MCQ – GK Questions

Published in 1985, 'Love in the Time of Cholera' explores enduring love and aging.

Albert Camus published 'The Stranger' in 1942. It explores themes of absurdity and alienation through its protagonist, Meursault.

'Aparajito' (The Unvanquished) continues the story of Apu, the protagonist of 'Pather Panchali'.

Bhisham Sahni wrote 'Tamas' in 1974. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award and was adapted into a TV series by Govind Nihalani.

R.K. Narayan won the Sahitya Akademi Award for 'The Guide', which was later adapted into a successful film.

Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' follows a boy who survives a terrorist attack at an art museum and takes a famous painting.

An allegory uses symbolic figures and actions to convey deeper truths. Examples include George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'.

Sancho Panza is the pragmatic and humorous squire to the delusional knight-errant Don Quixote in Miguel de Cervantes' novel.

The 'Odyssey' follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his ten-year journey home after the fall of Troy.

Kambar composed the 'Kamba Ramayanam' (Ramavataram) in the 12th century. It is a masterpiece of Tamil literature.

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote 'Devdas' in 1917. It tells the tragic love story of Devdas and Paro.

Agyeya published 'Shekhar: Ek Jivani' in 1941. It is considered the first Hindi novel to delve deeply into the psychoanalytic aspects of its protagonist.

Anita Desai published 'Clear Light of Day' in 1980. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is celebrated for its psychological depth.

Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.

Chinua Achebe published 'Things Fall Apart' in 1958. It is widely considered the archetypal modern African novel in English.

Girish Karnad wrote 'Tughlaq' in Kannada in 1964 and later translated it to English. It explores the complex character of the Delhi Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

Edward FitzGerald published his loose translation of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam in 1859. It became one of the most popular poetry collections of the Victorian era.

The Sushruta Samhita is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda, specifically focusing on surgery (Shalya Tantra). Sushruta is often called the 'Father of Surgery'.

Herman Melville published 'Moby-Dick' in 1851. Although initially a commercial failure, it is now recognized as a Great American Novel.

Salman Rushdie was awarded a knighthood in 2007 and later the Companion of Honour in 2022 by the British Crown for his services to literature.