Everyone wants to become a government officer but for this one must pass the competitive exams conducted by different agencies or department itself. If we talk about the testing agencies like PPSC and FPSC their paper is considered incomplete without asking questions about different famous books, novels, poems, dramas along with their writers. This section of General Knowledge hold a significant importance in these exams. So, for your convenience we have compiled the most important questions regarding famous books and authors in the form of mcqs.
Famous Books and Authors for Exams
| Books | Writers |
|---|---|
| The War & Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| Das Capital | Karl Marx |
| Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dicken |
| My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
| The Old Man & The Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri |
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| Higher Than Hopes | Fatima Meer |
“Muhammad (SAW): A Prophet for our time” drafted by:
a. Sultan Bahu
b. Alexander
c. Karen Armstrong
d. Firas Alkhateeb
Lawrence Ziring is the author of which book:
a. Pakistan in the twentieth century
b. The Ayub Khan era
c. Pakistan the long view
d. All
Spot the publications of Kamila Shamsie:
a. Home Fire
b. The Crow Eaters
c. Kartography
d. Both a & c
Select the book of Bapsi Sidhwa:
a. Ice Candy Man
b. The Crow Eaters
c. Cracking India
d. All of them
Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri wrote a book named:
a. Sense and Sensibility
b. A Sentimental Education
c. Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove
d. Governing the Ungovernable
“Governing the Ungovernable” is penned by:
a. Ishrat Hussain
b. Ayesha Jalal
c. Kamila Shamsie
d. Tehmina Durrani
Spot the author of “The Truth Always Prevails”:
a. Meer Taqi Meer
b. Hussain Shaheed Suharwardi
c. Sadruddin Hashwani
d. None of these
Whose autobiography is “My Life”?
a. Bill Clinton
b. Saddam Hussain
c. Nelson Mandela
d. Imran Khan
Who is the author of “Business Speed of Thought”?
a. Bill Gates
b. Elon Musk
c. Andy Jassy
d. Jack Ma
Pakistan Famous Books Questions
Famous books and authors about Pakistan & Pakistani Famous personalities are given below:
Foundation of Pakistan book is written by:
a. Quaid-a-Azam
b. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
c. Syed Sharif-ud-din Pirzada
d. Mohsin Hameed
“Quaid-e-Azam: The story of a Nation” Is a biography of Quaid-e-Azam written-by ____ ?
a. L. Hamilton
b. K.K Aziz
c. G Allana (Ghulam Ali Allana)
s. None of these
The famous book Last Days of Quaid-e-Azam is written by:
a. Altaf Fatima
b. Hajra Masroor
c. Lieutenant Colonel Dr Ilahi Bakhsh
d. Naseem Hijazi
Thoughts on Pakistan is written by:
a. Z.A Bhutto
b. Ayub Khan
c. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
d. Ayesha Jalal
Who is the writer of “Zulfi of Pakistan”?
a. Muneeza Shamsie
b. W.W Hunter
c. Stanley Wolpert
d. Jazib Qureshi
Myth of Independence is written by whom:
a. Mahtama Gandhi
b. Liaqat Ali Khan
c. Z.A Bhutto
d. None of these
Who was the writer of the famous book “The Indian Musalmans” in 1871?
a. William Wilson Hunter
b. Stanley Wolpert
c. Ernest
d. None of these
Who is the writer of “Friends not Master”?
a. Ayub Khan
b. Z.A Bhutto
c. Ethan Casey
d. Ch M.Ali
Benazir Bhutto is the author of:
a. Great Tragedy
b. Moth Smoke
c. Daughter of the Destiny/East
d. Exit West
Identify the writer of “In the Line of Fire: A Memoir”?
a. Sadruddin Hashwani
b. Hussain Haqqani
c. Karen Armstrong
d. Pervez Musharraf
“Jinnah, Creator of Pakistan” is a book composed by:
a. Hector Bolitho
b. Mary Shelley
c. Jane Austen
d. Franz Kafka
The famous book Pakistan: The Heart of Asia is written by:
a. Fatima Meer
b. G. Allana
c. Liaqat Ali Khan
d. None of these
The book “If I Am Assassinated” is written by?
a. Stephen Cohen
b. Mohsin Hamid
c. Kamila Shamsie
d. Z.A Bhutto
The book named “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West” is written by?
