Who is the author of the books Five Weeks in a Balloon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?
Answer: A
It is Jules Verne.
Five Weeks in a Balloon of 1863 was his first success, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea of 1870 gave the world Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. The leagues in the title measure the voyage's distance, not its depth.
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Who is the author of the books The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo?
Answer: A
It is Alexandre Dumas.
Both were published in 1844, written with the collaborator Auguste Maquet and serialised in Paris newspapers. Dumas produced them alongside dozens of other works, running what amounted to a fiction workshop.
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Mulk Raj Anand is the author of
Answer: D
It is Coolie.
Mulk Raj Anand's 1936 novel follows the boy Munoo from a hill village through domestic service, a Bombay cotton mill and a circus, to death from tuberculosis at fifteen. The Post Office is Tagore's, Gora also Tagore's, and India Wins Freedom Azad's.
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The book ‘Vish Vriksha’ was written by:
Answer: A
It was Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Vishabriksha, the poison tree, was published in 1873 and takes as its subject widow remarriage and the destruction that follows a second marriage across social lines - among the first Bengali novels to treat a contemporary social question directly.
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