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This Lok Sewa practice set has 50 multiple-choice questions (Subject: General Knowledge · For: Kharidar, Nayab Subba, Section Officer · Level: Medium). Take the quiz above first; after that, use the study list below to revise every question with its correct answer and a short explanation.
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Who wrote "Muna Madan"?
- A) Lekhnath Paudyal
- B) Laxmi Prasad Devkota ✔
- C) Bhanubhakta Acharya
- D) Balkrishna Sama
Why: Laxmi Prasad Devkota wrote 'Muna Madan' (1993 BS), one of the most popular Nepali poems.
Muna Madan is written in which folk metre?
- A) Shardul Vikridit
- B) Anustup
- C) Jhyaure ✔
- D) Shikharini
Why: 'Muna Madan' is written in jhyaure, a Nepali folk song metre, which made it easy to sing and remember.
Who is known as the "Adikavi" of Nepali literature?
- A) Bhanubhakta Acharya ✔
- B) Motiram Bhatta
- C) Madhav Prasad Ghimire
- D) Lekhnath Paudyal
Why: Bhanubhakta Acharya is Adikavi (first poet) for his Nepali Ramayana.
"Seto Bagh" was written by:
- A) Parijat
- B) Diamond Shumsher Rana ✔
- C) B.P. Koirala
- D) Lil Bahadur Chhetri
Why: Diamond Shumsher Rana wrote the historical novel 'Seto Bagh' about Rana-era politics.
"Shirishko Phool" is a novel by:
- A) Parijat ✔
- B) Neelam Karki Niharika
- C) Krishna Dharabasi
- D) Amar Neupane
Why: Parijat wrote 'Shirishko Phool', which won the Madan Puraskar in 2022 BS.
Which of these is NOT a work of B.P. Koirala?
- A) Sumnima
- B) Teen Ghumti
- C) Basain ✔
- D) Modiain
Why: 'Basain' is by Lil Bahadur Chhetri. B. P. Koirala wrote 'Sumnima', 'Narendra Dai', 'Teen Ghumti' and 'Modiain'.
"Gauri", an elegy for the poet's wife, was written by:
- A) Laxmi Prasad Devkota
- B) Madhav Prasad Ghimire ✔
- C) Lekhnath Paudyal
- D) Bhupi Sherchan
Why: Madhav Prasad Ghimire wrote 'Gauri' in memory of his late wife.
Who is called "Natya Samrat" in Nepali literature?
- A) Balkrishna Sama ✔
- B) Gopal Prasad Rimal
- C) Bhim Nidhi Tiwari
- D) Govind Bahadur Malla
Why: Balkrishna Sama is Natya Samrat (emperor of drama).
"Tarun Tapasi" is a work of:
- A) Lekhnath Paudyal ✔
- B) Motiram Bhatta
- C) Devkota
- D) Madhav Ghimire
Why: 'Tarun Tapasi' is by Kavi Shiromani Lekhnath Paudyal.
The first Madan Puraskar was given for which book?
- A) Muna Madan
- B) Hamro Lok Sanskriti ✔
- C) Shirishko Phool
- D) Seto Bagh
Why: The first Madan Puraskar (2012 BS) went to 'Hamro Lok Sanskriti' by Satya Mohan Joshi.
"Palpasa Café" was written by:
- A) Narayan Wagle ✔
- B) Buddhisagar
- C) Subin Bhattarai
- D) Amar Neupane
Why: Journalist Narayan Wagle wrote 'Palpasa Café', set during the armed conflict; it won the Madan Puraskar.
"Karnali Blues" is by:
- A) Krishna Dharabasi
- B) Buddhisagar ✔
- C) Narayan Wagle
- D) Parijat
Why: Buddhisagar wrote 'Karnali Blues', a popular novel about a father and son.
Who wrote "Gitanjali"?
- A) Rabindranath Tagore ✔
- B) Kalidasa
- C) Jawaharlal Nehru
- D) Sarojini Naidu
Why: Rabindranath Tagore wrote 'Gitanjali' and won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Das Kapital" was written by:
- A) Adam Smith
- B) Karl Marx ✔
- C) Lenin
- D) Rousseau
Why: Karl Marx wrote 'Das Kapital', a critique of capitalism.