a. Tehmina Durrani
b. Benazir Bhutto
c. Fatimah Jinnah
d. None of these
The author of the book “The making of Pakistan” is:
a. Khursheed Kamal Aziz
b. Bapsi Sidhwa
c. Karen Armstrong
d. Lawrence Ziring
“Jinnah: Indian Partition Independence” is a book written by:
a. Fatimah Jinnah
b. Bapsi Sidhwa
c. Syed Ameer Ali
d. Jaswant Singh
“Great Tragedy” and “The Myth of Independence” is written by which Pakistani Author:
a. Ayub Khan
b. Z.A Bhutto
c. Benazir Bhutto
d. Ch M.Ali
Who is the composer of “Pakistan: A Personal History”:
a. Iftikhar Ch
b. Hamid Meer
c. Imran Khan
d. Hassan Nisar
Who is the author of “My Brother”?
a. Fatimah Jinnah
b. Benazir Bhutto
c. Bapsi Sidhwa
d. Both b & c
Identify the books of Mohsin Hamid:
a. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
b. Exit West
c. Moth Smoke
d. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
e. All of the above
“Pakistan between Mosque and Military” is a famous book penned by:
a. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
b. Hussain Haqqani
c. Sadruddin Hashwani
d. None of these
Important Novels and Poems Questions
Sunan Al Nisai is a book written by:
a. Ahmad Bin Shoaib
b. Abu Dawood
c. Muslim ibn Al-Hajjaj
d. Raza Aslam
Identify the writer of “Asar-us-Sanadid”:
a. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
b. Baba Bullay Shah
c. Faiz Ahmed Faiz
d. Hasrat Mohani
Kashf-al-Majoob is composed by:
a. Hazrat Ali Hajveri
b. Babar Fareed
c. Sultan Bahu
d. Hazrat Shah Wali Ullah
Wedding in the Flood is a book written by:
a. Zulfiqar Ghouse
b. Taufiq Rafat
c. Daud Kamal
d. Anthony Burgess
Attack on Sialkot Poem is written by:
a. Allama Iqbal
b. Zulfiqar Ghouse
c. Anwar Masood
d. Anis Nagi
Admi Nama Poem is written by whom?
a. Nazir Akbarabadi
b. Mir Taqi Mir
c. Momin Khan Momin
d. Rahat Indori
Identify the book of Syed Ameer Ali:
a. My Indian Years
b. War and Peace
c. Think and Grow Rich
d. The Spirit of Islam
The book Wealth of Nation was written by:
a. George Eliot
b. John Milton
c. Lord Byron
d. Adam Smith
Heer Ranjha is written by:
a. Shah Abdullah Bhitta
b. Waris Shah
c. Bulleh Shah
d. Sultan Bahu
Sassi Pannu was written by whom:
a. Shams Tabrizi
b. Hashim Shah
c. Amir Hussain
d. Alamgir Hashmi
Who was the author of Sohni Mahiwal?
a. Fazal Shah Sayyad
b. Nizami Ganjvi
c. Amir Khusrau
d. Rumi
Who was the author of Laila Majnu?
a. Bulleh Shah
b. Amir Khusrau
c. Shams Tabraizi
d. Parveen Shakir
India Wins Freedom is a book written by:
a. Begum Akhtar Riazuddin
b. Faiz Ahmad Faiz
c. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
d. Mazhar-ul-Islam
Composition of Alchemy is a book written by:
a. Robert Boyle
b. Jafar Al-Sadiq
c. Rabia Basri
d. Jabir Bin Hayyan
Who is the author of Al Qanun Fi-Tib?
a. Abu All Sina
b. Al-Khwariz
c. Al-Ghazali
d. Al-Biruni
The book Gabriel’s wing is written by whom:
a. Quaid-e-Azam
b. Allama Iqbal
c. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
d. Ch. Rehmat Ali
Who wrote drama named “Taleem-e-Balighan”?
a. Ayesha Jilal
b. Sadat Hussain Manto
c. Khawaja Moinuddin
d. Allama Iqbal
Who is the writer of Saif ul Malook book?
a. Bulleh Shah
b. Waris Shah
c. Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
d. Sultan Bahu
History Famous Books MCQs
Stanley Wolpert is the author of:
a. The Emergence of Pakistan
b. Pathway to Pakistan
c. Jinnah of Pakistan
d. None of these
“Alive and Well in Pakistan” is a book written by:
a. Stephen Cohen
b. Ethen Casey
c. Lord Harding
d. Anna Sewell
“Pakistan: A Hard Country” is a book of which writer:
a. Anatol Lieven
b. Napoleon Hill
c. Joseph Korbel
d. Lewis Caroll
Which of the following book is written by Ch M. Ali?
