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English: Authors and Their Works

TET / TRB / TNPSC Preparation (15 Questions)

1. Who is the author of the poem 'Life'?

Henry Van Dyke Robert Frost William Wordsworth

Answer: Henry Van Dyke

2. 'The Secret of the Machines' was written by:

Rudyard Kipling James Kirkup Lewis Carroll

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

3. Who wrote the famous play 'The Tempest'?

William Shakespeare John Milton George Bernard Shaw

Answer: William Shakespeare

4. The poem 'No Men are Foreign' is written by:

James Kirkup Kamala Das Rabindranath Tagore

Answer: James Kirkup

5. Who is the creator of the character 'Sherlock Holmes'?

Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie Charles Dickens

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

6. 'The Ant and the Cricket' is adapted from:

Aesop's Fables Panchatantra Grimm's Fairy Tales

Answer: Aesop's Fables

7. Who wrote the story 'The Last Leaf'?

O. Henry Guy de Maupassant Oscar Wilde

Answer: O. Henry

8. The autobiography 'The Story of My Life' belongs to:

Helen Keller Anne Frank Nelson Mandela

Answer: Helen Keller

9. Who is the author of 'Alice in Wonderland'?

Lewis Carroll Enid Blyton Roald Dahl

Answer: Lewis Carroll

10. 'The Night the Ghost Got In' is a short story by:

James Thurber Edgar Allan Poe H.G. Wells

Answer: James Thurber

11. Who wrote the poem 'The Spider and the Fly'?

Mary Botham Howitt Sarah Coleridge Emily Dickinson

Answer: Mary Botham Howitt

12. 'Wings of Fire' is the autobiography of:

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Jawaharlal Nehru Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

13. Who wrote the poem 'A Poison Tree'?

William Blake John Keats P.B. Shelley

Answer: William Blake

14. The character 'Prospero' belongs to which work?

The Tempest Hamlet Macbeth

Answer: The Tempest

15. Who wrote the poem 'Calamity'?

John Milton Christina Rossetti Henry Van Dyke

Answer: Christina Rossetti