Who among the following is the author of the novel Oliver Twist?
- A.Charlotte Bronte
- B.EM Forster
- C.Thomas Hardy
- D.Charles Dickens
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The correct answer is 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. Dickens also created David Copperfield, Mr Pickwick, Ebenezer Scrooge and Pip of Great Expectations, so his name answers a large share of the questions in this chapter. Option A, Charlotte Bronte, wrote Jane Eyre and created the governess of that name. Option B, E. M. Forster, wrote A Passage to India and created Dr Aziz and Adela Quested. Option C, Thomas Hardy, wrote Tess of the d Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. All three are contemporaries or near contemporaries of Dickens, which is why they make convincing distractors.
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View allThe detective Sherlock Holmes was created by
- A.Agatha Christie
- B.Arthur Conan Doyle
- C.Edgar Allan Poe
- D.Wilkie Collins
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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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- A.Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
- B.Satyajit Ray
- C.Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
- D.Sunil Gangopadhyay
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The film-maker was also a prolific writer for young readers in Bengali, and he created Pradosh Chandra Mitra, called Feluda, who solves cases with his cousin Topshe and the thriller writer Lalmohan Ganguly, nicknamed Jatayu.
Read the full explanation →Hori and Dhania are the central characters of which novel?
- A.Nirmala
- B.Godan
- C.Gaban
- D.Rangbhoomi
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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.
Read the full explanation →Mowgli, Shere Khan and Baloo are characters created by
- A.Rudyard Kipling
- B.Jim Corbett
- C.Kenneth Anderson
- D.Lewis Carroll
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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.
Read the full explanation →The comic characters Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu were created by
- A.Anant Pai
- B.R. K. Laxman
- C.Pran Kumar Sharma
- D.Mario Miranda
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He created Chacha Chaudhary, the small turbaned old man whose brain is said to work faster than a computer, and his giant companion Sabu from the planet Jupiter, and the strip became one of the most widely read Indian comics in Hindi and in many other languages.
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