"The Wealth of Nations" (1776) is by:
- A) Adam Smith ✔
- B) J.M. Keynes
- C) David Ricardo
- D) Thomas Hobbes
Why: Adam Smith wrote 'The Wealth of Nations', the founding book of modern economics.
"Arthashastra" was written by:
- A) Kalidasa
- B) Kautilya ✔
- C) Valmiki
- D) Ved Vyas
Why: Kautilya (Chanakya) wrote the Arthashastra on statecraft and economics.
"The Prince" is a famous book by:
- A) Plato
- B) Aristotle
- C) Machiavelli ✔
- D) Hobbes
Why: Niccolò Machiavelli wrote 'The Prince' (1513) on gaining and keeping power.
"Long Walk to Freedom" is the autobiography of:
- A) Mahatma Gandhi
- B) Nelson Mandela ✔
- C) Martin Luther King Jr.
- D) Barack Obama
Why: 'Long Walk to Freedom' is Nelson Mandela's autobiography.
"Wings of Fire" is the autobiography of:
- A) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ✔
- B) Jawaharlal Nehru
- C) Mahatma Gandhi
- D) Rabindranath Tagore
Why: 'Wings of Fire' is the autobiography of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and former President.
"Into Thin Air", about the 1996 Everest disaster, was written by:
- A) Maurice Herzog
- B) Jon Krakauer ✔
- C) Michel Peissel
- D) Edmund Hillary
Why: Jon Krakauer wrote 'Into Thin Air' about the 1996 Everest disaster, which he survived.
'Sulochana' is a mahakavya by:
- A) Laxmi Prasad Devkota ✔
- B) Lekhnath Paudyal
- C) Bhanubhakta
- D) Madhav Ghimire
Why: Laxmi Prasad Devkota wrote the epic 'Sulochana'.
'Shakuntala' mahakavya in Nepali was written by:
- A) Laxmi Prasad Devkota ✔
- B) Kalidasa
- C) Sama
- D) Lekhnath
Why: Devkota wrote 'Shakuntala', the first Nepali mahakavya, based on Kalidasa's story.
'Sumnima' is a novel by:
- A) BP Koirala ✔
- B) Parijat
- C) Diamond Shumsher
- D) Lil Bahadur Chhetri
Why: B. P. Koirala wrote 'Sumnima'.
'Narendra Dai' is by:
- A) BP Koirala ✔
- B) Guru Prasad Mainali
- C) Sama
- D) Parijat
Why: B. P. Koirala wrote 'Narendra Dai'.
'Basai' is a novel by:
- A) Lil Bahadur Chhetri ✔
- B) Parijat
- C) BP Koirala
- D) Diamond Shumsher
Why: Lil Bahadur Chhetri wrote 'Basain', about the hardships of rural migration.
'Naso' is a short story by:
- A) Guru Prasad Mainali ✔
- B) BP Koirala
- C) Devkota
- D) Sama
Why: Guru Prasad Mainali wrote 'Naso', a classic Nepali short story.
'Seto Dharti' (Madan Puraskar 2069) is by:
- A) Amar Neupane ✔
- B) Buddhisagar
- C) Narayan Wagle
- D) Krishna Dharabasi
Why: Amar Neupane wrote 'Seto Dharti', which won the Madan Puraskar in 2069 BS.
'Radha' (Madan Puraskar winner) was written by:
- A) Krishna Dharabasi ✔
- B) Parijat
- C) Amar Neupane
- D) Jhamak Ghimire
Why: Krishna Dharabasi wrote 'Radha', which won the Madan Puraskar.
'Jiwan Kanda ki Phool' is by:
- A) Jhamak Ghimire ✔
- B) Parijat
- C) Neelam Karki
- D) Bani Devi
Why: Jhamak Ghimire wrote her autobiography 'Jiwan Kanda ki Phool', which won the Madan Puraskar.
'Summer Love' is a novel by:
- A) Subin Bhattarai ✔
- B) Buddhisagar
- C) Narayan Wagle
- D) Amar Neupane
Why: Subin Bhattarai wrote the popular youth novel 'Summer Love'.
