Following are the set of 25 multiple choice questions from the topic of Arts and Literature. Questions from this topic has appeared in many competitive exams in General Awareness Category. The purpose of this section is just to support the candidates who prepare for Kerala PSC and other competitive exams. You can always refer this website from your mobile phone on the go or from your home PC.
Art and Literature 
(A multiple choice questions and answer for Kerala PSC, UPSC, SSC, Banking, IBPS, Railway and other competitive exams)
1. The author of the first novel in the world ‘The Tale of Genji’ is Shikibu Murasaki. She belonged to:
(a) Japan
(b) China
(c) Mexico
(d) USA

2. The nationality of Petrarch, the father of Renaissance:
(a) Germany
(b) Italy
(c) France
(d) Spain

3. To which ideology the French author Jean Paul Sartre is related?
(a) Existentialism
(b) Nihilism
(c) Realism
(d) Communism

4. Sancho Panza is a charector in:
(a) Decameroon
(b) Don Quixote
(c) Utopia
(d) Jungle Book

5. Santiago is a charactor in:
(a) Dr.Zhivago
(b) The Wasteland
(c) The Old Man and the Sea
(d) Tin Drum

6. Who wrote ‘Silent Spring’ which depicts the importance of environment protection?
(a) Rachael Carzon
(b) Emile Zola
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Leo Tolstoy

7. The Jewish girl under persecution of Hitler and whose diary became world famous:
(a) Ann Mary
(b) Ann Franc
(c) Virginia Wolf
(d) Emile Bronte

8. The novel written by Ernest Hemmingway in the background of Spanish Civil War:
(a) For whom the bells toll
(b) The Old man
and the Sea
(c) Mother
(d) Emma

9. The Indian author who created the fictional place ‘Malgudi’:
(a) Nirad C Chaudhary
(b) Raja Rao
(c) RK Narayan
(d) RK Laxman

10. Which revolution is the background of the novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities”?
(a) American
(b) Russian
(c) Chinese
(d) French

11. What is the background of ‘War and Peace’ by Napoleon?
(a) Russian invasion of Napoleon
(b) First World War
(c) Second World War
(d) Waterloo

12. Which war is depicted in the Greek epic ‘Iliad’?
(a) Crimean War
(b) Punic War
(c) Trojan War
(d) Hundred Years War

13. The land of dwarf in the novel ‘Gulliver’s Travel’ by Jonathan Swift:
(a) Lilliput
(b) Bromdingnag
(c) Utopia
(d) Dystopia

14. The American poet who called Florence Nightingale as ‘Lady with Lamp’?
(a) Sinclair Lewis
(b) Washington Irwing
(c) H.W. Longfellow
(d) None of these

15. The most frequently used word by Shakespeare:
(a) And
(b) With
(c) Of
(d) The

16. Who envisaged an ideal state named Utopia through his writings?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Jonathan Swift
(c) Thomas More
(d) Charles Dickens

17. In which novel Sherlock Holmes appearing for the first time?
(a) A Study in Scarlet
(b) Cassino Royal
(c) Dr.No
(d) The Valley of Fear

18. Who is known as the ‘Wizard of the North’?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Walter Scott
(d) TS Eliot

19. In which book ‘Sher Khan’ is a character?
(a) Jungle Book
(b) Kim
(c) Moby Dick
(d) Robinson Crusoe

20. Who wrote ‘Mother India’?
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Catherine Mayo
(c) Mother Theresa
(d) V.D.Savarkar

21. The novel which bagged Gyanpeeth Award for Tharasankar Bannerjee?
(a) Yayati
(b) Ganadevatha
(c) Arogyanikethan
(d) Jeevan Masai

22. The first advertisement telecast on TV was:
(a) Watch
(b) Pen
(c) Car
(d) Radio

23. The author of ‘An Area of Darkness’:
(a) Mark Twain
(b) Rudyard Kipling
(c) J.K.Rowling
(d) V.S.Naipaul

24. The first woman poet laureate of Britain:
(a) Elizabeth Jennings
(b) Carol Ann Duffy
(c) Kathlene Raine
(d) Alice Oswald

25. ‘Bhagavat Gita’ is a part of:
(a) Ramayana
(b) Sakuntalam
(c) Mahabharat
(d) Kathasaritsagar