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Which of the following characters does not have a single identifiable author?

  1. A.Sindbad the Sailor
  2. B.Hercule Poirot
  3. C.Gulliver
  4. D.Tarzan

Correct answer

A. Sindbad the Sailor

Explanation

The correct answer is A, Sindbad the Sailor. The seven voyages of Sindbad belong to the Arabian Nights, a collection of tales in Arabic that grew over many centuries from Persian, Indian and Arab sources and has no single author; the same is true of Aladdin and Ali Baba. Option B, Hercule Poirot, is the Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie and first seen in The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Option C, Gulliver, is the surgeon and traveller of Gulliver s Travels, written by Jonathan Swift in 1726 as a satire on politics and human nature. Option D, Tarzan, was created by the American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzan of the Apes in 1912. Other figures without an author who appear as options in such questions are Robin Hood, King Arthur, Vikram and Betal, and Tenali Raman.

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Who among the following is the author of the novel Oliver Twist?

  1. A.Charlotte Bronte
  2. B.EM Forster
  3. C.Thomas Hardy
  4. D.Charles Dickens
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Correct answer: D. Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist, published in instalments from 1837, is his second novel and follows an orphan boy from a workhouse into a gang of young thieves in London, giving English the figures of Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Bill Sikes.

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The detective Sherlock Holmes was created by

  1. A.Agatha Christie
  2. B.Arthur Conan Doyle
  3. C.Edgar Allan Poe
  4. D.Wilkie Collins
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Correct answer: B. Arthur Conan Doyle

The Scottish physician and writer introduced Holmes in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 and went on to write four novels and more than fifty short stories about him, narrated by Dr John Watson, with the address 221B Baker Street in London.

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The Bengali detective Feluda was created by

  1. A.Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
  2. B.Satyajit Ray
  3. C.Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
  4. D.Sunil Gangopadhyay
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Correct answer: B. Satyajit Ray

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Hori and Dhania are the central characters of which novel?

  1. A.Nirmala
  2. B.Godan
  3. C.Gaban
  4. D.Rangbhoomi
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Correct answer: B. Godan

Published in 1936, Godan is the best known novel of Munshi Premchand, the pen name of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, and it follows the peasant Hori and his wife Dhania as their small ambition of owning a cow is destroyed by debt, caste and the demands of the landlord.

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Mowgli, Shere Khan and Baloo are characters created by

  1. A.Rudyard Kipling
  2. B.Jim Corbett
  3. C.Kenneth Anderson
  4. D.Lewis Carroll
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Correct answer: A. Rudyard Kipling

Born in Bombay, Kipling created the boy Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Seoni forests of central India, along with the tiger Shere Khan, the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the python Kaa, in The Jungle Book of 1894.