RRB GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS

1.	Who is the author of the books ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice’? (a) Anna Sewell (b) Voltaire (c) Fyodor Dostoevsky (d) Jane Austen	Answer: (d)
2.	Author of the book ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ (a) J. K. Rowling (b) Jack London (c) Jules Verne (d) George Orwell	Answer: (c)
3.	Amrita Pritam's work "A Revenue Stamp" is (a) A book of stories (b) A novel (c) A biography (d) An autobiography	Answer: (d)
4.	Author of the book ‘Crime and Punishment’. (a) Fyodor Dostoevsky (b) Vatsyayana (c) Niccolo Machiavelli (d) Nathaniel Hawthorne	Answer: (a)
5.	Author of the book Gulliver's Travels. (a) P G. Wodehouse (b) Rod Barker (c) Saul Bellow (d) Jonathan Swift	Answer: (d)
6.	Author of the book Sherlock Holmes. (a) Seymour Hersh (b) Arthur Koestler (c) Karl Marx (d) Arthur Conan Doyle	Answer: (d)
7.	Author of the books 5 Weeks in a Balloon & 80,000 Leagues Under the Sea. (a) Jules Verne (b) Alexander Dumas (c)Jules Verne (d) Charles Dickens	Answer: (a)
8.	Author of the books The Three Musketeers and The Legend of Monte Cristo. (a) Alexandre Dumas (b) Albert Camus (c) Arthur Stanley Eddington (d) Aldous Huxley	Answer: (a)
9.	'Beyond time' is the book written by (a) Namita Gokhale (b) Ruskin Bond (c) William Balrymple (d) None of these	Answer: (d)
10.	Mulk Raj Anand is the author of (a) The Post Office (b) Gora (c) India Wins Freedom (d) Coolie	Answer: (d)
11.	The "Killer Instinct" is written by (a) Sulakshan Mohan (b) M.K.Santanam (c) O.P.Sabharwal (d) Subash Jain	Answer: (c)
12.	The book ‘Vish Vriksha’ was written by: (a) Bankimchandra Chatterjee (b) Annie Basant (c) Tulsidas (d) Kalidas	Answer: (a)
13.	The only religious book ever printed in a shorthand scripts is: (a) The Ramayana (b) The Mahabharata (c) The bible (d) Guru Granth Sahib	Answer: (c)
14.	Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt? (a) Saket (b) Satyartha Prakash (c) Shakuntala (d) Savitri	Answer: (a)
15.	Who authored the 'Gitanjali', an anthology of poems? (a) Sumitranandan Pant (b) Makhanlal Chaturvedi (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Maithili Sharan Gupt	Answer: (c)
16.	Who is the author of the book Superstar India? (a) Arun Shourie (b) Dominique Lapierre (c) Shobha De (d) Salman Rushdie	Answer: ( c )
17.	‘Travelling Through Conflict’ is a book written by _____. (a) Hamid Ansari (b) Cherie Blair (c) Balraj Krishna (d) Salman Rushdie	Answer: (a)
18.	Author of the book ‘Candide’. (a) Anna Sewell (b) Voltaire (c) Fyodor Dostoevsky (d) Voltaire	Answer: (d)
19.	Author of the book Frankenstein. (a) Mary Shelley (b) W.M. Thackeray (c) Charlotte Bronte (d) Jules Verne	Answer: (a)
20.	Author of the book Robinson Crusoe. (a) Daniel Defoe (b) Johanna Spyri (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Rudyard Kipling	Answer: (a)
21.	Author of the book Wuthering Heights. (a) Charlotte Bronte (b) Omar Khayyam (c) Joyce Kilmer (d) Gaston Leroux	Answer: (a)
22.	Author of the books The Prince and the Pauper, The Great Expectation, The Adventure of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn. (a) James A. Michener (b) Stephen King (c) George Byron (d) Mark Twain	Answer: (d)
23.	Authors of the book Tales From Shakespeare. (a) Charles And Mary Lamb (b) Gaurav C. Samant (c) Benazir Bhutto (d) Charles Dickens	Answer: (a)
24.	Match List I and List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists: List I                                          List II (Book)                                      (Author)) A. In custody                            1. Amartya Sen B. Sea of Poppies                      2. Amitav Ghosh C. The Argumentative Indian      3. Anita Desai D. Unaccustomed Earth             4. Jhumpa Lahiri Code:       A B C D (a) 4 1 2 3 (b) 4 2 1 3 (c) 3 2 1 4 (d) 3 1 2 4	Answer: (c)
25.	She wrote the famous poem "Trees". (a) Joyce Kilmer (b) Alexander Dumas (c) Jonathan Swift (d) Robert Louis Stevenson	Answer: (a)
26.	The book ‘Satyartha Prakash’ was written by: (a) Swami Dayanand (b) Swami Vivekanand (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Kalidas	Answer: (a)
27.	The oldest printed work in the world, which dates back to AD 868 is: (a) The Bible (b) The Hirake Sutra (c) The Ramayana (d) The Mahabharata	Answer: (b)
28.	Which of the following book was written by Tulsidas: (a) Vinay Patrika (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) Yashodhara	Answer: (c)
29.	Who amonst the following is the author of the book 'Freedom from Fear'? (a) Nelson Mandela (b) Aung San Suukyi (c) Taslima Nasreen (d) Benazir Bhutto	Answer: (b)
30.	Who is the author of the book ‘Harry Potter’ and the ‘Half-Blood Prince’? (a)Mark Twain (a) J. K. Rowling (c) William Shakespeare (d) Jules Verne	Answer: (a