This Books & Authors quiz on Pen Names of Famous Writers puts 12 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
12 questions with answers and explanations
Premchand was the pen name of which writer?
He wrote first in Urdu as Nawab Rai, and after the colonial administration seized his collection Soz-e-Watan he adopted the name Premchand, under which he wrote Godan, Nirmala, Gaban, Rangbhoomi and the story Kafan.
Read the full explanation →Nirala was the pen name of:
He is always written as Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, the pen name meaning the unique or the unlike-any-other, and he wrote Saroj Smriti, Ram ki Shakti Puja and the poem Bhikshuk.
Read the full explanation →Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, was the pen name of:
He took the name from the call of a Mississippi riverboat crew, where mark twain meant a sounding of two fathoms, that is water deep enough to be safe.
Read the full explanation →Which pen name was used by Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan?
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan first wrote under the takhallus Asad and later chose Ghalib, which means dominant or victorious, and he names himself in the closing couplet of many ghazals.
Read the full explanation →George Eliot, the author of Middlemarch, was the pen name of which writer?
She took a man's name so that her novels would be judged as serious literature rather than as light romances by a woman, and she wrote Middlemarch, Silas Marner, Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss under it.
Read the full explanation →The pen name used by Rabindranath Tagore for the poems of Bhanusimha Thakurer Padavali was:
As a boy Tagore wrote poems in an archaic Vaishnava style and presented them as the work of a poet named Bhanusimha, and the collection is therefore called Bhanusimha Thakurer Padavali.
Read the full explanation →Vaidyanath Mishra is better known by which pen name?
Vaidyanath Mishra wrote in Hindi as Nagarjun, a name taken from the Buddhist philosopher, and in Maithili as Yatri, meaning the traveller; he is known for Balchanama and for sharply political poems.
Read the full explanation →Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan wrote under the pen name:
He was a leading figure of the Nayi Kavita movement, edited the Tar Saptak anthologies that introduced a generation of poets, and wrote the novels Shekhar Ek Jivani and Nadi ke Dweep.
Read the full explanation →In Urdu poetry, the pen name taken by a poet and usually woven into the last couplet of a ghazal is called:
The takhallus is the pen name a poet adopts, such as Ghalib, Mir, Faiz or Firaq, and by convention the poet mentions it in the closing couplet of a ghazal.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a pen name?
Netaji is a title of respect given to Subhas Chandra Bose by his followers, and he did not publish his writing under it.
Read the full explanation →Sampooran Singh Kalra is the real name of which well-known lyricist and poet?
Sampooran Singh Kalra took the pen name Gulzar, meaning a garden in bloom, and is known both for Urdu poetry and for film lyrics, and for the collection Raat Pashmine Ki.
Read the full explanation →Eric Arthur Blair, the author of Animal Farm, is better known as:
Eric Arthur Blair chose the pen name George Orwell, taking the surname from the river Orwell in England, and under it wrote Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Burmese Days and the essay Shooting an Elephant.
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