a. Danger in Kashmir
b. The Emergence of Pakistan
c. India Wins Freedom
d. Pride and Prejudice
The biographer of “The Pakistan Army” was:
a. George Orwell
b. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
c. J. R. R. Tolkien
d. Stephen Philip Cohen
Spot the writer of “Pathway to Pakistan”:
a. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
b. Hussain Haqqani
c. Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
d. Ishrat Hussain
“The Military and Politics in Pakistan” is a famous book of:
a. Hassan Askari Rizvi
b. Firas Alkhateeb
c. K.K. Aziz
d. Ayesha Jalal
Name the composer of the famous book “The Great Divide: India & Pakistan”:
a. Emily Brontë
b. H.V. Hodson
c. Hector Bolitho
d. Stanley Wolpert
Name the publication of Waheed-Uz-Zaman:
a. Towards Pakistan
b. The Making of Pakistan
c. The Ethics of Islam
d. Lost Islamic History
Determine the biographer of “Pakistan: The Formative Phase 1857 to 1947”:
a. Khalid B. Sayeed
b. Ayub Khan
c. Mohammed Hanif
d. Mohsin HamidWho is the Author of “Government and Politics in Pakistan”:
a. Ishfaq Ahmed
b. Bano Qudsia
c. Mushtaq Ahmed
d. Anwar Masood
“The Sole Spokesman” and “The Struggle for Pakistan” are books written by:
a. Ishrat Hussain
b. Mario Puzo
c. William Shakespeare
d. Ayesha Jalal
“8:50 Am October 8, 2005” is composed by:
a. Fatima Bhutto
b. Benazir Bhutto
c. Malala Yousaf
d. None of these
“Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Dilemma ” is written by:
a. Shamshad Ahmed
b. Ehsan Danish
c. Patras Bukhari
d. Abdul Halim Sharar
Determine the writers of “Modern South Asia”:
a. Kamila Shamsie and Bapsi Sidhwa
b. Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose
c. Jaswant Singh and K.K. Aziz
d. Ishrat Hussain and Ayesha Jalal
Famous Books of Ayesha Jalal
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia
Nationalism, Democracy, and Development
Partisans of ALLAH
The State of Martial Rule
The Pity of Partition
The Cambridge History of Pakistan
Oceanic Islam: Muslim Universalism
Self and Soverignty
“A New History of India” is a book composed by:
a. Lord Harding
b. Stanley Wolpert
c. Lawrence Ziring
d. George Orwell
Which of the following book is written by Stanley Wolpert:
a. Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan
b. Kartography
c. Ice Candy Man
d. All of them
Name the famous book of Tehmina Durrani:
a. My Feudal Lord
b. Moth Smoke
c. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
d. Home Fire
Modern Muslim India and Birth of Pakistan books written by:
a. Stephen King
b. Sheikh Muhammad Ikram
c. Ayesha Jalal
d. Maria Popova
History Books Questions
Pakistan’s Foreign Policy Dilemma is written by:
a. Hamid Mir
b. Ayesha Jalal
c. Shamshad Ahmad
d. Jaswant Singh
The book “Jinnah: The sole spokesman” is written by:
a. Ayesha Jalal
b. K.K. Aziz
c. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
d. Sheikh Muhammad Ikram
The Emergence of Pakistan book is written by:
a. Altaf Fatima
b. Ashfaq Ahmad
c. Ahmad Faraz
d. Ch. Muhammad Ali
The Making of Pakistan is written by:
a. Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
b. K.K. Aziz
c. Rahim Gul
d. Hajra Masroor
The Loyal Muhammandans of India is written by:
a. Agha Shorish kashmiri
b. Ahmad Ali
c. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
d. Bapsi Sidhwa
Democracy and Education is written by:
a. George Orwell
b. Jane Austen
c. Alexandre Dumas
d. John Dewey
A Brief History of Time is a book written by:
a. Plato
b. Stephen Hawking
c. Lewis Carroll
d. Anne Frank
The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan book is written by
a. Kamila Shamsie
b. Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
c. Aitzaz Ahsan
d. Farhat Ishtiaq
A Short History of the Saracens is written by:
a. Ch. Muhammad Ali
b. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
c. Ayesha Jalal
d. Syed Ameer Ali