The 'Ramayan' was translated into Nepali by:
- A) Bhanubhakta Acharya ✔
- B) Motiram
- C) Devkota
- D) Lekhnath
Why: Bhanubhakta Acharya translated the Ramayana into Nepali.
'Prahlad' is a drama by:
- A) Balkrishna Sama ✔
- B) Devkota
- C) Lekhnath
- D) Sama's son
Why: Balkrishna Sama wrote the drama 'Prahlad'.
Madan Puraskar is given for:
- A) Best Nepali book of the year ✔
- B) Sports
- C) Science
- D) Peace
Why: Madan Puraskar is given each year for the best book published in Nepali.
'The Republic' was written by:
- A) Plato ✔
- B) Aristotle
- C) Socrates
- D) Cicero
Why: Plato wrote 'The Republic'.
'Politics' was written by:
- A) Aristotle ✔
- B) Plato
- C) Machiavelli
- D) Hobbes
Why: Aristotle wrote 'Politics'.
'The Discovery of India' was written by:
- A) Jawaharlal Nehru ✔
- B) Gandhi
- C) Tagore
- D) Ambedkar
Why: Jawaharlal Nehru wrote 'The Discovery of India' while in prison (1942–46).
'My Experiments with Truth' is the autobiography of:
- A) Mahatma Gandhi ✔
- B) Nehru
- C) Mandela
- D) Tagore
Why: It is Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography.
'On the Origin of Species' was written by:
- A) Charles Darwin ✔
- B) Newton
- C) Mendel
- D) Lamarck
Why: Charles Darwin wrote it in 1859.
'Leviathan' was written by:
- A) Thomas Hobbes ✔
- B) John Locke
- C) Rousseau
- D) Mill
Why: Thomas Hobbes wrote 'Leviathan' (1651) on the social contract and strong government.
'War and Peace' is by:
- A) Leo Tolstoy ✔
- B) Dostoevsky
- C) Chekhov
- D) Gorky
Why: Leo Tolstoy, the Russian writer, wrote 'War and Peace'.
'Hamlet' was written by:
- A) William Shakespeare ✔
- B) Milton
- C) Dickens
- D) Keats
Why: William Shakespeare wrote 'Hamlet'.
'The Communist Manifesto' was written by:
- A) Marx and Engels ✔
- B) Lenin
- C) Stalin
- D) Mao
Why: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote it in 1848.
'Animal Farm' and '1984' were written by:
- A) George Orwell ✔
- B) Aldous Huxley
- C) HG Wells
- D) Dickens
Why: George Orwell wrote both.
'A Brief History of Time' is by:
- A) Stephen Hawking ✔
- B) Einstein
- C) Carl Sagan
- D) Newton
Why: Stephen Hawking wrote 'A Brief History of Time' (1988).
'Principia Mathematica' (1687) was written by:
- A) Isaac Newton ✔
- B) Galileo
- C) Kepler
- D) Descartes
Why: Isaac Newton wrote the 'Principia' (1687), setting out his laws of motion and gravitation.
'Abhijnana Shakuntalam' was written by:
- A) Kalidasa ✔
- B) Valmiki
- C) Vyasa
- D) Tulsidas
Why: Kalidasa, the classical Sanskrit poet, wrote 'Abhijnana Shakuntalam'.
'Panchatantra' is attributed to:
- A) Vishnu Sharma ✔
- B) Kalidasa
- C) Kautilya
- D) Valmiki
Why: The Panchatantra, a collection of animal fables, is attributed to Vishnu Sharma.
The Mahabharata is attributed to:
- A) Ved Vyasa ✔
- B) Valmiki
- C) Kalidasa
- D) Tulsidas
Why: The Mahabharata is traditionally attributed to sage Ved Vyasa.
'Godan' is a Hindi novel by:
- A) Premchand ✔
- B) Tagore
- C) Nehru
- D) Bachchan
Why: Premchand wrote 'Godan', a classic Hindi novel about rural poverty.
'Annapurna', on the first 8,000 m ascent, was written by:
- A) Maurice Herzog ✔
- B) Edmund Hillary
- C) Tenzing
- D) Krakauer
Why: Maurice Herzog wrote 'Annapurna' about the 1950 French expedition, the first ascent of an 8,000 m peak.