General Knowledge carries 50 marks in the AISSEE Class 6 paper and is also tested in the RMS CET. These 10 MCQs on Books and Authors cover facts that are asked again and again in Sainik and Military School entrance exams.
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Practice Questions
Q1. Who wrote "Wings of Fire"?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) R. K. Narayan
(C) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(D) Ruskin Bond
Q2. Who wrote "The Discovery of India"?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Sardar Patel
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q3. "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" is the autobiography of ________.
(A) Vinoba Bhave
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) Lal Bahadur Shastri
Q4. Who wrote "Gitanjali"?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Premchand
(C) Kalidasa
(D) Rabindranath Tagore
Q5. Who wrote "Malgudi Days"?
(A) Ruskin Bond
(B) Vikram Seth
(C) Mulk Raj Anand
(D) R. K. Narayan
Q6. The epic "Ramayana" was written by ________.
(A) Tulsidas
(B) Valmiki
(C) Kalidasa
(D) Ved Vyasa
Q7. Who wrote "Abhijnanasakuntalam"?
(A) Banabhatta
(B) Kalidasa
(C) Tulsidas
(D) Bhasa
Q8. Who wrote "Panchatantra"?
(A) Valmiki
(B) Chanakya
(C) Vishnu Sharma
(D) Kalidasa
Q9. Who wrote "Arthashastra"?
(A) Kautilya (Chanakya)
(B) Aryabhata
(C) Kalidasa
(D) Harsha
Q10. Who wrote "The Blue Umbrella"?
(A) Ruskin Bond
(B) Sudha Murty
(C) Chetan Bhagat
(D) R. K. Narayan
Answer Key with Explanations
(C) Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam — Wings of Fire is Dr. Kalam's autobiography.
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru — Nehru wrote it while in Ahmednagar Fort prison.
(B) Mahatma Gandhi — It is Gandhiji's autobiography.
(D) Rabindranath Tagore — Gitanjali won Tagore the Nobel Prize in 1913.
(D) R. K. Narayan — R. K. Narayan created the fictional town of Malgudi.
(B) Valmiki — Maharishi Valmiki composed the Ramayana in Sanskrit.
(B) Kalidasa — Kalidasa was a great Sanskrit poet and playwright.
(C) Vishnu Sharma — Vishnu Sharma wrote the animal fables of the Panchatantra.
(A) Kautilya (Chanakya) — Kautilya's Arthashastra is a treatise on statecraft and economy.
(A) Ruskin Bond — Ruskin Bond is a famous writer of children's stories.
How did you score?
9–10 correct: excellent — move on to a full-length mock test. 6–8: good — revise the explanations of the questions you missed. Below 6: study this topic again from your NCERT book and retry these questions after two days.
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