Literary Quiz 15: Books and Authors 19:38 Posted by Scholastic World No Comments Literary Quiz 15: Books and Authors 1. "The Boys from Syracuse" is a famous musical and the first one based on a Shakespearean play. Name the play All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Twelfth Night 2. When is World Poetry Day celebrated? April 23 June 5 March 21 February 28 3. Name the first African to be honoured with Nobel Prize in Literature Toni Morrison Wole Soyinka Nelson Mandela Derek Walcott 4. A recipient of Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1998 for her work "Beloved", she is also the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize. Who is she? Wangari Maathai Leymah Gbowee Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Toni Morrison 5. Which one of the following Konkani novels by Maleshwar Sail won him Saraswati Samman 2016? Kaali Ganga Aranyakand Yug Sanvar Hawthan 6. Born as Dhanpat Rai Srivastav, this Indian writer started writing under the pen name "Nawab Rai". By what name we know this famous writer? Sumitranandan Pant Bhishma Sahni Amarkant Premchand 7. Who wrote, at the age of seventeen, the famous Bengali-language romantic novel Devdas? Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Rabindranath Tagore Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay 8. Which of the following Indian writers is NOT a Man Booker Prize winner? Kiran Desai Amitav Ghosh Arundhati Roy Aravind Adiga 9. Who is the first woman to win the Jnanpith Award? Mahaswetha Devi Amritha Pritam Ashapoorna Devi Mahadevi Varma 10. Who has earned the title of "Rebel Poet" during the British rule for his activism for political and social justice? Kazi Nazrul Islam Premchand Rabindranath Tagore Bankimchandra Chatterjee Share this Scholastic World
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