham Greene d) Samuel Pepys
Answer: a. 47.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the book Inca-Cola is
a) Matthew Parris b) Martin Amis c) Graham Greene d) Samuel Pepys
Answer: a. 48.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the novel, CARRIE=.
a) Anthony Burgess b) Stephen King c) Ezra Pound d) James Joyce
Answer: b. 49.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the novel, SECOND COMING=.
a) Anthony Burgess b) Stephen King c) Ezra Pound d) James Joyce
Answer: b. 50.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the novel, THE DEAD ZONE=.
a) Anthony Burgess b) Stephen King c) Ezra Pound d) James Joyce
Answer: b. 51.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the novel, THE SHINING=.
a) Anthony Burgess b) Stephen King c) Ezra Pound d) James Joyce
Answer: b. 52.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the novel, THE STAND=.
a) Anthony Burgess b) Stephen King c) Ezra Pound d) James Joyce
Answer: b. 53.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: FATAL FAULTLINE author of this book is a) Irfan Hussain b) Salman Rushdie c) Somerset Maughum d) Virginia Woolfe
Answer: a. 54.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: The Sun also raises. --author of this book is: a) Somerset Maughum b) Ernest Hemingway c) Imamu Amimi Baraka d) Alex Haley
Answer: b. 55.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: author of the book THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV:
a) Dostoevsky b) Tolstoy c) Solzhenitsyn d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 56.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: author of the book THE DEVILS and THE POSSESSED:
a) Dostoevsky b) Tolstoy c) Solzhenitsyn d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 57.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: author of the book THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD:
a) Dostoevsky b) Tolstoy c) Solzhenitsyn d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 58.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: BOOKS AND THEMES UNTOLD STORY BY MONIC ALI dwelt upon a fairy tale of an alternate life for
a) Prince Charles b) Queen Elizabeth c) Prince Philip d) Princess Diana
Answer: d. 59.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: Books and Authors: Author of the book COMMON SENSE is:
a) Descartes b) Rousseou c) Thomas Paine d) Helvetius
Answer: c. Thomas Paine was a British philosopher of the 18th Century. 60.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: Books and authors. Author of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is
a) Anthony Burgess b) James Joyce c) Ezra Pound d) Eugene O‷neill
Answer: a. 61.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ECLIPSE- LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF CHINA‷s ECONOMIC DOMINANCE- author of this book is a) Arvind Subrahmanian b) Irfan Hussain c) John Kerry d) Barack Obama
Answer: a. 62.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: Noted English author to appear on £ 5 currency note:
a) Jane Austen b) Virginia Woolf c) Emile Bronte d) George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans Disraeli)
Answer: a. 63.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: The Tempest - Author of the play was a) Marlowe b) Shakespeare c) G.B. Shaw d) John Dryden
Answer: b. 64.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: The writer who proclaimed himself as ‷classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion ‷
a) T.S. Eliot b) W.H. Auden c) James Joyce d) Stephen Spender
Answer: a. 65.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷ A work of art bears within itself its own verification: conceptions which are devised or stretched do not stand being portrayed in images, they all come crashing down, appear sickly and pale, convince no one.‷ -these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 66.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷ Convincingness of a true work of art is completely irrefutable and it forces even an opposing heart to surrender.‷ -these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 67.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷ In vain to reiterate what does not reach the heart.‷ -these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 68.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷ It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 69.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷...Even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.‷
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 70.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 71.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 72.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 73.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 74.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 75.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷All that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 76.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Art, literature might really be able to help the world today?‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 77.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Beauty will save the world‷.
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 78.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position; all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. ‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 79.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!‷ these are the words of the English Author
a) Jane Austen b) Virginia Woolf c) Emile Bronte d) George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans Disraeli)
Answer: a. 80.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words... revelations unattainable by reason.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 81.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷Our envy of others devours us most of all.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 82.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 83.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 84.
ENGLISH LITERATURE: ‷You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.‷-these are the words of
a) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn b) Dostoevsky c) Tolstoy d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 85.
ENGLISH LITERATURE:'Roots'is a novel by a) Alexander Dumas b) Alex Halley c) Alexander Flemming d) Alexander Calder
Answer: b. 86.
ENGLISH literature :'American readers have a fascination for the British Royal family because they had never had one of their own.'this jibe is by a) Martin Amis b) Pippa Middleton c) Christopher Hitchens d) Duchess of Cambridge
Answer: a. 87.
English Literature : ‷style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 88.
English Literature : 'All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 89.
English Literature : 'All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 90.
English Literature : 'Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 91.
English Literature : 'Every 10 years you are a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They are full of new rewards '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 92.
English Literature : 'Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 93.
English Literature : 'I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 94.
English Literature : 'If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 95.
English Literature : 'If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it does not matter what creed or colour they are. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 96.
English Literature : 'In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 97.
English Literature : 'It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 98.
English Literature : 'Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 99.
English Literature : 'Money doesn't mind if we say it is evil, it goes from strength to strength. It is a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 100.
English Literature : 'No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 101.
English Literature : 'Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 102.
English Literature : 'Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 103.
