CBSE Class 8 English Books and Authors MCQs

1 BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Question. Name the worlds all time best selling book
a. Forbes Magazine
b.Limca Book of Records
c.Guinness Book of World Records
d.Dictionary

Answer: D

Question. This poet‟s poems have English words but an Indian soul
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Tabassum Khan
c. Maya Angelou
d. Mahadevi Verma

Answer: A

Question. The book „Arms and the Man‟ was written by
a. Aldoux Huxley
b. Eugene O Neil
c. Sydney Sheldon
d.George Bernard Shaw

Answer: D

Question. We learn about Gandhiji from this book.
a. My Experience with truth
b.My Experiments with Truth
c. Truth
d. Always speak the Truth

Answer: B

Question. The book „Far From Maddening crowd has bee written by:
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Thomas Bryne
c. Oliver Goldsmith
d. P. C. Thomas

Answer: A

Question. The famous novel Gone with the Wind has been written by
a. Charles Dickens
b.Arthur Conan Doyle
c. Margaret Mitchell
d.Dorothy L Sayers

Answer: C

Question. The book „Malgudi Days‟ is written by this author
a. K. K Narayanan
b. K. R. Narayanan
c. R. K Narayanan
d. P. K. Narayanan

Answer: C

Question. This book on slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a bestseller of all times
a. Uncle Tim‟s Cabin
b. Uncle John‟s Cabin
c. Uncle Joe‟s Cabin
d. Uncle Tom‟s Cabin

Answer: D

Question. „Discovery Of India‟ was written by this freedom fighter
a. Mahatma Gandhi
b. Jawahatrlal Nehru
c. R. N Tagore
d. Indhira Gandhi

Answer: B

Question. The book „For Whom The Bell Tolls‟ is written by
a. Noel Coward
b. Ernest Hemmingway
c. A E Houseman
d. Alfred Tennyson

Answer: B

Question. This author is famous for her murder mystery novels
a. Sarojini Naidu
b. Dorothy L. Sayers.
c. Maya Angelou
d.Agatha Christie

Answer: D

Question. Disillusioned by Communalism George Orwell wrote this famous novel
a. Animal Farm
b. Of Human Bondage
c. Jungle Book
d. Animal Kingdom

Answer: A

Question. The latest Indian to win the „Booker Prize‟ in the year 2008
a. Sashi Tharoor
b. Arbind Adiga
c. Arundhati Roy
d. Salman Rushde

Answer: B

Question. “Maneaters of Kumaon‟ was written by this famous naturalist and conservationist.
a. James Blade
b. Jim Frost
c. Jim Corbet
d. Rudyard Kipling

Answer: C

Question. The first book written by and Indian in English titled Travels Of Dean Mohamet‟ was by
a. Sake Dean Mohamet
b. P. Lal
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. Nirad C Choudry

Answer: A

Question. This story won young Ruskin Bond the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys prize
a. Treasure in the garden
b. Cricket for crocodile
c. Room on the Roof
d. Frogs in the fountain

Answer: C

Question. The Novel „Of Human Bondage‟ is written by
a. Robert Frost
b. William Shakespere
c. O Henry
d. W. Somerset Mougham

Answer: D

Question. Paradise Lost was written by
a. James Ellroy
b. John Keats
c. Sydney Sheldon
d. John Milton

Answer: D

Question. The short love poems written by William Shakespeare are known as
a. Sonnets
b. ballads
c. Rhymes
d. diaries

Answer: A

Question. This Indian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.
a. R. K. Narayanan
b. Salman Rushde
c. Ruskin Bond
d. V S Naipaul

Answer: A