English Literature : 'Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I am in a funk about it, I have got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 104.
English Literature : 'Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 105.
English Literature : 'Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 106.
English Literature : 'Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 107.
English Literature : 'The literary interview won‴t tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 108.
English Literature : 'Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 109.
English Literature : 'Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. '-these are the words of : a) Martin Amis b) Salman Rushdie c) Robert Grave d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a. 110.
English Literature : 'When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
111.
English Literature : 20th Century Biographies. Author of'Experience‴. a) Robert Graves b) Saul Bellow c) Allan Bloom d) Martin Amis
Answer: d. 112.
English Literature : Author of the books MONEY and LONDON FIELDS. a) Martin Amis b) Sinead Gleeson c) Sir Kingsley Amiss d) Julie Kavanagh
Answer: a. 113.
HISTORY OF LITERATURE: Dostoevsky, one of the greatest Russian writers was said to have been addicted to
a) roulette b) blackjack c) baccarat d) dice games
Answer: a. 114.
LITERATURE - CLARISSA is the __ novel in English. a) longest b) shortest c) most realistic d) first scientific fiction novel
Answer: a. 115.
LITERATURE AND MUSIC: GIOACHINO ROSSINI is an Italian
a) music composer b) singer c) painter d) polemicist
Answer: a. 116.
LITERATURE AND MUSIC: Oddman out:
a) Strakhov b) Targenev c) Tolstoy d) Rossini
Answer: d. Rossini is a musician. Others are writers. 117.
LITERATURE AND MUSIC: which of the following is, not only a music composer, but also a polemicist?
a) Mendel Sohn b) Mozart c) Beethoven d) Richard-Wagner
Answer: d. 118.
LITERATURE OF FRANCE: ‷By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind.‷ - these are the words of
a) Gautama Buddha b) Rousseou c) Thomas Paine d) Helvetius
Answer: d. 119.
LITERATURE OF RUSSIA: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: The Kingdom of God is within you-- author of this book is
a) Leo Tolstoy b) Maxim Gorky c) Solzhenitsyn d) Dostoevsky
Answer: a. 120.
LITERATURE OF UK: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the Book HARRY POTTER AND SORCERER‷s STONE is
a) J.K. Rowling b) Samuel Johnson c) Shirley Maclaine d) Matthew Parris
Answer: a. 121.
LITERATURE OF UK: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: Author of the Book THE CASUAL VACANCY is
a) J.K. Rowling b) Samuel Johnson c) Shirley Maclaine d) Matthew Parris
Answer: a. 122.
LITERATURE OF USA: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: author of the book Sage-ing while Age-ing:
a) Shirley Maclaine b) George Bernard Shaw c) Margaret Thatcher d) Silvio Berlusconi
Answer: a. 123.
LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: MY AMERICAN YEARS -author of this book is:
a) Dostovesky b) Maxim Gorky c) Leo Tolstoy d) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Answer: d. 124.
LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -author of this book is:
a) Dostovesky b) Maxim Gorky c) Leo Tolstoy d) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Answer: d. 125.
LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: RUSSIA IN COLLAPSE -author of this book is:
a) Dostovesky b) Maxim Gorky c) Leo Tolstoy d) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Answer: d. 126.
LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: THE GULAB ARCHIPELAGO -author of this book is:
a) Dostovesky b) Maxim Gorky c) Leo Tolstoy d) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Answer: d. 127.
LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD -author of this book is: a) Dostovesky b) Maxim Gorky c) Leo Tolstoy d) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Answer: a. 128.
LITERATURE: ‷...throughout the world, public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.‷ -this is the opinion of
a) Dostovesky b) Maxim Gorky c) Leo Tolstoy d) Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Answer: d. 129.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: author of the book THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV:
a) Dostoevsky b) Tolstoy c) Solzhenitsyn d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 130.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: author of the book THE DEVILS AND THE POSSESSED:
a) Dostoevsky b) Tolstoy c) Solzhenitsyn d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 131.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE: BOOKS AND AUTHORS: author of the book THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD:
a) Dostoevsky b) Tolstoy c) Solzhenitsyn d) Maxim Gorky
Answer: a. 132.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE: DOSTOEVSKY and TOLSTOY
a) never met b) were not contemporaries c) met frequently d) hated one another
Answer: a. 133.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Tolstoy is powerful. He is a great talent. He didn‷t say all he could. -- these are the words of:
a) Dostoevsky b) Maxim Gorky c) Lenin d) Solzhenitsyn
Answer: a. 134.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE:Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is a fictional character in Leo Tolstoy‷s
a) Crime and Punishment b) Anna Kerenina c) War and Peace d) Three Hermits
Answer: a. 135.
WHO IS WHO - COURTNEY STODDEN is associated with a) films and TV b) tennis sport c) literature and journalism d) space travel
Answer: a. 136.
WORLD CURRENT WHO IS WHO : BERENICE BEZO is associated with a) tennis b) films c) literature d) space
Answer: b. 137.
WORLD CURRENT WHO IS WHO : KATE WINSLET is associated with a) tennis b) films c) literature d) space
Answer: b.
